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The breath of parting life the gale - C. "Lines: Tinnit, Inane Est!" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Will not answer as plummets to fathom the depth - E.B.C. "Streck-Verse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Thorns form footholds by which to reach the rose - E.B.C. "Streck-Verse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
At the trumpet's startling sound - G.R.C. "The Wreck (For the Mirror)"
Deep idolatry on the dark and stormy tides - G.R.C. "The Wreck (For the Mirror)"
All who tossed on life's wild sea - H.C. "Lines to Death" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Crumbled at thy dread command - H.C. "Lines to Death" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Are but agents of thy sovereign will - H.C. "Lines to Death" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Against such old-world heresy and schism - H.B.C. "The Kaiser to his Secretary" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Till all worlds shall tremble at my nod - H.B.C. "The Kaiser to his Secretary" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Out in the greenwood to romp and play - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
We crowned her with rosebuds and evergreen - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
When the sun was low and shadows were gray - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Love will draw all wandering stars - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Crimson current warm and true - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
So thin it forgets - Dana Jaye Cadman "Ghosts"
Hatched into madness - Heather Cahoon "Łčíčše"
To his teeth I swore - Hall Caine "Graih my Chree (Love of my Heart)"
Playmate of the verdant spring - Caledfryn aka William Williams "The Cuckoo" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
The birds' unnumbered choir - Caledfryn aka William Williams "The Cuckoo" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
The sweetest curse of my name - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
Buildings that bleed no natural light - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
Some unknown lists of murders - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
To brighten every pathway dark with care - Kate Cameron "We Should Hear the Angels Singing" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Would cease to wander in forbidden paths - Kate Cameron "We Should Hear the Angels Singing" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Thinking not what it might cost - Kate Cameron "We Should Hear the Angels Singing" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Beauty fair as that in Eden lost - Kate Cameron "We Should Hear the Angels Singing" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Hours and angers - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"
Pictures of vanishing - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"
Agrees to ask for nothing - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"
Under time lives silence - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"
Gossiping cicadas will witness - Crys S. Campbell "(How to be a) Fast Girl"
Turn your hands into time machines - Crys S. Campbell "(How to be a) Fast Girl"
When sad Autumn sheds abroad the stillness of decay - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
When icy chains the streams have bound - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Nor trust deceitful skies - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
O'erlaid with vermilion, and blazoned with gold - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Around them the lily and pomegranate wreath - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Magnificent gifts to a world-renowned king - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Numberless flocks in the field and the fold - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Will tread on the golden grass - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"
Mute on the white edge of dawn - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"
How merciless is the dawn - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"
And creation will become memory - Liam Campbell "Frankenstein's Tongue" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
And the child will become nameless - Liam Campbell "Frankenstein's Tongue" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
Thrashing the waves with fins of gold - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
A golden rocket trailing fire - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
Paint their dreams of dead desire - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
Threading depths of pearl and rose - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
All that matters is the heat of the sun - Kayleb Rae Candrilli "Daytona 500"
How blood faithfully takes - Kayleb Rae Candrilli "One Geography of Belonging"
Blossoms of sweet and sour light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Until I was overflowing with light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Irradiated with citrine moonglow - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Dropped a rose of gold - William Canton "Song"
Your whole body is composed of nesting places - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"
Keep me under the shadow of your wings - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"
The phoenix builds her spicy nest - Thomas Carew "Song"
That run now hunting glowworms - Thomas Carew "To My Worthy Friend Master George Sandys, on His Translation of the Psalms"
Tear those idols from my heart - Thomas Carew "To My Worthy Friend Master George Sandys, on His Translation of the Psalms"
The weeping shadow left behind - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
Both wild curses - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
Nostalgia (always dangerous) - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
The small worthwhile pieces - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
To hush yesterday's demons - Ina Cariño "Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before"
A whiff of flint in the dark - Ina Cariño "Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before"
Castles of nutmeg - Yvonne Caroutch
Patiently conquered - Yvonne Caroutch
Scales of dreams - Yvonne Caroutch
Nowhere except its own elsewhere - Julie Carr "A Fourteen-Line Poem on Heteronymic"
Stationed before the same absence - Julie Carr "A Fourteen-Line Poem on Heteronymic"
In the noon of his splendor - P.J. Carroll, C.S.C. "Lady Day in Ireland"
All the green woods forsaking - P.J. Carroll, C.S.C. "Lady Day in Ireland"
Sorrows in her heart of gold - P.J. Carroll, C.S.C. "St. Patrick's Treasure"
Anvil clouds in the west - Willa Carroll "Cloud Demolition"
Trimmed with cinnamon straws - Charles E. Carryl "The Walloping Window-Blind"
What ostriches couldn't digest - Guy Wetmore Carryl "The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting"
The bark by the gale is driven - G.R. Carter "The Homeward Voyage" [The Mirror of Literature v.20 issue 562, 18 Aug. 1832]
Stars in their dark blue bow'rs - G.R. Carter "The Homeward Voyage" [The Mirror of Literature v.20 issue 562, 18 Aug. 1832]
Raindrops on a field of corn - Mrs. Minot Carter "Raindrops"
In the fields the rabbits play - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"
The final signs of departing day - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"
