Potential Titles: Return
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somethingdarkerA gift is freely given and a gift is freely returned - Chris Abani "Renewal" [excerpt]
The dream of your choice will be returned to you - Duane Ackerson "The Dream Factory: Two Tours"
As if the nomad camels would return - Harold Acton "Conversations and Crumbling"
With grief upon grief returning - al-Khansa "[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful]" transl. by Reynold A. Nicholson
Returned from those hills of expectation - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
I return the bitterness which you gave me - Lewis Alexander "Transformation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
To god with no return address - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"
The one whose kiss she chose to return - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
The rapture of seeing outside space returned - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
A thousand chances are to one I never may return - William Allingham "The Winding Banks of Erne"
The Ibis yet returns - Duncan Anderson "Sport"
Softer than the voice of love returned - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"
Returned to us and made precious again - W.H. Auden "In Memory of Sigmund Freud"
Let hallowed dust return to dust - B. "Two Pictures: Love Celestial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Like ghosts of flowers returned - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"
On each tenth returning sunrise - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"
From which none returns invulnerable - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"
how seasons are returned - Elizabeth Bartlett "lesson on five fingers"
return to old complaints - Elizabeth Bartlett "only this"
Must return them to the stars - Ellen Bass "Mammogram Callback with Ultrasound"
Had given a hundredfold return - Charles Baudelaire "The Corpse" transl. not credited
Has heard again our steps returning - Stella Benson "Christmas, 1917"
Returned to barren words and old cold truth - Stella Benson "The Dog Tupman"
Returning, as always, to the past - Frank Bidart "California Plush"
With rages from returning chaos sent - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: III. The Undiscovered World"
Returning to the barren womb of nothing - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Wants doves returning at dusk - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
This journey of ours has no return - "The Book of Odes: No.167. We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns" transl. by Burton Watson
Like a saint returning trinkets - Ana Bozicevic "The Curse"
To our sorrowing hearth, return - Anne Bronte "Domestic Peace"
Bees celebrated the return of dandelions - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
No intention but the possibility of light returning - Sue Budin "Reclamation"
And the day returns too soon - Byron "We'll Go No More a-Roving"
From old regret to dreams return - Bliss Carman "In Apple Time"
Where old joys return when dawns and dreams retire - Bliss Carman "The Pensioners"
When the silver winds return - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Spring Song"
The cup is full for his day of returning - Willa Cather "Winter at Delphi"
Through the Strait of Violent Returns - Marianne Chan "Counterargument that Goes All the Way Around"
Capital scouring the earth for returns - Ken Chen "Fingernails"
That thousands here shall never more return - John Church, Jr. "The Fall of Jerusalem: Part I"
Put by these unreturning gifts - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
My heart dreams of return - Henri Cole "Twilight"
To hear the returning Rooks' caw of despair - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Blackbird and the Rooks"
Return to the peaceful dreaming dearly bought - Wesley Curtwright "The Close of Day" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
mind filled with a light returning - Tyree Daye "The Lord's Corner"
Returning to silence - Julia de Burgos "Poem to My Death"
The return to psychogeography - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
The glowing past returned to mind - Delta "The Message of Seth: An Oriental Tradition" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
Still the pensive spring returns - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
Though their currents yield return to none - John Donne "Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness"
The thieving of delight without return - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
In Time's great periods shall return to nought - William Drummond "Ah! Would 'Twere So"
Returning the gift of song - Lord Dunsany "The Return of Song"
A shape that keeps returning - Carolina Ebeid "Shape"
Travelling on the road of no return - Aziz Isa Elkun "Roses" transl. by author
Proudly with his spoil returning - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
To my sire the liquid ether return - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
What chief deceased from Pluto's loathed abode did e'er return? - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
New proof uncovered on every return - Summer Farah "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"
Waited for my life to return from the sea - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"
My road along the river of return - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"
Centuries of preparation to return - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Because I believed they would return - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Flight"
When the fawn returned to the wolf's grave - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen m"
For a moment until time returns - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"
Until time returns - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"
Keep returning to the present - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
The rogue returns anon - E. Foxton "The New Search After Happiness"
Returning from the midnight festival - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
What we bury will always return - Nikita Gill "Discoveries"
Never remembering how to return - Nikita Gill "Temporary"
The eager feet of the returning dreamers - Mona Gould "Answer Me!"
