Potential Titles: Hold/Held
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somethingdarkerTo hold the weight of her tide - Elmaz Abinader "Lines of Demarcation"
Holding the deceased one's name in memory forever - Duane Ackerson "A Ghost Story"
Delicate hold and tender rearrangement - Carl Adamshick "The solitude of an apricot"
Holding crushed bird skulls in your hands - Kim Addonizio "Here"
Drown whatever it holds in its throat - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Hold up these lanterns - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"
Yet I hold one hour beyond all price - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"
We need every bit of luck we can hold onto - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Fragments of a design only his head could hold - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Clothesline holding the doors closed - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
Only the empty hand is free to hold - Julia Alvarez "That Moment"
No barometer holds me accountable - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"
Hold communion with her mysteries - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VIII--The Sunshine of Poetry"
The rebellious holding what they can - Raymond Antrobus "For Rashan Charles"
Caught hold of its ancestors' shadows - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The shadow went on walking"
The squadrons of the sun still hold - George A. Baker "De Lunatico"
The terrifying hand which holds you tight - James Baldwin "Christmas carol"
When the end comes, we hold a beginning in our hands - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
The solar Seraphs hold their sway - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
Twelve towers tall enough to pierce and hold - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"
A banner the wind holds up - Mary Jo Bang "In This One World"
A false wall that holds nothing back - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"
The velvet howl of a holding leech - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Time holding its own drape - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Let fragments hold a space - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"
While a bent hook holds back the last - Mary Jo Bang "Three Trees"
Those I hold against myself - Rachel Barenblat "Untie"
A ransom for the flag he holds - Cora C. Bass "Dead on the Field of Battle"
Winter holds his solitary sway - Cora C. Bass "'Mid Eternal Snow"
Hold the odds not small - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
Hold a portion of your sacred gold - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
My love holds while the earth endures - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Could lay hold on the tiger's terrible heart - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
I hold my breath, daylong, yearlong - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
Dry is the land that holds you - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
My restless hands hold fast the wheel - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
The winds a thousand devils hold - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
Holding its silence like a bell - Malachi Black "Entering Saint Patrick's Cathedral"
Hold our secret shames so close - Sheila Black "The Earth"
Catches hold of what comes next to hand - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Immersed in the task of holding nothing - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dear Minna"
Won't hold a sliver of a boat - "The Book of Odes: No.61 Who Says the River Is Wide?" transl. by Burton Watson
That hold the fury of the night - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"
Stopped holding each other hostage - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Hawks hold up the highway - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Holds a goldmine in the sky - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Hold only empty names - William Brewer "Explanation of Matter in Oxyana"
The shape of a man trying to hold up the ceiling - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Holds like mine immortal - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Holds cruel sway in Love's high house - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds
For as long as conquest holds - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"
Whose domain holds Virgil's ashes - Giosue Carducci "Vincenzo Monti" transl. by Frank Sewall
That hold our home in the sky - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
Blank architecture that holds - Andres Cerpa "The Vault"
Hold the past with both arms - Marianne Chan "Some Words of the Aforesaid Heathen Peoples"
How to hold water - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"
Holds out midst flood and fire - Joseph Horatio Chant "Brotherhood"
Holding a vacant nest in her hands - R.S. Chilton "The Little Peasant"
Hold the relic to your ear - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"
And hold your breath between - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "A Moment"
The sand holds me back - Hilda Conkling "Adventure"
Like moonlight I cannot hold - Hilda Conkling "Silverhorn"
Won't hold me back from the firestorm - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"
To prove such holding vain - Susan Coolidge "When Love Went"
Hold a pitchfork and set the forest on fire - Dorsey Craft "Rainy-Day Games with Kyle"
Hold truth like a curtain - Brody Parrish Craig "Traverse"
The old enchantments hold me still - Olive Custance "The Changeling"
Still holds the print of your foot - H.D. "Pursuit"
Mirrors holding themselves toward the light - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
Rocks used to hold an angel down - Tyree Daye "The Tomato Women's Meetings: The Washing of Hands"
Our high destiny should hold in scorn - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Hold ajar the wicket gate - Walter de la Mare "The Quiet Enemy"
And hold the book of wildflowers open - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"
Who holds my heart in joy - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
I was born holding a knife - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Shadows hold their breath - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXXI"
The bottle in which you hold our tears - Chris Dombrowski "Early June, Missoula, Year of the Sheep"
Open the door holding back dawn - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"
Holding a bucket full of leaf-song - Chris Dombrowski "To Carry Water"
Cannot now take hold on joy - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"
If you hold them long enough - Cheryl Dumesnil "Notes to Myself on the Morning after His Birth"
Nights holding stars as puncture wounds - Cheryl Dumesnil "Some Days Are Skin as Tinfoil"
Earth holding space hostage - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Words Are"
Hold forest-fire in one hand - Carolina Ebeld "There Is a Devil Inside Me"
Hold my own hand - Natalie Eilbert "Crescent Moons"
Each holding a mirror in her arms - Safia Elhillo "Sudanese-American"
The mind in pensive musings hold - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Holds their sorrow in the marrow - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
Crows hold their sour conversation - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"
Hold all the hidden wonders - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"
The sky holds its breath - Heid E. Erdich "Again, Today"
Holds terror in its grasp - Heid E. Erdich "Post-Barbarian"
Hold the earth in sober wit - Lee Fairchild "Couplets"
The barrier of silence hold unbroken - Eleanor Farjeon "The Unspoken Word"
As much as your apron can hold - Eugene Field "The Sugar-Plum Tree"
dead dry pods holding dormant soulseeds - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
The dying vine can hold the strongest oak - John Gould Fletcher "The Old Love and the New"
