Potential Titles: Road
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somethingdarkerWrecked on separate roads - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"
There are dark roads enough to go - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"
Who walk the wrong roads, which is any road - Lauren K. Alleyne "For My Brother(s)"
Unwalked all the roads - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
Shrieks of horror on the road - Isidore G. Ascher "By the Firelight"
Until no one remembers the road - Fatimah Asghar "Partition"
Along this cobbled road of us - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
The dusty roads of tomorrow - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"
Down the road and back again - Derrick Austin. "The Birthday Interviews"
Rapt on ethereal roads of satellites - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Pathmaker (To Maria Mitchell)"
Get used to trash along the road - Elizabeth Barnett "You remember the feeling but not what made you feel that way"
That climb up ancient roads - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Bend a road where you trespass - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
Tread the roads of chance - Charles Baudelaire "To a Brown Beggar-Maid" transl. not credited
Unreels in the road of the days and nights - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Songs that I heard on my road - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"
The roads they take in journeying - Robert Blair "The Grave"
The crooked roads without improvement - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell"
He wants roads diverging - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Through the upward roads of Hell - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"
A ram for the spirits of the road - "The Book of Odes: No.245. She Who First Bore Our People" transl. by Burton Watson
Any diamondback unlucky enough to be on the road - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
And tempts me back out on the road - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Rattlesnakes making a cursive communion on the road - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
To tread the untroubled road again - Vera M. Brittain "To My Ward-Sister"
Regained the solitude of roads - Geoffrey Brock "Mundane Comedies. II. Leaving Kansas"
And on a strange road journeyed - Emily Bronte "Plead for Me"
The new road runs along the old road - Kurt Brown "Road Trip"
Where the forgetting cuts a road - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
Wringing sweat from the eyes of the road - Paul Cameron Brown "Preening"
Travelling down a carnival road - Paul Cameron Brown "Vertigo"
Across oceans' roads past rows of ghosts - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"
Discards those weevils on tarred roads - CM Burroughs "Elegy for a Server"
In such light the road already beckons - Scott Cairns "Dawn at Saint Anna's Skete"
The roads that run through Beauty's realm - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
A road trip all over my mind and heart - Anne Carson "O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love"
The old, deep-travelled road from pain - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"
The road widens to glory - Tina Chang "Color"
A country of trafficless roads - Chen Chen "When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities"
Through time's still rough'ning road - Rev. C.C. Colton "Old Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
The rags of roads and cities clawed to shreds - S. R. Compton "On the K-T Boundary"
Strike lightning to the road - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"
When snowdrifts blocked the country roads - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
Out streaming across the lonely road - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"
On the South road of the sea - Arthur Shearly Cripps "Essex"
The kind of road that furthered dreams - Shutta Crum "The Highway of the Three Graces"
That white road of wonder and delight - Olive Custance "Hylas"
On the twisted road to recover - Jim Daniels "The Family Price"
Crimsoned by the Road of Fame - Coningsby Dawson "The Once Sung Song"
Always on the road of docile laurels borne - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
With which she paints the road to favour - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Lonely houses off the road - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XV"
Strike eastward on the narrow road - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Faltering that the road is steep - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Slow through the Dark"
The first radical road out - Ansel Elkins "Autobiography of Eve"
Travelling on the road of no return - Aziz Isa Elkun "Roses" transl. by author
A road of red clover opens - JJJJJerome Ellis "Before Stuttering"
Across dirt roads and muddy ditch paths - Danielle Emerson "shíma yazhí ahéheeʼ / thank you, auntie"
Shrouds the mountains and silences the roads - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Now find that same road wild and steep - Jessie Fauset "The Return" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
When all the roads are white with dust - Hannah G. Fernald "In Summer" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Mileposts on that road of dread - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: V. Portrait of the Incomparable John Cowper Powys, Esq."