The siege returned to stalemate - Linda Gregerson "Half Light"
The ratcheting herons return - Linda Gregerson "Petrarchan"
But I have none to wish returned - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Learn to leave and return - Kimberly Grey "Invention"
Mere pain the price of the returning - Ivor Gurney "The Volunteer"
Return to roam the same ruins - Nathalie Handal "The City"
Love's winter ne'er returns to spring - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
Thy kindling soul return - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Before we return to the usual business of our days - Juan Felipe Herrera "@ the Crossroads--A Sudden American Poem"
One stray emblem of returning spring - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Bit o' Cheer"
My empty suitcase and I returned - Jane Hirshfield "My Life Was the Size of My Life"
In return for a shadowed and comfortless past - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "So Cruel Prison"
Returns thereto a hollow sound of plaint - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "So Cruel Prison"
When the swallows returned last year - Hsin Ch'i-chi "When the Swallows Returned" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Returning from old understandings - Andrew Hudgins "A Flag of Honeysuckle"
Returning into the core of steel - Aldous Huxley "The Burning Wheel"
Recall only the return - Brionne Janae "Child's Pose"
Had returned from dry land back to water - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Stands watching day return - Elizabeth Jennings "Old Woman"
Whose birthright is to return to dust - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"
when the spirit returns to the magnitude it belongs - Jzl Jmz "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"
Only to return moondrunk, bramble-laden - Taylor Johnson "Nocturne"
Before returning to its sticky jigsaw - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
Where my wandering spirit will return - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
My wandering heart returned to stay - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"
To which our footsteps never shall return - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
When the hid and perilous cliffs return our cry - Rudyard Kipling "The Wet Litany"
Returning again and again to the steady heart - Ted Kooser "In a Light Late-Winter Wind"
Hope ever to return to day's dominion - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"
Return with the year's return - Chaman Lall "Departure"
The voices of returning birds - Archibald Lampman "Good Speech"
The glamours of the gods return - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"
One from the dust returning to the earth - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Unperfected"
A difference from the denial of return - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"
Returned to our future - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"
Because I've returned to the afterlife - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
No returning to the future you once inhabited - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"
Where run the tidings of return - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
The hen returned into the road - Giacomo Leopardi "Calm After Storm" transl. by Frederick Townsend
Why I never returned to keep them in my life - Philip Levine "The Two"
And still returned again with hope undone - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XV. Dungeon Grates"
The only green thing that returns inside the beak - Robin Coste Lewis "The Ark: Self-Portrait as Aphrodite Using Her Dress for a Sail, ii"
Sad together now autumn has returned - Li Po "Autumn of All Good Things" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Flowing fast into the sea, and never never returning - Li Po "Let Us Drink Wine" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Late autumn wounds thoughts of return - Li Po "On Peace-Anew Tower" transl. by David Hinton
Still my journey knows no return - Li Po "Sent to My Two Little Children in the East of Lu" transl. by Burton Watson
But at home we never see a returning soldier - Li Po "Waiting on the Tower" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
When I return to the garden - M.L. Liebler "Another Ah Sunflower!"
Through my heart's dark world returning - W.D. Lighthall "O Donna di Virtu!"
No heart returned my lonely sighs - Elizabeth Lyon Linsley "Lines to an Ideal" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Of hope for what returneth never - J.R. Lowell "A Song [Violet! sweet violet!]" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
The wrung heart will hear them and return - George Lunt "To -- [I call upon the waves and they reply]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
Without condition of return - Naomi Long Madgett "Without Condition"
Nevermore to us would be returned - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Returning the swallow to the sky - Shara McCallum "History Is a Room"
Returned to the reservoir of the mind - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
Returns the angels to the ground - Medbh McGuckian "Garden Homage"
And the kisses you returned - Frank J. Medina "'Twas Not to Be"
At Memory's touch returns again - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Make sure the orb is glowing before I return - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"
The desert we return to - Jane Miller "Memory at These Speeds"
Dark bodies of song return - Rajiv Mohabir "Why Whales Are Back in New York City"
Till cormorants returned my eyes - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"
Return to tell Egypt the story - Thomas Moore "Sound the Loud Timbrel"
Returning an empty dream to a bitter pasture - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Chastity returns from the foam - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Ironing" transl. by Mark Eisner
Walking the roads made for returning - Pablo Neruda "San Martin (1810)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Without returning any kind of sun - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"
echoes of green i return to the sky - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "Night in the forest" transl. by Phương Anh
