Potential Titles: Door
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somethingdarkerTo mercy's door I flee - A.L.O.E. "Hymn for the Penitent Convict"
The fraction of a dream behind every door - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"
Opened in the sky a narrow door - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
behind tenuous doors with intimidating bells - Grisel Y. Acosta "Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic"
Living at the door of reality - Etel Adnan "Night"
The clock would stop and the doors swing wide - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Measuring the earth's door - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"
Clothesline holding the doors closed - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
A house with no doors - Steven Alvarez "from "Return to Tetaroba""
Opening the door of remembering - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"
Each door I cross - Aldo Amparan "Aubade at the City of Change"
A lone pilgrim to the cottage door - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
To death's dark door of parting - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Before a door of chance - Maya Angelou "On Diverse Deviation"
Through the doors of mystery - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Angels and birds"
Voices beyond my door - Rae Armantrout "Own"
Locked doors & heavy whispers - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"
Felt less closeted than doored - Atom Atkinson "closet with the letter 'd' on either end"
Earth had doors to heaven once, wide on golden hinges - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
In a room with a thousand doors - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"
Will set their stones and ribbons at your door - Ruth Awad "Reasons to Live"
An open door full of light - Julie Babcock "Driving at Midnight"
Filled with dripping water and locked doors - Julie Babcock "Wolfwoman"
Old wasp nests fallen by the door - Nina Bagley "Gathering"
Rational thought with an axe beating on the forest door - Mary Jo Bang "And As In Alice"
This vault door's hollow closing crash - Mary Jo Bang "Beneath the Din"
Night shuts the door of the train - Mary Jo Bang "Elegy for Two"
Imagination caught in the door latch - Mary Jo Bang "Heartbreaking"
To the door of new depths - Mary Jo Bang "Louise"
A door with its solid assertion - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"
A record of a permanent closed door - Mary Jo Bang "Provisional Doubt as an Architectural Space"
The labyrinth door swings two ways - Mary Jo Bang "The Raven Feeds Reynard"
Until the doom door opens - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands"
The door swinging open both ways - Lou Barrett "Seachange"
The doors of evening must not close - Elizabeth Bartlett "Civilized Spring"
My soul stands at the door - Richard Baxter "The Valediction"
The keys of all the doors of sleep - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"
Hung the doors with griefs - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
The doors in your house of clay - Arthur Christopher Benson "Δαιμονιζόμενος"
A narrow door between sky and ground - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
If only the day's door slid open - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"
At every shut door in the stirring city - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
At the hasped door of intimidation - Rebecca G. Biber "Pied Piper"
The fluster of lost door keys - Elizabeth Bishop "One Art"
If a door exists in every story - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"
Death's thousand doors stand open - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Drive an angel from your door - William Blake "The Divine Image"
Death's shadow at the door - Edmund Blunden "Almswomen"
Created you to guard its doors - Max Bodenheim "Poem to a Policeman"
Lightning limned into a hellish door - C. Edgar Bolen "Lycanthropus"
Music echoing through the open door - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
With iron bars over her windows and doors - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
A door just cracked open - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
That set a light at a dead man's door - William Stanley Braithwaite "Scintilla" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The doors of my heart leak blood - William Brewer "We Burn the Bull"
Prosperity, fat and fullhanded, arrived at our door - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Fresh winds shook the door - Emily Bronte "Stars"
The doors of mercy to unfold - Patrick Bronte "Winter-Night Meditations"
Never a hand on the cottage door - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"
Dust about the doors of friends - Rupert Brooke "Tiare Tahiti"
Another door the world slams shut - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"
Expire at Eden's door - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
At the door of tearless Death - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Swooping over the door to Tartarus - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
Our doors were made of flame - Nicole Callihan "Fable"
Knocked at every door, yet no admittance found - Calder Campbell "By the Sea" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.425, 21 Feb. 1852]
Swallowed by your doors - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Whatever doors we've forgotten - Jennifer Chang "About Trees"
The dangerous pawing at the door - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"
The handle of time's door is hot - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Caretakers]"
And recline on his golden door - Jos Charles "A Sonnet [I sat in windows]"
The door of the darkness fallen ajar - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Debating with angels at the door - T. Holley Chivers, M.D. "The Bright New Moon of Love"
The king's knock right at heaven's door - May Chong "Catering"
Narrowing its doors to thought - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Saying goodby at the innermost door - Leonard Cohen "Innermost Door"
Patiently knocking at justice's door - Jamie Harris Coleman "A Plea for Justice"
The door stood open at our feast - Mary Coleridge "Unwelcome"
And let me in at the door - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"
Through a door at the back of the world - Billy Collins "Endangered"
Open the doors of astral vision - Flower Conroy "Frog"
For love out the door of hope - Joseph S. Cotter Jr "The Deserter" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
In vain the merchant bars his door - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
Through iron doors, through gates of brass - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
Your doors barred from within - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
Tempt him not within the door - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Sang at the sun's great golden doors - Olive Custance "The Prisoner of God"
But some fear kept the door - Daniell "Pleasure" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
At the door of my dreams - Jim Daniels "Those of Us Without AC"
The wide doors of an abandoned place - Coningsby Dawson "Remembering in Heaven"
Never pushed the garden door - Anna Bunston de Bary "Under a Wiltshire Apple Tree"
Knocking on the moonlit door - Walter de la Mare "The Listeners"
Battered our door with a hatchet and a telescope - Diana Marie Delgado "Late-Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust"
Seemed to choose my door - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXI"
Open the door holding back dawn - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"
Opened the worn doors of his eyes - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"
A door without mystery - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"
The doors of centuries opened wide - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
Approach the bridegroom's door with song - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"
That batters my bolted door - "Eamonn an Chnuic, or 'Ned of the Hill'" transl. by P.H. Pearse
The door that barely stands ajar - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"
Turn the key and bolt the door - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"
The adamantine door bolted down - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"
Opens the door of battle - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 40. E-Ulmash, the Temple of Inana in Akkad" transl. by Sophus Helle
