Potential Titles: Rise
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somethingdarkerArise/Arose.
Raise.
Rising on phoenix limbs from black smoke - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"
One specter rises from the campfire - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"
Calmly I rise with broken threads - Harold Acton "Conversations and Crumbling"
Divers rising through leagues of joy - Carl Adamshick "Loss"
An exhalation rising from a darkness foreign - Etel Adnan "Night"
Rising at the smell of dawn - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
Marks the rising phantoms - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Among the trees the question chanced to rise - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Once on a time, in early dawn of summer]"
In lightness of wonder rise higher - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Rise into the wonder of daybreak - Kwame Alexander "Majestic: Celebrating Maya Angelou"
No name for what rises - Lauren K. Alleyne "Nothing to Declare"
New faces rise by every hearth - William Allingham "The Winding Banks of Erne"
Your unchanged breath rising - Aldo Amparan "Aubade at the City of Change"
Rise like foliage and human touch - Ralph Angel "Sampling"
Shall rise through sorrow's mist - Alice M. Ardagh "Sic Passim"
Rising, luminous, from its own bones - Rebecca Baggett "Chestnut"
When London's faded glories rise to view - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Behold a silver planet rise - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"
till dust can rise on flaming wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
for every year my dust shall rise - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
Their shadows having risen and consumed them - Wendell Berry "My Great-Grandfather's Slaves"
Rise towards the scattered stars - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
Every time the moon rises full - Terry Blackhawk "Query"
Rise to the sun of my youth - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"
Beating a way for the rising sun - Arna Bontemps "The Day-Breakers"
The dog rising from its bed of dust - Julia Bouwsma "I Walk My Road at Dusk"
Your faithful rise like locusts - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
Must bloom and fade, must rise and fall - J. Huntington Bright "Nahant" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Rising, quits her restless bed - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Where the tall turret rises high - Charlotte Bronte "Mementos"
These rising waters filthy and licking with flames - Nickole Brown "Mercy"
When I curse the rising sun - Mahogany L. Browne "litany"
The tide of terror has quit rising in me - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"
Golden prospects round us rise - John Castillo "The Country Love Feast"
Left to silence, a question rises - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo"
Great ghosts shall rise to vindicate the right of cats - G.K. Chesterton "To Enid who acted the Cat in private Pantomime"
Rising and dipping in jumbled array - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
My spirit would grateful rise - "The City" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Rise and vanish in oblivious host - John Clare "I Am!"
Shall serpent-friendship rise to hiss and sting - "Corn Is King" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
His branches rise in theoretic symmetries - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
Through the red rains rising - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
Which caused a shout of fear to rise - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"
All these I summon to rise up and bring fire - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
One spray has risen in my dungeon bare - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]
Ran to meet white Aphrodite risen from the sea - Olive Custance "Hyacinthus"
Rise radiant with starry eyes - H.D. "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]
Fail to stem the rising tide of want - Julia [Julia Day] "A Call" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCVII, v.LXIV, Nov. 1848]
Weeds already rising from the dead - Jim Daniels "Elegy for the Nasty Neighbor"
Rise up out of the stone you took - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
Pillars of blue light rising from its waves - Deborah L. Davitt "Drowning in this Sunken City"
Cheered by a rising star - Coningsby Dawson "Thalatta! Thalatta!"
From haunts of deep obscurity, the fellest Fury rise - 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]
Spread full the canvas to the rising gale - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Rising triumphant in the azure sky - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
Captive sky gathering words that burn and rise - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"
Risen up from dust, abundant - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Rising even as they recede - Chris Dombrowski "Just Before Dark"
Melancholy winds of autumn rise - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel IX: Dover"
That bastard son rises again - Cheryl Dumesnil "Good Morning Heartache"
Smiles to rise and doff its fears - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Beyond the Years"
The cruel wind is rising with a whistle and a wail - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Waiting"
All my dreams rising for her - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"
Rises out of abyssal black - Rebecca Dunham "There Lies the Hydra: 1. Heracles and the Hydra"
Rise on anger's updrafts - Cornelius Eady "Running Man"
Rise to the trilling thrush - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"
The many Temples rising fair - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"
The sun I awaited did not rise - Aziz Isa Elkun "Father" transl. by author
On this day risen to set no more - Charlotte Elliott "Sunday Morning"
Who by fraud or extortion would rise - "The Emperor's Rout"
Rises slow the noiseless Night - George Allan England "Morning, Noon and Night"
Risen like this cold stone in the darkness - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"
Through the rifts of rising, falling seed - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"
twists and rises into the tube of light - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
I forgot the rising tide - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"
Draw my name in the sand and defy the rising tide - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
From the smoke rise the flame's snake-eyes - John Freeman "The Chair"
The earthquake rising from his burning lair - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
In the antiphony of afterglow and rising full moon - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