Our song returns us snake and snow twigs and twine - Margaret Noodin "We Are Returning Always" transl. by the author
Breathed like a returning music - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
The promise of atonement in your return - Achy Obejas "Volver"
A truth burgled, tarnished, but returned - Brandon O'Brien "Quiet and Fragile Try on the Same Romper"
That in the harvest time a rich return will yield - "Of the Sower" [The Parables of the Saviour, no date, Project Gutenberg]
As spent pilgrims returning - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
return your breath as liquid silver - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Return upon the world - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"
Fears no law of diminishing returns - Gregory Pardlo "Atlantic City Sunday Morning"
Thy exiled sons returning - Fanny Parnell "After Death"
May never dare to ask return - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
On lingering kiss returned six-hundred fold - Murdock Pemberton "Matinee" [The Broadway Anthology]
Dream against dream's return - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"
To return shadows into the river - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"
With evening shades, return no more - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
return to the field that i never leave - Iain Haley Pollock "[And I return to the field]"
The flashbulb blind who wait for color to return - Wyatt Prunty "Mole"
Time died so that it could return home - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "In arrival, feet flutter like dying birds"
To sail towards the wildest of screams and never return - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"
To write their return to nothing from nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"
Everything hidden returns in force - Charles Rafferty "Resumption"
Time will not return to you as it was - Subham Rai "Instructions for Borrowing Time" [Strange Horizons 12 May 2025]
Yet more bright shall return - Henry Scott Riddell "We'll Meet Yet Again"
And the flocks to the valley return - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"
Confessed the dry return of his regret - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Discovery"
Forever they return in their orbits - John Rodker "Theatre Muet II: Hunger" [The Little Review, Aug. 1917, v.4, no.4]
Returning the shards to flame - Karen A. Romanko "The Glass Blower"
The peculiar joy of returning to earth - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"
if my plans include returning home - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"
Return to earth in prayer - Sonia Sanchez "10 Haiku (for Max Roach)"
What unearthly spell returns - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"
Let earth and sky return to darkness - Friederich Schiller "Friendship" transl. not credited
Between the crow's return and chorus frog - M. Bartley Seigel "Land Acknowledgement, 1842 Ceded Territory"
By those swift messengers return'd - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
Till on these rocks the waves returning break - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
The pangs of one who may no more return - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Earth"
The exile mourning, to banishment returning - B. Simmons "To Swallows on the Eve of Departure" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
Two images returning to the same darkness - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
To return us like fossilized roses - Maurya Simon "Angels"
The specter who returns unto some desolate world - Clark Ashton Smith "Revenant" [Fantasy Fan, v.1, no.7, Mar. 1934]
Return and dance to this world's tune - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 230: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Looping out into the world, we thread and return - Arthur Sze "At the Equinox"
Returning for what is ours - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Birds in flight returning home - T'ao Chien "Drinking Wine 5" transl. by David Hinton
When the months return to this day of promise - T'ao Chien "An Idle 9/9 at Home" transl. by David Hinton
Returns at last to the empty road - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson
Great horned owls have not returned to the heron rookery - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"
Until herons returned in spring to claim their place - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"
The migratory flyway's dwindling returns - Brian Teare "Quakinggrass (Briza Maxima)"
Can return and not be afraid - Sara Teasdale "Water Lilies"
Returning on thy silver wheels - Alfred Tennyson "Tithonus"
Life is but a dream whose shapes return - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
And as always I will return - John Trudell "Living in Reality/Oklahoma Song"
Our return is different from our setting out - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
I return again to shrieking crows - Tu Fu "Leaving the City" transl. by David Hinton
Let the plural be a return of us - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha "On the Thirtieth Friday We Consider Plurals"
A process of depletion, return, depletion - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"
All thought of return forgotten - Wang An-Shih "Steady-Shield Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
I verge on white clouds, returning alone - Wang Wei "On Returning to Wheel-Rim River" transl. by David Hinton
Then return as the seasons return - Walt Whitman "On Journeys Through the States"
The impassive stones that receive and return - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
To bide the seas return - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"
From sunken graves returned - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"
Rails forever parallel return on themselves - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"
Ignore what returns to the ocean - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"
Clarity of occurrence returning to hold us close - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie IV"
The linear zipper of return - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
When the negatives return in double exposure - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Can't go back and return - Javier Zamora "To Abuelita Neli"
