Potential Titles: House
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somethingdarkerThough the house of sorrow be vast - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
Some ants drag around spirits the size of houses - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"
A house of my own making - Carl Adamshick "Black Snow [I came home]"
When fire inhales your house - Kim Addonizio "This Too Shall Pass"
Houses hanging about the stars - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"
My shadow walking away from your house - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"
The houses I found in my picture book - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Happy Pair"
Gold and houses and lands encumber - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Wandering, wandering all the world over]"
Moving in my house of Autumn - Lewis Alexander "Tanka VI" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A new house of executions - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Sweeps out the house of childhood - Julia Alvarez "Passing On"
A house with no doors - Steven Alvarez "from "Return to Tetaroba""
Fanged house, shirt of flame - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Cuckoos mourn around the house - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Gone the ivory house of pleasure - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
To build a house against thunder and thirst - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
Not a single house - Basho "This Old Village"
Light in the dark house - Ellen Bass "Ode to Zeke"
In a house with one wall - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"
Built my house with Pain for wall - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
In this house of lightning & dust - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"
The doors in your house of clay - Arthur Christopher Benson "Δαιμονιζόμενος"
Trying to rescue a birdcage from the burning house - Emily Berry "Freud's Beautiful Things"
Trees and houses keep their careful distance - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
In his root's deep cavern housed - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
Grieve in her sorrowing house - Robert Bly "Meditations on the Insatiable Soul"
Moon-paint on a colorless house - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"
Grows tall as a granite house - Julia Bouwsma "Feeble-Minded"
I live under the wallpaper of the house that no longer belongs to me - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
The house struck by lightning - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
When you trust a house of poachers - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"
Holds cruel sway in Love's high house - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Imprisoned in her house of clay - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LIV. Love Lifts to God" transl. by John Addington Symonds
The next house made of papier-mache - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
House of worship for pretenders - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
In a house of earth's own granite - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"
Our paper house sat on the banks of the red river - Nicole Callihan "Fable"
Master of this ruined house - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"
Morning-lit house of his dreams - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Throwing trees against the house - Anne Carson "Thunderstorm Stack"
A house to keep us from the cold - Alice Cary "From Bad to Worse" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
And so make sunshine in the house - Phoebe Cary "Suppose!" [Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories (ed. by Hamilton Wright Mabie, William Byron Forbush, and Edward Everett Hale). 1927]
Houses without names - Juana Castro "Cruz de Ventura Street"
Sorrow keeps a stone house - Willa Cather "In Rose-Time"
Outlasting hearts and houses - Willa Cather "A Silver Cup"
Bring lost birds inside the house - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"
Our thought & selves housed by history - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Brave monks & unbearable houses - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Lived in a house with no walls - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
Up through an empty house of stars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Thoughts our house had had about us - Dan Chiasson "Bloom (II)"
arrive at the house of lightning - Lucille Clifton "consulting the book of changes: radiation"
Like demons in my spirit's house - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene VI"
Hundreds will tour the bloodshot house - Ama Codjoe "If They Come in the Morning"
This house in the firmness of mercy - Leonard Cohen "It Is to You I Turn"
My house at last in order - Leonard Cohen "The Lucky Night!!!!! Sunday March 7, 2004"
Burned the house I loved - Leonard Cohen "One Night I Burned"
Through all her house of mystery - Helen Gray Cone "Epitaph Written in the Sand on a Butterfly Drowned in the Sea" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, old series v.36--new series v.X, no.29, July 1885]
Where greed has housed the helpless - Helen Gray Cone "Soldiers of the Light"
Benjamin Franklin's Ghost House - Nicole Connolly "Dream Job"
Caring no more to dwell within the house where faith is dead - Joseph S. Cotter Jr "The Deserter" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The house if full of whispering ghosts - Olive Custance "The Storm"
Remembering the past in this dark house - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"
Each brick house delineated a fence of silence - Toi Derricotte "Blackbottom"
Lonely houses off the road - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XV"
Have never passed her haunted house - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XIV: A Well"
Chained dogs on every house corner - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Inhabit that house of phantom dwelling - Chris Dombrowski "Poem Beginning and Ending with Haiku"
In the house of an instant - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
A long corridor clanging to the back of a house - Rita Dove "Alfonzo Prepares to Go Over the Top"
This is the house that music built - Rita Dove "Transit"
This house that feeds on death - Rebecca Dunham "There Lies the Hydra: 1. Heracles and the Hydra"
The house you only visit - Katherine Edgren "Unheard Melody"
In the house there are twelve ghosts - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
House whose stairs are pain - George Allan England "Dante"
Go to the great house of grief - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Founded to house the ancient powers - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle
Hallowed house of great powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 34. E-Sikil, the Temple of Ninazu in Eshnunna" transl. by Sophus Helle
In her house of dreams she grew - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"
The exile in its own autumnal house - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"
rows of houses fenced by concrete malls - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
If this house should come to ruin - Sandy Florian "House"
Furnishing my house with memory - Sandy Florian "House"
A daughter who brings the house down - Sandy Florian "House"
A house made of hours - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"
Where a haunted house once stood - Adam Ford "A House Is Not a Home!"