The moon new-risen from the dead - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Foxes no doubt will rise in station - John Gay "Fable VII: Lion, Fox, and Gander" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
These monstrous portents that before me rise - "The Ghost of Chatham"
As the toothed moon rises - Louise Gluck "All Hallows"
Who receives the first smile of the rising sun - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Rise clear above the traffic's hum - Harry Graham "The Cries of London"
The evening star rising in glory - Joseph Grant "The Blackbird's Hymn Is Sweet"
Memories of the lost rise from mind's uncharted sea - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"
Our window on the risen world - Linda Gregerson "Another Diana"
The rising wind's menacing roar - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"
Rise like thunder - Nikki Grimes "Truth"
That rise from the sleepless deep - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
A caress to the rising moon - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
Will rise in fugitive bloom - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
Cannot rise from the green mould - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXI"
Rising to the tick of two clocks - Seamus Heaney "Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication for Mary Heaney 1. Sunlight"
Rise to the battle and the chase - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
Behold a chain of wonders rise - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"
Call on the watchers of the land to rise - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Rise from the heart's fountain - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
Rising in the glow of Love's own fire - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"
Feel the sad wind rising - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"
Lose the path and watch Orion rise - Conrad Hilberry "Virginia Night"
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"
Mornings rise out of the night as if in triumph - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
In random thirsts rise - Erica Hunt "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
The craving Phoenix rises from its Fires - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Rising with copper in one hand and cadmium in the other - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
The past will sometimes rise - Annie Fellows Johnston "Echoes from Erin"
Blood rising under the Andes - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"
Rise up to meet you in the clouds - Zilka Joseph "Eliyahoo Hanabi"
Rise like breath from the river mud - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
Holy oil upon the rising flame - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Rise to your unfamiliar light - Mary Karr "The Last of the Brooding Miserables"
The unatonable deeds of ages rise - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Risen bright into daybreak - Galway Kinnell "Mount Fuji at Daybreak"
Truth, rising from the bottom of her well - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"
How Frida had risen to see her double world - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
Jasmine rising from a valley somewhere in Egypt - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"
Rising up into the feeling of horizon - Christopher Kondrich "Orientation"
In a rising wind the manic dust of my friends - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"
Above your brown floods rise - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway II: A Bog-Filled Valley"
Rise to mock the going day - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"
Dreams again until the rising moon - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
The blue aster learns to rise and run - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"
The harvest-hymns rise - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Into the mesh of risen lilies - Stephen Leggett "Visiting a Greenhouse in Lent"
Rise up mindful and consider fire - Hailey Leithauser "Inspiration"
To an ocean's greatest rise - Hailey Leithauser "Rapture"
Watch me rise in the essence of indigo - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"
In dust rising - Philip Levine "Clouds Above the Sea"
And loathe the punctual rise of each new day - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"
Rise like porcupines - J. Patrick Lewis "How to Tell Latitude from Longitude"
Rise up with repeated sighs - Li Po "Song of a Dream Visit to T'ien-mu: Farewell to Those I Leave Behind" transl. by Burton Watson
Its rising will cast bitter shadows of sorrow - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Let the dust rise off in waves - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
A lyric possibility rises everywhere - Sandra Lim "Poem [Whenever I feel loss or lack]"
Ruled with tomorrow's rising sun - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"
Whose soft dim light would rise to bless each summer - "Lines in Humble Imitation of an Inimitable Scottish Poet" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Rise up and disappear - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Summer"
His children once beggars rise into guerrillas - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
Brightest stars rise from a troubled sea - Amy Lowell "In Darkness"
For whatever remains after the sea rises - Tariq Luthun "For Those We Left Behind"
Still her woes at midnight rise - John Lyly "The Spring"
Rise victorious from every worldly strife - E.M. "Part VI. The Apologia"
Rising in a benediction of heights - Naomi Long Madgett "Without"
an ancestor telling you to rise up - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"
Rise up to the chatter and creaking - Jan Mandell "Ode to Aging Bodies"
Three spells I have laid on the rising sun - Don Marquis "The Sailor's Wife Speaks"
Some voices rise triumphant from the hum - Harry Martinson "Aniara 16" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Rises at the altar like a kindled spark - Harry Martinson "Aniara 58" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Rising every evening in the skies of night - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Rise unharmed from her ossuary shell - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A fist full of weeds that rise yellow - Jamaal May "I Have This Way of Being"
Beside your bitter waters rise - Theodore Maynard "Ireland"
At every step, new man-made barriers rise - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Watching silence rising from the dust - John McCarthy "Silence Rising, Dust Rising"
Prenatal earth rising in the volcano's throat - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Any methodology for rising - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"
Rise to behold the satyr in their place - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Risen from conflict of blood - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of the Flag"