The stars pearl out in the azure sky - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"
And silent fall the dews - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"
Drawn out of my eyes - Miguel Casado "The Arrival of March, IV"
The edges of the sun - Miguel Casado "Regarding a Theory of Color"
Dying strength of time - Miguel Casado "Regarding a Theory of Color"
All the seasons of the ocean - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Every bay a changing alchemy of colors - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Fills my lungs with longing - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Float at peace in her salty arms - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Of partings and of tears - D.A. Casey "The Spouse of Christ"
And silence brooded low - D.A. Casey "The Spouse of Christ"
Haunting fears of mystery pursue - D.A. Casey "The Spouse of Christ"
Over the dim blue hills - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
Sweeter thy honey lips - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
Brighter than jewels or pearl - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
Foolish impatient apricot trees - Nina Cassian "Vegetable Destiny" transl. by Michael Impey and Brian Swann
Confused each time I wake - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Wear a different face to each atrocity - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Civilization's slow grenade - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Swallowed by your doors - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Houses without names - Juana Castro "Cruz de Ventura Street"
Four autumn suns gone by - Mrs. E.W. Caswell "My Bird Has Flown" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The rich, wild sweetness of her song - Mrs. E.W. Caswell "My Bird Has Flown" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Enough gratitude for the day - Susan Cataldo "Poem for the Family"
Enough music for the night - Susan Cataldo "Poem for the Family"
Through mandrake groves and tangled vines - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
Briar's rose and midnight owls - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
A midnight witch, Titania bold - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
Her lantern glows amidst sweet eglantine - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
Today the planet travels on another orbit - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
Always a sparrow flitting in the flowerbeds - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
A thought grown stubborn in the mind - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
Perhaps ten thousand, perhaps ten times more - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
None but he could ever count them - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Rivals Homer's god-enraptured dreams - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
The madness of each one to pride - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
The heavy garment of the stream - Charles Causley "The Swan"
Through the secret light - Charles Causley "The Swan"
Death is the cook of nature - Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle "Nature's Cook"
Flat with bones which don't die - Stephanie Cawley "Not"
When anger reaches its iron tongue - Stephanie Cawley "Not"
Where echo is heard before the song - David Cecil "The Shadow Land"
Outside with the other worlds - Paul Celan "So Many Constellations" (translated by Pierre Joris)
Into the burden of our names - Paul Celan "So Many Constellations" (translated by Pierre Joris)
We found truly together - Paul Celan "So Many Constellations" (translated by Pierre Joris)
In the bell frame of your silence - Paul Celan [Untitled] (translated by Michael Hamburger)
With superstitions silvered in - Sumita Chakraborty "The B-Sides of the Golden Records, Track Five: 'Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder'"
Just a little need for air - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
The winter wood and its great absorbent heart - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
Dead leaves tiger bright - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
Besieged by her lover's worries - Jody Chan "Triage"
Laboring in soap and hot water - Jody Chan "Triage"
Tulips from the corner store - Jody Chan "Triage"
How not to utter the ungrateful thing - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"
The most common of strangers - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"
Unbidden like at generous rain - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"
No one ever need fall - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"
Her great mansion on the shore of the Yellow River - Chan Tiu-lin "The Willow Leaf" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
I do not love the east wind - Chan Tiu-lin "The Willow Leaf" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A severed braid burned with sage - Meagan Chandler "Cornhusk Doll with Face"
The sun that scorched the cursed harvest - Meagan Chandler "Cornhusk Doll with Face"
A breed of witch who strolls barren fields - Meagan Chandler "Cornhusk Doll with Face"
A shadow on the window-screen - Chang Chieh "Remember to Wear Them" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Who comes gathering my flowers? - Chang Chieh "Remember to Wear Them" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
As the sunset fades and dusk settles - Chang Hsien "The Startled Plums Fall Down" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Music floats through frosty woods - Chang Hsien "The Startled Plums Fall Down" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Startled plums fall pattering down - Chang Hsien "The Startled Plums Fall Down" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Came to me in a feverish vodka dream - Michael Chang "Plump Rat"
Dark unforgiven imagination - Stephanie Chang "Spider Lily Cyborg"
Eyes that orphan mine - Stephanie Chang "Spider Lily Cyborg"
Over everything the tangled thorns - Chang Tsai "The Desecration of the Han Tombs" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Songs and laughter echo from the golden screens - Chang Wu-chien "The Poet and the Dancers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
When all the others are overcome with drinking - Chang Wu-chien "The Poet and the Dancers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
I write sad poems with swaying characters - Chang Wu-chien "The Poet and the Dancers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Pure and cold and never seeing light - Michael Chant "In the Shade of the Tree of Knowledge"
The zigzag work of bees - Robin Chapman "The Door-to-Door Saleswoman"
With this dim diadem invested - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"
Levelled with the life of Job - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"
That owe my bounty for their bread - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"
The dust destroy the diamond - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"
A swan and the moon - Leila Chatti "I Went Out to Hear"
Proposals vaporized and exorbitant - Leila Chatti "The Rules"
Or the crescendoing moment - Leila Chatti "The Rules"
What it means to be consumed - MK Chavez "Little Red Riding Hood/Companion"
Even a leaf can have teeth - MK Chavez "Little Red Riding Hood/Companion"
Like the idea of a daughter - Cathy Linh Che "Becoming Ghost"
And seeing no reflection - Cathy Linh Che "Becoming Ghost"
Visit with time - Andree Chedid "What are we playing at?"
