Potential Titles: Cast
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somethingdarkerDay whereon the latest die was cast - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
Cast off a whittling dust - Harold Acton "Trepak"
Ghosts can cast shadows in the breast - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"
And passing clouds cast shadows - Louisa May Alcott "Clover-Blossom"
Cast them beyond the planet's sphere - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Casts a widening pool of light - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"
Cast myself upon the ground in anguish - Amir "[Had I control o'er her]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook
Cast shadows downward from their wing - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Winter casts its shade before it - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.X--Autumn, in its Second Aspect"
Come to cast my vote against your future - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
One cast from the fractured past - Elizabeth Bartlett "Vision"
And cast their diamond fires - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited
Smothered stars casting their phantom reflections - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Cast elusive perfume on each hour - Paul Bewsher "The Country Beautiful"
To cast this aching mesh of iron bands - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: III. The Undiscovered World"
Cast its gauntlet at the tyrant Time - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Cast with propriety in gilded lead - James Bramston "The Man of Taste"
The mimosa casts its delicate shadows - "The Breath of Spring" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Fear and chains behind us cast - John Breslin "Rolling Home"
By casting pebbles in its tide - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
Cast my anchor of desire deep in unknown eternity - Emily Bronte "Anticipation"
When someone else casts a shadow on the map - Deborah Brown "Reprise"
Cast its shadow across the line - Sue Budin "False Borders"
Cast then upon me unillumined night - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"
Cast anchor where no shadows fall - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"
Cast crowns for rosaries away - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
Scarf athwart my corslet cast - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
the divine shadow cast to provide protective canvas - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"
Cast an elongated shadow - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
Would cast shadows o'er true love's trust - Robt. T. Conrad "The Portrait" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.2, Feb. 1848]
Cast together in one merciless white blade - Hart Crane "Voyages V"
The Bachelor's Button was cast aside - Walter Crane "A Flower Wedding"
Which frost-sprites laughing cast - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
Cast down from heights to languish - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Cast bread on stagnant water - Countee Cullen "Sacrament"
Cast in ashes at the trampling feet of mortal gods - Geoffrey Dearmer "On the Road"
Casting her vote for desire - Chris Dombrowski "The Congressman's Daughter"
A parasite cast out, inviable - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
Cast a shadow circlewise - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"
Until they cast their treasure to the dust - John Drinkwater "David and Jonathan"
Cast fuel on my faith - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"
Cast in the unstilted Cyclades - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"
Of birds casting spells - Elaine Equi "Reset"
And to the dogs cast forth without delay - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Casting forth all rancour from thy heart - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Cast from your dishevelled hair these wreaths of Pluto - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Cast the sacred keys away - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The lots are cast already, if your terrors thence arose - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Cast a ray to light lone Tasso's gloom - Marie J. Ewen "Corinna at the Capitol" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.449, 7 Aug. 1852]
Rose above the shadows their names cast - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"
Cast its shadow in eternity - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 19"
Originating from a single cast stone - Ashanti Files "Ripples"
All cast shadows come home - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
I build and cast down the dream - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
Followed the scent of pitcher plants cast across the river - Jennifer Elise Foerster "American History"
And cast it gleaming to the scattering wind - Nora May French "The Nymph"
To cast away for evermore the burden of the lyre - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
a cast net blessed by saint benedict - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
Cast with the axe their honours down - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Cast their shadows on the stream - Alfred C. Gellis "The Sacremento River"
Will make men cast all care away - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
A throne cast in blood and terror - Nikita Gill "Young Zeus: The Crossroads"
Cast the charts of our radiant sorrow - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
Cast wide nets and tentative - Zinaida Gippius "[I seek for rhythmic whisperings]" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Like a person who casts no shadow - Louise Gluck "In the Plaza"
The cast no backward glances - Goethe [untitled]
And claim the cast of green shade for ourselves - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
All thought of peace behind you cast - Robert Graves "Country at War"
Your shadow casts itself - Leah Naomi Green "Arrival"
And saints were casting down their crowns - Frances E. Watkins Harper "Fishers of Men"
From what mystic circle cast - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Shadows All" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]
All your spells around them cast - Felicia Hemans "Invocation"
In cloudless sunshine cast - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Cast the stones from your heart - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed (Hendan) "Returning to the Fire" transl. by author and edited by Darren Byler
Casting a silver-laced pattern - Alice Corbin Henderson "From the Stone Age"
Cast aside those wide involving shadows - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
As a Stone Cat should heed a Pebble cast - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"
I ran and cast my treasure on the gale - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Doubt in sleep all cast asunder - Jennie Earngey Hill "Dreaming"
Which Time, in utter scorn, has cast behind - Henry B. Hirst "Lethe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
But a harlequin cast to play a tragic part - Samuel Hoffenstein "The Jester" [The Broadway Anthology]
Who cast their names behind them - Horace Holley "The Soldiers" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]
The moon casts cold on us below - Thomas Hood "Reply to a Pastoral Poet"
And cast your sight through eons of space - Frank Horne "More Letters Found Near a Suicide"
Venturing all on the hazardous cast - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Cast it by with hands all numb - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"
With eyes cast up unto the maidens' tower - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "So Cruel Prison"
No one now alive could cast a ballot - T.R. Hummer "Who Remembers Davenport"
Cast on seas of emptiness - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part II."