I've been leaving the doors open too - Tarfia Faizullah "Wait Until It Grows Roots"
Six green singers stood at my door - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"
The great elk in the dark door - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"
Nemesis is knocking at the door - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]"
The door Night had closed over the world - Monica Ferrell "In Safranbolu"
Nailed it as a motto above my door - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: II. The Prudent Lover"
The leafy sun that pours liquid through doors - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"
Only one night is her door - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
That grope at ghostly doors - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "November"
When the bolt lies deep in the door - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
A pile of feathered bones at the door - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen L"
Walking through doors or into them - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"
Thyme picked outside our back door - Rebecca Foust "Abeyance"
With doors that none but the wind ever closes - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"
The well was dry beside the door - Robert Frost "Going for Water"
Find me little doors of air - Zona Gale "Non Nobis"
Outside my door under the ancient oak - Elizabeth W. Garber "Feasting"
Famine and fever crept in at the door - Ellen M.H. Gates "Rich and Poor" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Behind an old door at the end - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
Sudden April at my open door - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"
Three times I knocked upon the door - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"
Shattered the doors of my spirit - Louis Golding "Reactionary"
Who weep like orphans at my door - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Casa"
Opening doors into moments reawakened - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"
The round red sun is the door - Kate Greenaway "Which Is the Way to Somewhere Town?"
Quiet street and the friendly door - Edgar A. Guest "When Day Is Done"
I enter by another door - Gulnisa Imin Gulkhan "First Night: At Six O'clock" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Willing the door open with your need - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"
On the door of Yesternight - Ruth Guthrie Harding "Song"
Knocked at the door of its house of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"
That may not guard the door that love itself unbarred - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Diverse their ways from the western door - Thomas Hardy "Side by Side"
And our doors were blocked with sand - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"
At the door between worlds - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Opens all the doors of our hearts - Joy Harjo "My Man's Feet"
Before my heart's closed door - Frances E.W. Harper "The Refiner's Gold"
Flung their troubles round my door - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Parting Rosary"
Nor stairs at summer's door - Yona Harvey "Hush Harbor"
Knocking wildly at a closed door in a dream - Robert Hass "The Apple Trees at Olema"
Open danger's door - Robert Hayden "The Lions"
As on the door of some dark ancient house - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Inscription" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The door shut on our heaven - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--I Will Forget"
And clamored madly at the door - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
Her eyes are the doors to a holographic universe - Tiffany Higgins "Medusa on Sansom and Pine" [Poetry Nov. 2013]
The wolf stands ever howling at their door - Jennie Earngey Hill "Winter"
From our door see them depart - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"
Autumn's opening door - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Go winging through the black doors of eternity - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Opened the door of my heart - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: A Lily and a Lute"
Names still haunting windows and doors - Mark Irwin "What a Great Responsibility"
All the doors are shadows - Mark Irwin "'Who'"
The Keeper of the Sky has hasped his Doors - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
To open the door of eternity - Islwyn "The Vision and the Faculty Divine" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Which opens your door to the past - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"
closed doors that refuse to open - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"
Knocked at every door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"
Beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Suppliant" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Trying to find the door to nothingness - Taylor Johnson "Nocturne"
Through doors of dark matter - Saeed Jones "Anthracite"
Behind a door you can't open - Saeed Jones "Cruel Body"
Each door, a silence - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
And disappear through the back door - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
Fashioned the compass that leads to the creaky side door - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
A ring of keys that can open any door - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"
Against the door to heaven - Mary Karr "The Pallbearer"
For only doors of tears are oped by thee - Kate "An Old 'Chubb'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.109-v.III, 30 Jan. 1886]
Dread opener of the mysterious doors - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
From the bright eastern door - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
My soul a thin-slotted door - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"
All the doors slammed shut at the end of the world - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"
Up to Heav'n's unopening Door - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
The doors childhood almost opens - Galway Kinnell "Milk"
And stand beside my father's door - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]
By garden gate and unlatched door - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]
A key to a door in the sky - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Beyond the heavy brass-bound door - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"
Water fell through all my doors - Maxine Kumin "Morning Swim"
Remembered a door in the long teeth of the woods - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Only after will locked doors swing amply open - Youna Kwak "After"
From out a thousand furnace doors - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"
Draw a door for possibilities - Linette Lao "Becoming"
The dark door of the secret earth - D.H. Lawrence "Snake"
Where doors of sunset part - Emma Lazarus "1492"
Imprisoned thunder groping for the doors - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"
The doors of never-ending gorges - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"
Wicked at the door of happiness - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"
Turn this traitor from the door - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
When too late to lock the door - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
And let Reason keep the door - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Who before me passed this Door of Trouble - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
Opens doors to duty - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
still hidden from the door - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"
In sable trammel, behind her basalt door - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
The door broke in a thousand fragments - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
As a strange knock at the door - Naomi Long Madgett "Arrival"
When the door of the East unbars - Edwin Markham "Fay Song"
The dead doors of my being - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Green golden door, swing in - Jeannette Marks "Green Golden Door"
Through doors that are forever whirling round - Harry Martinson "Aniara 16" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The door by which they entered hell - John Masefield "Animula"
Nor knock at dusty doors to find - John Masefield "C.L.M."
