Potential Titles: Death

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Deadly.


Where Death can never reach the bowers - A.L.O.E. "Gardener's Hymn"

Sign a waiver for the possibility of death - Anne Carly Abad "Exchange"

To hear death passing by - Delmira Agustini "The Vampire" (translated by Alejandro Caceres)

This narrow crevice deeper than death - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"

Which conquers death and gravity - Daisy Aldan "Vertical Is Our New Sight"

Held the saturnalia of Red Death - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

A gift so like death - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"

Death in one bright peerless day - William Talbot Allison "Vanishings"

To death's dark door of parting - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Above the weeds of death - Maya Angelou "Elegy"

Not even death is eternal - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of names"

Dead in life, alive in death - Simon Armitage "Poundland"

Death with a name on a bracelet - Mary Jo Bang "The Electric Eventual"

The deaths past and present in ashes - Mary Jo Bang "Once Upon a Time"

The loud death drum, thundering from afar - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Burn bright in the realm of Death - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"

Troubled at summer's death - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Dead Summer"

Drunk with Death's elixir - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of the Poor" transl. not credited

I've only got the one death to my name - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"

One death and I'm not going to ruin it - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"

I am Death's bright arrow! Forgive me not! - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

When Death has unloosened his strangling cord - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

Spared from death to live accursed - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

There's only two fates for muses, death or tree - Rebecca Bennett "Eurydice Stands with Attitude"

Cloudy visions in Death's storms - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "In Te, Domine, spero"

Sustains the keys of Hell and Death - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Death's thousand doors stand open - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Death's shadow at the door - Edmund Blunden "Almswomen"

When Death recovers his vigor - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

An unbidden word whitening the death of a smile - Maxwell Bodenheim "An Old Man Humming a Song" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

And dreamed of legend and of death - Arna Bontemps "Golgotha Is a Mountain"

I may pass through centuries of death - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"

And poplars stand there still as death - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"

Lures us all half way to death - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

A kite of hope in life or hope in death - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"

Death is a natural resource - William Brewer "West Virginia"

If they bear the flowers of life or death - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"

How to chat with death - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"

Stared at a hungrier death - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"

The eyes of Death are dry - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Showing How Rosalind Fared by the Keeping of the Vow"

Death's neighbourhood - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXXIX in Sonnets from the Portuguese"

At the door of tearless Death - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

His chamber in the silent halls of death - William Cullen Bryant "To Live"

The fearful deer of death stood not - Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst "Midnight"

A split hair from death - Sue Budin "Spacecraft"

Death and grace enclosed together - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XV. The Lover and the Sculptor" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Live in spite of time and death - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVII. The Artist and His Work" transl. by John Addington Symonds

In whom death and reaching rains have mingled - Witter Bynner "Beyond a Mountain"

A star whose bite is certain death - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"

Commanding fires of death - Thomas Campbell "Hohenlinden"

Lands of winter and death - W. Wilfred Campbell "To the Ottawa"

In all hours of life and death - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"

In the Lightning flash arrayed in death - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"

To sail Death's unexplored and open deep - Edward Carpenter "By the Mouth of the Arno"

Be reprieved from the shadowy challenge of death - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

Writes a letter to his death - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"

Learned to suffocate death and continue - Paul Carroll "Song [To be able to walk along and see]"

And up from death to glory - Phoebe Cary "Otway"

Up from death and dreams - Willa Cather "Eurydice"

Against the work of death - C.P. Cavafy "The Horses of Achilles" (translated by John Marvrogordato)

Indignant at this work of death - C.P. Cavafy "The Horses of Achilles" (translated by Daniel Mendelsohn)

Death is the cook of nature - Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle "Nature's Cook"

Weaving death's black wing - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"

A kiss so cold you'll catch your death - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

By death or distance parted - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"

Where death comes to cry - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"

Like a debt owed to death - Henri Cole "Beach Walk"

The sudden death of the sun - Henri Cole "Twilight"

Stole my body back from death - Aaron Coleman "Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)"

As though laughter wards off death - Wanda Coleman "Dear Mama (4)"

With the possible company of my death - Billy Collins "Passengers"

A different dance toward death - Donte Collins "Prayer Severing the Cycle"

Who comes to wash himself in death - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Hell and death his portion be - "Columcille's Farewell to Aran of the Saints" transl. by Douglas Hyde

Making sumptuous death - CAConrad "Leave Something Quiet in Shell of My Ear"

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]

Death may be riding the wings of the wind - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

The keys of death and hell - Benjamin Copeland "Salus per Christum"

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

Could break death's adamantine law - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For an Anarchist"

Over time and tide and death leaping - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"

True to the incomparable couch of death - E.E. Cummings "La Guerre (II)"

and death i think is no parenthesis - E. E. Cummings "[since feeling is first]"

rendering death and forever with each breathing - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"

Paler be they than daunting death - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Death unfailing will strike the blow - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"

Sharp-tongued flame of death - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"

Of Death's dread company - Coningsby Dawson "The Hill-Tower"

Left Death's gate ajar - Coningsby Dawson "Out of the Blackness"

And bids their deeds the power of death defy - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Death's fell daemons through the flashes glare - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Raise up my strength in death's respite - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

This dream and its defiance to death - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

Loved to death, to damnation and God-death - Toi Derricotte "A Note on My Son's Face"

The distance on the look of death - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXXI"

If you cannot capture their hearts in death - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

Death was a wind searching the back of his hand - Chris Dombrowski "Naive Melody"

And never taste death's woe - John Donne "At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)"