Cast fire on the skirt of discretion - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Who cast aside old memories - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"
Already imagines what sum she will cast in April - Robinson Jeffers "The Loving Shepherdess" [excerpt]
Which failure cannot cast down nor success make proud - Robinson Jeffers "Rock and Hawk"
See me cast the burden down - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
Hearts that are anchored side by side - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
Memory cast a vote in our intuition - Fady Joudah "Descending, Rising"
Casting the shadows of their silver jets - Laura Kasischke "Daysleep"
Hate cast out with all his sworded peers - T.M. Kettle "When Others See Us as We See Ourselves!"
Casting it all in a mirror - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
A ray from bygone glory o'er its ruin cast - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
Shadows that are cast by the haunted hours before - Laetitia Elizabeth Landon "Little Red Riding-Hood" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Cast a firefly radiance down the deep - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"
Cast out by the hand that scatters food untowards - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"
Cast down in the flood of remembrance - D.H. Lawrence "Piano"
And casting the cycles of creation - D.H. Lawrence "St John"
And kindled you over deep with a cast of gold - D.H. Lawrence "Scent of Irises"
Or cast one pebble on the sand - Ida Lee "Suffolk"
To see the spear of Freedom cast - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
That casts a bitter shadow into the waters - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Its rising will cast bitter shadows of sorrow - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Cast down to the dust of the earth - Nancy Luce "God's Words"
Cast on the deserts of eternity - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Casting shadows in three dimensions - Ruth Madievsky "Fog"
Cast one glance westward - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong on Silent Films"
The shadow you cast is a memory - Herbert Woodward Martin "Variations on Some Index Phrases Borrowed from Kenneth Rexroth"
To cast an eye upon the only cloud in this cold sky - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
All golden things cast into summer's grave - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Around our grave a glass-clear silence cast - Harry Martinson "Aniara 103" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Window cast into mirror by interior lights - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"
Arms outstretched and casting no shadow - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"
Cast in chains beneath my feet - Theodore Maynard "Aladdin"
Casting a spider's shadow - Shara McCallum "Diva"
Cast aside this cloak of years - Arch Alfred McKillen "I Would Have Brought You Fire"
And cast the old world off as dust - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Used to cast old tales and illusions - W.S. Merwin "The Chinese Mountain Fox"
Which Lucifer in rage from God cast down - Adam Mickiewicz "Baktschi Serai By Night" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Bid them hither cast their bells - John Milton "Lycidas"
Casting out to itself in memory - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"
A curse proposed by fearful king and cast by captured sage - Elis Montgomery "Hex Supply Customer Support Log" [Strange Horizons 25 Aug. 2025]
Don't cast a shadow - Valzhyna Mort "Guest"
Now cast on flowers fresh and green - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"
Who hath not lingering cast long looks behind - Mushafi "[No man hath ever passed]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook
Would you cast your jewels to all the breezes blowing? - Sarojini Naidu "Village-Song"
Casts its clocks to the wind - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt
To cast his jibes and scoffs - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
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]
Casting ourselves toward ancient altars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"
Accept fate today and cast it out tomorrow - Achy Obejas "Boomerang, After Aime Cesaire"
they cast their fears in iron - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"
The tiring task of casting lots on the cost of a human spirit - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"
You will cast it aside for something new - Pan Tie tsu "To the Emperor" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
By autumn you will cast it aside - Pan Tie tsu "To the Emperor" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Casting a net of postures - Xan Forest Phillips "Nativity"
Cast against an ocean's skin - Xan Forest Phillips "Never Have I Ever"
Nor cast a single shade upon the past - J. Pitman (who died in 1825) "Lines to a Young Lady on Her Birthday" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.743, 23 March 1878]
The dogwood blossoms cast a light - Alexander Posey "Spring in Tulwa Thloco"
Shadows cast by palace walls - John Presland "The Deluge"
Clean cast from Perfection's brain - John Presland "Tapestry"