A crossroad rising over the sea of failure - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
Between the floorboards seedlings rise - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
A net rises from the world - W.S. Merwin "The Inevitable Lightness"
Outside, the raven's moon rises - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"
From the secret earth shall rise - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Elegy"
Rises from bedrock hematite - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"
Mountains rising black from the underworld - N. Scott Momaday "The First Day"
Wolves rising to the tooth of the moon - N. Scott Momaday "The Listener"
The waters rise from infinite realms of rest - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"
Row till the sea-nymphs rise - T. Sturge Moore "Rower's Chant"
That rise like skeleton larks - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Rise from dreary hours - Francis Neilson "Rejuvenation"
On the walls a rising rancor - Pablo Neruda "Insomnia" transl. by Alastair Reid
The soul rises with instant roses - Pablo Neruda "One Day Stands Out" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Rising up like seeds of sorrow - Pablo Neruda "Portrait of the Man" transl. by Teresa Anderson
Rises from your sundered glory - Pablo Neruda "Tupac Amaru (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Ghost in sheet risen at midnight bell - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Burning blushes that unbidden rise - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]
Forests of wind storms newly risen - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"
The usual flames rising up from the cracks of everything we know - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"
Rise in gauze and halos - Mary Oliver "Gravel"
Keeping watch until we rise - Mary Oliver "I will try"
Sigh as the tide rises - Mary Oliver "Riprap"
The price of their rising - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
When the tide of silence rises - Craig Santos Perez "ars pasifika"
Woodsmoke rising to the ashy stars - Patrick Phillips "For Paul"
Domes and spires rising toward the stratosphere - Samantha Pious "Interior Castle" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]
Rises at midnight and looks back - Po-Chu-i "On the Way to Hangchow: Anchored on the River at Night" (translated by Arthur Waley)
As the wind rises and your boat sails - Po Chu'i "Seeing You Off" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Rises gently on the harbor - Maya C. Popa "One Way or Another"
The darlings of the water in pink and crimson rise - Horatio Nelson Powers "Delectatio Piscatoria" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Sept. 1880]
The Smoke was too heavy to rise - John Prine
To rise from my low camouflage - Khadijah Queen "Declination"
Smoke rising grey to white - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"
The happy lark but newly risen - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To the Earth"
The discordant breath of the risen - Charles Rafferty "The Untuned Piano"
Reckless of ocean's rise - Robert Reid "Poesie"
Glass panes behind which stars rise - Paisley Rekdal "The Cry"
Rise triumphant through the starry skies - "Resurgamus" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
Silence rising fumelike - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Awful bridge rising over naked air - Adrienne Rich "Victory"
And spires rise like litanies - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Rise up with singing roots - Lola Ridge "Sons of Belial"
The walls rise in a man's face - Rihaku "Four Poems of Departure: Leave-taking Near Shoku" transl. by Ezra Pound
This is the hour of ghosts that rise - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
Rising and falling on a machine's time - Elizabeth Kestrel Rogers "Spare Parts"
Smoke rising devoted to anything - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"
Rising from long forgetfulness I turn - George William Russell "Desire"
New stars may rise, the ancient fade - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Shadows of the twilight rise to meet us - Arthur L. Salmon "By the River" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.127-v.III, 5 June 1886]
Roses rise with red rain-memories - Carl Sandburg "Follies"
Rippled and twisted in sliding rising scales - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"
The sudden rise and slow relapse - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"
Rises and plunges into the unimaginable seventh dimension - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"
Risen high above the star - Thomas Hall Shastid "Christmas Night"
Rising in glory from their winter graves - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Naught but the rising moon stands on your path - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Rises and ebbs in a tide of fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
Heat rises in distorted gold - Maggie Smith "Rasp"
Watch it rise through our fallen - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"
Holding back what clamored to rise - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"
Lurking shapes that give no sign of rising - Leonora Speyer "Deep Sea Fishing"
Above the rising sea of human tears - George Sterling "Remorse"
A sacred syllable rising - Wallace Stevens "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside"
Whose streams rise from eternity - Speer Strahan C.S.C. "The Promised Country"
The sun that still rises and the dead that stay dead - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
And thunders into hell, to rise again - Carmen Sylva "Down the Stream"
Darken not the hour when I rise out of myself - Carmen Sylva "Lethe"
Out of which all waves rise and fall - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"
Still, light rises all night long - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"
If the sound rises from our dreams - Keith Taylor "The Cull"
Taj Mahals that rise out of the mist at dawn - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"
Rise away with the celluloid spirits - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
Rise with holy wind - Craig Morgan Teicher "Lifted"
Rise from the ashes of my buried years - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"
The deer rise from the mist - Matthew Thorburn "Come Back to Tell Us"
Rise and their long reign begin - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Rise in formless ruin blown - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
Rising on the waters of my heart - Jean Toomer "Evening Song"
A risen consequence from the pit of what I brought - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
The sun rising from morning mists - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Rise into choruses of singing gold - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"