the house disguised as a technicolor sunset - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
That would have joined the house in flame - Robert Frost "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things"
Midnight in a sleeping house - Nikita Gill "Papa"
The house where we buried the years - Dana Gioia "Cold San Francisco"
Traveled the twelve Houses of the Heavens - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
Of a house surrounded by thorns and briars - Theodora Goss "Thorns and Briars"
Home to a house of glass - Hannah Flagg Gould "The Boy and the Cricket"
Houses Pegasus and Equules in its dusty windows - John Grey "Skywatching"
A hidden house of light - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
This house has nothing to hide - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
No token from her latticed house - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
In the houses of our past - Nathalie Handal "Dor"
Knocked at the door of its house of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"
A wheel in the houses of money - Joy Harjo "By the Way"
Through the shimmering houses of the gods - Joy Harjo "Nine Below"
When fire and brimstone rained on that nice little house - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"
The treasure house of thought - Frances E.W. Harper "My Mother's Kiss"
The sun begins to build its house of gold - Margaret Hasse "Art"
The chronic angers of that house - Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays"
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]
A house of damaged translations - Terrance Hayes "Fish Head for Katrina"
Befriend him at the house of death - George Herbert "Mortification"
Where the glass houses of our minds can touch - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
Brand our house with angles - Conrad Hilberry "The Double Flail or Double Hook"
In Pushkin's clock-haunted house - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"
The house is fallen that none can build again - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XVIII"
Let me mind the house of dust - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XII"
The ravens feasted far about the open house of war - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXVIII"
A house bigger than the moon and higher - "I Saw a Peacock"
The house strewn with flowers - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
The house of corrupt odors - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Within the Kitchen of the House of Dreams - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
The houses where we keep our secrets - Helen Hunt Jackson "Dreams"
Abandoned barns, houses and family graveyards - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
The hulks of burned out houses stand unrazed - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"
they haunt their houses while sleeping - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"
Our house burns blue with news - Daniel Johnson "In the Absence of Sparrows"
The silent house of sleep - Lionel Johnson "Bronte"
Salting her death in the wind house - Taylor Johnson "States of Decline"
In a house made of guns - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"
Each barefoot trip through your bloodbath house - Bettina Judd "on empathy"
Feel the pulse of the house - Ilya Kaminsky "That Map of Bone and Opened Valves"
Invisible house by invisible house - Ilya Kaminsky "We Lived Happily during the War"
Gave them my house as home - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"
Within the Potter's house alone - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Flood the house with darkness - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"
Stronger than their houses & altars - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
Before I entered their blue house for the third time - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
The houses of withering wax - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
An azure house of dreams - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
The house of day is closing its eastern shutters - D.H. Lawrence "At the Window"
The shadowy house below is out of bounds - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"
Hollow rang the house when I knocked - D.H. Lawrence "Perfidy"
In the rayless house of darkness - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
This house is a lesson in fury - Aimee Le "Theft"
Before the sky became hell's house - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Poetry housed in a harmonica - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"
Night's storied house - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"
Spin inside your paper house - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"
The old house grey among the trees - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
Abandon the ghost in the house - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"
Outside a house that never belonged to us - Maya Marshall "Long Live the Queen"
That seeks us in the barren house of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 9" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
In many a glittering house of glass - John Masefield "Fragments"
Built a house to withstand a cyclonic catastrophe - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Makes the house of heaven splendid - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
The doll's house looking on the Park - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
My haunted house beneath the trees - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
The white houses transfigured one by one - Alice Meynell "Summer in England, 1914"
Through a giant's empty house - Edna St Vincent Millay "Low-Tide"
A banquet in his frugal house - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet III from Second April
House without air - Edna St Vincent Millay "Wild Swans"
Come back to the house of limits - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"
A house is sky folded back - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"
In houses of oblique mourning - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"
In a house of quiet criminals - Claire Millikin "Night Insects"
From the rabbits' more secret house - Claire Millikin "Rabbit Theory"
Transmute the house from tarnish - Claire Millikin "Rust"
Your house of clay and breath - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"
All the aunts in my father's house - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Each letter a closed house - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