I hold with those who favor fire - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"
Her hardest hue to hold - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Hold the moon in his teeth - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Introduction to Engineering by Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius"
Hold a magnifying glass to time - Deborah Garrison "Both Square and Round"
Bids Ambition hold a wand - John Gay "The Jugglers"
That will always be her own to hold - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"
Always said no universe could hold him - John Grey "Son of an Astronaut"
Holding my own absence in faith - Rachel Eliza Griffiths "Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees"
The sceptre of the concave hold - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
To hold the feet of shadows - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"
Holding time in the dark - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"
Everything I hold takes root - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"
Holding the shadow of a name - Terrance Hayes "Coffin for Head of State"
Holds breath in its hands - Conrad Hilberry "The Day of the First Draft Lottery"
Holding that last rhyme off - Conrad Hilberry "Loping Road"
Holds a butterfly to the sky - Noor Hindi "Breaking [News]"
Do not trouble the holders of the iron keys - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
Holding cups of honey - Florence Hoatson "Blossoms"
Though Error for an hour hold - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Unconsecrated ground cannot hold them - Jay Hulme "Seeking Trans Ancestors in Provincial Graveyards"
The walnut-branches hold me - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Tempering and holding in check - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
And catch hold of a soft pulse - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"
Let one grave our relics hold, entwined - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]
Hold once more their shattered fragrance - Fay Inchfawn "On All Soul's Eve"
A velvet purse that holds a hundred pounds - "Jack Jingle and Sucky Shingle"
Hold all of what remains - Elizabeth Jacobson "All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes"
Holds emptiness as if it were full - Elizabeth Jacobson "Quantum Foam"
Holding my path in its rigid embrace - Vanessa Jae "The Fear of Cyborgs to Believe in Flesh"
A hold against the host of the air - Robinson Jeffers "To the House"
Hold ourselves hostage - Allison Eir Jenks "The Church of St. Sulspicious"
The tendon bands that hold my soul - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"
Nightingales hold the wood - Lionel Johnson "Bagley Wood"
Punching a hold to daylight - Saeed Jones "Boy Found Inside a Wolf"
If the moon decided to hold its breath - Saeed Jones "Mercy"
We hold the present responsible - Fady Joudah "Epithalamion"
Holding your hand through the static again - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"
The mold that holds the tile together - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
We are the cup that holds the sea - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
The red brick canvas holding us both - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"
For three days hold supremacy - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"
Practiced how to hold the moon's broken bowl - Vandana Khanna "Goddess in the Dark"
Hold time in place under her tongue - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Left Behind"
And quiet holds the weary feet - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
I was born holding a knife - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Trying to hold too much light - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
And hold back the arms of the clock - Ted Kooser "For You, Friend,"
The dam that holds back the universe - Ted Kooser "Telescope"
If I hold my breath till it aches - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"
The wind tangles the net of branches that holds it - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"
Holds, with such precise indifference, all the minutes of his life - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"
Stones still hold transfigured grief - Michael Lauchlan "Reading Herodotus"
Huddles in grey heaps coiling and holding back - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"
The hold in the galaxy's heart - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"
Who holds your tongue captive - Dana Levin "According to the Gospel of Yes"
Winds trying to hold each other - Dana Levin "Zozo-ji"
As the whole world holds its breath - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
Beds that couldn't hold our ordinary serviceable dreams - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
His fence that could hold back no one - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
Holding high his retrospective lamp - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
To hold the clue that I caught first - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"
Hold the progress of your light - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley
Vultures hold the flesh of men - Li T'ai-Po "The Battle to the South of the City" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
To hold me in my grief - M.L. Liebler "One Ounce of Forgiveness"
Holding the universe in its body - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"
Your own bones will hold you up - Ada Limon "The Commute"
Holding a bundle of rattlesnake grass - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
Do not hold my own escape against me - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
Such hands no charmed witch-hazel hold - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"
Hold still the planetary language - Canisia Lubrin "In the Vault of Morning"
the floors holding our reflections - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"
Nothing she plants has roots long enough to hold - Tariq Luthun "The Summer My Cousin Went Missing"
Holds the memory of blood - Amice MacDonell "Culloden Moor"
To hold our passions in eclipse - Percy MacKaye "American Neutrality"
We hold the stars already, and we burn, we burn - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
Hold this thing that lives in your bones - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
One cracked bowl holding absolutely nothing - Naomi Long Madgett "Packrat"
December holds no threat this year - Naomi Long Madgett "Song for a Season"
The necromancy of a Prospero holds in thrall - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"
In search of somewhere to hold on - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)
Holding the violent breath of my need - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
Holding reflections in their hands - M.S. Merwin "Commemoratives"
Where Folly holds her fair - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet IX from Second April
Myself shall hold the key - Edna St. Vincent Millay untitled sonnet from Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Archimedes still holds his measured home - Joaquin Miller "As It Is Written"
Hold that porcelain silence - Claire Millikin "Figurine"
The attic holds its stopped worlds - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"
To hold such gifts in scorn - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
Or does it know this sky to hold more fire? - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"
Hold a mirror up to the clouds - Jenny Molberg "Mirrors"
And hold a Synod in thy heart - Marquis of Montrose "I'll Never Love Thee More" (Per Wikipedia, the 1st-4th Marquesses of Montrose were all named James Graham. Later, the title attached to the Duke of Montrose as a subsidiary title, but I'm assuming that, if the poet had a ducal title, the editor would have used that instead. I decided not to dig further and just to put this under 'Montrose.')