Sing strife or rising moons - Louis Untermeyer "Songs and the Poet"
Rise like thirsty thunder - John Updike "New York City"
Hidden hurts that rise in dreams - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"
Lamplight when the moon rises - Emily van Kley "Birches --for A & D VK"
Built before the rising of this world's sun - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"
Let them rise from the heart's tomb - Lydia L.A. Very "Memory" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The phantoms of vengeance rise - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist
A sun drowned in red rises - Wang An-Shih "Ninth Month, Yi Year of the Snake, On Climbing Metal-Forge Wall" transl. by David Hinton
North border winds are rising - Wang Seng-Ta "To Match the Prince of Lang-yeh's Poem in the Old Style" transl. by Burton Watson
No smoke rising from your fingertips - Jamie Wasserman "Spontaneous Human Combustion"
While some early riser bears witness - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]
Rise radiant in clarity - William Watson "Art Maxims"
Rising in brighter array - Isaac Watts "Summer's Evening"
That rises with the stars - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"
Spring will rise from her dungeon keep - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"
Clear-cut and certain they rise - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"
Rise against their rootedness - Richard Wilbur "Young Orchard"
We rise up laughing with the light - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"
To fly like those two wild geese, rising with beating wings - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The burrowing pride that rises - William Carlos Williams "Sub Terra"
A heart from whence no guile shall rise - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
To rise among the angels and survive - Allan Wolf "For Those Who Light the Candle"
All the rising flames of hope - Adolf Wolff "The Cloud"
A mighty junk-heap rising high - Adolf Wolff "The Great Discard"
Let your song rise on twisted breezes - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea - William Wordsworth "The World Is Too Much With Us"
Rises from a powerful well - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"
With rising rainbows wreathed - John Wright "An Autumnal Cloud"
As Scorpio rises, Orion goes down - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
Across the river with white waves rising - Emperor Wu-ti "The Autumn Wind" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The phoenix will still rise from the flames of Paris - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"
As songs rise - Xu Zhimo "Second Farewell to Cambridge" (translated by Kai-yu Hsu)
Lie down with lava and rise with snow - Dean Young "Everyday Escapees" [Poetry April 2013]
Who rises to the cool and minty wind - Ray Young Bear "In the First Place of My Life"
Rising up through a hailstorm - Matthew Zapruder "As I Cross the Heliopause at Midnight, I Think of My Mission"
Rose out of the turning seasons in December - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
His gaze rose through the shapes behind the world - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Till oldest wisdom rose to shake hands with the new - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Rose again, transformed and whole - Geoffrey Brock "Ovid Old"
While shouts of rival nations rose - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
So rich in love's regret fair Aphrodite rose - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
When morning rose above the rain - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
When Light rose, earthquake shod - Madison Cawein "The Miracle of Dawn"
What the pestilence had touched ne'er rose to life again - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Rose into the cradle of my mother's mind - Ama Codjoe "Hunger"
My cities rose in every land - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"
Rose from the ragged sail and splintered spars - John William Draper "To Shelley"
That beauty's self rose visible in the world - John Freeman "The Body"
O'er crimson Potomac the sound rose again - "Give Us Room" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The energy that rose from their confusion - Thom Gunn "Duncan"
Romeo's passion rose to fire from one thin spark - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"
Rose in dazzling spirals overhead - Paul H. Hayne "The Mocking-Bird" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, July 1878]
Whose sunbeam rose so fair - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"
A cheer rose from a Thousand Throats - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
Rose over dirt for the prism of progress - Brenda Hillman "1951"
Death and Sin rose to render key and sword - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXI: Hell's Gate"
Through the seventh Gate I rose - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Half the wild ocean rose up to the clouds - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Twenty Bold Mariners"
The white pavilions rose and fell - Henry W. Longfellow "The Beleaguered City"
The soul's will rose more clearly into view - Harry Martinson "Aniara 101" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The courts of old Atlantis rose - John Masefield "Fragments"
And red-hot mists rose from quartz - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"
The sun rose dripping - Edna St Vincent Millay "Recuerdo"
The flames rose in me - Marilyn Nelson "Paper Dolls"
Rose higher than a prayer ignored - Dante Novario "The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882"
Rose before the silent conqueror - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Rose again to seek a newer world - Andre F. Peltier "A Long Walk"
Rose to the realms where heroes dwell - "Resurgamus" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
And a million tongues of madness rose singing - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
Rose despondent in the morning - Margaret E. Sangster "I Dreamed Your Face"
Rose against the dark like vengeance hurled - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah II: The White Stone"
Rose like minarets of dream - George Sterling "Then and Now"
Rose out of the dark tide - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"
Trees rose in wild dreams from the earth - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
In front of the sickle something rose - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
And when December waters rose - Arthur Weir "The Oak"
When the tide rose to meet the twilight - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Slow-rising from the deep caves of his heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
From sun far-set or moon unrisen - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
The unrisen sun hiding behind the sea - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley
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Rising on phoenix limbs from black smoke - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"
One specter rises from the campfire - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"
Calmly I rise with broken threads - Harold Acton "Conversations and Crumbling"
Divers rising through leagues of joy - Carl Adamshick "Loss"
An exhalation rising from a darkness foreign - Etel Adnan "Night"
Rising at the smell of dawn - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
Marks the rising phantoms - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Among the trees the question chanced to rise - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Once on a time, in early dawn of summer]"
In lightness of wonder rise higher - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Rise into the wonder of daybreak - Kwame Alexander "Majestic: Celebrating Maya Angelou"
No name for what rises - Lauren K. Alleyne "Nothing to Declare"
New faces rise by every hearth - William Allingham "The Winding Banks of Erne"
Your unchanged breath rising - Aldo Amparan "Aubade at the City of Change"
Rise like foliage and human touch - Ralph Angel "Sampling"
Shall rise through sorrow's mist - Alice M. Ardagh "Sic Passim"
Rising, luminous, from its own bones - Rebecca Baggett "Chestnut"
When London's faded glories rise to view - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Behold a silver planet rise - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"
till dust can rise on flaming wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
for every year my dust shall rise - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
Their shadows having risen and consumed them - Wendell Berry "My Great-Grandfather's Slaves"
Rise towards the scattered stars - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
Every time the moon rises full - Terry Blackhawk "Query"
Rise to the sun of my youth - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"
Beating a way for the rising sun - Arna Bontemps "The Day-Breakers"
The dog rising from its bed of dust - Julia Bouwsma "I Walk My Road at Dusk"
Your faithful rise like locusts - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
Must bloom and fade, must rise and fall - J. Huntington Bright "Nahant" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Rising, quits her restless bed - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Where the tall turret rises high - Charlotte Bronte "Mementos"
These rising waters filthy and licking with flames - Nickole Brown "Mercy"
When I curse the rising sun - Mahogany L. Browne "litany"
The tide of terror has quit rising in me - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"
Golden prospects round us rise - John Castillo "The Country Love Feast"
Left to silence, a question rises - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo"
Great ghosts shall rise to vindicate the right of cats - G.K. Chesterton "To Enid who acted the Cat in private Pantomime"
Rising and dipping in jumbled array - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
My spirit would grateful rise - "The City" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Rise and vanish in oblivious host - John Clare "I Am!"
Shall serpent-friendship rise to hiss and sting - "Corn Is King" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
His branches rise in theoretic symmetries - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
Through the red rains rising - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
Which caused a shout of fear to rise - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"
All these I summon to rise up and bring fire - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
One spray has risen in my dungeon bare - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]
Ran to meet white Aphrodite risen from the sea - Olive Custance "Hyacinthus"
Rise radiant with starry eyes - H.D. "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]
Fail to stem the rising tide of want - Julia [Julia Day] "A Call" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCVII, v.LXIV, Nov. 1848]
Weeds already rising from the dead - Jim Daniels "Elegy for the Nasty Neighbor"
Rise up out of the stone you took - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
Pillars of blue light rising from its waves - Deborah L. Davitt "Drowning in this Sunken City"
Cheered by a rising star - Coningsby Dawson "Thalatta! Thalatta!"
From haunts of deep obscurity, the fellest Fury rise - 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]
Spread full the canvas to the rising gale - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Rising triumphant in the azure sky - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
Captive sky gathering words that burn and rise - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"
Risen up from dust, abundant - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Rising even as they recede - Chris Dombrowski "Just Before Dark"
Melancholy winds of autumn rise - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel IX: Dover"
That bastard son rises again - Cheryl Dumesnil "Good Morning Heartache"
Smiles to rise and doff its fears - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Beyond the Years"
The cruel wind is rising with a whistle and a wail - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Waiting"
All my dreams rising for her - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"
Rises out of abyssal black - Rebecca Dunham "There Lies the Hydra: 1. Heracles and the Hydra"
Rise on anger's updrafts - Cornelius Eady "Running Man"
Rise to the trilling thrush - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"
The many Temples rising fair - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"
The sun I awaited did not rise - Aziz Isa Elkun "Father" transl. by author
On this day risen to set no more - Charlotte Elliott "Sunday Morning"
Who by fraud or extortion would rise - "The Emperor's Rout"
Rises slow the noiseless Night - George Allan England "Morning, Noon and Night"
Risen like this cold stone in the darkness - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"
Through the rifts of rising, falling seed - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"
twists and rises into the tube of light - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
I forgot the rising tide - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"
Draw my name in the sand and defy the rising tide - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
From the smoke rise the flame's snake-eyes - John Freeman "The Chair"
The earthquake rising from his burning lair - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
In the antiphony of afterglow and rising full moon - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
The moon new-risen from the dead - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Foxes no doubt will rise in station - John Gay "Fable VII: Lion, Fox, and Gander" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