A house that was never built - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"
For the house craves each brick - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"
The copper in her customs houses - Pablo Neruda "I Say Goodbye to Other Subjects" transl. by Teresa Anderson
With fear in a solitary house - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Absence is such a vast house - Pablo Neruda "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XCIV" transl. by Rafael Campo
In the customs house of the heights - Pablo Neruda "Standard Oil Co." transl. by Jack Schmitt
How to make a house of our ruin - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Cape San Blas"
A hurricane, too, can make a house - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Cape San Blas"
Back to the house of muttering hens - Naomi Shihab Nye "Boy and Egg"
You might become any burned house - Christina Olivares "Portrait"
In the house of hearing - Mary Oliver "Bone"
Sailing out of his house of straw - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"
In the orderly house of reasons and proof - Mary Oliver "The World I Live In"
A cobbler in the house of the Gods - Matthew Olzmann "Olympus"
The foundations of collapsed houses - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"
Stands at night beside a ruined house - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"
Building the first house of song - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
House made of air - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Lives in a house of black glass - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Five"
a house of exploded debris - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Transformations of this house of clay - John Oxenham "Seeds"
A shark is swimming in my house - Abdurehim Parach "On the Boat" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The faces of dolls melting in a house fire - Kunjana Parashar "In the Zoo" [Strange Horizons 17 February 2025]
And wear their house as a crown - Kailee Pedersen "Aviary"
Rebuilding our house in a better glory - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"
Opened the door to the fairy house - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"
Separated from my house by a row of headstones - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Bitter bamboo growing all around my house - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
Gray fog folds the houses round - Miriam Clark Potter "Princess Fire"
A house on the street of broken dreams - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Street of Broken Dreams"
Guarding a house on the street of broken dreams - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Street of Broken Dreams"
Rare isotopes housed in translucent green - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Listen to the song of your empty house - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"
Just a house fire ignored - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"
Look to the soil and all that it houses - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"
Dreams only change their houses - Lola Ridge "Dreams"
Make a house called tomorrow - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"
In the house of water and clay - Rumi "I Well Cherish the Soul" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
Drink a cup of wine in this ruined house - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
Leave this house of vagabonds - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
Build a house no wind blows over - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"
Even if we forget our names and houses in the finish - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"
How one builds a house from the inside - Janice Lobo Sapigao "HomeGoods"
Took up her dwelling in that house of clay - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
In thy dark house of clay - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
Gracious brother to the house - Teresa J. Scollon "The Garden"
The sounds empty makes inside a vacant house - Nicole Sealey "unfurnished"
So fair a house fall to decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIII"
No house but the waves - Don Share "The Last Thoughts of Jeff Buckley in Memphis"
Dreamed in the House of Lies - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"
Has this House hoarded up its silences - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
A huddle of houses under the clouds - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"
And frame the absence of a house - Maggie Smith "Perennials"
A shuttered house unnoticed - Elizabeth Spires "On Upnor Road"
In that faraway dark
In this house too many have dreamed - Frank Stanford "In this House"
Shall haunt you in the house of Peace - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Guardian and serf of that grey house - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
The house of death without a door - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Where ashen gardens house the pilgrim sands - George Sterling "The Gleaner"
Death can empty a house of shoes worn and new - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"
Will house in my haunted heart - Arthur Stringer "Spring Floods"
Their houses carved into his lungs - Milo K. Szyszka "A Tale of Moths and Home (of Bones and Breathing) (of Extrinsic Restrictive Lung Disease)"
The house I made by braiding branches together - Keith Taylor "In the Other Life"
Built my spirit's house - Sara Teasdale "At Midnight"
Raced through the house of high hay - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Built myself a house of glass - Edward Thomas "I Built Myself a House of Glass"
The house was not to blame - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"
For my house all made of sky - Francis Thompson "Ex Ore Infantium"
Prepare this house to receive light - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"
The wise man builds his house nowhere - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
In its dial eternity is housed - Iris Tree "[The curtains are drawn as though it still were night]"
The watchman to deserted houses - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"
That cold house and dinner alone - Natasha Trethewey "Amateur Fighter"
To the cluttered house of memory - Natasha Trethewey "Limen"
Safe in a house solid as a mountain - Tu Fu "The Wind-Torn Roof" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
In this story, fear is a house gone dry - Leah Umansky "Khaleesi Says" [Poetry Jan. 2014]
halfway house for broken history - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Abstrack Africana"