Immortal migrants, the ever-returning stars - Cale Young Rice "Passage"
Watching the unreturning ships go forth - T.M. Kettle "Reason in Rhyme"
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The dream of your choice will be returned to you - Duane Ackerson "The Dream Factory: Two Tours"
As if the nomad camels would return - Harold Acton "Conversations and Crumbling"
With grief upon grief returning - al-Khansa "[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful]" transl. by Reynold A. Nicholson
Returned from those hills of expectation - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
I return the bitterness which you gave me - Lewis Alexander "Transformation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
To god with no return address - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"
The one whose kiss she chose to return - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
The rapture of seeing outside space returned - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
A thousand chances are to one I never may return - William Allingham "The Winding Banks of Erne"
The Ibis yet returns - Duncan Anderson "Sport"
Softer than the voice of love returned - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"
Returned to us and made precious again - W.H. Auden "In Memory of Sigmund Freud"
Let hallowed dust return to dust - B. "Two Pictures: Love Celestial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Like ghosts of flowers returned - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"
On each tenth returning sunrise - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"
From which none returns invulnerable - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"
how seasons are returned - Elizabeth Bartlett "lesson on five fingers"
return to old complaints - Elizabeth Bartlett "only this"
Must return them to the stars - Ellen Bass "Mammogram Callback with Ultrasound"
Had given a hundredfold return - Charles Baudelaire "The Corpse" transl. not credited
Has heard again our steps returning - Stella Benson "Christmas, 1917"
Returned to barren words and old cold truth - Stella Benson "The Dog Tupman"
Returning, as always, to the past - Frank Bidart "California Plush"
With rages from returning chaos sent - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: III. The Undiscovered World"
Returning to the barren womb of nothing - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Wants doves returning at dusk - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
This journey of ours has no return - "The Book of Odes: No.167. We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns" transl. by Burton Watson
Like a saint returning trinkets - Ana Bozicevic "The Curse"
To our sorrowing hearth, return - Anne Bronte "Domestic Peace"
Bees celebrated the return of dandelions - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
No intention but the possibility of light returning - Sue Budin "Reclamation"
And the day returns too soon - Byron "We'll Go No More a-Roving"
From old regret to dreams return - Bliss Carman "In Apple Time"
Where old joys return when dawns and dreams retire - Bliss Carman "The Pensioners"
When the silver winds return - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Spring Song"
The cup is full for his day of returning - Willa Cather "Winter at Delphi"
Through the Strait of Violent Returns - Marianne Chan "Counterargument that Goes All the Way Around"
Capital scouring the earth for returns - Ken Chen "Fingernails"
That thousands here shall never more return - John Church, Jr. "The Fall of Jerusalem: Part I"
Put by these unreturning gifts - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
My heart dreams of return - Henri Cole "Twilight"
To hear the returning Rooks' caw of despair - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Blackbird and the Rooks"
Return to the peaceful dreaming dearly bought - Wesley Curtwright "The Close of Day" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
mind filled with a light returning - Tyree Daye "The Lord's Corner"
Returning to silence - Julia de Burgos "Poem to My Death"
The return to psychogeography - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
The glowing past returned to mind - Delta "The Message of Seth: An Oriental Tradition" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
Still the pensive spring returns - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
Though their currents yield return to none - John Donne "Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness"
The thieving of delight without return - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
In Time's great periods shall return to nought - William Drummond "Ah! Would 'Twere So"
Returning the gift of song - Lord Dunsany "The Return of Song"
A shape that keeps returning - Carolina Ebeid "Shape"
Travelling on the road of no return - Aziz Isa Elkun "Roses" transl. by author
Proudly with his spoil returning - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
To my sire the liquid ether return - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
What chief deceased from Pluto's loathed abode did e'er return? - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
New proof uncovered on every return - Summer Farah "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"
Waited for my life to return from the sea - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"
My road along the river of return - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"
Centuries of preparation to return - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Because I believed they would return - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Flight"
When the fawn returned to the wolf's grave - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen m"
For a moment until time returns - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"
Until time returns - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"
Keep returning to the present - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
The rogue returns anon - E. Foxton "The New Search After Happiness"
Returning from the midnight festival - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
What we bury will always return - Nikita Gill "Discoveries"
Never remembering how to return - Nikita Gill "Temporary"
The eager feet of the returning dreamers - Mona Gould "Answer Me!"