By the ransomed spirit cast away - K.R. (H.I.H. Grand Prince Constantine Constantinovich) "[No! I can ne'er believe, no recollection]" transl. by John Pollen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Konstantinovich_of_Russia
An atom cast in the pearly gray - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
Cast in oblivion's sunless well - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"
Which we cast at the young heart's devotion - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Bend to your cast that a king may die - Lloyd Roberts "A-Fishing"
Its shadow on our life-path cast - D.J. Robertson "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.144-v.III, 2 Oct. 1886]
From out the distance cast one backward glance - Morris Rosenfeld "My Youth" transl. from Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank
That cast their inundations o'er the darkening air - Ronald Ross "Hesperus" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
Drinks in and casts back the sun - Rosoriu "Old Idea of Choan" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
Where the lych-gate casts its cool dark shadow - G.S. "Butterflies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 30 March 1878]
Has cast me on a tide of time - George Santayana "Avila"
The net they cast upon the wind - James Marcus Schuyler "April"
Cast adrift by proxy on a vast black sea - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Stygian shadow cast upon the lone Dead Sea - Clinton Scollard "The Maid of Bethlehem"
Casting spells against the coming darkness - M. Bartley Seigel "Into the Thicket"
Cast forth to find their way alone - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]
Casting eclipse upon my cheerless night - Mary Shelley "Stanzas [How like a star you rose upon my life,]"
Cast mirror-fogged webs into the center - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Casting smoke like a spell - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"
Cast no discernible light - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"
Cast in Cupid's jail - Robert Southwell "Lewd Love Is Loss"
Stars cast lingering spells - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"
Cast a bloom around the heart - "Spring Blossoms" [Spring Blossoms, no date, no editor/author, Project Gutenberg]
A banner of gold to the summer wind cast - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Cast away the masquing garb of hollow Day - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
We kiss in the shade cast by a kingfisher - Keith Taylor "Details from the Garden of Delights"
Cast her own spell of bloom and blood - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"
Casts its inner light outward - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"
Cast in gold across a wealth of gems - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"
Casting their magic over the shooting star - Edwin Torres "This Is Not the Conversation That I Started the Conversation With"
In the light cast by the dark - Paul Tran "Terroir"
Eyes forever cast toward Rome - Devin S. Turk "Statue of David with Top Surgery Scars"
A land that cannot cast one sparkle back - Mark Van Doren "In Time of Drouth"
Cast only a passing shadow - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"
Remnant lamp casting halos of darkness - Wang An-Shih "Autumn Night" transl. by David Hinton
to see what casts a shadow - Chaun Webster "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"
Shadows that they cast upon the path of memory - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "Where Pleasures Grow"
Hunger, the shadow cast by death - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Your eyes that seem to cast starlight - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
In the sun they cast no shade - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Some spectral satellite cast glamor on the earth - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Cast off the gathering mists of age - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
Cast down the thrones of rulers - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 10" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Our mothers cast us out as demons - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"
a steel ring cast over what I know - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"
Cast meaningful shadows - Matthew Zapruder "January"
The film exists as broadcast radio - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
To make a girl a castaway bird - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"
We dream of the castaway wind - Sun Yung Shin "A History of Domestication"
In seas of castaways - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 18" transl. by Katherine Silver
Cast Iron.
Left a trail of cast-off bodies in its wake - David Hornibrook "A Poem After Anger"
Who mourn downcast in earth's far corners - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
A downcast silent regret - Frank J. Medina "Loneliness"
The soul's emblem meets my downcast eyes - G.S. "Butterflies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 30 March 1878]
A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"
Redeem all other god-cast stones - Chris Dombrowski "Lunar Calendar"
Outcast in the house of truth - John Drinkwater "Lake Winter"
Will wander, outcasts, from the great world's gate - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Overcast.
