Potential Titles: Across
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somethingdarkerScatter his whole mind across a field - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"
Across the silent places of your heart - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LIV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Spill blood transported from across the world - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Across thousands of miles of sky - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
Spun like yarn across the copper sun - Harold Acton "Discoveries"
Shadows across the windows - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"
Across the puzzling continent of you - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"
From out the dawn the crows broke across the sky - Lewis Alexander "Tanka V" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The boortree and the lightsome ash across the portal grow - William Allingham "Abbey Asaroe"
Skips stones across the pond of longing - Julia Alvarez "Tone"
While holy vespers steal across the ocean - Lennox Amott "My Beauty's Home"
In trails of fire across the land - Rosalie Arthur "October"
The resonating filaments of a song across the abyss - R. Christopher Aversa "Gold Foil Experiment"
Not born knowing how to walk across - Julie Babcock "Amen to Artillery"
Across this dirtless moment - Quenton Baker "[we are]"
little lines run crazy across the lettuce - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
Snowplow pushes time across the prairie - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
Stars guide the eye across the sky - Mary Jo Bang "How will it feel months from now"
Across the sand dune of history - Mary Jo Bang "I in a War"
Across a lacerating lapse in time - Mary Jo Bang "No More"
Across a wide sky staggered with chimneys - Ari Banias "Fountain"
A thought unfolding across somebody's face - Ari Banias "A Sunset"
Across the twilight of the crane - Maurice Baring "Mozart"
Rotating centuries across the stars - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
An eyeless reach across immensity - Elizabeth Bartlett "Item: Body Found"
To slip across barriers of being - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"
And when they looked across the patch - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Across a field made of sunlight - Basho transl. by David Young
Spin their webs across the basements of our brains - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Smoke across the dazzle of the sand - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"
Arose and tossed a billion gems across the sea - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
Across my diffuse, remote peripheries - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Heart"
Draws a diagonal across my floor - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Across the blackened fields are only smothered stars - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Across Titania's golden streams - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
So eagerly across that unknown span - Laurence Binyon "Youth"
A thin wind across a wire - Terry Blackhawk "Chambered Nautilus, with Tinnitus and Linden"
Shattered forms scattered across the landscape - Bruce Boston "Beyond the Clouds of Paradise"
While burning herbivores strolled across a lean horizon - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"
Barriers across the mental plain - John Philip Bourke "John Philip Bourke"
Across the sullen void on soundless trail - Ray D. Bradbury "Thought and Space" [Futuria Fantasia, v.1, no.1, summer 1939]
Radio dust stretched across the night sky - Russell Brakefield "The Perseids"
Across the pulse of time - Julian Talamantez Brolaski "poetry is a temporal art"
Ploughing breakers across both sea and night - Paul Cameron Brown "The Draper's Cloth"
Marching blue legions across the sky - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"
Spread across the yawn of death - Paul Cameron Brown "Point Spread"
Across a table top of tension - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"
Signs coded in stars speeding across the sky - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"
Bike riding across insecure cement - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
A walk across a montage of darkness - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
Flung across the intervals - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Across the threshold of Time's palace - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Coming of Summer"
Cast its shadow across the line - Sue Budin "False Borders"
Across oceans' roads past rows of ghosts - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"
Sweet slumber steals across my haggard mind - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
The silent ships of memory creep across the seas - Frank Oliver Call "The Ships of Memory"
Across worn pavements crumbling to decay - Frank Oliver Call "Through a Long Cloister"
Across the tideless sea no shadow falls - Frank Oliver Call "The Vision"
Earth's shadows fall across our thoughts - Calder Campbell "Sonnet [Too much--too much we make Earth's shadows fall]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.308, 24 Nov. 1849]
Raging across the marshes - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: The Flood Tide"
Across the red vapours descending - Giosue Carducci "On a Saint Peter's Eve" transl. by Frank Sewall
Star-touched, across the fading trail - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
And throw a golden bridge across - Phoebe Cary "Otway"
As liquid lopes across the surface - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"
Across the seas of time - Arthur Hugh Clough "Shadow and Light"
Across the fields of ether - Benjamin Copeland "The Rainbow Round the Throne"
Out streaming across the lonely road - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"
Elongates and is dispersed across the universe - Jan Cronos "She Remains"
A gleam across the dreamer's face - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
Break across a blood-stained throat - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"
Across the spent fires of the night - Russell W. Davenport "Poems III"
Send whispers across water - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"
Seeds spilled across another year - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"
Across the vain and vacant void - Coningsby Dawson "Masterless"
Lights and shadows sweep across his brow - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
Edging across the twilight air - Walter de la Mare "The Honey Robbers"
Weaving a web across the rose and dusk - Clarissa Scott Delany "Solace" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Across my air & through his water - Toi Derricotte "For Telly the Fish"
Across its edge the nettle grows - "The Deserted Home" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Follow the hurrying clouds across the sky - Nathan Haskell Dole "The Swallow" [St. Nicholas v.V no.6, Apr. 1878]
Skipping across waves made of breath - Chris Dombrowski "Like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade"
Hailstones galloping across the hard earth - Chris Dombrowski "Strange Lullaby"
The bergamot's red blossom leans the stilly stream across - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Across the great bruised heart of the South - Rita Dove "Crossing State Lines [Shirtsleeved afternoons]" [excerpt]
Laddering across the unspeakable world - Rita Dove "Transit"
Laugh across the wine - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"
No sound across a windless sky - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
Across the awful space that marks their course - B.F.D. Dunn "Our Heritage" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Strode across the hills and broke them - T.S. Eliot "Cousin Nancy"
The smell of hyacinths across the garden - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"
Across the sea you bore the sacred fire - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."