I only want love to hold me for ransom - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Ten thousand hues hold their freshness - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Holds out a ball of mercury - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Like a bell holds space between the hours - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"
Such cobwebs of knowledge as careless young fingers may hold - "My Brother and I" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
The pigs hold up the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger
A flower your winter gardens hold - E. Nesbit "Death"
Holding flecks of ash rigid in her hands - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"
Holding our wings against the wind - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
Many another whose heart holds no light - Robert Nichols "The Full Heart"
Where Silence holds her sway - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"
Holds in store the dawn - Meredith Nicholson "Song"
Forth from the hold while yet we live - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
When spaces hold secrets - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Each one was a lamp for a fairy to hold - Sarah Noble-Ives "Thro' Fairyland"
A giant cap to hold the dreams in - Naomi Shihab Nye "Even at War"
Holding their places between - Naomi Shihab Nye "Meteor Watch"
To hold the time that kept leaving - Naomi Shihab Nye "Music"
Time holds us in its pocket - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"
still hold pause for the sun - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"
Hold us in the great hands of light - Mary Oliver "Why I Wake Early"
Hold converse with the wind and leaves - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
Hold your breath when you land - Lauren Parker "Miranda"
Holding no reluctance today - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"
Holding the rain our mouths - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"
Holding a mirror up to Apollo - Carl Phillips "Reasonable Doubt"
Still hold violent reverberations - Xan Forest Phillips "Edmonia Lewis and I Weather the Storm"
Built to hold every gaze - Xan Forest Phillips "Splay My Country"
Before we struggled to hold light - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"
Holding our breath across generations - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
Another interior to hold the ruin - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
Still holds our prayers in its teeth - Jacques J. Rancourt "Western Wall"
To hold Earth's architrave in place - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
I hold the souls of men in my pot - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Hold the breath still and heart pale - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Envious of the light it cannot hold - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
As a reed holds song - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
That hold their tiny revels on a thorn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Hold no shining thing to juggle - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"
Who holds this falling infinitely - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumn" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Holding paper bags around a barrel fire - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"
She holds a shadowy mirror to her eyes - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"
Eaves hold in perfect vertices - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Heaven cannot hold Him nor earth sustain - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"
Hold me one moment longer - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"
Like muddied water holds the sun - R.S. Saha "Kin"
how you hold a cottonmouth in a crosshair - C.T. Salazar "River"
Anchors for kin to hold on to - Mona Lisa Saloy "God Was Willing Sis: I'm Home"
Holding a suitcase full of feathers - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait 2"
No Hamlet hold my jaws and speak - Carl Sandburg "Bones"
The great nail holding a skyscraper - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"
Hold the birds in a looking-glass - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"
Holding hunger inside them for a weapon - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Cargo in winter's hold - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"
Hold to shadow as the last reality - Ann K. Schwader "Flash Specters"
Our dreams hold less of hope - Ann K. Schwader "On Any Given Midnight"
The hold of our first fiery nest - Teresa J. Scollon "Poem to My Brothers and Sisters"
Sober bulk and adamantine hold - Duncan Campbell Scott "Home Song"
This itching fury that holds me - Tim Seibles "Naive"
Hold Time's fickle glass - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXVI"
No want of conscience hold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLI"
Holding all my breath inside - Prageeta Sharma "The Imperishable and Perishable Family"
My hand holds stems of air - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"
The welcome weight of hands holding - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"
I will hold the pieces steady - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Downtrodden"
His fur hold the wind's breath - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Smell of Dog"
Still in hiding, holding their breaths - Charles Simic "Hide and Seek"
Wrap each word and hold it - Hope Anita Smith "Words"
Too thin to hold tomorrow back - Patricia Smith "Voodoo II: Money"
Holding back what clamored to rise - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"
Hold the ocean in my fist - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"
Holding a cheap imitation in my hands - Marin Sorescu "Paintings" transl. by Gabriela Dragnea
Hold in awe their grim persistence - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
To hold by faith a heart's untested gold - George Sterling "Intimation"
Hold the sorrows of the wind - George Sterling "Lost Companion"
Hold me exile of their star - George Sterling "Mirage"
Whose roots take hold on Hell - George Sterling "The Night of Man"
Holds forever, like a shell - George Sterling "Respite"
Not sure the breath I hold is mine - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
These salt hands holding sweetness - Muriel Stuart "Lady Hamilton"
One branch of chrysanthemum holds out against frost - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson
My chest too small to hold the blossom - Alison Swan "Catalogue"
Your heart holds many a Romeo - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"
Unfold into a receptacle for holding joy - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Hold the memory of trauma in our roots - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Left to hold up the sky's condolences - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Holding only the echoes of ambulance screams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Grass and trees hold to their constant rule - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
A perfect diamond to hold in memory - Keith Taylor "Condoms, Abandoned on the Park Bench"
Holding black candles and waiting - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
Than a flower could hold - Sara Teasdale "August Moonrise"
Holding wonder in a cup - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
Holding it open with a rock - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"
Fur holding the light of a whole moon - Kristen Tracy "Taming the Dog"
Sketched by moths holding to nearby stones - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Holding his body up to pain - Natasha Trethewey "Amateur Fighter"
Holding the ghosts of generations - Natasha Trethewey "South"
Holding thorns in one hand - U Tak "2270" (transl. not credited but assumed, due to poet's dates, not to be the poet)
That holds the breath to play all songs to life - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
Holding the stubborn hope of conquering - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Life" transl. by Alma Strettell
That twined elm-boughs hold - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: The Gardens" transl. by Alma Strettell
Holds the black night in leash - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XX" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Hold secret a bird's flowering - Jose Garcia Villa "Lyrics: II (17)"
The way thirst holds water - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"
Memory no longer holds up - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
Never will unloose my hold - Charles Wesley "Wrestling Jacob"
And the sky holds up her stars - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Where melancholy Sulphur holds her sway - "Where Avalanches Wail"
That holds the key-note of celestial cheer - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
And hold the skirt of knowledge - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"
Nor even with your eyes hold mine - Helen Hay Whitney "In Extremis"
Earth holds no sweeter secret - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"
Hold up the hollow of your hand - Helen Hay Whitney "Sigh Not for Love"