These monstrous portents that before me rise - "The Ghost of Chatham"
As the toothed moon rises - Louise Gluck "All Hallows"
Who receives the first smile of the rising sun - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Rise clear above the traffic's hum - Harry Graham "The Cries of London"
The evening star rising in glory - Joseph Grant "The Blackbird's Hymn Is Sweet"
Memories of the lost rise from mind's uncharted sea - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"
Our window on the risen world - Linda Gregerson "Another Diana"
The rising wind's menacing roar - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"
Rise like thunder - Nikki Grimes "Truth"
That rise from the sleepless deep - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
A caress to the rising moon - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
Will rise in fugitive bloom - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
Cannot rise from the green mould - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXI"
Rising to the tick of two clocks - Seamus Heaney "Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication for Mary Heaney 1. Sunlight"
Rise to the battle and the chase - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
Behold a chain of wonders rise - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"
Call on the watchers of the land to rise - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Rise from the heart's fountain - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
Rising in the glow of Love's own fire - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"
Feel the sad wind rising - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"
Lose the path and watch Orion rise - Conrad Hilberry "Virginia Night"
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"
Mornings rise out of the night as if in triumph - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
In random thirsts rise - Erica Hunt "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
The craving Phoenix rises from its Fires - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Rising with copper in one hand and cadmium in the other - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
The past will sometimes rise - Annie Fellows Johnston "Echoes from Erin"
Blood rising under the Andes - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"
Rise up to meet you in the clouds - Zilka Joseph "Eliyahoo Hanabi"
Rise like breath from the river mud - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
Holy oil upon the rising flame - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Rise to your unfamiliar light - Mary Karr "The Last of the Brooding Miserables"
The unatonable deeds of ages rise - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Risen bright into daybreak - Galway Kinnell "Mount Fuji at Daybreak"
Truth, rising from the bottom of her well - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"
How Frida had risen to see her double world - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
Jasmine rising from a valley somewhere in Egypt - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"
Rising up into the feeling of horizon - Christopher Kondrich "Orientation"
In a rising wind the manic dust of my friends - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"
Above your brown floods rise - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway II: A Bog-Filled Valley"
Rise to mock the going day - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"
Dreams again until the rising moon - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
The blue aster learns to rise and run - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"
The harvest-hymns rise - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Into the mesh of risen lilies - Stephen Leggett "Visiting a Greenhouse in Lent"
Rise up mindful and consider fire - Hailey Leithauser "Inspiration"
To an ocean's greatest rise - Hailey Leithauser "Rapture"
Watch me rise in the essence of indigo - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"
In dust rising - Philip Levine "Clouds Above the Sea"
And loathe the punctual rise of each new day - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"
Rise like porcupines - J. Patrick Lewis "How to Tell Latitude from Longitude"
Rise up with repeated sighs - Li Po "Song of a Dream Visit to T'ien-mu: Farewell to Those I Leave Behind" transl. by Burton Watson
Its rising will cast bitter shadows of sorrow - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Let the dust rise off in waves - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
A lyric possibility rises everywhere - Sandra Lim "Poem [Whenever I feel loss or lack]"
Ruled with tomorrow's rising sun - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"
Whose soft dim light would rise to bless each summer - "Lines in Humble Imitation of an Inimitable Scottish Poet" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Rise up and disappear - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Summer"
His children once beggars rise into guerrillas - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
Brightest stars rise from a troubled sea - Amy Lowell "In Darkness"
For whatever remains after the sea rises - Tariq Luthun "For Those We Left Behind"
Still her woes at midnight rise - John Lyly "The Spring"
Rise victorious from every worldly strife - E.M. "Part VI. The Apologia"
Rising in a benediction of heights - Naomi Long Madgett "Without"
an ancestor telling you to rise up - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"
Rise up to the chatter and creaking - Jan Mandell "Ode to Aging Bodies"
Three spells I have laid on the rising sun - Don Marquis "The Sailor's Wife Speaks"
Some voices rise triumphant from the hum - Harry Martinson "Aniara 16" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Rises at the altar like a kindled spark - Harry Martinson "Aniara 58" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Rising every evening in the skies of night - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Rise unharmed from her ossuary shell - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A fist full of weeds that rise yellow - Jamaal May "I Have This Way of Being"
Beside your bitter waters rise - Theodore Maynard "Ireland"
At every step, new man-made barriers rise - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Watching silence rising from the dust - John McCarthy "Silence Rising, Dust Rising"
Prenatal earth rising in the volcano's throat - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Any methodology for rising - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"
Rise to behold the satyr in their place - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Risen from conflict of blood - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of the Flag"