Hear the green sage sing - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
The gray stones beneath you feel young again - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
The breeze watches it all with her Mona Lisa smile - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
Wildest grief grew inside out - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
Blooming in every crevice of my palms - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
Grief is not the only geography - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
Repair comes with sweetness - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
Water so cold it hurt his bones - Ch'en Lin "Song: I Watered My Horse at the Long Wall Caves" transl. by Burton Watson
Five thousand in sable and brocade - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Gone to barbarian dust - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Bones by the shores of the Uncertain River - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
I cannot see the ancients of days - Chen Tzu-ang "Before and After" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
I cannot see ages yet to come - Chen Tzu-ang "Before and After" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Only heaven and earth have remained - Chen Tzu-ang "Before and After" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
I drop tears into the dust - Chen Tzu-ang "Before and After" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Hush not one fervent strain - John Vance Cheney "Love and Youth"
As liquid lopes across the surface - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"
A blow that bends the wind - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"
Dew on the crooked stem of a crooked log - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"
Fallen into place beside the oldest stones - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"
A grave where the hill-winds call - Nora Chesson "A Connaught Lament"
Whenever there is silence - Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne "The Cry"
Petrified words to reveal the infinite - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Precise in the panic-blue air - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Weaving death's black wing - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
The dull blade of history's axe - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Wild paths through mulberry and hemp - The Buddhist Priest Chiao-jan "Looking for Lu Hung-chien but Failing To Find Him" transl. by Burton Watson
Chrysanthemums newly set out - The Buddhist Priest Chiao-jan "Looking for Lu Hung-chien but Failing To Find Him" transl. by Burton Watson
Always indestructible and lovingly arranged - Emperor Chien Lung "The Garden that Does Not Fade" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Choke the gaping mouth of want - R.S. Chilton "Lines on Seeing My Sister Fill a Little Beggar-Boy's Basket with Cold Victuals"
How will they banquet on those bones - R.S. Chilton "Lines on Seeing My Sister Fill a Little Beggar-Boy's Basket with Cold Victuals"
Unstrung by her heart's first sorrow - R.S. Chilton "The Little Peasant"
Holding a vacant nest in her hands - R.S. Chilton "The Little Peasant"
One parting, ten thousand regrets - Ch'in Chia [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
The scholar's harp has a clear note - Ch'in Chia [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
Pay it back with diamonds and rubies - Ch'in Chia [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
End me like a period - Wendy Chin-Tanner "Infertility"
Whistled like dragons and sobbed with pain - Ch'iu Chin "To the Tune 'The River Is Red'" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
The promised hidden wonders - Ch'iu Wei "Visiting a Recluse on West Mountain and Not Finding Him In" transl. by Burton Watson
Grasped the meaning of purity - Ch'iu Wei "Visiting a Recluse on West Mountain and Not Finding Him In" transl. by Burton Watson
Debating with angels at the door - T. Holley Chivers, M.D. "The Bright New Moon of Love"
Snow that never reaches fog - Youmna Chlala "Night Needs No Stars"
An autumn predicting softness - Youmna Chlala "Night Needs No Stars"
The blade that pares and cleaves me - Jade Cho "Three Months Since"
My island is full of maiden ghosts - Su Cho "The Old Man in White Has Given My Mother a Ripe Persimmon Again"
With the ghosts patrolling my shores - Su Cho "The Old Man in White Has Given My Mother a Ripe Persimmon Again"
Acid wind strikes my eyes - Chou Pang-Yen "[Leaves fall, slanting sun lights the river]" transl. by Burton Watson
No love for this lonely quilt - Chou Pang-Yen "[Leaves fall, slanting sun lights the river]" transl. by Burton Watson
Only today did I notice the abyss - Heather Christie "What Big Eyes You Have"
A kind of trash can never emptied - Heather Christie "What Big Eyes You Have"
Swallowed all those dictionary definitions - Lu Christófaro "I See You Too"
Fishbone stuck to my throat - Lu Christófaro "I See You Too"
The dirt disguising itself as glitter - Lu Christófaro "I See You Too"
Before adolescence reached me - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"
A degenerate haven hidden plainly - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"
In the rearview oblique glimpses - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"
Pilgrimage toward the obvious - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"
Nothing left but state and pride - Lady Mary Chudleigh "To the Ladies"
Where bombs have revoked bodies - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
The bombs have come in the same temper - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
Your ghost becomes a thumbprint for history - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
Unbelief is you with a gun in heaven - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
Hand your woes to the sky above - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson
Bury your troubles in the ground - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson
Lift your ambitions to the hills - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson
Emptiness is a blessing - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"
Who will replace the blood of my mother in me - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"
A woman made of water can never crack - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"
Bearing both weapon and wound - Alba Cid "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or the Sacrifice of the Pfeilstorchen" (translated by Jacob Rogers)
Because of past excess - Alba Cid "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or the Sacrifice of the Pfeilstorchen" (translated by Jacob Rogers)
The memory of lost glamour - James Cihlar "The Way Words Echo in Our Heads"
Turns into a memory of treasures - James Cihlar "The Way Words Echo in Our Heads"
Down from your mountains of emerald and gold - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Legions sent forth from the armies of life - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Trampled the tendrils of love in the ground - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The stars of our country are ransomed again - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Can forge a way through stone - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"
Gaps knowing cannot fill - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"
Licking dry the ocean's mouth - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"
Rapture to the wearied breast - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"
To dance in music toward the sea - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"
Sunset clouds in gloom depart - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"
And filled with Sabbath peace my mind - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"
Haunting the clover - George Herbert Clarke "To a Butterfly"
Under the sun's widening eye - Gillian Clarke "Cuckoo"
Into an unfolding universe - Adam Clay "Only Child"
The memories that need me to exist - Adam Clay "Only Child"
Looking back feels like looking forward - Adam Clay "Only Child"
In the cage of the Parrot to be confined - Ellen C. Clayton "Alf and the Parrot"
To see fishes and frogs sail about in the air - Ellen C. Clayton "The Birds and the Fishes"
To remain all their lives in their own element - Ellen C. Clayton "The Birds and the Fishes"