Not know what house we shall come back to - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"
People building a burning house - Ocean Vuong "Homewrecker"
This temple is a house not made with hands - Edith Wharton "Segesta"
The House of Ghosts was bright within - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"
A house, high its tower in the clouds - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Emptied houses turned shuttered eyes to the sea - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Low"
Crushes my house and leaves me - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"
Sang in the house the litany of Zeus - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: I. Pheidias"
To see a rat building a house - "The World Turned Upside Down / Or, No News, and Strange News"
Starve a fever, shatter a glass house - Dean Young "Folklore"
Through the walls of an empty house - Jordan Zandi "Solarium"
Folds an origami house on fire - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
An origami house on fire - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Through alehouse curtains glowed - Edmund Blunden "Sheet Lightning"
Melodious in the ale-house - "The Hosts of Faery" transl. by Kuno Meyer
A bughouse peddler of second-hand gospel - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"
From slanderous charnel-houses burst - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Welcome unto this dungeon-house - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
The notes of my glasshouse erudition - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
i'll build a glass house of these wonders - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
Thorns are growing at the house-door - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles
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Little earthy house-inhabiting Osiris - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
Nor was the houseless wanderer e'er driven from his hall - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
Broke bread with the house-less - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
Vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
And frugal housewives, strictly pennywise - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"
My loyal friend, the house wren - Ira Sadoff "Once I Could Say"
Tower of the secret icehouses - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly
Host of breath rehoused - Philip Metres "We Are All God's Poems"
No rest-house for the heart - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
In a teahouse of the mind - Elizabeth Spires "Tea"
And unhouses the land - Nabila Lovelace "By Inch-Meal a Disease"
Alone in the winter-house - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"
To the workhouse let them gather - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
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Some ants drag around spirits the size of houses - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"
A house of my own making - Carl Adamshick "Black Snow [I came home]"
When fire inhales your house - Kim Addonizio "This Too Shall Pass"
Houses hanging about the stars - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"
My shadow walking away from your house - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"
The houses I found in my picture book - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Happy Pair"
Gold and houses and lands encumber - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Wandering, wandering all the world over]"
Moving in my house of Autumn - Lewis Alexander "Tanka VI" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A new house of executions - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Sweeps out the house of childhood - Julia Alvarez "Passing On"
A house with no doors - Steven Alvarez "from "Return to Tetaroba""
Fanged house, shirt of flame - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Cuckoos mourn around the house - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Gone the ivory house of pleasure - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
To build a house against thunder and thirst - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
Not a single house - Basho "This Old Village"
Light in the dark house - Ellen Bass "Ode to Zeke"
In a house with one wall - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"
Built my house with Pain for wall - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
In this house of lightning & dust - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"
The doors in your house of clay - Arthur Christopher Benson "Δαιμονιζόμενος"
Trying to rescue a birdcage from the burning house - Emily Berry "Freud's Beautiful Things"
Trees and houses keep their careful distance - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
In his root's deep cavern housed - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
Grieve in her sorrowing house - Robert Bly "Meditations on the Insatiable Soul"
Moon-paint on a colorless house - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"
Grows tall as a granite house - Julia Bouwsma "Feeble-Minded"
I live under the wallpaper of the house that no longer belongs to me - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
The house struck by lightning - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
When you trust a house of poachers - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"
Holds cruel sway in Love's high house - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Imprisoned in her house of clay - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LIV. Love Lifts to God" transl. by John Addington Symonds
The next house made of papier-mache - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
House of worship for pretenders - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
In a house of earth's own granite - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"
Our paper house sat on the banks of the red river - Nicole Callihan "Fable"
Master of this ruined house - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"
Morning-lit house of his dreams - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Throwing trees against the house - Anne Carson "Thunderstorm Stack"
A house to keep us from the cold - Alice Cary "From Bad to Worse" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
And so make sunshine in the house - Phoebe Cary "Suppose!" [Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories (ed. by Hamilton Wright Mabie, William Byron Forbush, and Edward Everett Hale). 1927]