A crossroad rising over the sea of failure - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
Between the floorboards seedlings rise - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
A net rises from the world - W.S. Merwin "The Inevitable Lightness"
Outside, the raven's moon rises - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"
From the secret earth shall rise - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Elegy"
Rises from bedrock hematite - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"
Mountains rising black from the underworld - N. Scott Momaday "The First Day"
Wolves rising to the tooth of the moon - N. Scott Momaday "The Listener"
The waters rise from infinite realms of rest - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"
Row till the sea-nymphs rise - T. Sturge Moore "Rower's Chant"
That rise like skeleton larks - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Rise from dreary hours - Francis Neilson "Rejuvenation"
On the walls a rising rancor - Pablo Neruda "Insomnia" transl. by Alastair Reid
The soul rises with instant roses - Pablo Neruda "One Day Stands Out" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Rising up like seeds of sorrow - Pablo Neruda "Portrait of the Man" transl. by Teresa Anderson
Rises from your sundered glory - Pablo Neruda "Tupac Amaru (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Ghost in sheet risen at midnight bell - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Burning blushes that unbidden rise - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]
Forests of wind storms newly risen - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"
The usual flames rising up from the cracks of everything we know - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"
Rise in gauze and halos - Mary Oliver "Gravel"
Keeping watch until we rise - Mary Oliver "I will try"
Sigh as the tide rises - Mary Oliver "Riprap"
The price of their rising - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
When the tide of silence rises - Craig Santos Perez "ars pasifika"
Woodsmoke rising to the ashy stars - Patrick Phillips "For Paul"
Domes and spires rising toward the stratosphere - Samantha Pious "Interior Castle" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]
Rises at midnight and looks back - Po-Chu-i "On the Way to Hangchow: Anchored on the River at Night" (translated by Arthur Waley)
As the wind rises and your boat sails - Po Chu'i "Seeing You Off" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Rises gently on the harbor - Maya C. Popa "One Way or Another"
The darlings of the water in pink and crimson rise - Horatio Nelson Powers "Delectatio Piscatoria" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Sept. 1880]
The Smoke was too heavy to rise - John Prine
To rise from my low camouflage - Khadijah Queen "Declination"
Smoke rising grey to white - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"
The happy lark but newly risen - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To the Earth"
The discordant breath of the risen - Charles Rafferty "The Untuned Piano"
Reckless of ocean's rise - Robert Reid "Poesie"
Glass panes behind which stars rise - Paisley Rekdal "The Cry"
Rise triumphant through the starry skies - "Resurgamus" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
Silence rising fumelike - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Awful bridge rising over naked air - Adrienne Rich "Victory"
And spires rise like litanies - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Rise up with singing roots - Lola Ridge "Sons of Belial"
The walls rise in a man's face - Rihaku "Four Poems of Departure: Leave-taking Near Shoku" transl. by Ezra Pound
This is the hour of ghosts that rise - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
Rising and falling on a machine's time - Elizabeth Kestrel Rogers "Spare Parts"
Smoke rising devoted to anything - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"
Rising from long forgetfulness I turn - George William Russell "Desire"
New stars may rise, the ancient fade - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Shadows of the twilight rise to meet us - Arthur L. Salmon "By the River" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.127-v.III, 5 June 1886]
Roses rise with red rain-memories - Carl Sandburg "Follies"
Rippled and twisted in sliding rising scales - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"
The sudden rise and slow relapse - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"
Rises and plunges into the unimaginable seventh dimension - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"
Risen high above the star - Thomas Hall Shastid "Christmas Night"
Rising in glory from their winter graves - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Naught but the rising moon stands on your path - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Rises and ebbs in a tide of fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
Heat rises in distorted gold - Maggie Smith "Rasp"
Watch it rise through our fallen - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"
Holding back what clamored to rise - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"
Lurking shapes that give no sign of rising - Leonora Speyer "Deep Sea Fishing"
Above the rising sea of human tears - George Sterling "Remorse"
A sacred syllable rising - Wallace Stevens "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside"
Whose streams rise from eternity - Speer Strahan C.S.C. "The Promised Country"
The sun that still rises and the dead that stay dead - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
And thunders into hell, to rise again - Carmen Sylva "Down the Stream"
Darken not the hour when I rise out of myself - Carmen Sylva "Lethe"
Out of which all waves rise and fall - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"
Still, light rises all night long - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"
If the sound rises from our dreams - Keith Taylor "The Cull"
Taj Mahals that rise out of the mist at dawn - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"
Rise away with the celluloid spirits - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
Rise with holy wind - Craig Morgan Teicher "Lifted"
Rise from the ashes of my buried years - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"
The deer rise from the mist - Matthew Thorburn "Come Back to Tell Us"
Rise and their long reign begin - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Rise in formless ruin blown - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
Rising on the waters of my heart - Jean Toomer "Evening Song"
A risen consequence from the pit of what I brought - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
The sun rising from morning mists - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Rise into choruses of singing gold - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"
Sing strife or rising moons - Louis Untermeyer "Songs and the Poet"