Turned the world topsy-turvy, with no reason or rhyme - Ellen C. Clayton "The Birds and the Fishes"
The most proportioned wit to nature - John Cleveland "To the Memory of Ben Jonson"
To the highest key of ancient Rome - John Cleveland "To the Memory of Ben Jonson"
Out-distances the utmost star - Carrie Williams Clifford "Quest"
Must plumb the boundless universe - Carrie Williams Clifford "Quest"
Mocking echoes of our laughter - Carrie Williams Clifford "Together"
Time's iron tongue proclaims - Rev. John Clutton "Sabbath-Breaking on the Canal"
That have heels of sleet - Elizabeth Coatsworth "On a Night of Snow"
Portents abroad of magic and might - Elizabeth Coatsworth "On a Night of Snow"
Only unsettling in hindsight - Erin Rose Coffin "Remembering Our First Parties"
In the summer of sage and honey - Erin Rose Coffin "Remembering Our First Parties"
Thinned the seeds already sprouting - Kai Coggin "Essence"
The heavy flavors of their final selves - Kai Coggin "Essence"
Knew the transformations to come - Kai Coggin "Essence"
Existentialism is imposed upon me - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"
I was silent the whole way - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"
What Memory knows - Allison Adelle Hedge Coke "Clan Sister"
Until the gasoline burns low - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"
Radio town singing dead frequencies - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"
My angel with one red eye - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"
The birds of passage take their flight - C. Cole "The Robin"
Bright bowers of orange, bergamot and broom - Mrs. Agnes S. Coleman "The Spanish Maiden" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Blue at heart deep-frozen - Katharine Coles "You Won't Find Consolation"
Your peace and mine - Antonio Colinas "Nocturne"
The closed labyrinth of your eyes - Antonio Colinas "Nocturne"
The closed mouth of secrets - Antonio Colinas "Song XXXV"
Perfectly painted the color of cold - Misha Collins "Clasped"
Yearning for your distant hands - Misha Collins "Clasped"
Daybreak is a drill sergeant - Misha Collins "The Sound and the Ferry"
Alarms of southbound geese blaring - Misha Collins "The Sound and the Ferry"
Sifting through thick air - Nandi Comer "The Check In"
Scattering names on a dusty floor - Nandi Comer "The Check In"
Cast an elongated shadow - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
The words I was missing - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
The frankly haunted pines - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
For nothing they intend to catch - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
Benjamin Franklin's Ghost House - Nicole Connolly "Dream Job"
With a polished eye around their neck - Nicole Connolly "Dream Job"
Also verse and miracle - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
A bed of painter's hands - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
The rose already has many names - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
The flower you must never name - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
A wakeful night with stealthy tread - Hugh Conway "The Mother's Vigil" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.110-v.III, 6 Feb. 1886]
Saw the dews of death o'erspread - Hugh Conway "The Mother's Vigil" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.110-v.III, 6 Feb. 1886]
Bend down from starry heights above - Hugh Conway "The Mother's Vigil" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.110-v.III, 6 Feb. 1886]
Burgeoned with flowers of melody - Clarence Cook "The Maple Tree"
The quick robin with his range of silver notes - Clarence Cook "The Maple Tree"
To the brown sparrow in the wheat - Clarence Cook "The Maple Tree"
We were supposed to fight the dragons together - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"
Won't hold me back from the firestorm - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"
I locked out the wasteland, but they'll come - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"
Condemn'd by Fate to way-ward Curse - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"
Plagues worse than filled Pandora's Box - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"
Furious Storms and threat'ning Blasts - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"
Moulded the brittle Clay in Jest - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"
Each invisible stitch of meaning - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
I save your scarlet heart for last - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
Winking glimpses at incarnadined flame - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
Steel and teeth by starlight - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
The gray fur of a crimson cat - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"
The fiery tombstone of a cabbage - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"
The four square circle of a ring - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"
Invisible at first but fierce - Sharon Corcoran "Encounter"
No one has trouble breathing in the movies - Liam Corley "Frame of Reference"
The eagle of the rock has such an eye - Carolina Coronado "The Lost Bird" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
Leave him to the air and liberty - Carolina Coronado "The Lost Bird" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
Filtering a mirror of loss - Cristina Correa "A Study in Eventuality"
Flustered as feathers falling - Cristina Correa "A Study in Eventuality"
Under the moment's remains - Cristina Correa "A Study in Eventuality"
Anger a grim substitute for song - Brittney Corrigan "Vanishing"
Warmed by the sunshine of your eyes - Corrinne "Our Wreath of Rose Buds" [student at Cherokee Female Seminary]
The dream is lovelier than the song - James D. Corrothers "Dream and the Song"
Build a bower of dawn - James D. Corrothers "Dream and the Song"
The unrest of winged dreams - James D. Corrothers "Dream and the Song"
Brake of time - Gregory Corso "Bomb"
Mischievous thunderbolt - Gregory Corso "Bomb"
Memory's daylight is especially brilliant - Felix Cortes "In the Beginning There was the Light"
Covering us in our first innocence - Felix Cortes "In the Beginning There was the Light"
Knowing better, the closer they get - Rio Cortez "Driving at Night"
Alone in the light of my magnificence - Cynthia Cotten "Resistance"
Blacker than the shadows on the moon - Mary Elizabeth Counselman "Witch-Burning" [Weird Tales October 1936]
Strangely green like fox-fire on the fen - Mary Elizabeth Counselman "Witch-Burning" [Weird Tales October 1936]
In moonlight that gathered and glowed - Marion Couthouy "Three Watches" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]
That comes to make way for the dawn - Marion Couthouy "Three Watches" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]
My soul, to this darkness laid bare - Marion Couthouy "Three Watches" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]
Beneath the whispering trees we lingered - William Cowan "Sweetheart, Farewell" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.135-v.III, 31 July 1886]
I am weary of nature's smiles - William Cowan "Sweetheart, Farewell" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.135-v.III, 31 July 1886]
And all the bright has faded - William Cowan "Sweetheart, Farewell" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.135-v.III, 31 July 1886]
The implications of our wonderland - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"
And never knew the loneliness of night - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"
Gilded phantom of the cheated brain - Richard Cox, Jr. "Happiness--A Sonnet"
With beating hearts and eager eyes - Richard Cox, Jr. "Happiness--A Sonnet"
In a grand and awful time - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"
Gog and Magog to the fray - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"
Every nerve and sinew tell on ages - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"
Peering through the acceptable landscape - Steven Cramer "Pentimento"
As the past sees through us - Steven Cramer "Pentimento"
Its shapes introduce themselves - Steven Cramer "Pentimento"
Tell wider prophecies to me - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Axe of the Pioneer"
Aeons shall build him - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Axe of the Pioneer"