Holds an edge against the weather - William Carlos Williams "History"
Hold pink flames in their right hands - William Carlos Williams "The Lonely Street"
To hold some loss - Katie Willingham "In Defense of Nature Poetry"
Holding converse with pale lunar light - Adolf Wolff "Excuse Me, Muse"
Holding my soul strong against foreign powers - Nicholas Wong "The Little Pink"
Afraid to even hold the memory of light - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Clarity of occurrence returning to hold us close - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie IV"
A wide membrane holding eternity back - Charles Wright "Life Lines"
Earth holds all the answers - Jane Yolen "Call and Response"
You hold the broken in me - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"
You hold the setting sun - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"
Holding hands with his loneliness - Josephine Yu "Prayer to Saint Joseph: For the Restless"
Many souls hold galaxies' weight - Felicia Zamora "America, Let Us Pause"
Sunset's skinned knuckle try at holding fast - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
If never I held some fragrant flame - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
The city held its breath - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
And held the insect world in fief - Harold Acton "The Investiture of a Spinster Hob-Goblin"
Held horses for a stingy penny - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
Held the saturnalia of Red Death - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"
Held just one thing back - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Hunting for the gate she desperately held shut - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Held speechless by the vine - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Old Bell"
The hunger to be held in a box - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Held the very Fiend at grips - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"
Dawn held the frozen flame an instant high - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Cunningly reared and held as by a spell - William Rose Benét "The City"
Held invisible mountains - Robert Bly "A Dream of the Blacksmith's Room"
Held a rich full moon upon your heart - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Held you like a victory - Traci Brimhall "Fledgling"
Held a golden cup and tasted rust - Witter Bynner "The New World III"
Silence held my feet - F. O. Call "Visions"
Fortune held thee in despite - Willa Cather "Song"
Held a billion glass lives - Wo Chan "i pissed on a red christmas"
That held its own attention - Tina Chang "Astroturf"
Held in his hands the book of wisdom - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Held low to freezing lips - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXVI"
The river held in cupped hands - Chris Dombrowski "Serotonin"
Held captive by the cinema - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Couldn't be held responsible for his subconscious - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
Pure speed held back for the finish - Stephen Dunn "Always Something More Beautiful"
The street held in a lunar synthesis - T.S. Eliot "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"
Absence held in the handspan - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"
Held close by flowers too beauteous for the day - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
Won't reveal the fire I held in my mouth - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
One heart held open to another - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
Until memory held her - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
How much of home is held in the mouth - Diamond Forde "Rememory"
In that cold trance the earth was held - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
Held the moon up as a looking-glass - Nikita Gill "Chaos to Nyx, Goddes of the Night"
Who held his heart in thrall - Mona Gould "So Fair a Season"
Held by the ties of space - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"
Our lives held in this gentle cup - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
A creature held together by a name - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"
Held the mirror hostage - Stephanie Heit "Rehearsal"
Where we have held the loose feathers of a fallen bird - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
The hollow music of a long-held breath - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"
Held gravity in your hand - Conrad Hilberry "Self-Portrait as Waterfall"
But are held fast to their flames - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
A bowl held in both hands - Jane Hirshfield "Mosquito"
Held this mornings apples as they fell - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
With every word that held a lie - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
What constellations held them - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
A heart held back for the knife - John James "April, Andromeda"
The soul held secret from all sight - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Held in trance by the sweet air - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
When all the court held carnival - Annie Fellows Johnston "The Legend of the Pansies"
Held together with such commitments - Douglas S. Jones "A Tuesday Night"
Once was held by mystic sway - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"
Held the world together with your teeth - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Banished"
Held together by sap and spiderweb - Vandana Khanna "On the Eve of Being Reincarnated"
While these trees held a glossary of stars - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"
Green wine held up in the sun - D.H. Lawrence "Green"
Held tight with our own explosives - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Held nothing but the empty dawn - Amy Lowell "Crepuscule du Matin"
Held rigid to the pattern - Amy Lowell "Patterns"
At the postern held by Night - John MacFarlane "A Midsummer Madrigal"
Touched and held the stars - Naomi Long Madgett "Time Is No Thief"
Held dead Queens' secret jewels - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"
What have clock hands actually held? - John McCarthy "Gravestone"
Held together by hammers - Rachel McKibbens "Across the Street from the Whitmore Home for Girls, 1949"
Your own broken heart held tightly in your fist - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"
Electrical poles held up by a neighbor's twine - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
We know the sweetness held in lies - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"
Held the lilac last of night - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"
Held the power of three days - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Secret"
Arms held out to darkness - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"
Held candy eggs of logic - Kiki Petrosino "Scarlet"
Rainbows held low in their lanes - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"
Held imagination's candle high - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"
Until the vows were held by heart - Elizabeth Powell "Pledge"
Held months so saturnine - E.J. Pratt "In Absentia"
Held my desperate hand from crime - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
And held my heart up like a cup - Lola Ridge "The Edge"
A tiny silver mirror held to the high stars - Lola Ridge "Fame"
Held fast in the pipes of Pan's flute - Rainer Maria Rilke "Music" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Whose writings will ever be held in esteem - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
Held the air hostage - Valencia Robin "Dutch Elm Disease"
Lofty thought scarce held by earthly bound - Amy Redpath Roddick "My Lake"
The sound that held her listening - T.W. Rolleston "The Spell-Struck"
The law of stars held together - Carl Sandburg "Long Guns"
Held sparks within their darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"
Held above the gulfs of chaos - Frederick George Scott "The Everlasting Father"
You have held the throne of the Great Unknown - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Held the joker and both bowers - Robert W. Service "Quatrains"
Aspirations too vast to be held in the hand - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"
Gems I held from every land - Frank Dempster Sherman "Pebbles"
My breath held captive - Terisa Siagatonu "Deserving"
Artfully held in the celestial rain - Bruce Smith "Beautiful Throat"
Held the letter to their breast - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 123: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
From the knots that held the peach - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Mariana"
Held crosswise to the budding day - Iris Tree "[Of all who died in silence far away]"
Mildness held the keys of the colossal silence - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
With mirrors held to the bottom of lakes - Divya Victor "Make/Do"
Has drowned the hopes that Fortune held - Helen Hay Whitney "Aspiration I"
Held small birds in air until they sang - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Cloak held fast by Psyche's brooch - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday X: Case Sensitive"
Foothold.