Across dirt roads and muddy ditch paths - Danielle Emerson "shíma yazhí ahéheeʼ / thank you, auntie"
Across the vast skin of me - Heid E. Erdich "Tick Check"
Peach blossoms blown across the wind - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"
Stealing across the calm and moonlit seas - J.F. "The Better Thought" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.460, 23 Oct. 1852]
Across the floors of strangers - Tarfia Faizullah "Djinn in Need of a Bitch"
Twisting and turning across these lifetimes - Tarfia Faizullah "The Poem You've Been Waiting For"
And breath brushes across the hollow - Kevin J. Fellows "Bone Song"
Speak with silence across gulfs of silence - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
The bridge across the Torrent's fall - George Blackstone Field "To You Who Can Never Understand"
Across the lake of my existence - Ashanti Files "Ripples"
a game of telephone that first rang across the ocean - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"
Across the meadow's lunar slopes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen L"
Across the crease of smooth canoes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
Across the silvery dusts of the Sea of Tranquility - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"
He who came across the Atlantic flood - "Freedom's Beacon" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Across the pauses of the feast the singers' voices fall - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
A shipwreck playing across me - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"
Wind spins across the landscape - Roberto Carlos Garcia "This Moment/Right Now"
Writes itself in sheets across my veins - Suzi F. Garcia "A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood (with some help from Ahmad)"
With clouds that steal across her light - Emanuel Geibel "[Mien Pferd geht langsam durch die nacht]" transl. by Edith Wharton
Spider webs across the scalded earth - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"
Dragons breathing white-hot magnesium across humid skies - Ian Goh "Firework"
Across buried virtues and slain sins - Louis Golding "Fires of Change"
Deep notes across the sombre woods - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Across obliterating air - Louise Imogen Guiney "To a Young Poet"
Hot Santa Ana wind mopes across clay courts - Christian Gullette "The Fish"
Across the waste of years I see - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]
Long canyons opening across fields of talus - Han Shan aka Cold Mountain "28 [If you're climbing Cold Mountain Way]" transl. by David Hinton
October comes across the hill - Susan Hartley "October" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.12, Oct. 1886]
From far across the desolate moor - Henry Hasse "Lost Soul" [Futuria Fantasia, v.1, no.2, Fall 1939]
Across the wide bewildering track of countless eons - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Pre-Existence"
Sweeping in a foam across the night - Ben Hecht "Moods"
Silver tears across the black petals - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"
Across the marquees of legions of subway cars - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Laughter across the intervening stars - R.M. Hewitt "Gaudium in Coelo"
Traveling down instead of across - Mary Hickman "Helen"
Steals across a thousand floors - Florence Hoatson "The Friend of Santa Claus"
Leap across rifts of empty sky - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 26" transl. by David Hinton
North and south, inaccessible except across water - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 33" transl. by David Hinton
Across the Lethe of the years - Aldous Huxley "Books and Thoughts"
And the stars are mirrored across me - Aldous Huxley "Points and Lines"
Across the unfurrowed reaches - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, The First Watch: Tired"
The white tailed kite will arc across the mesa - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
In shimmering rivulets across pure granite - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"
Across that high court of the skull - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"
The flash across an event horizon - Sara Eliza Johnson "Vapor"
Across a hundred and one faces - Fady Joudah "Domicile, House, Cusp"
Rocks rolling across the fat plains - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"
To shroud the miles across the face of the seas - Janet Kauffman "Reparations"
Limned in his blood across your clearing skies - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"
We bridge across the dark - Rudyard Kipling "The Coastwise Lights"
South across the water underneath a setting star - Rudyard Kipling "A Priest in Spite of Himself: A St Helena Lullaby"
Walk across the field of goldenrod and mustard weeds - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Across a nettled field riddled with rabbit-life - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Across the river's shadow-haunted floor - Archibald Lampman "September"
And pleads across the waste to thee - Sidney Lanier "Special Pleading" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
Clutched hands across a halo bright - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
Across the wind-swept waves of Time - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Electrical currents across your every horizon - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"
Relayed the new gospels across mountains - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"
Doubles and smears the night across the wide world - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Across the silence and the shade - Amy Levy "In the Night"
Across the fires that glow in the wide floor of heaven - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IX. Night"
Laughing across the lotus-flowers - Li Po "On the Banks of Jo-yeh" transl. by Arthur Waley
All my bones scattered across the floor - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
Goldfinches tumbling across the lawn - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"
Frost whorling across a windshield - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"
Dark force that drew me across uncharted space - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"
Tornadoes piled across the sky - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
Brilliant silvers ranged across emptiness - Liu Tsung-yuan "Returning to Compass-Line Cliff's Waterfall, I Stay Overnight Below the Cliffwall" transl. by David Hinton
That told the hidden way across the void - H.P. Lovecraft "Fungi from Yuggoth" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
Across the barren moor - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"
Another stain across his tarnished honour - Amy Lowell "Francis II, King of Naples Written"
With herons blowing like smoke across the sky - Amy Lowell "Hoar-Frost"
Across uneven pavements sunk in slime - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"
And voices across the starlight - P.H.B. Lyon "The Deserted Garden"
Where the windows shone across the darkness - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
Setting out across a field of spears - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
Across the trodden continent of years - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "A Pilgrim"
Wandering across the porcelain Siberia - Joanie Mackowski "Ants [excerpt]"
The bridge across the silent river gone - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"
Across electric feathers of snow - Naomi Long Madgett "Signature"
Where slain umbrellas travel across the Hudson River - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
Across the waste of mortal things - Edwin Markham "The Poets"
Hurrying across a sea of fire - Jeannette Marks "Cloud"
Prophecy strewn across stones - Daria-Ann Martineau "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"
Amaranth ash spread across the light - J. Michael Martinez "White"
Words of wheat across years of salt - Khaled Mattawa "Revisiting Hekale"
Across several versions of the portrait - Farid Matuk "Mimesis"
Across the fleeing squadron's way - John McCrae "The Captain"
To blow salt across blurred borders - Brandy Nalani McDougall "Resist"
Swarming across the glassy floor of space - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Across the waters and the sighing reeds - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
Roosters crying across a aimless early tide - Meng Hao-jan "Overnight at Cypress-Peak Monastery on Heaven-Terrace Mountain" transl. by David Hinton
In ghost across a ground - George Meredith "King Harald's Trance"
Across the ruffled strip of salt - George Meredith "To Colonel Charles (Dying General C.B.B.)"