Burst wide their glowing jaws - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Sword"
own a debt from every man - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"
tongue stained in mulberry blood - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"
when the wind turns to sugared maple - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"
The majesty soft darkness lent - R.P. Crenshaw, Jr. "Echo"
Message to the circling winds - Francis Blake Crofton "The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ"
Trembling for a blood-bought crown - Francis Blake Crofton "The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ"
Which we wrung from the the red jaws of hell - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
With barb-wire and bayonets bristling - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
The truth of this tale to endorse - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Gathered new strength for the conflict - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
This thin edge of December - Nancy Cunard "Parallax"
When time was young - Brent Cunningham "from Back on Earth"
Ashes fall around me like pieces of the moon - P. Scott Cunningham "Florida Snow"
A cure for sorrow from sighs I'd borrow - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"
Death unfailing will strike the blow - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"
In every danger my course I've run - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"
Let us be merry before we go - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"
Smiles through my narrow window way - Alice Turner Curtis "The Lady Moon" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Waiting spring's warm and wooing breath - Mrs E.L. Cushing "April" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Sleet and hail, obey his stern command - Mrs E.L. Cushing "April" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
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Will not answer as plummets to fathom the depth - E.B.C. "Streck-Verse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Thorns form footholds by which to reach the rose - E.B.C. "Streck-Verse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
At the trumpet's startling sound - G.R.C. "The Wreck (For the Mirror)"
Deep idolatry on the dark and stormy tides - G.R.C. "The Wreck (For the Mirror)"
All who tossed on life's wild sea - H.C. "Lines to Death" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Crumbled at thy dread command - H.C. "Lines to Death" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Are but agents of thy sovereign will - H.C. "Lines to Death" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Against such old-world heresy and schism - H.B.C. "The Kaiser to his Secretary" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Till all worlds shall tremble at my nod - H.B.C. "The Kaiser to his Secretary" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Out in the greenwood to romp and play - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
We crowned her with rosebuds and evergreen - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
When the sun was low and shadows were gray - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Love will draw all wandering stars - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Crimson current warm and true - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
So thin it forgets - Dana Jaye Cadman "Ghosts"
Hatched into madness - Heather Cahoon "Łčíčše"
To his teeth I swore - Hall Caine "Graih my Chree (Love of my Heart)"
Playmate of the verdant spring - Caledfryn aka William Williams "The Cuckoo" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
The birds' unnumbered choir - Caledfryn aka William Williams "The Cuckoo" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
The sweetest curse of my name - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
Buildings that bleed no natural light - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
Some unknown lists of murders - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
To brighten every pathway dark with care - Kate Cameron "We Should Hear the Angels Singing" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Would cease to wander in forbidden paths - Kate Cameron "We Should Hear the Angels Singing" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Thinking not what it might cost - Kate Cameron "We Should Hear the Angels Singing" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Beauty fair as that in Eden lost - Kate Cameron "We Should Hear the Angels Singing" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Hours and angers - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"
Pictures of vanishing - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"
Agrees to ask for nothing - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"
Under time lives silence - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"
Gossiping cicadas will witness - Crys S. Campbell "(How to be a) Fast Girl"
Turn your hands into time machines - Crys S. Campbell "(How to be a) Fast Girl"
When sad Autumn sheds abroad the stillness of decay - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
When icy chains the streams have bound - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Nor trust deceitful skies - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
O'erlaid with vermilion, and blazoned with gold - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Around them the lily and pomegranate wreath - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Magnificent gifts to a world-renowned king - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Numberless flocks in the field and the fold - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Will tread on the golden grass - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"
Mute on the white edge of dawn - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"
How merciless is the dawn - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"
And creation will become memory - Liam Campbell "Frankenstein's Tongue" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
And the child will become nameless - Liam Campbell "Frankenstein's Tongue" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
Thrashing the waves with fins of gold - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
A golden rocket trailing fire - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
Paint their dreams of dead desire - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
Threading depths of pearl and rose - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
All that matters is the heat of the sun - Kayleb Rae Candrilli "Daytona 500"
How blood faithfully takes - Kayleb Rae Candrilli "One Geography of Belonging"
Blossoms of sweet and sour light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Until I was overflowing with light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Irradiated with citrine moonglow - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Dropped a rose of gold - William Canton "Song"
Your whole body is composed of nesting places - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"
Keep me under the shadow of your wings - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"
The phoenix builds her spicy nest - Thomas Carew "Song"
That run now hunting glowworms - Thomas Carew "To My Worthy Friend Master George Sandys, on His Translation of the Psalms"
Tear those idols from my heart - Thomas Carew "To My Worthy Friend Master George Sandys, on His Translation of the Psalms"
The weeping shadow left behind - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
Both wild curses - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
Nostalgia (always dangerous) - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
The small worthwhile pieces - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
To hush yesterday's demons - Ina Cariño "Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before"
A whiff of flint in the dark - Ina Cariño "Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before"
Castles of nutmeg - Yvonne Caroutch
Patiently conquered - Yvonne Caroutch
Scales of dreams - Yvonne Caroutch
Nowhere except its own elsewhere - Julie Carr "A Fourteen-Line Poem on Heteronymic"
Stationed before the same absence - Julie Carr "A Fourteen-Line Poem on Heteronymic"
In the noon of his splendor - P.J. Carroll, C.S.C. "Lady Day in Ireland"