Dangerous roads we've trod - Carrie Law Morgan Figgs "We are Marching"
My road along the river of return - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"
The termites have worn jagged roads - Evelyn Flores "The Flame Tree"
To move the turtles from the road - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen g"
Alongside the atlas's scribbled road - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen J"
In this wilderness of life there's no such crooked road - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
The straight road curved by darkness - April Freely "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longing or Dread"
All her roads are nerves of noble thought - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
On that disused and forgotten road - Robert Frost "Ghost House"
The road alone maintained itself in mud - Robert Frost "Our Singing Strength"
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"
Adventure on the road of bliss - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"
Road salt in an open dish - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"
The road of the rebel stars - Louis Golding "Gallop"
Make a running road of noise - Louis Golding "Jack of April"
From the wet road's tasking cruelty - Robert Graves "Kit Logan and Lady Helen"
In climes beyond the solar road - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Take a lonelier road - Nikki Grimes "Crucible of Champions"
Roads against the windy skies - Ivor Gurney "Toasts and Memories"
On the road of chivalry and pride - Ivor Gurney "The Tower"
Boots made for the roads we travelled in woe - Katherine Hale "Silver Slippers"
A sphere out of the road of business - Sir Matthew Hale "Paraphrase from Seneca"
His casual jot of service on that road - Thomas Hardy "The Casual Acquaintance"
By bearing down the western road - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"
Road through human memory - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
A spiral on the road of knowledge - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Drew a jewel from the road - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Friendship"
The road that has forgotten where it's going - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
A scrap of talk on the road - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"
Taking the treacherous road to Ithaka - Tony Hoagland "The Third Dimension"
In all the endless road you tread - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LX"
Down wet and slippery roads to hell - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"
A road our dearest friends have gone - Leigh Hunt "Death" [International Weekly Miscellany v. 1 no.2, July 1850]
Never walks the road of shade and flowers - "I Have Seen a Road" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The wailing wind and murky road - Ihsan Ismayil (Umun) "Verses of Falling" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Blowing along a dust-whipped road - Fred L. Joiner "Sikasso Snow"
I wonder about the road to hell - Ashley M. Jones "I Find the Earring that Broke Loose from My Ear the Night a White Woman Told Me the World Would Save Her"
The narrow road I hoped to reach - Mary Karr "The Century's Worst Blizzard"
Upon Time's flinty road - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
Knots unravel'd by the Road - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
When the road led nowhere - Suji Kwock Kim "Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border"
Believe a curve in the road - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
Shut the road through the woods - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"
The roads brushing the clouds - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"
The road before this of blood - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"
A pain-rutted road - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"
Every stone on the road precious - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"
High road to bewitchment - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
The old road lost to the highway - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"
Walked the roads in flaking ash - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"
Whose lies are shadow roads - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Bridged by a road of molten glass - R.B. Lemberg "The Three Immigrations"
The hen returned into the road - Giacomo Leopardi "Calm After Storm" transl. by Frederick Townsend
The dark road toward their silence - Philip Levine "After the War"
To receive the black gifts of a mountain road - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
A long road is grief enough - Li Shang-yin "Spring Rain" transl. by Burton Watson
My thoughts must travel the long road to the south - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The road has been paved in rain - Ada Limon "The Widening Road"
How they divide light from the road - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"
Lining this morbid crackle of roads - Tariq Luthun "Fruit"
On an ancient road of Hell - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
No new road for the dead - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
The whirlwind road of song - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
And questioned one another on the road to home - Harry Martinson "Aniara 97" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
To tramp the dusty roads alone - John Masefield "In Memory of A.P.R."
The stony road that artists tread - John Masefield "King Cole"
Where the road is lonely, dark, and still - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
Moved the jackrabbit from the road - Louise Mathias "Larrea"
The difference will be a road - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm of Departure"
The roads go out to Macedon - Furnley Maurice "Little Boys"
Mortared together with dirt roads - John McCarthy "Just Outside Owasso"
No rigid road for me - Claude McKay "One Year After"
In vision sees the future road to fame - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
This road requires a toll, a tip to the ferryman - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"
Had fallen away from the road underneath - W.S. Merwin "The Crust"
As the road opened under them - W.S. Merwin "The Crust"
Roads written in sleep - W.S. Merwin "Long Afternoon Light"
From the stars to the dark country roads - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
The infinite straight road stretching - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
The breathless road between the walls - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
beside a road carved out of desert night - Andy Miller "All Those Bleached Bones"
Shadows of birds crossing a road - Claire Millikin "Pierced Dolls"
Rutted roads run away to nowhere - N. Scott Momaday "A Darkness Comes"
On roads that wind around the foothills - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
March down dark roads - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Colorful Words" transl. by Joshua Freeman
Whatever road the gravel makes - Angel Nafis "TarBaby Fly!"