The siege returned to stalemate - Linda Gregerson "Half Light"
The ratcheting herons return - Linda Gregerson "Petrarchan"
But I have none to wish returned - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Learn to leave and return - Kimberly Grey "Invention"
Mere pain the price of the returning - Ivor Gurney "The Volunteer"
Return to roam the same ruins - Nathalie Handal "The City"
Love's winter ne'er returns to spring - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
Thy kindling soul return - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Before we return to the usual business of our days - Juan Felipe Herrera "@ the Crossroads--A Sudden American Poem"
One stray emblem of returning spring - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Bit o' Cheer"
My empty suitcase and I returned - Jane Hirshfield "My Life Was the Size of My Life"
In return for a shadowed and comfortless past - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "So Cruel Prison"
Returns thereto a hollow sound of plaint - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "So Cruel Prison"
When the swallows returned last year - Hsin Ch'i-chi "When the Swallows Returned" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Returning from old understandings - Andrew Hudgins "A Flag of Honeysuckle"
Returning into the core of steel - Aldous Huxley "The Burning Wheel"
Recall only the return - Brionne Janae "Child's Pose"
Had returned from dry land back to water - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Stands watching day return - Elizabeth Jennings "Old Woman"
Whose birthright is to return to dust - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"
when the spirit returns to the magnitude it belongs - Jzl Jmz "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"
Only to return moondrunk, bramble-laden - Taylor Johnson "Nocturne"
Before returning to its sticky jigsaw - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
Where my wandering spirit will return - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
My wandering heart returned to stay - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"
To which our footsteps never shall return - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
When the hid and perilous cliffs return our cry - Rudyard Kipling "The Wet Litany"
Returning again and again to the steady heart - Ted Kooser "In a Light Late-Winter Wind"
Hope ever to return to day's dominion - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"
Return with the year's return - Chaman Lall "Departure"
The voices of returning birds - Archibald Lampman "Good Speech"
The glamours of the gods return - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"
One from the dust returning to the earth - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Unperfected"
A difference from the denial of return - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"
Returned to our future - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"
Because I've returned to the afterlife - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
No returning to the future you once inhabited - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"
Where run the tidings of return - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
The hen returned into the road - Giacomo Leopardi "Calm After Storm" transl. by Frederick Townsend
Why I never returned to keep them in my life - Philip Levine "The Two"
And still returned again with hope undone - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XV. Dungeon Grates"
The only green thing that returns inside the beak - Robin Coste Lewis "The Ark: Self-Portrait as Aphrodite Using Her Dress for a Sail, ii"
Sad together now autumn has returned - Li Po "Autumn of All Good Things" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Flowing fast into the sea, and never never returning - Li Po "Let Us Drink Wine" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Late autumn wounds thoughts of return - Li Po "On Peace-Anew Tower" transl. by David Hinton
Still my journey knows no return - Li Po "Sent to My Two Little Children in the East of Lu" transl. by Burton Watson
But at home we never see a returning soldier - Li Po "Waiting on the Tower" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
When I return to the garden - M.L. Liebler "Another Ah Sunflower!"
Through my heart's dark world returning - W.D. Lighthall "O Donna di Virtu!"
No heart returned my lonely sighs - Elizabeth Lyon Linsley "Lines to an Ideal" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Of hope for what returneth never - J.R. Lowell "A Song [Violet! sweet violet!]" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
The wrung heart will hear them and return - George Lunt "To -- [I call upon the waves and they reply]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
Without condition of return - Naomi Long Madgett "Without Condition"
Nevermore to us would be returned - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Returning the swallow to the sky - Shara McCallum "History Is a Room"
Returned to the reservoir of the mind - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
Returns the angels to the ground - Medbh McGuckian "Garden Homage"
And the kisses you returned - Frank J. Medina "'Twas Not to Be"
At Memory's touch returns again - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Make sure the orb is glowing before I return - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"
The desert we return to - Jane Miller "Memory at These Speeds"
Dark bodies of song return - Rajiv Mohabir "Why Whales Are Back in New York City"
Till cormorants returned my eyes - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"
Return to tell Egypt the story - Thomas Moore "Sound the Loud Timbrel"
Returning an empty dream to a bitter pasture - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Chastity returns from the foam - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Ironing" transl. by Mark Eisner
Walking the roads made for returning - Pablo Neruda "San Martin (1810)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Without returning any kind of sun - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"
echoes of green i return to the sky - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "Night in the forest" transl. by Phương Anh
Our song returns us snake and snow twigs and twine - Margaret Noodin "We Are Returning Always" transl. by the author