My handhold on the planet is no longer tiny - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Holdover from last season's wilds - Jake Skeets "If Fire"
Uphold/Upheld.
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Holding the deceased one's name in memory forever - Duane Ackerson "A Ghost Story"
Delicate hold and tender rearrangement - Carl Adamshick "The solitude of an apricot"
Holding crushed bird skulls in your hands - Kim Addonizio "Here"
Drown whatever it holds in its throat - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Hold up these lanterns - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"
Yet I hold one hour beyond all price - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"
We need every bit of luck we can hold onto - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Fragments of a design only his head could hold - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Clothesline holding the doors closed - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
Only the empty hand is free to hold - Julia Alvarez "That Moment"
No barometer holds me accountable - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"
Hold communion with her mysteries - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VIII--The Sunshine of Poetry"
The rebellious holding what they can - Raymond Antrobus "For Rashan Charles"
Caught hold of its ancestors' shadows - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The shadow went on walking"
The squadrons of the sun still hold - George A. Baker "De Lunatico"
The terrifying hand which holds you tight - James Baldwin "Christmas carol"
When the end comes, we hold a beginning in our hands - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
The solar Seraphs hold their sway - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
Twelve towers tall enough to pierce and hold - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"
A banner the wind holds up - Mary Jo Bang "In This One World"
A false wall that holds nothing back - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"
The velvet howl of a holding leech - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Time holding its own drape - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Let fragments hold a space - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"
While a bent hook holds back the last - Mary Jo Bang "Three Trees"
Those I hold against myself - Rachel Barenblat "Untie"
A ransom for the flag he holds - Cora C. Bass "Dead on the Field of Battle"
Winter holds his solitary sway - Cora C. Bass "'Mid Eternal Snow"
Hold the odds not small - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
Hold a portion of your sacred gold - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
My love holds while the earth endures - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Could lay hold on the tiger's terrible heart - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
I hold my breath, daylong, yearlong - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
Dry is the land that holds you - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
My restless hands hold fast the wheel - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
The winds a thousand devils hold - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
Holding its silence like a bell - Malachi Black "Entering Saint Patrick's Cathedral"
Hold our secret shames so close - Sheila Black "The Earth"
Catches hold of what comes next to hand - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Immersed in the task of holding nothing - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dear Minna"
Won't hold a sliver of a boat - "The Book of Odes: No.61 Who Says the River Is Wide?" transl. by Burton Watson
That hold the fury of the night - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"
Stopped holding each other hostage - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Hawks hold up the highway - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Holds a goldmine in the sky - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Hold only empty names - William Brewer "Explanation of Matter in Oxyana"
The shape of a man trying to hold up the ceiling - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Holds like mine immortal - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Holds cruel sway in Love's high house - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds
For as long as conquest holds - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"
Whose domain holds Virgil's ashes - Giosue Carducci "Vincenzo Monti" transl. by Frank Sewall
That hold our home in the sky - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
Blank architecture that holds - Andres Cerpa "The Vault"
Hold the past with both arms - Marianne Chan "Some Words of the Aforesaid Heathen Peoples"
How to hold water - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"
Holds out midst flood and fire - Joseph Horatio Chant "Brotherhood"
Holding a vacant nest in her hands - R.S. Chilton "The Little Peasant"
Hold the relic to your ear - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"
And hold your breath between - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "A Moment"
The sand holds me back - Hilda Conkling "Adventure"
Like moonlight I cannot hold - Hilda Conkling "Silverhorn"
Won't hold me back from the firestorm - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"
To prove such holding vain - Susan Coolidge "When Love Went"
Hold a pitchfork and set the forest on fire - Dorsey Craft "Rainy-Day Games with Kyle"
Hold truth like a curtain - Brody Parrish Craig "Traverse"
The old enchantments hold me still - Olive Custance "The Changeling"
Still holds the print of your foot - H.D. "Pursuit"
Mirrors holding themselves toward the light - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
Rocks used to hold an angel down - Tyree Daye "The Tomato Women's Meetings: The Washing of Hands"
Our high destiny should hold in scorn - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Hold ajar the wicket gate - Walter de la Mare "The Quiet Enemy"
And hold the book of wildflowers open - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"
Who holds my heart in joy - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
I was born holding a knife - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Shadows hold their breath - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXXI"
The bottle in which you hold our tears - Chris Dombrowski "Early June, Missoula, Year of the Sheep"
Open the door holding back dawn - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"
Holding a bucket full of leaf-song - Chris Dombrowski "To Carry Water"
Cannot now take hold on joy - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"
If you hold them long enough - Cheryl Dumesnil "Notes to Myself on the Morning after His Birth"
Nights holding stars as puncture wounds - Cheryl Dumesnil "Some Days Are Skin as Tinfoil"
Earth holding space hostage - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Words Are"
Hold forest-fire in one hand - Carolina Ebeld "There Is a Devil Inside Me"
Hold my own hand - Natalie Eilbert "Crescent Moons"
Each holding a mirror in her arms - Safia Elhillo "Sudanese-American"
The mind in pensive musings hold - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Holds their sorrow in the marrow - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
Crows hold their sour conversation - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"
Hold all the hidden wonders - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"
The sky holds its breath - Heid E. Erdich "Again, Today"
Holds terror in its grasp - Heid E. Erdich "Post-Barbarian"
Hold the earth in sober wit - Lee Fairchild "Couplets"
The barrier of silence hold unbroken - Eleanor Farjeon "The Unspoken Word"
As much as your apron can hold - Eugene Field "The Sugar-Plum Tree"
dead dry pods holding dormant soulseeds - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
The dying vine can hold the strongest oak - John Gould Fletcher "The Old Love and the New"