The several questions endlessly recast - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 3: A psalm of Isaak, whispered mid the Philistines, beneath the breath"
A stone-cast from the sombre strand - Henry B. Hirst "Lethe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Upcast an iridescent eye serene - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
With warbling throat and eye upcast - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]
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Cast off a whittling dust - Harold Acton "Trepak"
Ghosts can cast shadows in the breast - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"
And passing clouds cast shadows - Louisa May Alcott "Clover-Blossom"
Cast them beyond the planet's sphere - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Casts a widening pool of light - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"
Cast myself upon the ground in anguish - Amir "[Had I control o'er her]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook
Cast shadows downward from their wing - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Winter casts its shade before it - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.X--Autumn, in its Second Aspect"
Come to cast my vote against your future - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
One cast from the fractured past - Elizabeth Bartlett "Vision"
And cast their diamond fires - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited
Smothered stars casting their phantom reflections - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Cast elusive perfume on each hour - Paul Bewsher "The Country Beautiful"
To cast this aching mesh of iron bands - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: III. The Undiscovered World"
Cast its gauntlet at the tyrant Time - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Cast with propriety in gilded lead - James Bramston "The Man of Taste"
The mimosa casts its delicate shadows - "The Breath of Spring" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Fear and chains behind us cast - John Breslin "Rolling Home"
By casting pebbles in its tide - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
Cast my anchor of desire deep in unknown eternity - Emily Bronte "Anticipation"
When someone else casts a shadow on the map - Deborah Brown "Reprise"
Cast its shadow across the line - Sue Budin "False Borders"
Cast then upon me unillumined night - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"
Cast anchor where no shadows fall - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"
Cast crowns for rosaries away - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
Scarf athwart my corslet cast - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
the divine shadow cast to provide protective canvas - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"
Cast an elongated shadow - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
Would cast shadows o'er true love's trust - Robt. T. Conrad "The Portrait" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.2, Feb. 1848]
Cast together in one merciless white blade - Hart Crane "Voyages V"
The Bachelor's Button was cast aside - Walter Crane "A Flower Wedding"
Which frost-sprites laughing cast - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
Cast down from heights to languish - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Cast bread on stagnant water - Countee Cullen "Sacrament"
Cast in ashes at the trampling feet of mortal gods - Geoffrey Dearmer "On the Road"
Casting her vote for desire - Chris Dombrowski "The Congressman's Daughter"
A parasite cast out, inviable - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
Cast a shadow circlewise - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"
Until they cast their treasure to the dust - John Drinkwater "David and Jonathan"
Cast fuel on my faith - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"
Cast in the unstilted Cyclades - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"
Of birds casting spells - Elaine Equi "Reset"
And to the dogs cast forth without delay - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Casting forth all rancour from thy heart - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Cast from your dishevelled hair these wreaths of Pluto - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Cast the sacred keys away - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The lots are cast already, if your terrors thence arose - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Cast a ray to light lone Tasso's gloom - Marie J. Ewen "Corinna at the Capitol" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.449, 7 Aug. 1852]
Rose above the shadows their names cast - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"
Cast its shadow in eternity - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 19"
Originating from a single cast stone - Ashanti Files "Ripples"
All cast shadows come home - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
I build and cast down the dream - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
Followed the scent of pitcher plants cast across the river - Jennifer Elise Foerster "American History"
And cast it gleaming to the scattering wind - Nora May French "The Nymph"
To cast away for evermore the burden of the lyre - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
a cast net blessed by saint benedict - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
Cast with the axe their honours down - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Cast their shadows on the stream - Alfred C. Gellis "The Sacremento River"
Will make men cast all care away - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
A throne cast in blood and terror - Nikita Gill "Young Zeus: The Crossroads"
Cast the charts of our radiant sorrow - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
Cast wide nets and tentative - Zinaida Gippius "[I seek for rhythmic whisperings]" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Like a person who casts no shadow - Louise Gluck "In the Plaza"
The cast no backward glances - Goethe [untitled]
And claim the cast of green shade for ourselves - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
All thought of peace behind you cast - Robert Graves "Country at War"
Your shadow casts itself - Leah Naomi Green "Arrival"
And saints were casting down their crowns - Frances E. Watkins Harper "Fishers of Men"
From what mystic circle cast - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Shadows All" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]
All your spells around them cast - Felicia Hemans "Invocation"
In cloudless sunshine cast - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Cast the stones from your heart - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed (Hendan) "Returning to the Fire" transl. by author and edited by Darren Byler
Casting a silver-laced pattern - Alice Corbin Henderson "From the Stone Age"
Cast aside those wide involving shadows - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
As a Stone Cat should heed a Pebble cast - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"
I ran and cast my treasure on the gale - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Doubt in sleep all cast asunder - Jennie Earngey Hill "Dreaming"
Which Time, in utter scorn, has cast behind - Henry B. Hirst "Lethe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
But a harlequin cast to play a tragic part - Samuel Hoffenstein "The Jester" [The Broadway Anthology]
Who cast their names behind them - Horace Holley "The Soldiers" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]
The moon casts cold on us below - Thomas Hood "Reply to a Pastoral Poet"
And cast your sight through eons of space - Frank Horne "More Letters Found Near a Suicide"
Venturing all on the hazardous cast - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Cast it by with hands all numb - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"
With eyes cast up unto the maidens' tower - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "So Cruel Prison"
No one now alive could cast a ballot - T.R. Hummer "Who Remembers Davenport"
Cast on seas of emptiness - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part II."