Knocked at many a dusty door - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Sorrow knocked at my door - Edgar Lee Masters "George Gray"
Staring at the door of the crawfish's burrow - Edgar Lee Masters "Theodore the Poet"
A black and wicked door - Airea D. Matthews "Rebel Prelude"
I tiptoed backwards toward our door under twisted reeds - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"
To mortal man the door is sealed - James E. McGirt "Love"
Still learning to speak the language of revolving doors - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"
The key to your front door - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
Leans out from the Ivory Door - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
As one admitted to the door - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
The door opened halfway - Risalet Merdan "I Am Waiting for You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Beyond men's bolted doors - Charlotte Mew "The Pedlar"
Blue hydrangeas by the blistered door - Charlotte Mew "The Sunlit House"
Paused at every grievous door - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Ode to Silence"
When the cage door cracks - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"
Open the door of my feelings - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
To open locked doors with a sword - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"
Rich doors to richer guests were opened - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
A body pulled inward, door unlocked - Saretta Morgan 'from "Plan Upon Arrival"'
Stood at the door to my childhood - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
Portal doors of all the possible parallel worlds - Erika Murcia "Serpents I"
The hinges of the doors of the sea - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"
The flamingo opened the doors - Pablo Neruda "The Birds Arrive" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Opening broken doors to the sea - Pablo Neruda "Fully Empowered" transl. by Alastair Reid
To shake the doors with bruised hands - Pablo Neruda "Insurgent America (1800)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A prisoner with the door open - Pablo Neruda "The Rooming House on the Calle Maruri" transl. by Alastair Reid
While the doors of time open - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Until the doors of hatred fall - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf
Knocked at the most eternal doors - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Swings open the doors of the earth - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XXVIII" transl. by James Nolan
Opened yourself like an underground door - Pablo Neruda "Swan Lake" transl. by Alastair Reid
Dire summons at my door - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Just open the door to the sun - Hoa Nguyen "Swell"
A heart that locked its doors and left - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Visiting Hours"
Tumbleweeds coming to their doors in the night - Naomi Shihab Nye "At Portales, New Mexico"
The days had doors in them - Naomi Shihab Nye "Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl"
And you will have to answer the door - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Story, around the Corner"
Within the folding of those azure doors - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Even a heaven with doors so chained - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"
Sweeps us along to the Opening Door - John Oxenham "The Bells of Ys"
Doors still bolted against - John Oxenham "Darkness and Light"
She left the door ajar - John Oxenham "E.A., Nov. 6, 1900"
With Truth's jailer at the door - Herbert E. Palmer "Prophecy"
The doors of darkness tremble - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
Before your anger crushed the doors - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"
The creaking door to freedom - Linda Pastan "Old Joke"
Who will hush that cry outside the doors - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
Her moonlit silence at the door - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
Opened the door to the fairy house - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"
Near its stones and chapel doors - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"
Tumbling and heaping about the door - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"
What doors are open to fine compliment - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"
Hut of wood and hingeless door - "Queen Bengerd" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
See the moon by opening a door - Julie Quiroz "Superpowers"
Equidistant between the open doors - Charles Rafferty "Two Pianos"
A shadowy hallway of locked doors - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"
That swing the door to memories - Herbert Randall "The Dream That's in the Sea"
The key was turned in that rusty door - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
and no man guards its doors - Barbara Jane Reyes "calles de los dolores y trastorno de tension postraumatica"
A body protesting thinks itself as a door - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
Has learned to carve many doors out of its darkness - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
Shake the doors of earth - Lynn Riggs "Santo Domingo Corn Dance"
From the door of my opened heart - Charles G.D. Roberts "Hill Top Songs"
Dream and memory endure no door - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Spiritual Love"
Swing the doors to the four great winds - Lloyd Roberts "There's Music in My Heart To-day"
The dead hand of Winter is knocking at the door - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"
By doors that were left open unawares - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The New Tenants"
Through the closed crevice of its silent door - Alice Wellington Rollins "Closed"
Here is the door I promised - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
Open a door onto a sea - Alireza Roshan "The Book of Absence" (translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach)
Open a door onto you - Alireza Roshan "The Book of Absence" (translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach)