All the green woods forsaking - P.J. Carroll, C.S.C. "Lady Day in Ireland"
Sorrows in her heart of gold - P.J. Carroll, C.S.C. "St. Patrick's Treasure"
Anvil clouds in the west - Willa Carroll "Cloud Demolition"
Trimmed with cinnamon straws - Charles E. Carryl "The Walloping Window-Blind"
What ostriches couldn't digest - Guy Wetmore Carryl "The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting"
The bark by the gale is driven - G.R. Carter "The Homeward Voyage" [The Mirror of Literature v.20 issue 562, 18 Aug. 1832]
Stars in their dark blue bow'rs - G.R. Carter "The Homeward Voyage" [The Mirror of Literature v.20 issue 562, 18 Aug. 1832]
Raindrops on a field of corn - Mrs. Minot Carter "Raindrops"
In the fields the rabbits play - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"
The final signs of departing day - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"
The stars pearl out in the azure sky - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"
And silent fall the dews - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"
Drawn out of my eyes - Miguel Casado "The Arrival of March, IV"
The edges of the sun - Miguel Casado "Regarding a Theory of Color"
Dying strength of time - Miguel Casado "Regarding a Theory of Color"
All the seasons of the ocean - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Every bay a changing alchemy of colors - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Fills my lungs with longing - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Float at peace in her salty arms - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Of partings and of tears - D.A. Casey "The Spouse of Christ"
And silence brooded low - D.A. Casey "The Spouse of Christ"
Haunting fears of mystery pursue - D.A. Casey "The Spouse of Christ"
Over the dim blue hills - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
Sweeter thy honey lips - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
Brighter than jewels or pearl - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
Foolish impatient apricot trees - Nina Cassian "Vegetable Destiny" transl. by Michael Impey and Brian Swann
Confused each time I wake - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Wear a different face to each atrocity - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Civilization's slow grenade - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Swallowed by your doors - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Houses without names - Juana Castro "Cruz de Ventura Street"
Four autumn suns gone by - Mrs. E.W. Caswell "My Bird Has Flown" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The rich, wild sweetness of her song - Mrs. E.W. Caswell "My Bird Has Flown" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Enough gratitude for the day - Susan Cataldo "Poem for the Family"
Enough music for the night - Susan Cataldo "Poem for the Family"
Through mandrake groves and tangled vines - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
Briar's rose and midnight owls - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
A midnight witch, Titania bold - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
Her lantern glows amidst sweet eglantine - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
Today the planet travels on another orbit - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
Always a sparrow flitting in the flowerbeds - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
A thought grown stubborn in the mind - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
Perhaps ten thousand, perhaps ten times more - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
None but he could ever count them - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Rivals Homer's god-enraptured dreams - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
The madness of each one to pride - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
The heavy garment of the stream - Charles Causley "The Swan"
Through the secret light - Charles Causley "The Swan"
Death is the cook of nature - Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle "Nature's Cook"
Flat with bones which don't die - Stephanie Cawley "Not"
When anger reaches its iron tongue - Stephanie Cawley "Not"
Where echo is heard before the song - David Cecil "The Shadow Land"
Outside with the other worlds - Paul Celan "So Many Constellations" (translated by Pierre Joris)
Into the burden of our names - Paul Celan "So Many Constellations" (translated by Pierre Joris)
We found truly together - Paul Celan "So Many Constellations" (translated by Pierre Joris)
In the bell frame of your silence - Paul Celan [Untitled] (translated by Michael Hamburger)
With superstitions silvered in - Sumita Chakraborty "The B-Sides of the Golden Records, Track Five: 'Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder'"
Just a little need for air - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
The winter wood and its great absorbent heart - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
Dead leaves tiger bright - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
Besieged by her lover's worries - Jody Chan "Triage"
Laboring in soap and hot water - Jody Chan "Triage"
Tulips from the corner store - Jody Chan "Triage"
How not to utter the ungrateful thing - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"
The most common of strangers - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"
Unbidden like at generous rain - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"
No one ever need fall - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"
Her great mansion on the shore of the Yellow River - Chan Tiu-lin "The Willow Leaf" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
I do not love the east wind - Chan Tiu-lin "The Willow Leaf" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A severed braid burned with sage - Meagan Chandler "Cornhusk Doll with Face"
The sun that scorched the cursed harvest - Meagan Chandler "Cornhusk Doll with Face"
A breed of witch who strolls barren fields - Meagan Chandler "Cornhusk Doll with Face"
A shadow on the window-screen - Chang Chieh "Remember to Wear Them" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Who comes gathering my flowers? - Chang Chieh "Remember to Wear Them" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
As the sunset fades and dusk settles - Chang Hsien "The Startled Plums Fall Down" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Music floats through frosty woods - Chang Hsien "The Startled Plums Fall Down" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Startled plums fall pattering down - Chang Hsien "The Startled Plums Fall Down" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Came to me in a feverish vodka dream - Michael Chang "Plump Rat"
Dark unforgiven imagination - Stephanie Chang "Spider Lily Cyborg"
Eyes that orphan mine - Stephanie Chang "Spider Lily Cyborg"
Over everything the tangled thorns - Chang Tsai "The Desecration of the Han Tombs" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Songs and laughter echo from the golden screens - Chang Wu-chien "The Poet and the Dancers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
When all the others are overcome with drinking - Chang Wu-chien "The Poet and the Dancers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
I write sad poems with swaying characters - Chang Wu-chien "The Poet and the Dancers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Pure and cold and never seeing light - Michael Chant "In the Shade of the Tree of Knowledge"
The zigzag work of bees - Robin Chapman "The Door-to-Door Saleswoman"
With this dim diadem invested - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"
Levelled with the life of Job - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"
That owe my bounty for their bread - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"
The dust destroy the diamond - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"
A swan and the moon - Leila Chatti "I Went Out to Hear"
Proposals vaporized and exorbitant - Leila Chatti "The Rules"
Or the crescendoing moment - Leila Chatti "The Rules"
What it means to be consumed - MK Chavez "Little Red Riding Hood/Companion"
Even a leaf can have teeth - MK Chavez "Little Red Riding Hood/Companion"
Like the idea of a daughter - Cathy Linh Che "Becoming Ghost"
And seeing no reflection - Cathy Linh Che "Becoming Ghost"
Visit with time - Andree Chedid "What are we playing at?"