I hold with those who favor fire - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"
Her hardest hue to hold - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Hold the moon in his teeth - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Introduction to Engineering by Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius"
Hold a magnifying glass to time - Deborah Garrison "Both Square and Round"
Bids Ambition hold a wand - John Gay "The Jugglers"
That will always be her own to hold - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"
Always said no universe could hold him - John Grey "Son of an Astronaut"
Holding my own absence in faith - Rachel Eliza Griffiths "Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees"
The sceptre of the concave hold - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
To hold the feet of shadows - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"
Holding time in the dark - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"
Everything I hold takes root - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"
Holding the shadow of a name - Terrance Hayes "Coffin for Head of State"
Holds breath in its hands - Conrad Hilberry "The Day of the First Draft Lottery"
Holding that last rhyme off - Conrad Hilberry "Loping Road"
Holds a butterfly to the sky - Noor Hindi "Breaking [News]"
Do not trouble the holders of the iron keys - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
Holding cups of honey - Florence Hoatson "Blossoms"
Though Error for an hour hold - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Unconsecrated ground cannot hold them - Jay Hulme "Seeking Trans Ancestors in Provincial Graveyards"
The walnut-branches hold me - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Tempering and holding in check - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
And catch hold of a soft pulse - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"
Let one grave our relics hold, entwined - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]
Hold once more their shattered fragrance - Fay Inchfawn "On All Soul's Eve"
A velvet purse that holds a hundred pounds - "Jack Jingle and Sucky Shingle"
Hold all of what remains - Elizabeth Jacobson "All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes"
Holds emptiness as if it were full - Elizabeth Jacobson "Quantum Foam"
Holding my path in its rigid embrace - Vanessa Jae "The Fear of Cyborgs to Believe in Flesh"
A hold against the host of the air - Robinson Jeffers "To the House"
Hold ourselves hostage - Allison Eir Jenks "The Church of St. Sulspicious"
The tendon bands that hold my soul - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"
Nightingales hold the wood - Lionel Johnson "Bagley Wood"
Punching a hold to daylight - Saeed Jones "Boy Found Inside a Wolf"
If the moon decided to hold its breath - Saeed Jones "Mercy"
We hold the present responsible - Fady Joudah "Epithalamion"
Holding your hand through the static again - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"
The mold that holds the tile together - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
We are the cup that holds the sea - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
The red brick canvas holding us both - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"
For three days hold supremacy - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"
Practiced how to hold the moon's broken bowl - Vandana Khanna "Goddess in the Dark"
Hold time in place under her tongue - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Left Behind"
And quiet holds the weary feet - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
I was born holding a knife - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Trying to hold too much light - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
And hold back the arms of the clock - Ted Kooser "For You, Friend,"
The dam that holds back the universe - Ted Kooser "Telescope"
If I hold my breath till it aches - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"
The wind tangles the net of branches that holds it - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"
Holds, with such precise indifference, all the minutes of his life - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"
Stones still hold transfigured grief - Michael Lauchlan "Reading Herodotus"
Huddles in grey heaps coiling and holding back - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"
The hold in the galaxy's heart - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"
Who holds your tongue captive - Dana Levin "According to the Gospel of Yes"
Winds trying to hold each other - Dana Levin "Zozo-ji"
As the whole world holds its breath - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
Beds that couldn't hold our ordinary serviceable dreams - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
His fence that could hold back no one - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
Holding high his retrospective lamp - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
To hold the clue that I caught first - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"
Hold the progress of your light - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley
Vultures hold the flesh of men - Li T'ai-Po "The Battle to the South of the City" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
To hold me in my grief - M.L. Liebler "One Ounce of Forgiveness"
Holding the universe in its body - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"
Your own bones will hold you up - Ada Limon "The Commute"
Holding a bundle of rattlesnake grass - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
Do not hold my own escape against me - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
Such hands no charmed witch-hazel hold - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"
Hold still the planetary language - Canisia Lubrin "In the Vault of Morning"
the floors holding our reflections - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"
Nothing she plants has roots long enough to hold - Tariq Luthun "The Summer My Cousin Went Missing"
Holds the memory of blood - Amice MacDonell "Culloden Moor"
To hold our passions in eclipse - Percy MacKaye "American Neutrality"
We hold the stars already, and we burn, we burn - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
Hold this thing that lives in your bones - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
One cracked bowl holding absolutely nothing - Naomi Long Madgett "Packrat"
December holds no threat this year - Naomi Long Madgett "Song for a Season"
The necromancy of a Prospero holds in thrall - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"
In search of somewhere to hold on - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)
Holding the violent breath of my need - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
Holding reflections in their hands - M.S. Merwin "Commemoratives"
Where Folly holds her fair - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet IX from Second April
Myself shall hold the key - Edna St. Vincent Millay untitled sonnet from Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Archimedes still holds his measured home - Joaquin Miller "As It Is Written"
Hold that porcelain silence - Claire Millikin "Figurine"
The attic holds its stopped worlds - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"
To hold such gifts in scorn - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
Or does it know this sky to hold more fire? - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"
Hold a mirror up to the clouds - Jenny Molberg "Mirrors"
And hold a Synod in thy heart - Marquis of Montrose "I'll Never Love Thee More" (Per Wikipedia, the 1st-4th Marquesses of Montrose were all named James Graham. Later, the title attached to the Duke of Montrose as a subsidiary title, but I'm assuming that, if the poet had a ducal title, the editor would have used that instead. I decided not to dig further and just to put this under 'Montrose.')