Ice feathers across the biodome - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"
Untouched across the cold - W.S. Merwin "The Curlew"
Across the wide sound of being - W.S. Merwin "What the Bridges Hear"
Sprawls across the earth like a fallen giant - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"
Across sea-meadows measureless - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ackerman Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Move unchained as wind across the world - Adam Mickiewicz "Baydary" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Bearing you across a ridge of dreams - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
I, across strange waters, hear your cry - Louise Chandler Moulton "Across Strange Waters" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Sept. 1878]
Across the wind's unquiet tides - Sarojini Naidu "The Royal Tombs of Golconda"
Striking across the centuries in stone - Pablo Neruda "The Blind Statue" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Scatter transparent letters across the sky - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: VII" transl. by William O'Daly
Across the shirt of the icy firmament - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Seagull" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Approach across the edge of words - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
Across place and the hereafter - Tim Newcomb "Evocative Montana"
Across moist distance - Tim Newcomb "Summer Storm"
Pitching their absence across the sky - Grace Nichols "Lewes Night Out"
A comet's loveliness shaken across the midnight sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Sudden thoughts across my mind were cast - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]
Across the sea on your silver wake - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Moon"
Strung across with golden wires - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"
Across the marshlands of my heart - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"
Step across without stretching - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Working upward across bone - Linda Pastan "I Am Learning to Abandon the World: for M"
The penumbra of a redwood across frozen ground - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"
Love translated you across an ocean - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]
Across a band of nightfall - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"
Breeze blowing across its rusted strings - Patrick Phillips "Piano"
Across all things divine - Carl Phillips "And Love You Too"
Wind across the gable roofs singing sad - Miriam Clark Potter "Lady Mother"
Across a bridge, all tumbled and forlorn - Miriam Clark Potter "Roads"
The call of quails across the desert - John Presland "The Deluge"
Long shadows across the untouched snow - Alison Prine "Long Love"
Holding our breath across generations - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
Across the definition of blue - Khadijah Queen "Common Miracles"
Strung yarn trajectories across all the oceans - Danni Quintos "Five Hundred Years & Three Weeks Ago We Killed Magellan"
To weave a web across the street - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Georgetown, U.S.A."
Across the endless field of sky - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Road to Colla"
Across my mind comes creeping - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Rustic Courting XVII: Casend Hill"
Across a wind-swept sphere - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Welcome"
Across the sidewalk's light upheavals - Diane Raptosh "World Upside Down"
I wear their writhing roots across my scalp - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"
For the sweat of stars sliding across his sword - Roger Reeves "Beneath the Perseids"
Stretches his arms across a triple zone - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
Across the surrendered forest - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
Across the strings of magic fire - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"
Bridge across the abyss - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Across the asphalt night - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"
Break across insulating space - Ed Roberson "Whose sleeves: American Tagasode"
Scarlet stains across the dipping hills of sun - Lloyd Roberts "The Berry Pickers"
The shadow of Vesuvius lies gray across the land - Lloyd Roberts "The Trail from Napoli"
Across the bare and desolate wilderness - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet VII"
Night is stretched across the frame of the sky - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
Across the flood of ether - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"
A mile across each single door - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Broken across with slashes of light - Carl Sandburg "Window"
A bat flies across the last star - Reg Saner "Spring Song"
As dreams across an endless night - Margaret E. Sangster "'Be of Good Cheer!'"