Cast fire on the skirt of discretion - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Who cast aside old memories - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"
Already imagines what sum she will cast in April - Robinson Jeffers "The Loving Shepherdess" [excerpt]
Which failure cannot cast down nor success make proud - Robinson Jeffers "Rock and Hawk"
See me cast the burden down - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
Hearts that are anchored side by side - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
Memory cast a vote in our intuition - Fady Joudah "Descending, Rising"
Casting the shadows of their silver jets - Laura Kasischke "Daysleep"
Hate cast out with all his sworded peers - T.M. Kettle "When Others See Us as We See Ourselves!"
Casting it all in a mirror - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
A ray from bygone glory o'er its ruin cast - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
Shadows that are cast by the haunted hours before - Laetitia Elizabeth Landon "Little Red Riding-Hood" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Cast a firefly radiance down the deep - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"
Cast out by the hand that scatters food untowards - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"
Cast down in the flood of remembrance - D.H. Lawrence "Piano"
And casting the cycles of creation - D.H. Lawrence "St John"
And kindled you over deep with a cast of gold - D.H. Lawrence "Scent of Irises"
Or cast one pebble on the sand - Ida Lee "Suffolk"
To see the spear of Freedom cast - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
That casts a bitter shadow into the waters - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Its rising will cast bitter shadows of sorrow - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Cast down to the dust of the earth - Nancy Luce "God's Words"
Cast on the deserts of eternity - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Casting shadows in three dimensions - Ruth Madievsky "Fog"
Cast one glance westward - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong on Silent Films"
The shadow you cast is a memory - Herbert Woodward Martin "Variations on Some Index Phrases Borrowed from Kenneth Rexroth"
To cast an eye upon the only cloud in this cold sky - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
All golden things cast into summer's grave - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Around our grave a glass-clear silence cast - Harry Martinson "Aniara 103" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Window cast into mirror by interior lights - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"
Arms outstretched and casting no shadow - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"
Cast in chains beneath my feet - Theodore Maynard "Aladdin"
Casting a spider's shadow - Shara McCallum "Diva"
Cast aside this cloak of years - Arch Alfred McKillen "I Would Have Brought You Fire"
And cast the old world off as dust - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Used to cast old tales and illusions - W.S. Merwin "The Chinese Mountain Fox"
Which Lucifer in rage from God cast down - Adam Mickiewicz "Baktschi Serai By Night" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Bid them hither cast their bells - John Milton "Lycidas"
Casting out to itself in memory - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"
A curse proposed by fearful king and cast by captured sage - Elis Montgomery "Hex Supply Customer Support Log" [Strange Horizons 25 Aug. 2025]
Don't cast a shadow - Valzhyna Mort "Guest"
Now cast on flowers fresh and green - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"
Who hath not lingering cast long looks behind - Mushafi "[No man hath ever passed]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook
Would you cast your jewels to all the breezes blowing? - Sarojini Naidu "Village-Song"
Casts its clocks to the wind - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt
To cast his jibes and scoffs - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
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]
Casting ourselves toward ancient altars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"
Accept fate today and cast it out tomorrow - Achy Obejas "Boomerang, After Aime Cesaire"
they cast their fears in iron - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"
The tiring task of casting lots on the cost of a human spirit - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"
You will cast it aside for something new - Pan Tie tsu "To the Emperor" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
By autumn you will cast it aside - Pan Tie tsu "To the Emperor" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Casting a net of postures - Xan Forest Phillips "Nativity"
Cast against an ocean's skin - Xan Forest Phillips "Never Have I Ever"
Nor cast a single shade upon the past - J. Pitman (who died in 1825) "Lines to a Young Lady on Her Birthday" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.743, 23 March 1878]
The dogwood blossoms cast a light - Alexander Posey "Spring in Tulwa Thloco"
Shadows cast by palace walls - John Presland "The Deluge"
Clean cast from Perfection's brain - John Presland "Tapestry"
By the ransomed spirit cast away - K.R. (H.I.H. Grand Prince Constantine Constantinovich) "[No! I can ne'er believe, no recollection]" transl. by John Pollen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Konstantinovich_of_Russia
An atom cast in the pearly gray - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