Rise like thirsty thunder - John Updike "New York City"
Hidden hurts that rise in dreams - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"
Lamplight when the moon rises - Emily van Kley "Birches --for A & D VK"
Built before the rising of this world's sun - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"
Let them rise from the heart's tomb - Lydia L.A. Very "Memory" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The phantoms of vengeance rise - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist
A sun drowned in red rises - Wang An-Shih "Ninth Month, Yi Year of the Snake, On Climbing Metal-Forge Wall" transl. by David Hinton
North border winds are rising - Wang Seng-Ta "To Match the Prince of Lang-yeh's Poem in the Old Style" transl. by Burton Watson
No smoke rising from your fingertips - Jamie Wasserman "Spontaneous Human Combustion"
While some early riser bears witness - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]
Rise radiant in clarity - William Watson "Art Maxims"
Rising in brighter array - Isaac Watts "Summer's Evening"
That rises with the stars - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"
Spring will rise from her dungeon keep - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"
Clear-cut and certain they rise - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"
Rise against their rootedness - Richard Wilbur "Young Orchard"
We rise up laughing with the light - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"
To fly like those two wild geese, rising with beating wings - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The burrowing pride that rises - William Carlos Williams "Sub Terra"
A heart from whence no guile shall rise - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
To rise among the angels and survive - Allan Wolf "For Those Who Light the Candle"
All the rising flames of hope - Adolf Wolff "The Cloud"
A mighty junk-heap rising high - Adolf Wolff "The Great Discard"
Let your song rise on twisted breezes - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea - William Wordsworth "The World Is Too Much With Us"
Rises from a powerful well - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"
With rising rainbows wreathed - John Wright "An Autumnal Cloud"
As Scorpio rises, Orion goes down - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
Across the river with white waves rising - Emperor Wu-ti "The Autumn Wind" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The phoenix will still rise from the flames of Paris - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"
As songs rise - Xu Zhimo "Second Farewell to Cambridge" (translated by Kai-yu Hsu)
Lie down with lava and rise with snow - Dean Young "Everyday Escapees" [Poetry April 2013]
Who rises to the cool and minty wind - Ray Young Bear "In the First Place of My Life"
Rising up through a hailstorm - Matthew Zapruder "As I Cross the Heliopause at Midnight, I Think of My Mission"
Rose out of the turning seasons in December - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
His gaze rose through the shapes behind the world - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Till oldest wisdom rose to shake hands with the new - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Rose again, transformed and whole - Geoffrey Brock "Ovid Old"
While shouts of rival nations rose - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
So rich in love's regret fair Aphrodite rose - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
When morning rose above the rain - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
When Light rose, earthquake shod - Madison Cawein "The Miracle of Dawn"
What the pestilence had touched ne'er rose to life again - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Rose into the cradle of my mother's mind - Ama Codjoe "Hunger"
My cities rose in every land - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"
Rose from the ragged sail and splintered spars - John William Draper "To Shelley"
That beauty's self rose visible in the world - John Freeman "The Body"
O'er crimson Potomac the sound rose again - "Give Us Room" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The energy that rose from their confusion - Thom Gunn "Duncan"
Romeo's passion rose to fire from one thin spark - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"
Rose in dazzling spirals overhead - Paul H. Hayne "The Mocking-Bird" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, July 1878]
Whose sunbeam rose so fair - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"
A cheer rose from a Thousand Throats - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
Rose over dirt for the prism of progress - Brenda Hillman "1951"
Death and Sin rose to render key and sword - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXI: Hell's Gate"
Through the seventh Gate I rose - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Half the wild ocean rose up to the clouds - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Twenty Bold Mariners"
The white pavilions rose and fell - Henry W. Longfellow "The Beleaguered City"
The soul's will rose more clearly into view - Harry Martinson "Aniara 101" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The courts of old Atlantis rose - John Masefield "Fragments"
And red-hot mists rose from quartz - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"
The sun rose dripping - Edna St Vincent Millay "Recuerdo"
The flames rose in me - Marilyn Nelson "Paper Dolls"
Rose higher than a prayer ignored - Dante Novario "The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882"
Rose before the silent conqueror - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Rose again to seek a newer world - Andre F. Peltier "A Long Walk"
Rose to the realms where heroes dwell - "Resurgamus" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
And a million tongues of madness rose singing - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
Rose despondent in the morning - Margaret E. Sangster "I Dreamed Your Face"
Rose against the dark like vengeance hurled - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah II: The White Stone"
Rose like minarets of dream - George Sterling "Then and Now"
Rose out of the dark tide - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"
Trees rose in wild dreams from the earth - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
In front of the sickle something rose - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
And when December waters rose - Arthur Weir "The Oak"
When the tide rose to meet the twilight - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Slow-rising from the deep caves of his heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
From sun far-set or moon unrisen - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
The unrisen sun hiding behind the sea - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley
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