A moonbeam thrown across my heart - Margaret E. Sangster "Intangible"
Spraying black plumes across the blockaded sunset - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
Seeping out across oblivious space - Ann K. Schwader "Dead Light"
Scars across the face of night - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"
Blackout curtains blank across her window - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Tongues of fire across our midnight sky - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Like an angel spread across the horizon - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"
A blight of cosmic hate across the planet's face - Richard F. Searight "The Dead World" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
Rabbits leap in patterns across boulevards - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"
Where my impulses reach across - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"
Gushes sour light across the sheets - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"
Roll out across the dark their avalanche - Odell Shepard "Laus Mariae"
And draw the shadows down across my eyes - Odell Shepard "Recollection"
Read the message writ across Earth's face - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
Across the darkness flung the ribbons of the Northern Light - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
And search across the shadows for my face - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Chime in silverly across the half-imagined wind - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Arrows of fire across the shadows hurled - Frank Dempster Sherman "Song at Daybreak"
Clothespinned across a buzzing canvas of vermillion - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Memory dissolves across night - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Never Tells the Man"
Across time stretching infinitely far - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
Ruby poppies embossed across the handle - Claire Smith "Exhibits from Schneewittchen"
Across the upturned faces of the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Dragging its shadow across the screen - Maggie Smith "How Dark the Beginning" [Poetry Feb 2020]
Across that billion-star ocean - Richard Solomon "Salt Doll's Incarnation"
Bold across its high borders - "Song of the Sea" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Across the salt sea of swift currents - "Song of the Sea" transl. by Kuno Meyer
A slow ship moving across its own oblivion - Leonora Speyer "The Heart Recalcitrant"
Marched across the bridged Potomac - Edmund Clarence Stedman "How Old Brown Took Harper's Ferry"
Across the tumult wake the Past - George Sterling "Sonnets on the Sea's Voice"
Across the field where yarrow was and now is dust - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
Titanium scales rhyming across curves - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
The lucid moment and the shadow across the lintel - Arthur Stringer "The Question"
Trailing fragrance out across ten miles - Su Tung-p'o "There's a Small Monastery on the Cragged Heights of Blue-Ox Ridge, a Place Human Tracks Rarely Reach" transl. by David Hinton
Veil across that ever-brooding sky - Howard V. Sutherland "The Northern Light"
see a stigma of stars falling across dark fields - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
Across the deep blue of conceptual space - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Kicking stones across the temple yard - Keith Taylor "Aegina: After School"
Thunder rolling like irony across this rainless land - Keith Taylor "Almost Storm"
Then gaze across the falling Avalons - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LII: Hypnerotomachia"
Long light shakes across the lakes - Tennyson "The Splendour Falls"
Beckon across the years - Eunice Tietjens "To Jake"
Howling dunes across ancient bones - Edwin Torres "Bit by Bite"
Destiny across an open desert - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
Cast in gold across a wealth of gems - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"
Zebras zipped across the field - Kristen Tracy "Rain at the Zoo"
Lean across the precipice of time - Iris Tree "Moods III"
A wish hurling across the sky - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
Writing names across funereal woods and windows - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Hang across the sky like solid limbs of night - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
Across our way ragged Robin flaunted red - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]
Across the canvas of my tired mind - Rudolph Valentino "Remembrance (To M.O.)"
Across the dream memory of one who heard - Rudolph Valentino "Stradivarius (To Jascha Heifetz)"
The call of a long journey echoing across - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
A great bear tracking across the endless sky - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"
Across the fair and flowery uplands - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets III: Moving Bells"
A razor cuts across a frame of film - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"
Stars shedding day across the ages - Emile Verhaeren "The Monks" transl. by T.M. Kettle
The change of musical coins across the zinc counter - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Ripples flow across the cosmic lights - Dawn Vogel "The Whale Shark's Stars"
Across the steeps and stairs - Thomas Walsh "Egidio of Coimbra--1597 A.D."
Swells vast across windblown waters - Wang An-Shih "Above the River" transl. by David Hinton
Across a thousand hundred-twist trails - Wang An-Shih "Across a thousand" transl. by David Hinton
What grief scatters them across streams? - Wang An-Shih "Across a thousand" transl. by David Hinton
I search for the way across a cold creek - Wang An-shih "Dusk Returns at Bushel Mountain: Gone to Visit a Master of Way" transl. by David Hinton
Lanterns pouring everywhere like stars across earth - Wang An-Shih "In Jest on Bell Mountain, Given to Adept Gather-Gain" transl. by David Hinton
Warm winds opening radiance across grasses - Wang An-Shih "Written on a Wall at Balance-Peace Post-Station" transl. by David Hinton
Hunting fires out across cold headlands - Wang Wei "In Reply to Su, Who Visited My Wheel-Rim Hermitage When I Wasn't There to Welcome Him" transl. by David Hinton
Hoarfrost sliding its palms across fields - Judy Patterson Wenzel "School Nights at the Farm"
I send my heart across the years to you - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
That throws across the pathway of my doom a rose - Edith Wharton "The Last Token. A.D. 107. (She Speaks)"
Across the path of suns - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
A blown leaf across the face of Time - Helen Hay Whitney "Ave atque Vale"
Across the blue of Isis' veil - Helen Hay Whitney "East and West"
Across the avenue of limes - Helen Hay Whitney "The Pattern of the Earth"
To cut across the reflex of a star that fled - William Wordsworth "Skating"
Virgo halfway across the heavens - Charles Wright "Double Salt"
Across the river with white waves rising - Emperor Wu-ti "The Autumn Wind" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A playlist that unfolded across her decades - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"
Across the earless face of the moon - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"
Across the field lined with golden bells - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Bell Theory"
Sent lightning across glass - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"
Charges across the desert cognizant of the futility - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"
Barefoot across hot sand into the sea's hovering - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]
Walking across the binary field - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"
Across calm indices of sands - Jordan Zandi "Last Beach Motel"
Across these frost-flocked rows - Jordan Zandi "Solarium"
Tracks of brown and gold across the tarmac - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"