Houses without names - Juana Castro "Cruz de Ventura Street"
Sorrow keeps a stone house - Willa Cather "In Rose-Time"
Outlasting hearts and houses - Willa Cather "A Silver Cup"
Bring lost birds inside the house - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"
Our thought & selves housed by history - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Brave monks & unbearable houses - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Lived in a house with no walls - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
Up through an empty house of stars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Thoughts our house had had about us - Dan Chiasson "Bloom (II)"
arrive at the house of lightning - Lucille Clifton "consulting the book of changes: radiation"
Like demons in my spirit's house - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene VI"
Hundreds will tour the bloodshot house - Ama Codjoe "If They Come in the Morning"
This house in the firmness of mercy - Leonard Cohen "It Is to You I Turn"
My house at last in order - Leonard Cohen "The Lucky Night!!!!! Sunday March 7, 2004"
Burned the house I loved - Leonard Cohen "One Night I Burned"
Through all her house of mystery - Helen Gray Cone "Epitaph Written in the Sand on a Butterfly Drowned in the Sea" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, old series v.36--new series v.X, no.29, July 1885]
Where greed has housed the helpless - Helen Gray Cone "Soldiers of the Light"
Benjamin Franklin's Ghost House - Nicole Connolly "Dream Job"
Caring no more to dwell within the house where faith is dead - Joseph S. Cotter Jr "The Deserter" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The house if full of whispering ghosts - Olive Custance "The Storm"
Remembering the past in this dark house - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"
Each brick house delineated a fence of silence - Toi Derricotte "Blackbottom"
Lonely houses off the road - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XV"
Have never passed her haunted house - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XIV: A Well"
Chained dogs on every house corner - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Inhabit that house of phantom dwelling - Chris Dombrowski "Poem Beginning and Ending with Haiku"
In the house of an instant - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
A long corridor clanging to the back of a house - Rita Dove "Alfonzo Prepares to Go Over the Top"
This is the house that music built - Rita Dove "Transit"
This house that feeds on death - Rebecca Dunham "There Lies the Hydra: 1. Heracles and the Hydra"
The house you only visit - Katherine Edgren "Unheard Melody"
In the house there are twelve ghosts - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
House whose stairs are pain - George Allan England "Dante"
Go to the great house of grief - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Founded to house the ancient powers - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle
Hallowed house of great powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 34. E-Sikil, the Temple of Ninazu in Eshnunna" transl. by Sophus Helle
In her house of dreams she grew - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"
The exile in its own autumnal house - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"
rows of houses fenced by concrete malls - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
If this house should come to ruin - Sandy Florian "House"
Furnishing my house with memory - Sandy Florian "House"
A daughter who brings the house down - Sandy Florian "House"
A house made of hours - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"
Where a haunted house once stood - Adam Ford "A House Is Not a Home!"
the house disguised as a technicolor sunset - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
That would have joined the house in flame - Robert Frost "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things"
Midnight in a sleeping house - Nikita Gill "Papa"
The house where we buried the years - Dana Gioia "Cold San Francisco"
Traveled the twelve Houses of the Heavens - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
Of a house surrounded by thorns and briars - Theodora Goss "Thorns and Briars"
Home to a house of glass - Hannah Flagg Gould "The Boy and the Cricket"
Houses Pegasus and Equules in its dusty windows - John Grey "Skywatching"
A hidden house of light - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
This house has nothing to hide - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
No token from her latticed house - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
In the houses of our past - Nathalie Handal "Dor"
Knocked at the door of its house of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"
A wheel in the houses of money - Joy Harjo "By the Way"
Through the shimmering houses of the gods - Joy Harjo "Nine Below"
When fire and brimstone rained on that nice little house - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"
The treasure house of thought - Frances E.W. Harper "My Mother's Kiss"
The sun begins to build its house of gold - Margaret Hasse "Art"
The chronic angers of that house - Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays"
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]
A house of damaged translations - Terrance Hayes "Fish Head for Katrina"
Befriend him at the house of death - George Herbert "Mortification"
Where the glass houses of our minds can touch - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
Brand our house with angles - Conrad Hilberry "The Double Flail or Double Hook"
In Pushkin's clock-haunted house - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"
The house is fallen that none can build again - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XVIII"
Let me mind the house of dust - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XII"
The ravens feasted far about the open house of war - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXVIII"
A house bigger than the moon and higher - "I Saw a Peacock"
The house strewn with flowers - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
The house of corrupt odors - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Within the Kitchen of the House of Dreams - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
The houses where we keep our secrets - Helen Hunt Jackson "Dreams"
Abandoned barns, houses and family graveyards - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
The hulks of burned out houses stand unrazed - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"
they haunt their houses while sleeping - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"