because the tree grew into a road - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
roads must constantly be fed - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
The onward etch of road - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (8)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Who have traveled the same road - "The Ne'er Digressing Quartette"
Boots worn out by the thirsty roads - Pablo Neruda "Appointment with Winter" transl. by Alastair Reid
Go out to sell light on the roads - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid
Walking the roads made for returning - Pablo Neruda "San Martin (1810)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Hard road of knives - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A road of dust and bewilderment - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
When grief took to the roads - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
A hard road and thorny - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
Along the dark diminishing road - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
Who tread the dusty road to Nowhere - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"
Imagine the luxury of open roads - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Some Countries"
Action on far away roads - Naomi Shihab Nye "Morning Song"
Walked home on a desperate road - Naomi Shihab Nye "Yellow Glove"
Roads burn fuses into nightways - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Sing down an empty road - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"
A thousand roads lead to it - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
A white road only as long as your body - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Six: The Journey"
Voices of the women on the road - John Oxenham "Hearts in Exile"
The roads are blind with storm - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Golden Shoes"
The high road of my joy - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Whose unfolding brings to mind a road - Carl Phillips "His Master's Voice"
Forty miles of perfect bad road - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
While shouting thousands lined the road - J. Rheyn Piksohn "A Contrasted Picture: from 'Passion Ode,' an Unpublished Poem" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The road wound upward, to the hill of sleep - Miriam Clark Potter "Little Sister of the Moon"
The road that leads from Glad Today - Miriam Clark Potter "The Road to Glad Tomorrow"
The road away to the walls of Twilight Town - Miriam Clark Potter "Twilight Town"
The road winds down in deepening shadow - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Dawn Among the Olive Groves"
All roads narrow at the border - Barbara Ras "You Can't Have It All"
As a scythe of birds swings over the road - Paisley Rekdal "Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348"
What dark road will they ride together? - Paisley Rekdal "Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348"
And the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
Watching all roads at one time - Lola Ridge "Jude"
And forget the road I have traveled - Lynn Riggs "The Hollow"
We travel unmapped roads - Alberto Rios "The Cities Inside Us"
And the pilgrim road unfolds for me - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "The Hill People"
By the short road that mystery makes long - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
Many fleet horses perish on the road - Saadi "A Certain Man" transl. by Coleman Barks
Roads reach to strife - Margaret E. Sangster "Preface"
The road is long, and hell is deep - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
On gentle roads into the splendor - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier
Roads and terrible things in dark turnings - Tobias Seamon "Near Life Experience"
That really walks the long roads with me - Alexandra Seidel "Seven Truths and the In-Between"
Travelers with a long road to go - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Command the road to power - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Over never-ending roads - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
The yarrow-edged side roads we walked barefoot - Diane Seuss "Toad"
Part of the road's story - Diane Seuss "Toad"
On the bitter roads of France - Virna Sheard "Crosses"
Hew a road of woe - Virna Sheard "The Shells"
With the suns upon their road of awe - Clark Ashton Smith "The Ministers of Law"
Fail not upon the road of space - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
When our roads converged - Gary Soto "The Road Not Taken... in Peru"
Wiser from traveling both roads - Gary Soto "The Road Not Taken... in Peru"
Scatter on endless dust roads - Elizabeth Spires "Moment Vanishing"
When the broad road forked - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"
On ancient roads of war - George Sterling "England, August 1914"
On wizard roads of shadow - George Sterling "Farm of Fools"
Waiting a foe where four roads meet - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "Before the Mirror"
The turn in the road is a promise - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"
Always covered with dust of the road - Su Shih "A Dream of You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Too late to look for a lost road - Su Tung-p'o "Beginning of Autumn: A Poem to Send to Tzu-yu" transl. by Burton Watson
Sifting the dust of road - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 210: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Very steep the road to Fame - Howard V. Sutherland "Two Quests"
The road the sun lays down in light - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
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
Make clear the road through toil and darkness - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
I know where the roads end - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"
Over lightless pane and footless road - Edward Thomas "Aspens"
Roads go on while we forget - Edward Thomas "Roads"
Out of reach of the road's dust - Edward Thomas "Two Houses"
Swung into its azure roads again - Francis Thompson "To My Godchild--Francis M. W. M."