Stampeding across the stars - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Cousins of Clouds"
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Across the silent places of your heart - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LIV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Spill blood transported from across the world - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Across thousands of miles of sky - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
Spun like yarn across the copper sun - Harold Acton "Discoveries"
Shadows across the windows - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"
Across the puzzling continent of you - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"
From out the dawn the crows broke across the sky - Lewis Alexander "Tanka V" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The boortree and the lightsome ash across the portal grow - William Allingham "Abbey Asaroe"
Skips stones across the pond of longing - Julia Alvarez "Tone"
While holy vespers steal across the ocean - Lennox Amott "My Beauty's Home"
In trails of fire across the land - Rosalie Arthur "October"
The resonating filaments of a song across the abyss - R. Christopher Aversa "Gold Foil Experiment"
Not born knowing how to walk across - Julie Babcock "Amen to Artillery"
Across this dirtless moment - Quenton Baker "[we are]"
little lines run crazy across the lettuce - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
Snowplow pushes time across the prairie - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
Stars guide the eye across the sky - Mary Jo Bang "How will it feel months from now"
Across the sand dune of history - Mary Jo Bang "I in a War"
Across a lacerating lapse in time - Mary Jo Bang "No More"
Across a wide sky staggered with chimneys - Ari Banias "Fountain"
A thought unfolding across somebody's face - Ari Banias "A Sunset"
Across the twilight of the crane - Maurice Baring "Mozart"
Rotating centuries across the stars - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
An eyeless reach across immensity - Elizabeth Bartlett "Item: Body Found"
To slip across barriers of being - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"
And when they looked across the patch - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Across a field made of sunlight - Basho transl. by David Young
Spin their webs across the basements of our brains - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Smoke across the dazzle of the sand - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"
Arose and tossed a billion gems across the sea - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
Across my diffuse, remote peripheries - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Heart"
Draws a diagonal across my floor - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Across the blackened fields are only smothered stars - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Across Titania's golden streams - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
So eagerly across that unknown span - Laurence Binyon "Youth"
A thin wind across a wire - Terry Blackhawk "Chambered Nautilus, with Tinnitus and Linden"
Shattered forms scattered across the landscape - Bruce Boston "Beyond the Clouds of Paradise"
While burning herbivores strolled across a lean horizon - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"
Barriers across the mental plain - John Philip Bourke "John Philip Bourke"
Across the sullen void on soundless trail - Ray D. Bradbury "Thought and Space" [Futuria Fantasia, v.1, no.1, summer 1939]
Radio dust stretched across the night sky - Russell Brakefield "The Perseids"
Across the pulse of time - Julian Talamantez Brolaski "poetry is a temporal art"
Ploughing breakers across both sea and night - Paul Cameron Brown "The Draper's Cloth"
Marching blue legions across the sky - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"
Spread across the yawn of death - Paul Cameron Brown "Point Spread"
Across a table top of tension - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"
Signs coded in stars speeding across the sky - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"
Bike riding across insecure cement - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
A walk across a montage of darkness - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
Flung across the intervals - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Across the threshold of Time's palace - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Coming of Summer"
Cast its shadow across the line - Sue Budin "False Borders"
Across oceans' roads past rows of ghosts - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"
Sweet slumber steals across my haggard mind - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
The silent ships of memory creep across the seas - Frank Oliver Call "The Ships of Memory"
Across worn pavements crumbling to decay - Frank Oliver Call "Through a Long Cloister"
Across the tideless sea no shadow falls - Frank Oliver Call "The Vision"
Earth's shadows fall across our thoughts - Calder Campbell "Sonnet [Too much--too much we make Earth's shadows fall]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.308, 24 Nov. 1849]
Raging across the marshes - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: The Flood Tide"
Across the red vapours descending - Giosue Carducci "On a Saint Peter's Eve" transl. by Frank Sewall
Star-touched, across the fading trail - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
And throw a golden bridge across - Phoebe Cary "Otway"
As liquid lopes across the surface - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"
Across the seas of time - Arthur Hugh Clough "Shadow and Light"
Across the fields of ether - Benjamin Copeland "The Rainbow Round the Throne"
Out streaming across the lonely road - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"
Elongates and is dispersed across the universe - Jan Cronos "She Remains"
A gleam across the dreamer's face - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
Break across a blood-stained throat - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"
Across the spent fires of the night - Russell W. Davenport "Poems III"
Send whispers across water - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"
Seeds spilled across another year - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"
Across the vain and vacant void - Coningsby Dawson "Masterless"
Lights and shadows sweep across his brow - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
Edging across the twilight air - Walter de la Mare "The Honey Robbers"
Weaving a web across the rose and dusk - Clarissa Scott Delany "Solace" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Across my air & through his water - Toi Derricotte "For Telly the Fish"
Across its edge the nettle grows - "The Deserted Home" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Follow the hurrying clouds across the sky - Nathan Haskell Dole "The Swallow" [St. Nicholas v.V no.6, Apr. 1878]
Skipping across waves made of breath - Chris Dombrowski "Like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade"
Hailstones galloping across the hard earth - Chris Dombrowski "Strange Lullaby"
The bergamot's red blossom leans the stilly stream across - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Across the great bruised heart of the South - Rita Dove "Crossing State Lines [Shirtsleeved afternoons]" [excerpt]
Laddering across the unspeakable world - Rita Dove "Transit"
Laugh across the wine - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"
No sound across a windless sky - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
Across the awful space that marks their course - B.F.D. Dunn "Our Heritage" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Strode across the hills and broke them - T.S. Eliot "Cousin Nancy"
The smell of hyacinths across the garden - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"
Across the sea you bore the sacred fire - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."