Will not keep you standing at the door - Christina Rossetti "Up-Hill"
Love's light Hand is knocking at the door - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
The eternal way of the four chief doors - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A mile across each single door - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The doors are twisted on broken hinges - Carl Sandburg "Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind"
Too many doors to go in and out - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"
Conducts us through an opening door - Charles Sangster "'Tis Summer Still"
A reality without windows or doors - Philip Schultz "A Moment"
Out through the door of my own shadow - Joyce Sidman "Song of Bravery"
Doors that swing into darkness - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"
A broken door I struggle with, but cannot open - Marge Simon "Plaster Messiahs"
Swings back the door of years - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
A door you can be on both sides of at once - Maggie Smith "Threshold" [Poetry Feb. 2020]
To our door came the thrushes - Jean M. Snyder "Guests"
The wolf pounds on her door - Richard Solomon "Possession II: Teddy"
Tread wheels tall as vault doors - Brandon Som "Resistors"
Yet play about the darkened door - George Soule "Impression"
Followed an urge and rapped at my door - Anne Spencer "Creed" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A horse-shoe rusts above the door - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"
Bolted doors that lock the corridors of Time - Ezra Hurlburt Stafford "The Last Orison"
The house of death without a door - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
A shivering pool before the door - Robert Louis Stevenson "The House Beautiful"
Winter rattling at the door of June - Muriel Stuart "The Thief of Beauty"
Close them behind eyelid doors - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 74: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
what century fell at your door? - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
Connected by the density of front doors - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Around my door and courtyard - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
Shut my bramblewood door - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.2" transl. by Burton Watson
That carved this fretted door - Jane Taylor "The Squire's Pew"
a door that cannot find its own name - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
the door opens into the burning of the world - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
you are singing the door open for us - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
Passed the door of heaven - Sara Teasdale "Chance"
A new face at the door - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Death of the Old Year"
At the door of infamy - Edwin Torres "Waiting Outside the Cafe"
Footpath creeping through the long grass to the door - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
And Sin that batters the door - Iris Tree "[Pity the slain that laid away their lives]"
A few grains of wheat lay at the barn door - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"
Greet mortality a footfall from their door - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"
and doors shorn of locks - David Trinidad "The afterlife of fame"
The stars flew by the cave's wide door - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
Ancient conspiracy ran to our doors - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"
Burst the door with rage and wrath - "Valdemar and Tove (B)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Preserved behind velvet doors - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Making for the door out of your life - Jean Valentine "The Drinker"
Inherit a palace of locked doors - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Tropical Depression"
Revealing the briefest doors - Ocean Vuong "Trojan"
Outside whose bright doors - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
From the door of your book - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"
Listens at Fate's door - William Watson "Night on Curbar Edge, Derbyshire"
Work a saw to cut out doors and windows - "The Way of Virtue: Non-Being" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Knocking open the door to a grief - Afaa Michael Weaver "Midnight Air in Louisville"
Leaves the doors between them open wide - Edith Wharton "Heaven"
Winged things may stoop to any door - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
The door of useless words - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"
The tired daffodil has closed its gilded doors - Oscar Wilde "Endymion"
A door to dreams, a little road to heaven - Humbert Wolfe "Gabriel"
No door the tenement requires - William Wordsworth "A Wren's Nest"
The doors to the mountain remain shut - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie V"
Time's double door at the other - Charles Wright "Time and the Centipedes of Night"
Blasted doors to the mind - Jenny Xie "Memory Soldier"
To close that clear brittle door - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
A door opening in the surf - Wendy Xu "Interim Poetics"
Love's heavy open door - Wendy Xu "Pledge"
A curse locks a rusty wooden door - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Master of the still stars and of the flaming door - W.B. Yeats "The Valley of the Black Pig"
A black door that will always remain closed - Matthew Zapruder "Poem for a Suicide"
Under the door of sky - Matthew Zapruder "A Summer Rainstorm"
If Chronos comes to Hecate's door - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Baboon rattling the bedroom door - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
On the other side of the slammed door - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
Ringing the doorbell for one more party for two - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"
Knob/Doorknob.
Doorless for entering - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"
The doorsill where two worlds touch - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks
Doorstep.
Doorway.