Our house burns blue with news - Daniel Johnson "In the Absence of Sparrows"
The silent house of sleep - Lionel Johnson "Bronte"
Salting her death in the wind house - Taylor Johnson "States of Decline"
In a house made of guns - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"
Each barefoot trip through your bloodbath house - Bettina Judd "on empathy"
Feel the pulse of the house - Ilya Kaminsky "That Map of Bone and Opened Valves"
Invisible house by invisible house - Ilya Kaminsky "We Lived Happily during the War"
Gave them my house as home - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"
Within the Potter's house alone - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Flood the house with darkness - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"
Stronger than their houses & altars - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
Before I entered their blue house for the third time - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
The houses of withering wax - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
An azure house of dreams - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
The house of day is closing its eastern shutters - D.H. Lawrence "At the Window"
The shadowy house below is out of bounds - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"
Hollow rang the house when I knocked - D.H. Lawrence "Perfidy"
In the rayless house of darkness - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
This house is a lesson in fury - Aimee Le "Theft"
Before the sky became hell's house - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Poetry housed in a harmonica - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"
Night's storied house - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"
Spin inside your paper house - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"
The old house grey among the trees - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
Abandon the ghost in the house - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"
Outside a house that never belonged to us - Maya Marshall "Long Live the Queen"
That seeks us in the barren house of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 9" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
In many a glittering house of glass - John Masefield "Fragments"
Built a house to withstand a cyclonic catastrophe - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Makes the house of heaven splendid - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
The doll's house looking on the Park - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
My haunted house beneath the trees - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
The white houses transfigured one by one - Alice Meynell "Summer in England, 1914"
Through a giant's empty house - Edna St Vincent Millay "Low-Tide"
A banquet in his frugal house - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet III from Second April
House without air - Edna St Vincent Millay "Wild Swans"
Come back to the house of limits - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"
A house is sky folded back - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"
In houses of oblique mourning - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"
In a house of quiet criminals - Claire Millikin "Night Insects"
From the rabbits' more secret house - Claire Millikin "Rabbit Theory"
Transmute the house from tarnish - Claire Millikin "Rust"
Your house of clay and breath - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"
All the aunts in my father's house - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Each letter a closed house - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
A house that was never built - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"
For the house craves each brick - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"
The copper in her customs houses - Pablo Neruda "I Say Goodbye to Other Subjects" transl. by Teresa Anderson
With fear in a solitary house - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Absence is such a vast house - Pablo Neruda "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XCIV" transl. by Rafael Campo
In the customs house of the heights - Pablo Neruda "Standard Oil Co." transl. by Jack Schmitt
How to make a house of our ruin - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Cape San Blas"
A hurricane, too, can make a house - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Cape San Blas"
Back to the house of muttering hens - Naomi Shihab Nye "Boy and Egg"
You might become any burned house - Christina Olivares "Portrait"
In the house of hearing - Mary Oliver "Bone"
Sailing out of his house of straw - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"
In the orderly house of reasons and proof - Mary Oliver "The World I Live In"
A cobbler in the house of the Gods - Matthew Olzmann "Olympus"
The foundations of collapsed houses - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"
Stands at night beside a ruined house - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"
Building the first house of song - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
House made of air - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Lives in a house of black glass - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Five"
a house of exploded debris - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Transformations of this house of clay - John Oxenham "Seeds"
A shark is swimming in my house - Abdurehim Parach "On the Boat" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The faces of dolls melting in a house fire - Kunjana Parashar "In the Zoo" [Strange Horizons 17 February 2025]
And wear their house as a crown - Kailee Pedersen "Aviary"
Rebuilding our house in a better glory - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"
Opened the door to the fairy house - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"
Separated from my house by a row of headstones - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Bitter bamboo growing all around my house - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
Gray fog folds the houses round - Miriam Clark Potter "Princess Fire"
A house on the street of broken dreams - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Street of Broken Dreams"
Guarding a house on the street of broken dreams - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Street of Broken Dreams"
Rare isotopes housed in translucent green - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Listen to the song of your empty house - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"