Across dirt roads and muddy ditch paths - Danielle Emerson "shíma yazhí ahéheeʼ / thank you, auntie"
Across the vast skin of me - Heid E. Erdich "Tick Check"
Peach blossoms blown across the wind - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"
Stealing across the calm and moonlit seas - J.F. "The Better Thought" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.460, 23 Oct. 1852]
Across the floors of strangers - Tarfia Faizullah "Djinn in Need of a Bitch"
Twisting and turning across these lifetimes - Tarfia Faizullah "The Poem You've Been Waiting For"
And breath brushes across the hollow - Kevin J. Fellows "Bone Song"
Speak with silence across gulfs of silence - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
The bridge across the Torrent's fall - George Blackstone Field "To You Who Can Never Understand"
Across the lake of my existence - Ashanti Files "Ripples"
a game of telephone that first rang across the ocean - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"
Across the meadow's lunar slopes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen L"
Across the crease of smooth canoes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
Across the silvery dusts of the Sea of Tranquility - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"
He who came across the Atlantic flood - "Freedom's Beacon" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Across the pauses of the feast the singers' voices fall - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
A shipwreck playing across me - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"
Wind spins across the landscape - Roberto Carlos Garcia "This Moment/Right Now"
Writes itself in sheets across my veins - Suzi F. Garcia "A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood (with some help from Ahmad)"
With clouds that steal across her light - Emanuel Geibel "[Mien Pferd geht langsam durch die nacht]" transl. by Edith Wharton
Spider webs across the scalded earth - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"
Dragons breathing white-hot magnesium across humid skies - Ian Goh "Firework"
Across buried virtues and slain sins - Louis Golding "Fires of Change"
Deep notes across the sombre woods - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Across obliterating air - Louise Imogen Guiney "To a Young Poet"
Hot Santa Ana wind mopes across clay courts - Christian Gullette "The Fish"
Across the waste of years I see - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]
Long canyons opening across fields of talus - Han Shan aka Cold Mountain "28 [If you're climbing Cold Mountain Way]" transl. by David Hinton
October comes across the hill - Susan Hartley "October" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.12, Oct. 1886]
From far across the desolate moor - Henry Hasse "Lost Soul" [Futuria Fantasia, v.1, no.2, Fall 1939]
Across the wide bewildering track of countless eons - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Pre-Existence"
Sweeping in a foam across the night - Ben Hecht "Moods"
Silver tears across the black petals - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"
Across the marquees of legions of subway cars - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Laughter across the intervening stars - R.M. Hewitt "Gaudium in Coelo"
Traveling down instead of across - Mary Hickman "Helen"
Steals across a thousand floors - Florence Hoatson "The Friend of Santa Claus"
Leap across rifts of empty sky - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 26" transl. by David Hinton
North and south, inaccessible except across water - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 33" transl. by David Hinton
Across the Lethe of the years - Aldous Huxley "Books and Thoughts"
And the stars are mirrored across me - Aldous Huxley "Points and Lines"
Across the unfurrowed reaches - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, The First Watch: Tired"
The white tailed kite will arc across the mesa - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
In shimmering rivulets across pure granite - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"
Across that high court of the skull - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"
The flash across an event horizon - Sara Eliza Johnson "Vapor"
Across a hundred and one faces - Fady Joudah "Domicile, House, Cusp"
Rocks rolling across the fat plains - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"
To shroud the miles across the face of the seas - Janet Kauffman "Reparations"
Limned in his blood across your clearing skies - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"
We bridge across the dark - Rudyard Kipling "The Coastwise Lights"
South across the water underneath a setting star - Rudyard Kipling "A Priest in Spite of Himself: A St Helena Lullaby"
Walk across the field of goldenrod and mustard weeds - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Across a nettled field riddled with rabbit-life - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Across the river's shadow-haunted floor - Archibald Lampman "September"
And pleads across the waste to thee - Sidney Lanier "Special Pleading" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
Clutched hands across a halo bright - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
Across the wind-swept waves of Time - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Electrical currents across your every horizon - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"
Relayed the new gospels across mountains - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"
Doubles and smears the night across the wide world - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Across the silence and the shade - Amy Levy "In the Night"
Across the fires that glow in the wide floor of heaven - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IX. Night"
Laughing across the lotus-flowers - Li Po "On the Banks of Jo-yeh" transl. by Arthur Waley
All my bones scattered across the floor - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
Goldfinches tumbling across the lawn - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"
Frost whorling across a windshield - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"
Dark force that drew me across uncharted space - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"
Tornadoes piled across the sky - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
Brilliant silvers ranged across emptiness - Liu Tsung-yuan "Returning to Compass-Line Cliff's Waterfall, I Stay Overnight Below the Cliffwall" transl. by David Hinton
That told the hidden way across the void - H.P. Lovecraft "Fungi from Yuggoth" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
Across the barren moor - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"
Another stain across his tarnished honour - Amy Lowell "Francis II, King of Naples Written"
With herons blowing like smoke across the sky - Amy Lowell "Hoar-Frost"
Across uneven pavements sunk in slime - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"
And voices across the starlight - P.H.B. Lyon "The Deserted Garden"
Where the windows shone across the darkness - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
Setting out across a field of spears - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
Across the trodden continent of years - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "A Pilgrim"
Wandering across the porcelain Siberia - Joanie Mackowski "Ants [excerpt]"
The bridge across the silent river gone - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"
Across electric feathers of snow - Naomi Long Madgett "Signature"
Where slain umbrellas travel across the Hudson River - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
Across the waste of mortal things - Edwin Markham "The Poets"
Hurrying across a sea of fire - Jeannette Marks "Cloud"
Prophecy strewn across stones - Daria-Ann Martineau "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"
Amaranth ash spread across the light - J. Michael Martinez "White"
Words of wheat across years of salt - Khaled Mattawa "Revisiting Hekale"
Across several versions of the portrait - Farid Matuk "Mimesis"
Across the fleeing squadron's way - John McCrae "The Captain"
To blow salt across blurred borders - Brandy Nalani McDougall "Resist"
Swarming across the glassy floor of space - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Across the waters and the sighing reeds - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
Roosters crying across a aimless early tide - Meng Hao-jan "Overnight at Cypress-Peak Monastery on Heaven-Terrace Mountain" transl. by David Hinton
In ghost across a ground - George Meredith "King Harald's Trance"
Across the ruffled strip of salt - George Meredith "To Colonel Charles (Dying General C.B.B.)"