As lilacs in the dooryard once bound me - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
Thorns are growing at the house-door - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Within the space of a swallow's nest-door - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
They all belong to the free outdoors - Miriam Clark Potter "The Swans"
Pour defiance at his palace-door - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Trapdoors in the tiers of heaven - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
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The fraction of a dream behind every door - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"
Opened in the sky a narrow door - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
behind tenuous doors with intimidating bells - Grisel Y. Acosta "Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic"
Living at the door of reality - Etel Adnan "Night"
The clock would stop and the doors swing wide - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Measuring the earth's door - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"
Clothesline holding the doors closed - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
A house with no doors - Steven Alvarez "from "Return to Tetaroba""
Opening the door of remembering - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"
Each door I cross - Aldo Amparan "Aubade at the City of Change"
A lone pilgrim to the cottage door - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
To death's dark door of parting - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Before a door of chance - Maya Angelou "On Diverse Deviation"
Through the doors of mystery - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Angels and birds"
Voices beyond my door - Rae Armantrout "Own"
Locked doors & heavy whispers - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"
Felt less closeted than doored - Atom Atkinson "closet with the letter 'd' on either end"
Earth had doors to heaven once, wide on golden hinges - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
In a room with a thousand doors - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"
Will set their stones and ribbons at your door - Ruth Awad "Reasons to Live"
An open door full of light - Julie Babcock "Driving at Midnight"
Filled with dripping water and locked doors - Julie Babcock "Wolfwoman"
Old wasp nests fallen by the door - Nina Bagley "Gathering"
Rational thought with an axe beating on the forest door - Mary Jo Bang "And As In Alice"
This vault door's hollow closing crash - Mary Jo Bang "Beneath the Din"
Night shuts the door of the train - Mary Jo Bang "Elegy for Two"
Imagination caught in the door latch - Mary Jo Bang "Heartbreaking"
To the door of new depths - Mary Jo Bang "Louise"
A door with its solid assertion - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"
A record of a permanent closed door - Mary Jo Bang "Provisional Doubt as an Architectural Space"
The labyrinth door swings two ways - Mary Jo Bang "The Raven Feeds Reynard"
Until the doom door opens - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands"
The door swinging open both ways - Lou Barrett "Seachange"
The doors of evening must not close - Elizabeth Bartlett "Civilized Spring"
My soul stands at the door - Richard Baxter "The Valediction"
The keys of all the doors of sleep - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"
Hung the doors with griefs - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
The doors in your house of clay - Arthur Christopher Benson "Δαιμονιζόμενος"
A narrow door between sky and ground - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
If only the day's door slid open - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"
At every shut door in the stirring city - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
At the hasped door of intimidation - Rebecca G. Biber "Pied Piper"
The fluster of lost door keys - Elizabeth Bishop "One Art"
If a door exists in every story - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"
Death's thousand doors stand open - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Drive an angel from your door - William Blake "The Divine Image"
Death's shadow at the door - Edmund Blunden "Almswomen"
Created you to guard its doors - Max Bodenheim "Poem to a Policeman"
Lightning limned into a hellish door - C. Edgar Bolen "Lycanthropus"
Music echoing through the open door - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
With iron bars over her windows and doors - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
A door just cracked open - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
That set a light at a dead man's door - William Stanley Braithwaite "Scintilla" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The doors of my heart leak blood - William Brewer "We Burn the Bull"
Prosperity, fat and fullhanded, arrived at our door - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Fresh winds shook the door - Emily Bronte "Stars"
The doors of mercy to unfold - Patrick Bronte "Winter-Night Meditations"
Never a hand on the cottage door - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"
Dust about the doors of friends - Rupert Brooke "Tiare Tahiti"
Another door the world slams shut - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"
Expire at Eden's door - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
At the door of tearless Death - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Swooping over the door to Tartarus - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
Our doors were made of flame - Nicole Callihan "Fable"
Knocked at every door, yet no admittance found - Calder Campbell "By the Sea" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.425, 21 Feb. 1852]
Swallowed by your doors - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Whatever doors we've forgotten - Jennifer Chang "About Trees"
The dangerous pawing at the door - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"
The handle of time's door is hot - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Caretakers]"
And recline on his golden door - Jos Charles "A Sonnet [I sat in windows]"
The door of the darkness fallen ajar - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Debating with angels at the door - T. Holley Chivers, M.D. "The Bright New Moon of Love"
The king's knock right at heaven's door - May Chong "Catering"
Narrowing its doors to thought - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Saying goodby at the innermost door - Leonard Cohen "Innermost Door"
Patiently knocking at justice's door - Jamie Harris Coleman "A Plea for Justice"
The door stood open at our feast - Mary Coleridge "Unwelcome"
And let me in at the door - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"
Through a door at the back of the world - Billy Collins "Endangered"
Open the doors of astral vision - Flower Conroy "Frog"
For love out the door of hope - Joseph S. Cotter Jr "The Deserter" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
In vain the merchant bars his door - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
Through iron doors, through gates of brass - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
Your doors barred from within - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
Tempt him not within the door - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Sang at the sun's great golden doors - Olive Custance "The Prisoner of God"
But some fear kept the door - Daniell "Pleasure" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
At the door of my dreams - Jim Daniels "Those of Us Without AC"
The wide doors of an abandoned place - Coningsby Dawson "Remembering in Heaven"
Never pushed the garden door - Anna Bunston de Bary "Under a Wiltshire Apple Tree"
Knocking on the moonlit door - Walter de la Mare "The Listeners"
Battered our door with a hatchet and a telescope - Diana Marie Delgado "Late-Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust"
Seemed to choose my door - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXI"
Open the door holding back dawn - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"
Opened the worn doors of his eyes - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"
A door without mystery - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"
The doors of centuries opened wide - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
Approach the bridegroom's door with song - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"
That batters my bolted door - "Eamonn an Chnuic, or 'Ned of the Hill'" transl. by P.H. Pearse
The door that barely stands ajar - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"
Turn the key and bolt the door - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"