Just a house fire ignored - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"
Look to the soil and all that it houses - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"
Dreams only change their houses - Lola Ridge "Dreams"
Make a house called tomorrow - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"
In the house of water and clay - Rumi "I Well Cherish the Soul" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
Drink a cup of wine in this ruined house - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
Leave this house of vagabonds - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
Build a house no wind blows over - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"
Even if we forget our names and houses in the finish - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"
How one builds a house from the inside - Janice Lobo Sapigao "HomeGoods"
Took up her dwelling in that house of clay - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
In thy dark house of clay - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
Gracious brother to the house - Teresa J. Scollon "The Garden"
The sounds empty makes inside a vacant house - Nicole Sealey "unfurnished"
So fair a house fall to decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIII"
No house but the waves - Don Share "The Last Thoughts of Jeff Buckley in Memphis"
Dreamed in the House of Lies - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"
Has this House hoarded up its silences - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
A huddle of houses under the clouds - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"
And frame the absence of a house - Maggie Smith "Perennials"
A shuttered house unnoticed - Elizabeth Spires "On Upnor Road"
In that faraway dark
In this house too many have dreamed - Frank Stanford "In this House"
Shall haunt you in the house of Peace - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
Guardian and serf of that grey house - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
The house of death without a door - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Where ashen gardens house the pilgrim sands - George Sterling "The Gleaner"
Death can empty a house of shoes worn and new - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"
Will house in my haunted heart - Arthur Stringer "Spring Floods"
Their houses carved into his lungs - Milo K. Szyszka "A Tale of Moths and Home (of Bones and Breathing) (of Extrinsic Restrictive Lung Disease)"
The house I made by braiding branches together - Keith Taylor "In the Other Life"
Built my spirit's house - Sara Teasdale "At Midnight"
Raced through the house of high hay - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Built myself a house of glass - Edward Thomas "I Built Myself a House of Glass"
The house was not to blame - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"
For my house all made of sky - Francis Thompson "Ex Ore Infantium"
Prepare this house to receive light - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"
The wise man builds his house nowhere - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
In its dial eternity is housed - Iris Tree "[The curtains are drawn as though it still were night]"
The watchman to deserted houses - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"
That cold house and dinner alone - Natasha Trethewey "Amateur Fighter"
To the cluttered house of memory - Natasha Trethewey "Limen"
Safe in a house solid as a mountain - Tu Fu "The Wind-Torn Roof" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
In this story, fear is a house gone dry - Leah Umansky "Khaleesi Says" [Poetry Jan. 2014]
halfway house for broken history - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Abstrack Africana"
Not know what house we shall come back to - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"
People building a burning house - Ocean Vuong "Homewrecker"
This temple is a house not made with hands - Edith Wharton "Segesta"
The House of Ghosts was bright within - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"
A house, high its tower in the clouds - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Emptied houses turned shuttered eyes to the sea - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Low"
Crushes my house and leaves me - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"
Sang in the house the litany of Zeus - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: I. Pheidias"
To see a rat building a house - "The World Turned Upside Down / Or, No News, and Strange News"
Starve a fever, shatter a glass house - Dean Young "Folklore"
Through the walls of an empty house - Jordan Zandi "Solarium"
Folds an origami house on fire - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
An origami house on fire - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Through alehouse curtains glowed - Edmund Blunden "Sheet Lightning"
Melodious in the ale-house - "The Hosts of Faery" transl. by Kuno Meyer
A bughouse peddler of second-hand gospel - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"
From slanderous charnel-houses burst - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Welcome unto this dungeon-house - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
The notes of my glasshouse erudition - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
i'll build a glass house of these wonders - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
Thorns are growing at the house-door - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Household.
Little earthy house-inhabiting Osiris - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
Nor was the houseless wanderer e'er driven from his hall - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
Broke bread with the house-less - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
Vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
And frugal housewives, strictly pennywise - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"
My loyal friend, the house wren - Ira Sadoff "Once I Could Say"
Tower of the secret icehouses - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly
Host of breath rehoused - Philip Metres "We Are All God's Poems"
No rest-house for the heart - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
In a teahouse of the mind - Elizabeth Spires "Tea"
And unhouses the land - Nabila Lovelace "By Inch-Meal a Disease"
Alone in the winter-house - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"
To the workhouse let them gather - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
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