The rabbit darts over the open road - Kristen Tracy "State Lines"
Your shadow along the solitary roads - Iris Tree "[My devotion kneels to you]"
The heady perfume of pepper-scented roads - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Along the road where robbers are - Nancy Byrd Turner "My Horse" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Reached the city's center by the crooked road of Hell - Rudolph Valentino "Hunger"
The three hundred roads meet - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Wind" transl. by Alma Strettell
The road toward rotting - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
This road between Presence and Absence wanders - Wang An-Shih "Returning Home from Bell Mountain at Dusk, Sent to a Monk" transl. by David Hinton
Travel distant roads and never arrive - Wang An-Shih "A Spring Day" transl. by David Hinton
A frozen road past midnight - William Carlos Williams "Complaint"
Face to face on this road - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"
Little roads closed to the public - Michelle Wirth "Campus"
A door to dreams, a little road to heaven - Humbert Wolfe "Gabriel"
Life's rugged road of thorns - Adolf Wolff "The Artists"
At the great fork on the untouchable road - Charles Wright "Little Ending"
No roads in the black night - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Something invisible blocks every road - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Remove some barrier from the road - Eva Rose York "I Shall Not Pass this Way Again"
Finding hammers by sides of roads, in snow - Dean Young "Hammer"
A mountain with no roads or roadsigns - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"
The iron road agleam with splintered light - Francis Brett Young "February"
Traveling the back roads between boy and man - January Gill O'Neil "Hoodie"
The backroad switchbacks of his double helix - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist with Three Moons"
Crossroad.
A road-bed newly built and clean - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
This binary roadblock - Monica de la Torre "Intimacy in Discourse: A Comedy in Three Movements"
Even the road-dirt and moths can't resist - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
The roadkill that no one was paid to pick up - Amelia Gorman "Why Some Towns Get Extra Bears" [Strange Horizons 16 June 2025]
Or forgiven the roadkill their crossing - Zachariah Claypole White "The Angel Questions His Faith" [Strange Horizons 7 July 2025]
Spin a whole road map of a world - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Days we take cover in like roadside brush - Ari Banias "Human Time"
The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee - Robert Frost "A Line-storm Song"
Grey with the roadside dust - Dorothea Mackellar "Pilgrim Song"
They got you when you need roadside assistance - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
A mountain with no roads or roadsigns - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"
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There are dark roads enough to go - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"
Who walk the wrong roads, which is any road - Lauren K. Alleyne "For My Brother(s)"
Unwalked all the roads - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
Shrieks of horror on the road - Isidore G. Ascher "By the Firelight"
Until no one remembers the road - Fatimah Asghar "Partition"
Along this cobbled road of us - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
The dusty roads of tomorrow - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"
Down the road and back again - Derrick Austin. "The Birthday Interviews"
Rapt on ethereal roads of satellites - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Pathmaker (To Maria Mitchell)"
Get used to trash along the road - Elizabeth Barnett "You remember the feeling but not what made you feel that way"
That climb up ancient roads - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Bend a road where you trespass - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
Tread the roads of chance - Charles Baudelaire "To a Brown Beggar-Maid" transl. not credited
Unreels in the road of the days and nights - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Songs that I heard on my road - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"
The roads they take in journeying - Robert Blair "The Grave"
The crooked roads without improvement - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell"
He wants roads diverging - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Through the upward roads of Hell - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"
A ram for the spirits of the road - "The Book of Odes: No.245. She Who First Bore Our People" transl. by Burton Watson
Any diamondback unlucky enough to be on the road - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
And tempts me back out on the road - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Rattlesnakes making a cursive communion on the road - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
To tread the untroubled road again - Vera M. Brittain "To My Ward-Sister"
Regained the solitude of roads - Geoffrey Brock "Mundane Comedies. II. Leaving Kansas"
And on a strange road journeyed - Emily Bronte "Plead for Me"
The new road runs along the old road - Kurt Brown "Road Trip"
Where the forgetting cuts a road - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
Wringing sweat from the eyes of the road - Paul Cameron Brown "Preening"
Travelling down a carnival road - Paul Cameron Brown "Vertigo"
Across oceans' roads past rows of ghosts - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"
Discards those weevils on tarred roads - CM Burroughs "Elegy for a Server"
In such light the road already beckons - Scott Cairns "Dawn at Saint Anna's Skete"
The roads that run through Beauty's realm - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
A road trip all over my mind and heart - Anne Carson "O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love"
The old, deep-travelled road from pain - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"
The road widens to glory - Tina Chang "Color"
A country of trafficless roads - Chen Chen "When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities"
Through time's still rough'ning road - Rev. C.C. Colton "Old Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
The rags of roads and cities clawed to shreds - S. R. Compton "On the K-T Boundary"
Strike lightning to the road - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"
When snowdrifts blocked the country roads - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
Out streaming across the lonely road - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"
On the South road of the sea - Arthur Shearly Cripps "Essex"
The kind of road that furthered dreams - Shutta Crum "The Highway of the Three Graces"
That white road of wonder and delight - Olive Custance "Hylas"