Ice feathers across the biodome - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"
Untouched across the cold - W.S. Merwin "The Curlew"
Across the wide sound of being - W.S. Merwin "What the Bridges Hear"
Sprawls across the earth like a fallen giant - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"
Across sea-meadows measureless - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ackerman Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Move unchained as wind across the world - Adam Mickiewicz "Baydary" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Bearing you across a ridge of dreams - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
I, across strange waters, hear your cry - Louise Chandler Moulton "Across Strange Waters" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Sept. 1878]
Across the wind's unquiet tides - Sarojini Naidu "The Royal Tombs of Golconda"
Striking across the centuries in stone - Pablo Neruda "The Blind Statue" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Scatter transparent letters across the sky - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: VII" transl. by William O'Daly
Across the shirt of the icy firmament - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Seagull" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Approach across the edge of words - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
Across place and the hereafter - Tim Newcomb "Evocative Montana"
Across moist distance - Tim Newcomb "Summer Storm"
Pitching their absence across the sky - Grace Nichols "Lewes Night Out"
A comet's loveliness shaken across the midnight sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Sudden thoughts across my mind were cast - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]
Across the sea on your silver wake - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Moon"
Strung across with golden wires - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"
Across the marshlands of my heart - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"
Step across without stretching - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Working upward across bone - Linda Pastan "I Am Learning to Abandon the World: for M"
The penumbra of a redwood across frozen ground - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"
Love translated you across an ocean - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]
Across a band of nightfall - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"
Breeze blowing across its rusted strings - Patrick Phillips "Piano"
Across all things divine - Carl Phillips "And Love You Too"
Wind across the gable roofs singing sad - Miriam Clark Potter "Lady Mother"
Across a bridge, all tumbled and forlorn - Miriam Clark Potter "Roads"
The call of quails across the desert - John Presland "The Deluge"
Long shadows across the untouched snow - Alison Prine "Long Love"
Holding our breath across generations - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
Across the definition of blue - Khadijah Queen "Common Miracles"
Strung yarn trajectories across all the oceans - Danni Quintos "Five Hundred Years & Three Weeks Ago We Killed Magellan"
To weave a web across the street - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Georgetown, U.S.A."
Across the endless field of sky - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Road to Colla"
Across my mind comes creeping - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Rustic Courting XVII: Casend Hill"
Across a wind-swept sphere - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Welcome"
Across the sidewalk's light upheavals - Diane Raptosh "World Upside Down"
I wear their writhing roots across my scalp - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"
For the sweat of stars sliding across his sword - Roger Reeves "Beneath the Perseids"
Stretches his arms across a triple zone - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
Across the surrendered forest - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
Across the strings of magic fire - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"
Bridge across the abyss - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Across the asphalt night - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"
Break across insulating space - Ed Roberson "Whose sleeves: American Tagasode"
Scarlet stains across the dipping hills of sun - Lloyd Roberts "The Berry Pickers"
The shadow of Vesuvius lies gray across the land - Lloyd Roberts "The Trail from Napoli"
Across the bare and desolate wilderness - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet VII"
Night is stretched across the frame of the sky - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
Across the flood of ether - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"
A mile across each single door - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Broken across with slashes of light - Carl Sandburg "Window"
A bat flies across the last star - Reg Saner "Spring Song"
As dreams across an endless night - Margaret E. Sangster "'Be of Good Cheer!'"