The adamantine door bolted down - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"
Opens the door of battle - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 40. E-Ulmash, the Temple of Inana in Akkad" transl. by Sophus Helle
I've been leaving the doors open too - Tarfia Faizullah "Wait Until It Grows Roots"
Six green singers stood at my door - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"
The great elk in the dark door - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"
Nemesis is knocking at the door - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]"
The door Night had closed over the world - Monica Ferrell "In Safranbolu"
Nailed it as a motto above my door - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: II. The Prudent Lover"
The leafy sun that pours liquid through doors - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"
Only one night is her door - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
That grope at ghostly doors - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "November"
When the bolt lies deep in the door - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
A pile of feathered bones at the door - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen L"
Walking through doors or into them - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"
Thyme picked outside our back door - Rebecca Foust "Abeyance"
With doors that none but the wind ever closes - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"
The well was dry beside the door - Robert Frost "Going for Water"
Find me little doors of air - Zona Gale "Non Nobis"
Outside my door under the ancient oak - Elizabeth W. Garber "Feasting"
Famine and fever crept in at the door - Ellen M.H. Gates "Rich and Poor" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Behind an old door at the end - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
Sudden April at my open door - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"
Three times I knocked upon the door - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"
Shattered the doors of my spirit - Louis Golding "Reactionary"
Who weep like orphans at my door - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Casa"
Opening doors into moments reawakened - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"
The round red sun is the door - Kate Greenaway "Which Is the Way to Somewhere Town?"
Quiet street and the friendly door - Edgar A. Guest "When Day Is Done"
I enter by another door - Gulnisa Imin Gulkhan "First Night: At Six O'clock" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Willing the door open with your need - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"
On the door of Yesternight - Ruth Guthrie Harding "Song"
Knocked at the door of its house of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"
That may not guard the door that love itself unbarred - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Diverse their ways from the western door - Thomas Hardy "Side by Side"
And our doors were blocked with sand - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"
At the door between worlds - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Opens all the doors of our hearts - Joy Harjo "My Man's Feet"
Before my heart's closed door - Frances E.W. Harper "The Refiner's Gold"
Flung their troubles round my door - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Parting Rosary"
Nor stairs at summer's door - Yona Harvey "Hush Harbor"
Knocking wildly at a closed door in a dream - Robert Hass "The Apple Trees at Olema"
Open danger's door - Robert Hayden "The Lions"
As on the door of some dark ancient house - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Inscription" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The door shut on our heaven - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--I Will Forget"
And clamored madly at the door - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
Her eyes are the doors to a holographic universe - Tiffany Higgins "Medusa on Sansom and Pine" [Poetry Nov. 2013]
The wolf stands ever howling at their door - Jennie Earngey Hill "Winter"
From our door see them depart - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"
Autumn's opening door - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Go winging through the black doors of eternity - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Opened the door of my heart - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: A Lily and a Lute"
Names still haunting windows and doors - Mark Irwin "What a Great Responsibility"
All the doors are shadows - Mark Irwin "'Who'"
The Keeper of the Sky has hasped his Doors - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
To open the door of eternity - Islwyn "The Vision and the Faculty Divine" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Which opens your door to the past - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"
closed doors that refuse to open - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"
Knocked at every door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"
Beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Suppliant" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Trying to find the door to nothingness - Taylor Johnson "Nocturne"
Through doors of dark matter - Saeed Jones "Anthracite"
Behind a door you can't open - Saeed Jones "Cruel Body"
Each door, a silence - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
And disappear through the back door - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
Fashioned the compass that leads to the creaky side door - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
A ring of keys that can open any door - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"
Against the door to heaven - Mary Karr "The Pallbearer"
For only doors of tears are oped by thee - Kate "An Old 'Chubb'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.109-v.III, 30 Jan. 1886]
Dread opener of the mysterious doors - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
From the bright eastern door - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
My soul a thin-slotted door - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"
All the doors slammed shut at the end of the world - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"
Up to Heav'n's unopening Door - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
The doors childhood almost opens - Galway Kinnell "Milk"
And stand beside my father's door - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]
By garden gate and unlatched door - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]
A key to a door in the sky - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Beyond the heavy brass-bound door - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"
Water fell through all my doors - Maxine Kumin "Morning Swim"
Remembered a door in the long teeth of the woods - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Only after will locked doors swing amply open - Youna Kwak "After"
From out a thousand furnace doors - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"
Draw a door for possibilities - Linette Lao "Becoming"
The dark door of the secret earth - D.H. Lawrence "Snake"
Where doors of sunset part - Emma Lazarus "1492"
Imprisoned thunder groping for the doors - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"
The doors of never-ending gorges - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"
Wicked at the door of happiness - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"
Turn this traitor from the door - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
When too late to lock the door - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
And let Reason keep the door - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Who before me passed this Door of Trouble - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
Opens doors to duty - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
still hidden from the door - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"
In sable trammel, behind her basalt door - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
The door broke in a thousand fragments - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
As a strange knock at the door - Naomi Long Madgett "Arrival"
When the door of the East unbars - Edwin Markham "Fay Song"
The dead doors of my being - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Green golden door, swing in - Jeannette Marks "Green Golden Door"
Through doors that are forever whirling round - Harry Martinson "Aniara 16" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The door by which they entered hell - John Masefield "Animula"
Nor knock at dusty doors to find - John Masefield "C.L.M."