On the twisted road to recover - Jim Daniels "The Family Price"
Crimsoned by the Road of Fame - Coningsby Dawson "The Once Sung Song"
Always on the road of docile laurels borne - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
With which she paints the road to favour - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Lonely houses off the road - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XV"
Strike eastward on the narrow road - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Faltering that the road is steep - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Slow through the Dark"
The first radical road out - Ansel Elkins "Autobiography of Eve"
Travelling on the road of no return - Aziz Isa Elkun "Roses" transl. by author
A road of red clover opens - JJJJJerome Ellis "Before Stuttering"
Across dirt roads and muddy ditch paths - Danielle Emerson "shíma yazhí ahéheeʼ / thank you, auntie"
Shrouds the mountains and silences the roads - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Now find that same road wild and steep - Jessie Fauset "The Return" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
When all the roads are white with dust - Hannah G. Fernald "In Summer" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Mileposts on that road of dread - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: V. Portrait of the Incomparable John Cowper Powys, Esq."
Dangerous roads we've trod - Carrie Law Morgan Figgs "We are Marching"
My road along the river of return - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"
The termites have worn jagged roads - Evelyn Flores "The Flame Tree"
To move the turtles from the road - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen g"
Alongside the atlas's scribbled road - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen J"
In this wilderness of life there's no such crooked road - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
The straight road curved by darkness - April Freely "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longing or Dread"
All her roads are nerves of noble thought - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
On that disused and forgotten road - Robert Frost "Ghost House"
The road alone maintained itself in mud - Robert Frost "Our Singing Strength"
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"
Adventure on the road of bliss - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"
Road salt in an open dish - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"
The road of the rebel stars - Louis Golding "Gallop"
Make a running road of noise - Louis Golding "Jack of April"
From the wet road's tasking cruelty - Robert Graves "Kit Logan and Lady Helen"
In climes beyond the solar road - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Take a lonelier road - Nikki Grimes "Crucible of Champions"
Roads against the windy skies - Ivor Gurney "Toasts and Memories"
On the road of chivalry and pride - Ivor Gurney "The Tower"
Boots made for the roads we travelled in woe - Katherine Hale "Silver Slippers"
A sphere out of the road of business - Sir Matthew Hale "Paraphrase from Seneca"
His casual jot of service on that road - Thomas Hardy "The Casual Acquaintance"
By bearing down the western road - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"
Road through human memory - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
A spiral on the road of knowledge - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Drew a jewel from the road - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Friendship"
The road that has forgotten where it's going - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
A scrap of talk on the road - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"
Taking the treacherous road to Ithaka - Tony Hoagland "The Third Dimension"
In all the endless road you tread - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LX"
Down wet and slippery roads to hell - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"
A road our dearest friends have gone - Leigh Hunt "Death" [International Weekly Miscellany v. 1 no.2, July 1850]
Never walks the road of shade and flowers - "I Have Seen a Road" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The wailing wind and murky road - Ihsan Ismayil (Umun) "Verses of Falling" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Blowing along a dust-whipped road - Fred L. Joiner "Sikasso Snow"
I wonder about the road to hell - Ashley M. Jones "I Find the Earring that Broke Loose from My Ear the Night a White Woman Told Me the World Would Save Her"
The narrow road I hoped to reach - Mary Karr "The Century's Worst Blizzard"
Upon Time's flinty road - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
Knots unravel'd by the Road - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
When the road led nowhere - Suji Kwock Kim "Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border"
Believe a curve in the road - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
Shut the road through the woods - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"
The roads brushing the clouds - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"
The road before this of blood - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"
A pain-rutted road - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"
Every stone on the road precious - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"
High road to bewitchment - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
The old road lost to the highway - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"
Walked the roads in flaking ash - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"
Whose lies are shadow roads - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Bridged by a road of molten glass - R.B. Lemberg "The Three Immigrations"
The hen returned into the road - Giacomo Leopardi "Calm After Storm" transl. by Frederick Townsend
The dark road toward their silence - Philip Levine "After the War"
To receive the black gifts of a mountain road - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
A long road is grief enough - Li Shang-yin "Spring Rain" transl. by Burton Watson
My thoughts must travel the long road to the south - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The road has been paved in rain - Ada Limon "The Widening Road"
How they divide light from the road - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"
Lining this morbid crackle of roads - Tariq Luthun "Fruit"
On an ancient road of Hell - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
No new road for the dead - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
The whirlwind road of song - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
And questioned one another on the road to home - Harry Martinson "Aniara 97" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
To tramp the dusty roads alone - John Masefield "In Memory of A.P.R."