Breathed like a returning music - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
The promise of atonement in your return - Achy Obejas "Volver"
A truth burgled, tarnished, but returned - Brandon O'Brien "Quiet and Fragile Try on the Same Romper"
That in the harvest time a rich return will yield - "Of the Sower" [The Parables of the Saviour, no date, Project Gutenberg]
As spent pilgrims returning - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
return your breath as liquid silver - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Return upon the world - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"
Fears no law of diminishing returns - Gregory Pardlo "Atlantic City Sunday Morning"
Thy exiled sons returning - Fanny Parnell "After Death"
May never dare to ask return - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
On lingering kiss returned six-hundred fold - Murdock Pemberton "Matinee" [The Broadway Anthology]
Dream against dream's return - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"
To return shadows into the river - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"
With evening shades, return no more - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
return to the field that i never leave - Iain Haley Pollock "[And I return to the field]"
The flashbulb blind who wait for color to return - Wyatt Prunty "Mole"
Time died so that it could return home - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "In arrival, feet flutter like dying birds"
To sail towards the wildest of screams and never return - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"
To write their return to nothing from nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"
Everything hidden returns in force - Charles Rafferty "Resumption"
Time will not return to you as it was - Subham Rai "Instructions for Borrowing Time" [Strange Horizons 12 May 2025]
Yet more bright shall return - Henry Scott Riddell "We'll Meet Yet Again"
And the flocks to the valley return - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"
Confessed the dry return of his regret - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Discovery"
Forever they return in their orbits - John Rodker "Theatre Muet II: Hunger" [The Little Review, Aug. 1917, v.4, no.4]
Returning the shards to flame - Karen A. Romanko "The Glass Blower"
The peculiar joy of returning to earth - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"
if my plans include returning home - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"
Return to earth in prayer - Sonia Sanchez "10 Haiku (for Max Roach)"
What unearthly spell returns - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"
Let earth and sky return to darkness - Friederich Schiller "Friendship" transl. not credited
Between the crow's return and chorus frog - M. Bartley Seigel "Land Acknowledgement, 1842 Ceded Territory"
By those swift messengers return'd - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
Till on these rocks the waves returning break - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
The pangs of one who may no more return - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Earth"
The exile mourning, to banishment returning - B. Simmons "To Swallows on the Eve of Departure" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
Two images returning to the same darkness - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
To return us like fossilized roses - Maurya Simon "Angels"
The specter who returns unto some desolate world - Clark Ashton Smith "Revenant" [Fantasy Fan, v.1, no.7, Mar. 1934]
Return and dance to this world's tune - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 230: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Looping out into the world, we thread and return - Arthur Sze "At the Equinox"
Returning for what is ours - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Birds in flight returning home - T'ao Chien "Drinking Wine 5" transl. by David Hinton
When the months return to this day of promise - T'ao Chien "An Idle 9/9 at Home" transl. by David Hinton
Returns at last to the empty road - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson
Great horned owls have not returned to the heron rookery - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"
Until herons returned in spring to claim their place - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"
The migratory flyway's dwindling returns - Brian Teare "Quakinggrass (Briza Maxima)"
Can return and not be afraid - Sara Teasdale "Water Lilies"
Returning on thy silver wheels - Alfred Tennyson "Tithonus"
Life is but a dream whose shapes return - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
And as always I will return - John Trudell "Living in Reality/Oklahoma Song"
Our return is different from our setting out - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
I return again to shrieking crows - Tu Fu "Leaving the City" transl. by David Hinton
Let the plural be a return of us - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha "On the Thirtieth Friday We Consider Plurals"
A process of depletion, return, depletion - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"
All thought of return forgotten - Wang An-Shih "Steady-Shield Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
I verge on white clouds, returning alone - Wang Wei "On Returning to Wheel-Rim River" transl. by David Hinton
Then return as the seasons return - Walt Whitman "On Journeys Through the States"
The impassive stones that receive and return - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
To bide the seas return - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"
From sunken graves returned - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"
Rails forever parallel return on themselves - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"
Ignore what returns to the ocean - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"
Clarity of occurrence returning to hold us close - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie IV"
The linear zipper of return - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
When the negatives return in double exposure - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Can't go back and return - Javier Zamora "To Abuelita Neli"
Immortal migrants, the ever-returning stars - Cale Young Rice "Passage"
Watching the unreturning ships go forth - T.M. Kettle "Reason in Rhyme"
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