Knocked at many a dusty door - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Sorrow knocked at my door - Edgar Lee Masters "George Gray"
Staring at the door of the crawfish's burrow - Edgar Lee Masters "Theodore the Poet"
A black and wicked door - Airea D. Matthews "Rebel Prelude"
I tiptoed backwards toward our door under twisted reeds - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"
To mortal man the door is sealed - James E. McGirt "Love"
Still learning to speak the language of revolving doors - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"
The key to your front door - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
Leans out from the Ivory Door - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
As one admitted to the door - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
The door opened halfway - Risalet Merdan "I Am Waiting for You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Beyond men's bolted doors - Charlotte Mew "The Pedlar"
Blue hydrangeas by the blistered door - Charlotte Mew "The Sunlit House"
Paused at every grievous door - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Ode to Silence"
When the cage door cracks - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"
Open the door of my feelings - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
To open locked doors with a sword - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"
Rich doors to richer guests were opened - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
A body pulled inward, door unlocked - Saretta Morgan 'from "Plan Upon Arrival"'
Stood at the door to my childhood - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
Portal doors of all the possible parallel worlds - Erika Murcia "Serpents I"
The hinges of the doors of the sea - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"
The flamingo opened the doors - Pablo Neruda "The Birds Arrive" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Opening broken doors to the sea - Pablo Neruda "Fully Empowered" transl. by Alastair Reid
To shake the doors with bruised hands - Pablo Neruda "Insurgent America (1800)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A prisoner with the door open - Pablo Neruda "The Rooming House on the Calle Maruri" transl. by Alastair Reid
While the doors of time open - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Until the doors of hatred fall - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf
Knocked at the most eternal doors - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Swings open the doors of the earth - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XXVIII" transl. by James Nolan
Opened yourself like an underground door - Pablo Neruda "Swan Lake" transl. by Alastair Reid
Dire summons at my door - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Just open the door to the sun - Hoa Nguyen "Swell"
A heart that locked its doors and left - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Visiting Hours"
Tumbleweeds coming to their doors in the night - Naomi Shihab Nye "At Portales, New Mexico"
The days had doors in them - Naomi Shihab Nye "Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl"
And you will have to answer the door - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Story, around the Corner"
Within the folding of those azure doors - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Even a heaven with doors so chained - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"
Sweeps us along to the Opening Door - John Oxenham "The Bells of Ys"
Doors still bolted against - John Oxenham "Darkness and Light"
She left the door ajar - John Oxenham "E.A., Nov. 6, 1900"
With Truth's jailer at the door - Herbert E. Palmer "Prophecy"
The doors of darkness tremble - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
Before your anger crushed the doors - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"
The creaking door to freedom - Linda Pastan "Old Joke"
Who will hush that cry outside the doors - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
Her moonlit silence at the door - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
Opened the door to the fairy house - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"
Near its stones and chapel doors - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"
Tumbling and heaping about the door - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"
What doors are open to fine compliment - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"
Hut of wood and hingeless door - "Queen Bengerd" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
See the moon by opening a door - Julie Quiroz "Superpowers"
Equidistant between the open doors - Charles Rafferty "Two Pianos"
A shadowy hallway of locked doors - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"
That swing the door to memories - Herbert Randall "The Dream That's in the Sea"
The key was turned in that rusty door - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
and no man guards its doors - Barbara Jane Reyes "calles de los dolores y trastorno de tension postraumatica"
A body protesting thinks itself as a door - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
Has learned to carve many doors out of its darkness - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
Shake the doors of earth - Lynn Riggs "Santo Domingo Corn Dance"
From the door of my opened heart - Charles G.D. Roberts "Hill Top Songs"
Dream and memory endure no door - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Spiritual Love"
Swing the doors to the four great winds - Lloyd Roberts "There's Music in My Heart To-day"
The dead hand of Winter is knocking at the door - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"
By doors that were left open unawares - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The New Tenants"
Through the closed crevice of its silent door - Alice Wellington Rollins "Closed"
Here is the door I promised - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
Open a door onto a sea - Alireza Roshan "The Book of Absence" (translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach)
Open a door onto you - Alireza Roshan "The Book of Absence" (translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach)
Will not keep you standing at the door - Christina Rossetti "Up-Hill"
Love's light Hand is knocking at the door - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