Cast in oblivion's sunless well - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"
Which we cast at the young heart's devotion - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Bend to your cast that a king may die - Lloyd Roberts "A-Fishing"
Its shadow on our life-path cast - D.J. Robertson "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.144-v.III, 2 Oct. 1886]
From out the distance cast one backward glance - Morris Rosenfeld "My Youth" transl. from Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank
That cast their inundations o'er the darkening air - Ronald Ross "Hesperus" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
Drinks in and casts back the sun - Rosoriu "Old Idea of Choan" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
Where the lych-gate casts its cool dark shadow - G.S. "Butterflies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 30 March 1878]
Has cast me on a tide of time - George Santayana "Avila"
The net they cast upon the wind - James Marcus Schuyler "April"
Cast adrift by proxy on a vast black sea - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Stygian shadow cast upon the lone Dead Sea - Clinton Scollard "The Maid of Bethlehem"
Casting spells against the coming darkness - M. Bartley Seigel "Into the Thicket"
Cast forth to find their way alone - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]
Casting eclipse upon my cheerless night - Mary Shelley "Stanzas [How like a star you rose upon my life,]"
Cast mirror-fogged webs into the center - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Casting smoke like a spell - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"
Cast no discernible light - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"
Cast in Cupid's jail - Robert Southwell "Lewd Love Is Loss"
Stars cast lingering spells - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"
Cast a bloom around the heart - "Spring Blossoms" [Spring Blossoms, no date, no editor/author, Project Gutenberg]
A banner of gold to the summer wind cast - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Cast away the masquing garb of hollow Day - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
We kiss in the shade cast by a kingfisher - Keith Taylor "Details from the Garden of Delights"
Cast her own spell of bloom and blood - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"
Casts its inner light outward - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"
Cast in gold across a wealth of gems - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"
Casting their magic over the shooting star - Edwin Torres "This Is Not the Conversation That I Started the Conversation With"
In the light cast by the dark - Paul Tran "Terroir"
Eyes forever cast toward Rome - Devin S. Turk "Statue of David with Top Surgery Scars"
A land that cannot cast one sparkle back - Mark Van Doren "In Time of Drouth"
Cast only a passing shadow - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"
Remnant lamp casting halos of darkness - Wang An-Shih "Autumn Night" transl. by David Hinton
to see what casts a shadow - Chaun Webster "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"
Shadows that they cast upon the path of memory - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "Where Pleasures Grow"
Hunger, the shadow cast by death - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Your eyes that seem to cast starlight - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
In the sun they cast no shade - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Some spectral satellite cast glamor on the earth - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Cast off the gathering mists of age - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
Cast down the thrones of rulers - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 10" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Our mothers cast us out as demons - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"
a steel ring cast over what I know - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"
Cast meaningful shadows - Matthew Zapruder "January"
The film exists as broadcast radio - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
To make a girl a castaway bird - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"
We dream of the castaway wind - Sun Yung Shin "A History of Domestication"
In seas of castaways - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 18" transl. by Katherine Silver
Cast Iron.
Left a trail of cast-off bodies in its wake - David Hornibrook "A Poem After Anger"
Who mourn downcast in earth's far corners - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
A downcast silent regret - Frank J. Medina "Loneliness"
The soul's emblem meets my downcast eyes - G.S. "Butterflies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 30 March 1878]
A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"
Redeem all other god-cast stones - Chris Dombrowski "Lunar Calendar"
Outcast in the house of truth - John Drinkwater "Lake Winter"
Will wander, outcasts, from the great world's gate - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Overcast.
The several questions endlessly recast - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 3: A psalm of Isaak, whispered mid the Philistines, beneath the breath"
A stone-cast from the sombre strand - Henry B. Hirst "Lethe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Upcast an iridescent eye serene - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
With warbling throat and eye upcast - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]
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