Hear the green sage sing - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
The gray stones beneath you feel young again - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
The breeze watches it all with her Mona Lisa smile - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
Wildest grief grew inside out - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
Blooming in every crevice of my palms - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
Grief is not the only geography - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
Repair comes with sweetness - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
Water so cold it hurt his bones - Ch'en Lin "Song: I Watered My Horse at the Long Wall Caves" transl. by Burton Watson
Five thousand in sable and brocade - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Gone to barbarian dust - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Bones by the shores of the Uncertain River - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
I cannot see the ancients of days - Chen Tzu-ang "Before and After" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
I cannot see ages yet to come - Chen Tzu-ang "Before and After" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Only heaven and earth have remained - Chen Tzu-ang "Before and After" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
I drop tears into the dust - Chen Tzu-ang "Before and After" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Hush not one fervent strain - John Vance Cheney "Love and Youth"
As liquid lopes across the surface - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"
A blow that bends the wind - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"
Dew on the crooked stem of a crooked log - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"
Fallen into place beside the oldest stones - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"
A grave where the hill-winds call - Nora Chesson "A Connaught Lament"
Whenever there is silence - Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne "The Cry"
Petrified words to reveal the infinite - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Precise in the panic-blue air - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Weaving death's black wing - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
The dull blade of history's axe - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Wild paths through mulberry and hemp - The Buddhist Priest Chiao-jan "Looking for Lu Hung-chien but Failing To Find Him" transl. by Burton Watson
Chrysanthemums newly set out - The Buddhist Priest Chiao-jan "Looking for Lu Hung-chien but Failing To Find Him" transl. by Burton Watson
Always indestructible and lovingly arranged - Emperor Chien Lung "The Garden that Does Not Fade" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Choke the gaping mouth of want - R.S. Chilton "Lines on Seeing My Sister Fill a Little Beggar-Boy's Basket with Cold Victuals"
How will they banquet on those bones - R.S. Chilton "Lines on Seeing My Sister Fill a Little Beggar-Boy's Basket with Cold Victuals"
Unstrung by her heart's first sorrow - R.S. Chilton "The Little Peasant"
Holding a vacant nest in her hands - R.S. Chilton "The Little Peasant"
One parting, ten thousand regrets - Ch'in Chia [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
The scholar's harp has a clear note - Ch'in Chia [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
Pay it back with diamonds and rubies - Ch'in Chia [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
End me like a period - Wendy Chin-Tanner "Infertility"
Whistled like dragons and sobbed with pain - Ch'iu Chin "To the Tune 'The River Is Red'" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
The promised hidden wonders - Ch'iu Wei "Visiting a Recluse on West Mountain and Not Finding Him In" transl. by Burton Watson
Grasped the meaning of purity - Ch'iu Wei "Visiting a Recluse on West Mountain and Not Finding Him In" transl. by Burton Watson
Debating with angels at the door - T. Holley Chivers, M.D. "The Bright New Moon of Love"
Snow that never reaches fog - Youmna Chlala "Night Needs No Stars"
An autumn predicting softness - Youmna Chlala "Night Needs No Stars"
The blade that pares and cleaves me - Jade Cho "Three Months Since"
My island is full of maiden ghosts - Su Cho "The Old Man in White Has Given My Mother a Ripe Persimmon Again"
With the ghosts patrolling my shores - Su Cho "The Old Man in White Has Given My Mother a Ripe Persimmon Again"
Acid wind strikes my eyes - Chou Pang-Yen "[Leaves fall, slanting sun lights the river]" transl. by Burton Watson
No love for this lonely quilt - Chou Pang-Yen "[Leaves fall, slanting sun lights the river]" transl. by Burton Watson
Only today did I notice the abyss - Heather Christie "What Big Eyes You Have"
A kind of trash can never emptied - Heather Christie "What Big Eyes You Have"
Swallowed all those dictionary definitions - Lu Christófaro "I See You Too"
Fishbone stuck to my throat - Lu Christófaro "I See You Too"
The dirt disguising itself as glitter - Lu Christófaro "I See You Too"
Before adolescence reached me - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"
A degenerate haven hidden plainly - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"
In the rearview oblique glimpses - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"
Pilgrimage toward the obvious - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"
Nothing left but state and pride - Lady Mary Chudleigh "To the Ladies"
Where bombs have revoked bodies - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
The bombs have come in the same temper - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
Your ghost becomes a thumbprint for history - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
Unbelief is you with a gun in heaven - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
Hand your woes to the sky above - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson
Bury your troubles in the ground - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson
Lift your ambitions to the hills - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson
Emptiness is a blessing - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"
Who will replace the blood of my mother in me - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"
A woman made of water can never crack - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"
Bearing both weapon and wound - Alba Cid "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or the Sacrifice of the Pfeilstorchen" (translated by Jacob Rogers)
Because of past excess - Alba Cid "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or the Sacrifice of the Pfeilstorchen" (translated by Jacob Rogers)
The memory of lost glamour - James Cihlar "The Way Words Echo in Our Heads"
Turns into a memory of treasures - James Cihlar "The Way Words Echo in Our Heads"
Down from your mountains of emerald and gold - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Legions sent forth from the armies of life - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Trampled the tendrils of love in the ground - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The stars of our country are ransomed again - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Can forge a way through stone - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"
Gaps knowing cannot fill - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"
Licking dry the ocean's mouth - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"
Rapture to the wearied breast - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"
To dance in music toward the sea - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"
Sunset clouds in gloom depart - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"
And filled with Sabbath peace my mind - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"
Haunting the clover - George Herbert Clarke "To a Butterfly"
Under the sun's widening eye - Gillian Clarke "Cuckoo"
Into an unfolding universe - Adam Clay "Only Child"
The memories that need me to exist - Adam Clay "Only Child"
Looking back feels like looking forward - Adam Clay "Only Child"
In the cage of the Parrot to be confined - Ellen C. Clayton "Alf and the Parrot"
To see fishes and frogs sail about in the air - Ellen C. Clayton "The Birds and the Fishes"
To remain all their lives in their own element - Ellen C. Clayton "The Birds and the Fishes"
Turned the world topsy-turvy, with no reason or rhyme - Ellen C. Clayton "The Birds and the Fishes"
The most proportioned wit to nature - John Cleveland "To the Memory of Ben Jonson"
To the highest key of ancient Rome - John Cleveland "To the Memory of Ben Jonson"
Out-distances the utmost star - Carrie Williams Clifford "Quest"
Must plumb the boundless universe - Carrie Williams Clifford "Quest"
Mocking echoes of our laughter - Carrie Williams Clifford "Together"
Time's iron tongue proclaims - Rev. John Clutton "Sabbath-Breaking on the Canal"
That have heels of sleet - Elizabeth Coatsworth "On a Night of Snow"
Portents abroad of magic and might - Elizabeth Coatsworth "On a Night of Snow"
Only unsettling in hindsight - Erin Rose Coffin "Remembering Our First Parties"
In the summer of sage and honey - Erin Rose Coffin "Remembering Our First Parties"
Thinned the seeds already sprouting - Kai Coggin "Essence"
The heavy flavors of their final selves - Kai Coggin "Essence"
