Potential Titles: Stair

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Walk backward up a flight of stairs - Alise Alousi "Skip"

Stairs leading back to a dynasty - Cynthia Arrieu-King "Ming the Clam"

the stairs are white with noble gases - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"

The stairs inside the tripling device - Mary Jo Bang "The Transformation Anxiety Dream"

The broken stair with perilous step shall climb - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Beckons me to an enchanted stair - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"

From top to bottom of the fatal stair - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

The smells of the onions trooped up the stairs together - Stephen Vincent Benet "Boarding-House Hall"

The visionary stairs of Time - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Dance and sing down the steep marble stairs - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

A tremulous star-built stair - W. Wilfred Campbell "Lazarus"

Haunting each crumbling stair - Madison Cawein "Ghosts"

No lie poured down the stairs - Tina Chang "Infinite and Plausible"

Down Death's mildewed stair - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"

Went up an atmospheric stair - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "That Hill"

Took the narrow stair as wondering - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

House whose stairs are pain - George Allan England "Dante"

With nooks and garrets and stairs - Sandy Florian "House"

After dark upon the attic stairs - Rose Fyleman "There Are No Wolves in England Now"

Up the narrow stair of fall - Deborah Garrison "November on Her Way"

Treading a lonely stair - Thomas Hardy "The Dream Is--Which?"

Nor stairs at summer's door - Yona Harvey "Hush Harbor"

Corridors and stairs of stone and iron - William Ernest Henley "In Hospital I. Enter Patient"

I'd climb for you the rainbow stairs - Mrs. E. Annette Hills "A Little Girl's Wedding Gift" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

A Darkness on the stair will not be turned - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Making his stony ribs thy stony stairs - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Arch and altar and amaranth stair - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"

No crystal stair - Langston Hughes "Mother to Son"

The withering moon on cloudy stairs - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Leads the withering moon on cloudy stairs - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Cloudy stairs over the heaven's wide arch - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Winds that walk the stair of heaven - Elinor Jenkins "The Letter"

take elevators and stairs to more deserted spaces - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"

A thousand million scoops, and seven hundred stairs - James Johnson "The Busy Bees"

A breath about the rocky stair - Archibald Lampman "Chione"

Took her down our twisted stair - Emily Lawless "The Third Trumpet: a Ballad of Meath, May 1, 1654"

When vespers soar through the winding stairs - Ida Lee "The Fish-Girl's Song"

Down the winding stair of love - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

Tap-dancing up a crystal stair - Hailey Leithauser "The Old Woman Gets Drunk with the Moon"

Go on two legs down the stairs and out - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Goes out by the scented stairs - Li Yu "[Blossoms bright, the moon dark]" transl. by Burton Watson

Climbing bitterly the stranger's stairs - Vachel Lindsay "Dante"

Shadows thronged the winding stair - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Come down the heavenly stair - George MacDonald "The Christmas Child"

Starry stairs that must be climbed - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

Marble halls and dirty stairs - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

Round about the attic stair - Furnley Maurice "A Whisper Song"

On silver feet to climb the starry stairs - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

The golden steep straight sunbeam-stair - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Build his own stairs to heaven - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

The sighs that follow him up the golden stair - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Upon whose silver stair expectant angels wait - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Each in its separate spiral stair - Caitriona O'Reilly "IV. The Curee (from A Quartet for the Falcon)"

Musk deer and flying squirrels quarrel by the stairs - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

The king's stairs burn my feet - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

The glory gates and the starry stair - Marjorie L.C. Pickthall "Mary Shepherdess"

When spooks and goblins climb the stair - Edwin C. Ranck "Halloween"

Climb the twisted chamber stair - Lizette Woodworth Reese "Lydia Is Gone This Many a Year"

Foiled by a broken stair - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"

Roses thrown on marble stairs - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Gift of God"

And down each stair they thronged - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Down the black stairs of death - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree"

Stairs and steeples in the dreamscape silence - Richard Solomon "Silence"

Out of my sorrow I'll build a stair - Leonora Speyer "Duet (I sing with myself)"

Up stairs of orchard foam - L.A.G. Strong "In the Garden"

Up heaven's broad blue stair - Sara Teasdale "I Know the Stars"

And scale the steep stair with a bound - Nancy Byrd Turner "Apple-Tree Inn" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Twin stairs of gold suspend their steps of blue - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Let it rust under the stairs - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

Across the steeps and stairs - Thomas Walsh "Egidio of Coimbra--1597 A.D."

Of goblins on the stair - F.E. Weatherly "The Old Picture-Book"

Up the clear stair of the eternal sky - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"

An echo climbing Eurydice's stair - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History III: The Gone World"


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Ascend stairwise to expectation's height - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: The Gardens" transl. by Alma Strettell


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