I only want love to hold me for ransom - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Ten thousand hues hold their freshness - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Holds out a ball of mercury - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Like a bell holds space between the hours - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"
Such cobwebs of knowledge as careless young fingers may hold - "My Brother and I" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
The pigs hold up the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger
A flower your winter gardens hold - E. Nesbit "Death"
Holding flecks of ash rigid in her hands - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"
Holding our wings against the wind - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
Many another whose heart holds no light - Robert Nichols "The Full Heart"
Where Silence holds her sway - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"
Holds in store the dawn - Meredith Nicholson "Song"
Forth from the hold while yet we live - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
When spaces hold secrets - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Each one was a lamp for a fairy to hold - Sarah Noble-Ives "Thro' Fairyland"
A giant cap to hold the dreams in - Naomi Shihab Nye "Even at War"
Holding their places between - Naomi Shihab Nye "Meteor Watch"
To hold the time that kept leaving - Naomi Shihab Nye "Music"
Time holds us in its pocket - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"
still hold pause for the sun - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"
Hold us in the great hands of light - Mary Oliver "Why I Wake Early"
Hold converse with the wind and leaves - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
Hold your breath when you land - Lauren Parker "Miranda"
Holding no reluctance today - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"
Holding the rain our mouths - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"
Holding a mirror up to Apollo - Carl Phillips "Reasonable Doubt"
Still hold violent reverberations - Xan Forest Phillips "Edmonia Lewis and I Weather the Storm"
Built to hold every gaze - Xan Forest Phillips "Splay My Country"
Before we struggled to hold light - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"
Holding our breath across generations - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
Another interior to hold the ruin - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
Still holds our prayers in its teeth - Jacques J. Rancourt "Western Wall"
To hold Earth's architrave in place - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
I hold the souls of men in my pot - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Hold the breath still and heart pale - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Envious of the light it cannot hold - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
As a reed holds song - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
That hold their tiny revels on a thorn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Hold no shining thing to juggle - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"
Who holds this falling infinitely - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumn" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Holding paper bags around a barrel fire - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"
She holds a shadowy mirror to her eyes - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"
Eaves hold in perfect vertices - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Heaven cannot hold Him nor earth sustain - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"
Hold me one moment longer - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"
Like muddied water holds the sun - R.S. Saha "Kin"
how you hold a cottonmouth in a crosshair - C.T. Salazar "River"
Anchors for kin to hold on to - Mona Lisa Saloy "God Was Willing Sis: I'm Home"
Holding a suitcase full of feathers - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait 2"
No Hamlet hold my jaws and speak - Carl Sandburg "Bones"
The great nail holding a skyscraper - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"
Hold the birds in a looking-glass - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"
Holding hunger inside them for a weapon - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Cargo in winter's hold - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"
Hold to shadow as the last reality - Ann K. Schwader "Flash Specters"
Our dreams hold less of hope - Ann K. Schwader "On Any Given Midnight"
The hold of our first fiery nest - Teresa J. Scollon "Poem to My Brothers and Sisters"
Sober bulk and adamantine hold - Duncan Campbell Scott "Home Song"
This itching fury that holds me - Tim Seibles "Naive"
Hold Time's fickle glass - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXVI"
No want of conscience hold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLI"
Holding all my breath inside - Prageeta Sharma "The Imperishable and Perishable Family"
My hand holds stems of air - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"
The welcome weight of hands holding - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"
I will hold the pieces steady - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Downtrodden"
His fur hold the wind's breath - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Smell of Dog"
Still in hiding, holding their breaths - Charles Simic "Hide and Seek"
Wrap each word and hold it - Hope Anita Smith "Words"
Too thin to hold tomorrow back - Patricia Smith "Voodoo II: Money"
Holding back what clamored to rise - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"
Hold the ocean in my fist - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"
Holding a cheap imitation in my hands - Marin Sorescu "Paintings" transl. by Gabriela Dragnea
Hold in awe their grim persistence - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
To hold by faith a heart's untested gold - George Sterling "Intimation"
Hold the sorrows of the wind - George Sterling "Lost Companion"
Hold me exile of their star - George Sterling "Mirage"
Whose roots take hold on Hell - George Sterling "The Night of Man"
Holds forever, like a shell - George Sterling "Respite"
Not sure the breath I hold is mine - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
These salt hands holding sweetness - Muriel Stuart "Lady Hamilton"
One branch of chrysanthemum holds out against frost - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson
My chest too small to hold the blossom - Alison Swan "Catalogue"
Your heart holds many a Romeo - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"
Unfold into a receptacle for holding joy - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Hold the memory of trauma in our roots - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Left to hold up the sky's condolences - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Holding only the echoes of ambulance screams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Grass and trees hold to their constant rule - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
A perfect diamond to hold in memory - Keith Taylor "Condoms, Abandoned on the Park Bench"
Holding black candles and waiting - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
Than a flower could hold - Sara Teasdale "August Moonrise"
Holding wonder in a cup - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
Holding it open with a rock - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"
Fur holding the light of a whole moon - Kristen Tracy "Taming the Dog"
Sketched by moths holding to nearby stones - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Holding his body up to pain - Natasha Trethewey "Amateur Fighter"
Holding the ghosts of generations - Natasha Trethewey "South"
Holding thorns in one hand - U Tak "2270" (transl. not credited but assumed, due to poet's dates, not to be the poet)
That holds the breath to play all songs to life - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
Holding the stubborn hope of conquering - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Life" transl. by Alma Strettell
That twined elm-boughs hold - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: The Gardens" transl. by Alma Strettell
Holds the black night in leash - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XX" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Hold secret a bird's flowering - Jose Garcia Villa "Lyrics: II (17)"
The way thirst holds water - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"
Memory no longer holds up - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
Never will unloose my hold - Charles Wesley "Wrestling Jacob"
And the sky holds up her stars - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Where melancholy Sulphur holds her sway - "Where Avalanches Wail"
That holds the key-note of celestial cheer - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
And hold the skirt of knowledge - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"
Nor even with your eyes hold mine - Helen Hay Whitney "In Extremis"
Earth holds no sweeter secret - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"
Hold up the hollow of your hand - Helen Hay Whitney "Sigh Not for Love"
Holds an edge against the weather - William Carlos Williams "History"
Hold pink flames in their right hands - William Carlos Williams "The Lonely Street"