The stony road that artists tread - John Masefield "King Cole"
Where the road is lonely, dark, and still - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
Moved the jackrabbit from the road - Louise Mathias "Larrea"
The difference will be a road - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm of Departure"
The roads go out to Macedon - Furnley Maurice "Little Boys"
Mortared together with dirt roads - John McCarthy "Just Outside Owasso"
No rigid road for me - Claude McKay "One Year After"
In vision sees the future road to fame - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
This road requires a toll, a tip to the ferryman - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"
Had fallen away from the road underneath - W.S. Merwin "The Crust"
As the road opened under them - W.S. Merwin "The Crust"
Roads written in sleep - W.S. Merwin "Long Afternoon Light"
From the stars to the dark country roads - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
The infinite straight road stretching - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
The breathless road between the walls - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
beside a road carved out of desert night - Andy Miller "All Those Bleached Bones"
Shadows of birds crossing a road - Claire Millikin "Pierced Dolls"
Rutted roads run away to nowhere - N. Scott Momaday "A Darkness Comes"
On roads that wind around the foothills - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
March down dark roads - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Colorful Words" transl. by Joshua Freeman
Whatever road the gravel makes - Angel Nafis "TarBaby Fly!"
because the tree grew into a road - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
roads must constantly be fed - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
The onward etch of road - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (8)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Who have traveled the same road - "The Ne'er Digressing Quartette"
Boots worn out by the thirsty roads - Pablo Neruda "Appointment with Winter" transl. by Alastair Reid
Go out to sell light on the roads - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid
Walking the roads made for returning - Pablo Neruda "San Martin (1810)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Hard road of knives - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A road of dust and bewilderment - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
When grief took to the roads - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
A hard road and thorny - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
Along the dark diminishing road - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
Who tread the dusty road to Nowhere - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"
Imagine the luxury of open roads - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Some Countries"
Action on far away roads - Naomi Shihab Nye "Morning Song"
Walked home on a desperate road - Naomi Shihab Nye "Yellow Glove"
Roads burn fuses into nightways - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Sing down an empty road - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"
A thousand roads lead to it - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
A white road only as long as your body - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Six: The Journey"
Voices of the women on the road - John Oxenham "Hearts in Exile"
The roads are blind with storm - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Golden Shoes"
The high road of my joy - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Whose unfolding brings to mind a road - Carl Phillips "His Master's Voice"
Forty miles of perfect bad road - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
While shouting thousands lined the road - J. Rheyn Piksohn "A Contrasted Picture: from 'Passion Ode,' an Unpublished Poem" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The road wound upward, to the hill of sleep - Miriam Clark Potter "Little Sister of the Moon"
The road that leads from Glad Today - Miriam Clark Potter "The Road to Glad Tomorrow"
The road away to the walls of Twilight Town - Miriam Clark Potter "Twilight Town"
The road winds down in deepening shadow - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Dawn Among the Olive Groves"
All roads narrow at the border - Barbara Ras "You Can't Have It All"
As a scythe of birds swings over the road - Paisley Rekdal "Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348"
What dark road will they ride together? - Paisley Rekdal "Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348"
And the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
Watching all roads at one time - Lola Ridge "Jude"
And forget the road I have traveled - Lynn Riggs "The Hollow"
We travel unmapped roads - Alberto Rios "The Cities Inside Us"
And the pilgrim road unfolds for me - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "The Hill People"
By the short road that mystery makes long - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
Many fleet horses perish on the road - Saadi "A Certain Man" transl. by Coleman Barks
Roads reach to strife - Margaret E. Sangster "Preface"
The road is long, and hell is deep - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
On gentle roads into the splendor - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier
Roads and terrible things in dark turnings - Tobias Seamon "Near Life Experience"
That really walks the long roads with me - Alexandra Seidel "Seven Truths and the In-Between"
Travelers with a long road to go - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Command the road to power - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Over never-ending roads - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
The yarrow-edged side roads we walked barefoot - Diane Seuss "Toad"
Part of the road's story - Diane Seuss "Toad"
On the bitter roads of France - Virna Sheard "Crosses"
Hew a road of woe - Virna Sheard "The Shells"
With the suns upon their road of awe - Clark Ashton Smith "The Ministers of Law"
Fail not upon the road of space - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
When our roads converged - Gary Soto "The Road Not Taken... in Peru"
Wiser from traveling both roads - Gary Soto "The Road Not Taken... in Peru"
Scatter on endless dust roads - Elizabeth Spires "Moment Vanishing"
When the broad road forked - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"
On ancient roads of war - George Sterling "England, August 1914"
On wizard roads of shadow - George Sterling "Farm of Fools"
Waiting a foe where four roads meet - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "Before the Mirror"
The turn in the road is a promise - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"
Always covered with dust of the road - Su Shih "A Dream of You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Too late to look for a lost road - Su Tung-p'o "Beginning of Autumn: A Poem to Send to Tzu-yu" transl. by Burton Watson
Sifting the dust of road - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 210: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Very steep the road to Fame - Howard V. Sutherland "Two Quests"
The road the sun lays down in light - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
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
Make clear the road through toil and darkness - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
I know where the roads end - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"
Over lightless pane and footless road - Edward Thomas "Aspens"
Roads go on while we forget - Edward Thomas "Roads"
Out of reach of the road's dust - Edward Thomas "Two Houses"
Swung into its azure roads again - Francis Thompson "To My Godchild--Francis M. W. M."
The rabbit darts over the open road - Kristen Tracy "State Lines"
Your shadow along the solitary roads - Iris Tree "[My devotion kneels to you]"
The heady perfume of pepper-scented roads - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Along the road where robbers are - Nancy Byrd Turner "My Horse" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Reached the city's center by the crooked road of Hell - Rudolph Valentino "Hunger"
The three hundred roads meet - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Wind" transl. by Alma Strettell
The road toward rotting - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
This road between Presence and Absence wanders - Wang An-Shih "Returning Home from Bell Mountain at Dusk, Sent to a Monk" transl. by David Hinton
Travel distant roads and never arrive - Wang An-Shih "A Spring Day" transl. by David Hinton
A frozen road past midnight - William Carlos Williams "Complaint"
Face to face on this road - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"
Little roads closed to the public - Michelle Wirth "Campus"
A door to dreams, a little road to heaven - Humbert Wolfe "Gabriel"
Life's rugged road of thorns - Adolf Wolff "The Artists"
At the great fork on the untouchable road - Charles Wright "Little Ending"
No roads in the black night - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Something invisible blocks every road - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Remove some barrier from the road - Eva Rose York "I Shall Not Pass this Way Again"
Finding hammers by sides of roads, in snow - Dean Young "Hammer"
A mountain with no roads or roadsigns - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"
The iron road agleam with splintered light - Francis Brett Young "February"
Traveling the back roads between boy and man - January Gill O'Neil "Hoodie"
The backroad switchbacks of his double helix - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist with Three Moons"
Crossroad.
A road-bed newly built and clean - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
This binary roadblock - Monica de la Torre "Intimacy in Discourse: A Comedy in Three Movements"
Even the road-dirt and moths can't resist - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
The roadkill that no one was paid to pick up - Amelia Gorman "Why Some Towns Get Extra Bears" [Strange Horizons 16 June 2025]
Or forgiven the roadkill their crossing - Zachariah Claypole White "The Angel Questions His Faith" [Strange Horizons 7 July 2025]
Spin a whole road map of a world - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Days we take cover in like roadside brush - Ari Banias "Human Time"
The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee - Robert Frost "A Line-storm Song"
Grey with the roadside dust - Dorothea Mackellar "Pilgrim Song"
They got you when you need roadside assistance - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
A mountain with no roads or roadsigns - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"
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