The eternal way of the four chief doors - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A mile across each single door - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The doors are twisted on broken hinges - Carl Sandburg "Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind"
Too many doors to go in and out - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"
Conducts us through an opening door - Charles Sangster "'Tis Summer Still"
A reality without windows or doors - Philip Schultz "A Moment"
Out through the door of my own shadow - Joyce Sidman "Song of Bravery"
Doors that swing into darkness - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"
A broken door I struggle with, but cannot open - Marge Simon "Plaster Messiahs"
Swings back the door of years - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
A door you can be on both sides of at once - Maggie Smith "Threshold" [Poetry Feb. 2020]
To our door came the thrushes - Jean M. Snyder "Guests"
The wolf pounds on her door - Richard Solomon "Possession II: Teddy"
Tread wheels tall as vault doors - Brandon Som "Resistors"
Yet play about the darkened door - George Soule "Impression"
Followed an urge and rapped at my door - Anne Spencer "Creed" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A horse-shoe rusts above the door - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"
Bolted doors that lock the corridors of Time - Ezra Hurlburt Stafford "The Last Orison"
The house of death without a door - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
A shivering pool before the door - Robert Louis Stevenson "The House Beautiful"
Winter rattling at the door of June - Muriel Stuart "The Thief of Beauty"
Close them behind eyelid doors - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 74: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
what century fell at your door? - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
Connected by the density of front doors - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Around my door and courtyard - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
Shut my bramblewood door - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.2" transl. by Burton Watson
That carved this fretted door - Jane Taylor "The Squire's Pew"
a door that cannot find its own name - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
the door opens into the burning of the world - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
you are singing the door open for us - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
Passed the door of heaven - Sara Teasdale "Chance"
A new face at the door - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Death of the Old Year"
At the door of infamy - Edwin Torres "Waiting Outside the Cafe"
Footpath creeping through the long grass to the door - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
And Sin that batters the door - Iris Tree "[Pity the slain that laid away their lives]"
A few grains of wheat lay at the barn door - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"
Greet mortality a footfall from their door - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"
and doors shorn of locks - David Trinidad "The afterlife of fame"
The stars flew by the cave's wide door - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
Ancient conspiracy ran to our doors - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"
Burst the door with rage and wrath - "Valdemar and Tove (B)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Preserved behind velvet doors - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Making for the door out of your life - Jean Valentine "The Drinker"
Inherit a palace of locked doors - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Tropical Depression"
Revealing the briefest doors - Ocean Vuong "Trojan"
Outside whose bright doors - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
From the door of your book - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"
Listens at Fate's door - William Watson "Night on Curbar Edge, Derbyshire"
Work a saw to cut out doors and windows - "The Way of Virtue: Non-Being" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Knocking open the door to a grief - Afaa Michael Weaver "Midnight Air in Louisville"
Leaves the doors between them open wide - Edith Wharton "Heaven"
Winged things may stoop to any door - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
The door of useless words - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"
The tired daffodil has closed its gilded doors - Oscar Wilde "Endymion"
A door to dreams, a little road to heaven - Humbert Wolfe "Gabriel"
No door the tenement requires - William Wordsworth "A Wren's Nest"
The doors to the mountain remain shut - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie V"
Time's double door at the other - Charles Wright "Time and the Centipedes of Night"
Blasted doors to the mind - Jenny Xie "Memory Soldier"
To close that clear brittle door - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
A door opening in the surf - Wendy Xu "Interim Poetics"
Love's heavy open door - Wendy Xu "Pledge"
A curse locks a rusty wooden door - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Master of the still stars and of the flaming door - W.B. Yeats "The Valley of the Black Pig"
A black door that will always remain closed - Matthew Zapruder "Poem for a Suicide"
Under the door of sky - Matthew Zapruder "A Summer Rainstorm"
If Chronos comes to Hecate's door - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Baboon rattling the bedroom door - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
On the other side of the slammed door - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
Ringing the doorbell for one more party for two - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"
Knob/Doorknob.
Doorless for entering - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"
The doorsill where two worlds touch - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks
Doorstep.
Doorway.
As lilacs in the dooryard once bound me - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
Thorns are growing at the house-door - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Within the space of a swallow's nest-door - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
They all belong to the free outdoors - Miriam Clark Potter "The Swans"
Pour defiance at his palace-door - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Trapdoors in the tiers of heaven - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
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