To hold some loss - Katie Willingham "In Defense of Nature Poetry"
Holding converse with pale lunar light - Adolf Wolff "Excuse Me, Muse"
Holding my soul strong against foreign powers - Nicholas Wong "The Little Pink"
Afraid to even hold the memory of light - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Clarity of occurrence returning to hold us close - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie IV"
A wide membrane holding eternity back - Charles Wright "Life Lines"
Earth holds all the answers - Jane Yolen "Call and Response"
You hold the broken in me - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"
You hold the setting sun - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"
Holding hands with his loneliness - Josephine Yu "Prayer to Saint Joseph: For the Restless"
Many souls hold galaxies' weight - Felicia Zamora "America, Let Us Pause"
Sunset's skinned knuckle try at holding fast - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
If never I held some fragrant flame - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
The city held its breath - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
And held the insect world in fief - Harold Acton "The Investiture of a Spinster Hob-Goblin"
Held horses for a stingy penny - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
Held the saturnalia of Red Death - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"
Held just one thing back - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Hunting for the gate she desperately held shut - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Held speechless by the vine - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Old Bell"
The hunger to be held in a box - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Held the very Fiend at grips - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"
Dawn held the frozen flame an instant high - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Cunningly reared and held as by a spell - William Rose Benét "The City"
Held invisible mountains - Robert Bly "A Dream of the Blacksmith's Room"
Held a rich full moon upon your heart - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Held you like a victory - Traci Brimhall "Fledgling"
Held a golden cup and tasted rust - Witter Bynner "The New World III"
Silence held my feet - F. O. Call "Visions"
Fortune held thee in despite - Willa Cather "Song"
Held a billion glass lives - Wo Chan "i pissed on a red christmas"
That held its own attention - Tina Chang "Astroturf"
Held in his hands the book of wisdom - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Held low to freezing lips - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXVI"
The river held in cupped hands - Chris Dombrowski "Serotonin"
Held captive by the cinema - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Couldn't be held responsible for his subconscious - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
Pure speed held back for the finish - Stephen Dunn "Always Something More Beautiful"
The street held in a lunar synthesis - T.S. Eliot "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"
Absence held in the handspan - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"
Held close by flowers too beauteous for the day - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
Won't reveal the fire I held in my mouth - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
One heart held open to another - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
Until memory held her - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
How much of home is held in the mouth - Diamond Forde "Rememory"
In that cold trance the earth was held - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
Held the moon up as a looking-glass - Nikita Gill "Chaos to Nyx, Goddes of the Night"
Who held his heart in thrall - Mona Gould "So Fair a Season"
Held by the ties of space - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"
Our lives held in this gentle cup - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
A creature held together by a name - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"
Held the mirror hostage - Stephanie Heit "Rehearsal"
Where we have held the loose feathers of a fallen bird - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
The hollow music of a long-held breath - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"
Held gravity in your hand - Conrad Hilberry "Self-Portrait as Waterfall"
But are held fast to their flames - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
A bowl held in both hands - Jane Hirshfield "Mosquito"
Held this mornings apples as they fell - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
With every word that held a lie - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
What constellations held them - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
A heart held back for the knife - John James "April, Andromeda"
The soul held secret from all sight - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Held in trance by the sweet air - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
When all the court held carnival - Annie Fellows Johnston "The Legend of the Pansies"
Held together with such commitments - Douglas S. Jones "A Tuesday Night"
Once was held by mystic sway - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"
Held the world together with your teeth - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Banished"
Held together by sap and spiderweb - Vandana Khanna "On the Eve of Being Reincarnated"
While these trees held a glossary of stars - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"
Green wine held up in the sun - D.H. Lawrence "Green"
Held tight with our own explosives - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Held nothing but the empty dawn - Amy Lowell "Crepuscule du Matin"
Held rigid to the pattern - Amy Lowell "Patterns"
At the postern held by Night - John MacFarlane "A Midsummer Madrigal"
Touched and held the stars - Naomi Long Madgett "Time Is No Thief"
Held dead Queens' secret jewels - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"
What have clock hands actually held? - John McCarthy "Gravestone"
Held together by hammers - Rachel McKibbens "Across the Street from the Whitmore Home for Girls, 1949"
Your own broken heart held tightly in your fist - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"
Electrical poles held up by a neighbor's twine - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
We know the sweetness held in lies - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"
Held the lilac last of night - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"
Held the power of three days - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Secret"
Arms held out to darkness - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"
Held candy eggs of logic - Kiki Petrosino "Scarlet"
Rainbows held low in their lanes - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"
Held imagination's candle high - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"
Until the vows were held by heart - Elizabeth Powell "Pledge"
Held months so saturnine - E.J. Pratt "In Absentia"
Held my desperate hand from crime - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
And held my heart up like a cup - Lola Ridge "The Edge"
A tiny silver mirror held to the high stars - Lola Ridge "Fame"
Held fast in the pipes of Pan's flute - Rainer Maria Rilke "Music" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Whose writings will ever be held in esteem - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
Held the air hostage - Valencia Robin "Dutch Elm Disease"
Lofty thought scarce held by earthly bound - Amy Redpath Roddick "My Lake"
The sound that held her listening - T.W. Rolleston "The Spell-Struck"
The law of stars held together - Carl Sandburg "Long Guns"
Held sparks within their darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"
Held above the gulfs of chaos - Frederick George Scott "The Everlasting Father"
You have held the throne of the Great Unknown - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Held the joker and both bowers - Robert W. Service "Quatrains"
Aspirations too vast to be held in the hand - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"
Gems I held from every land - Frank Dempster Sherman "Pebbles"
My breath held captive - Terisa Siagatonu "Deserving"
Artfully held in the celestial rain - Bruce Smith "Beautiful Throat"
Held the letter to their breast - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 123: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
From the knots that held the peach - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Mariana"
Held crosswise to the budding day - Iris Tree "[Of all who died in silence far away]"
Mildness held the keys of the colossal silence - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
With mirrors held to the bottom of lakes - Divya Victor "Make/Do"
Has drowned the hopes that Fortune held - Helen Hay Whitney "Aspiration I"
Held small birds in air until they sang - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Cloak held fast by Psyche's brooch - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday X: Case Sensitive"
Foothold.
My handhold on the planet is no longer tiny - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Holdover from last season's wilds - Jake Skeets "If Fire"
Uphold/Upheld.
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