Knew the transformations to come - Kai Coggin "Essence"
Existentialism is imposed upon me - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"
I was silent the whole way - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"
What Memory knows - Allison Adelle Hedge Coke "Clan Sister"
Until the gasoline burns low - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"
Radio town singing dead frequencies - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"
My angel with one red eye - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"
The birds of passage take their flight - C. Cole "The Robin"
Bright bowers of orange, bergamot and broom - Mrs. Agnes S. Coleman "The Spanish Maiden" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Blue at heart deep-frozen - Katharine Coles "You Won't Find Consolation"
Your peace and mine - Antonio Colinas "Nocturne"
The closed labyrinth of your eyes - Antonio Colinas "Nocturne"
The closed mouth of secrets - Antonio Colinas "Song XXXV"
Perfectly painted the color of cold - Misha Collins "Clasped"
Yearning for your distant hands - Misha Collins "Clasped"
Daybreak is a drill sergeant - Misha Collins "The Sound and the Ferry"
Alarms of southbound geese blaring - Misha Collins "The Sound and the Ferry"
Sifting through thick air - Nandi Comer "The Check In"
Scattering names on a dusty floor - Nandi Comer "The Check In"
Cast an elongated shadow - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
The words I was missing - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
The frankly haunted pines - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
For nothing they intend to catch - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
Benjamin Franklin's Ghost House - Nicole Connolly "Dream Job"
With a polished eye around their neck - Nicole Connolly "Dream Job"
Also verse and miracle - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
A bed of painter's hands - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
The rose already has many names - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
The flower you must never name - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
A wakeful night with stealthy tread - Hugh Conway "The Mother's Vigil" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.110-v.III, 6 Feb. 1886]
Saw the dews of death o'erspread - Hugh Conway "The Mother's Vigil" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.110-v.III, 6 Feb. 1886]
Bend down from starry heights above - Hugh Conway "The Mother's Vigil" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.110-v.III, 6 Feb. 1886]
Burgeoned with flowers of melody - Clarence Cook "The Maple Tree"
The quick robin with his range of silver notes - Clarence Cook "The Maple Tree"
To the brown sparrow in the wheat - Clarence Cook "The Maple Tree"
We were supposed to fight the dragons together - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"
Won't hold me back from the firestorm - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"
I locked out the wasteland, but they'll come - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"
Condemn'd by Fate to way-ward Curse - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"
Plagues worse than filled Pandora's Box - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"
Furious Storms and threat'ning Blasts - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"
Moulded the brittle Clay in Jest - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"
Each invisible stitch of meaning - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
I save your scarlet heart for last - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
Winking glimpses at incarnadined flame - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
Steel and teeth by starlight - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
The gray fur of a crimson cat - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"
The fiery tombstone of a cabbage - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"
The four square circle of a ring - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"
Invisible at first but fierce - Sharon Corcoran "Encounter"
No one has trouble breathing in the movies - Liam Corley "Frame of Reference"
The eagle of the rock has such an eye - Carolina Coronado "The Lost Bird" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
Leave him to the air and liberty - Carolina Coronado "The Lost Bird" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
Filtering a mirror of loss - Cristina Correa "A Study in Eventuality"
Flustered as feathers falling - Cristina Correa "A Study in Eventuality"
Under the moment's remains - Cristina Correa "A Study in Eventuality"
Anger a grim substitute for song - Brittney Corrigan "Vanishing"
Warmed by the sunshine of your eyes - Corrinne "Our Wreath of Rose Buds" [student at Cherokee Female Seminary]
The dream is lovelier than the song - James D. Corrothers "Dream and the Song"
Build a bower of dawn - James D. Corrothers "Dream and the Song"
The unrest of winged dreams - James D. Corrothers "Dream and the Song"
Brake of time - Gregory Corso "Bomb"
Mischievous thunderbolt - Gregory Corso "Bomb"
Memory's daylight is especially brilliant - Felix Cortes "In the Beginning There was the Light"
Covering us in our first innocence - Felix Cortes "In the Beginning There was the Light"
Knowing better, the closer they get - Rio Cortez "Driving at Night"
Alone in the light of my magnificence - Cynthia Cotten "Resistance"
Blacker than the shadows on the moon - Mary Elizabeth Counselman "Witch-Burning" [Weird Tales October 1936]
Strangely green like fox-fire on the fen - Mary Elizabeth Counselman "Witch-Burning" [Weird Tales October 1936]
In moonlight that gathered and glowed - Marion Couthouy "Three Watches" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]
That comes to make way for the dawn - Marion Couthouy "Three Watches" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]
My soul, to this darkness laid bare - Marion Couthouy "Three Watches" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]
Beneath the whispering trees we lingered - William Cowan "Sweetheart, Farewell" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.135-v.III, 31 July 1886]
I am weary of nature's smiles - William Cowan "Sweetheart, Farewell" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.135-v.III, 31 July 1886]
And all the bright has faded - William Cowan "Sweetheart, Farewell" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.135-v.III, 31 July 1886]
The implications of our wonderland - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"
And never knew the loneliness of night - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"
Gilded phantom of the cheated brain - Richard Cox, Jr. "Happiness--A Sonnet"
With beating hearts and eager eyes - Richard Cox, Jr. "Happiness--A Sonnet"
In a grand and awful time - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"
Gog and Magog to the fray - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"
Every nerve and sinew tell on ages - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"
Peering through the acceptable landscape - Steven Cramer "Pentimento"
As the past sees through us - Steven Cramer "Pentimento"
Its shapes introduce themselves - Steven Cramer "Pentimento"
Tell wider prophecies to me - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Axe of the Pioneer"
Aeons shall build him - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Axe of the Pioneer"
Burst wide their glowing jaws - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Sword"
own a debt from every man - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"
tongue stained in mulberry blood - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"
when the wind turns to sugared maple - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"
The majesty soft darkness lent - R.P. Crenshaw, Jr. "Echo"
Message to the circling winds - Francis Blake Crofton "The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ"
Trembling for a blood-bought crown - Francis Blake Crofton "The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ"
Which we wrung from the the red jaws of hell - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
With barb-wire and bayonets bristling - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
The truth of this tale to endorse - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Gathered new strength for the conflict - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
This thin edge of December - Nancy Cunard "Parallax"
When time was young - Brent Cunningham "from Back on Earth"
Ashes fall around me like pieces of the moon - P. Scott Cunningham "Florida Snow"
A cure for sorrow from sighs I'd borrow - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"
Death unfailing will strike the blow - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"
In every danger my course I've run - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"
Let us be merry before we go - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"
Smiles through my narrow window way - Alice Turner Curtis "The Lady Moon" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Waiting spring's warm and wooing breath - Mrs E.L. Cushing "April" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Sleet and hail, obey his stern command - Mrs E.L. Cushing "April" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
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