A moonbeam thrown across my heart - Margaret E. Sangster "Intangible"
Spraying black plumes across the blockaded sunset - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
Seeping out across oblivious space - Ann K. Schwader "Dead Light"
Scars across the face of night - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"
Blackout curtains blank across her window - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Tongues of fire across our midnight sky - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Like an angel spread across the horizon - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"
A blight of cosmic hate across the planet's face - Richard F. Searight "The Dead World" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
Rabbits leap in patterns across boulevards - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"
Where my impulses reach across - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"
Gushes sour light across the sheets - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"
Roll out across the dark their avalanche - Odell Shepard "Laus Mariae"
And draw the shadows down across my eyes - Odell Shepard "Recollection"
Read the message writ across Earth's face - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
Across the darkness flung the ribbons of the Northern Light - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
And search across the shadows for my face - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Chime in silverly across the half-imagined wind - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Arrows of fire across the shadows hurled - Frank Dempster Sherman "Song at Daybreak"
Clothespinned across a buzzing canvas of vermillion - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Memory dissolves across night - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Never Tells the Man"
Across time stretching infinitely far - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
Ruby poppies embossed across the handle - Claire Smith "Exhibits from Schneewittchen"
Across the upturned faces of the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Dragging its shadow across the screen - Maggie Smith "How Dark the Beginning" [Poetry Feb 2020]
Across that billion-star ocean - Richard Solomon "Salt Doll's Incarnation"
Bold across its high borders - "Song of the Sea" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Across the salt sea of swift currents - "Song of the Sea" transl. by Kuno Meyer
A slow ship moving across its own oblivion - Leonora Speyer "The Heart Recalcitrant"
Marched across the bridged Potomac - Edmund Clarence Stedman "How Old Brown Took Harper's Ferry"
Across the tumult wake the Past - George Sterling "Sonnets on the Sea's Voice"
Across the field where yarrow was and now is dust - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
Titanium scales rhyming across curves - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
The lucid moment and the shadow across the lintel - Arthur Stringer "The Question"
Trailing fragrance out across ten miles - Su Tung-p'o "There's a Small Monastery on the Cragged Heights of Blue-Ox Ridge, a Place Human Tracks Rarely Reach" transl. by David Hinton
Veil across that ever-brooding sky - Howard V. Sutherland "The Northern Light"
see a stigma of stars falling across dark fields - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
Across the deep blue of conceptual space - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Kicking stones across the temple yard - Keith Taylor "Aegina: After School"
Thunder rolling like irony across this rainless land - Keith Taylor "Almost Storm"
Then gaze across the falling Avalons - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LII: Hypnerotomachia"
Long light shakes across the lakes - Tennyson "The Splendour Falls"
Beckon across the years - Eunice Tietjens "To Jake"
Howling dunes across ancient bones - Edwin Torres "Bit by Bite"
Destiny across an open desert - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
Cast in gold across a wealth of gems - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"
Zebras zipped across the field - Kristen Tracy "Rain at the Zoo"
Lean across the precipice of time - Iris Tree "Moods III"
A wish hurling across the sky - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
Writing names across funereal woods and windows - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Hang across the sky like solid limbs of night - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
Across our way ragged Robin flaunted red - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]
Across the canvas of my tired mind - Rudolph Valentino "Remembrance (To M.O.)"
Across the dream memory of one who heard - Rudolph Valentino "Stradivarius (To Jascha Heifetz)"
The call of a long journey echoing across - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
A great bear tracking across the endless sky - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"
Across the fair and flowery uplands - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets III: Moving Bells"
A razor cuts across a frame of film - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"
Stars shedding day across the ages - Emile Verhaeren "The Monks" transl. by T.M. Kettle
The change of musical coins across the zinc counter - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Ripples flow across the cosmic lights - Dawn Vogel "The Whale Shark's Stars"
Across the steeps and stairs - Thomas Walsh "Egidio of Coimbra--1597 A.D."
Swells vast across windblown waters - Wang An-Shih "Above the River" transl. by David Hinton
Across a thousand hundred-twist trails - Wang An-Shih "Across a thousand" transl. by David Hinton
What grief scatters them across streams? - Wang An-Shih "Across a thousand" transl. by David Hinton
I search for the way across a cold creek - Wang An-shih "Dusk Returns at Bushel Mountain: Gone to Visit a Master of Way" transl. by David Hinton
Lanterns pouring everywhere like stars across earth - Wang An-Shih "In Jest on Bell Mountain, Given to Adept Gather-Gain" transl. by David Hinton
Warm winds opening radiance across grasses - Wang An-Shih "Written on a Wall at Balance-Peace Post-Station" transl. by David Hinton
Hunting fires out across cold headlands - Wang Wei "In Reply to Su, Who Visited My Wheel-Rim Hermitage When I Wasn't There to Welcome Him" transl. by David Hinton
Hoarfrost sliding its palms across fields - Judy Patterson Wenzel "School Nights at the Farm"
I send my heart across the years to you - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
That throws across the pathway of my doom a rose - Edith Wharton "The Last Token. A.D. 107. (She Speaks)"
Across the path of suns - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
A blown leaf across the face of Time - Helen Hay Whitney "Ave atque Vale"
Across the blue of Isis' veil - Helen Hay Whitney "East and West"
Across the avenue of limes - Helen Hay Whitney "The Pattern of the Earth"
To cut across the reflex of a star that fled - William Wordsworth "Skating"
Virgo halfway across the heavens - Charles Wright "Double Salt"
Across the river with white waves rising - Emperor Wu-ti "The Autumn Wind" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A playlist that unfolded across her decades - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"
Across the earless face of the moon - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"
Across the field lined with golden bells - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Bell Theory"
Sent lightning across glass - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"
Charges across the desert cognizant of the futility - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"
Barefoot across hot sand into the sea's hovering - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]
Walking across the binary field - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"
Across calm indices of sands - Jordan Zandi "Last Beach Motel"
Across these frost-flocked rows - Jordan Zandi "Solarium"
Tracks of brown and gold across the tarmac - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"
Stampeding across the stars - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Cousins of Clouds"
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