A rush through terror and fire and death - Jeanne d'Orge "The Kiss (Fifteen Years)"

Left her within the jaws of death - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes"

Death and daggered noonday meet - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

Our wine is death - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

The only way to enter death - Cheryl Dumesnil "Colossal Failure of Human Design, We Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Your Death"

This house that feeds on death - Rebecca Dunham "There Lies the Hydra: 1. Heracles and the Hydra"

And knows herself in death - A.E. "The Great Breath"

Regardless of Death's stern control - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]

No nearer in death's dream kingdom - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

Forgot to whisper your death to the bees - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"

Whose mouth is the portal of death - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

A stronger absence than death - Claudia Emerson "A Bird in the House"

I'll have at my feast a figure of death - "The Emperor's Rout"

We are still in death's stern and inflexible power - "The Emperor's Rout"

The food and drink of death - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

And giving death the laugh - Anthony Euwer "The Juggler"

Death with every decision - Aaron Fagan "The Good Light"

Girdled life and death in one - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

And the breakers talked with Death - J.T. Fields "The Captain's Daughter" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

To the ash-strewn summit of death - John Gould Fletcher "Court Lady Standing Under a Plum Tree"

Death that extends itself with golden planks - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

Shades of death are round me closing - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]

Its healing power rob death of half its sting - Fanny Forrester "Not Beautiful!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.11-v.I, 15 March 1884]

Prayers to altars of cold death - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2 (February 1923)"

Assorted characters of death and blight - Robert Frost "Design"

Carry farther in death -Tess Gallagher "Wake"

Bear them inch by inch toward death - Gwynne Garfinkle "Scenes from a Marriage"

And death admit me to the silent ways - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"

Could survive forever on death alone - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"

Death the collector is keeping the tab - Dana Gioia "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"

Houdini picks the locks of death - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

A loneliness more deep than quiet death - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

From a view to the death in the morning - John Woodcock Graves "John Peel"

Playing at cards with Death - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"

That plucks its joy in the shadow of death's wing - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Pierce our hearts with cold death frost - James Roane Gregory "Nineteenth Century Finality"

In the air Death moans and sings - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"

Teach your daughters how to outrun death - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

Not touched by Death's disaster - Ivor Gurney "To Certain Comrades"

Through death's portals I will fly - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Have attempted death - Jin Ha "A 58-Year-Old Painter Leaving for America" (translated by the author)

Surveillance feeds on death - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"

Silence and mystery and crafty, ambushed death - Katherine Hale "Ballad of Jasper Road"

The certain dignity of death - Hazel Hall "Flash"

If I am not death's - Hazel Hall "Flash"

The burden of untasted death - Hazel Hall "Flash"

The cry of one who fears not death - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On the Fly-Leaf of the Rubaiyat"

Where Death stood to win - Thomas Hardy "Before Marching, and After"

Where death by geography is unknown - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"

Where death's pale angels tread - Frances E. Watkins Harper "I Thirst"

When pestilence clasps hands with death - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"

Set the seal of his death on you - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 3"

Death on his charger in battle is bounding - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Is death's scythe not keen enough? - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLV"

The leaves are dancing with Death - F.W. Harvey "Autumn in Prison"

His insolent envy of sweet death - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet II (from Farewell)"

Pulled from death's pocket - Terrance Hayes "Coffin for Head of State"

Garlands veil the shafts of death - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

The choice of chains or death - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Reds magnificent with death - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Praeludium"

The old resentment lasts like death - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"

Whose left hand honours with decay and death - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

And death a league behind - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Breath of Life"

Keeps the keys of death - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Humility"

Befriend him at the house of death - George Herbert "Mortification"

A Rodent to the Realms of Death address'd - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

Coming through the panel of death - Brenda Hillman "Reverse Seeing"

An expert witness on the death of God - Tony Hoagland "In the Waiting Room with Leonard Cohen"

Kissed the cheek of death - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Found them in death's dog-teeth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Death and Sin rose to render key and sword - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXI: Hell's Gate"

With golden death was crowned - William Dean Howells "Pleasure-Pain"

Death is a drum beating forever - Langston Hughes "Drum"

Death becomes an empty cabaret - Langston Hughes "Sport"

And weariness beyond the hope of death - Aldous Huxley "Formal Verses I: [Mother of all my future memories]"

Into the death of gems - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"

Death comes by way of fragments - fahima ife "spirit of the times, the spirit of death"

To see us eat of death - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: Song for the Night of Christ's Resurrection"

absence is the arena of death - Kara Jackson "fleeing"

Who mothered your love of death? - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

No strength in the scent of death - Allison Eir Jenks "Painting the Dead"

Red with the death of Achilles - Charles Jensen "Complaint of Achilles' Heel"

Artifacts of deaths that no one died - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

Challenge death beyond denial - Lionel Johnson "The Coming of War"

The bounds of death and birth - Lionel Johnson "Our Lady of the Snows"

Tells a rosary of death - Lionel Johnson "Parnell"

Red Wind of burning death - Lionel Johnson "The Red Wind"

For whom Death grew sharp - Lionel Johnson "A Song of Israel"

Salting her death in the wind house - Taylor Johnson "States of Decline"

In a land built from death - Ashley M. Jones "All Y'all Really from Alabama"

Fear death no longer - Parneshia Jones "My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea"

Chase me down death's way - June Jordan "I guess it was my destiny to live so long"

Whirlpooling itself to a fake death - Janine Joseph "Oh, I'm Dying, I'm Dying"

In the endless sum of death and birth - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"

Half in love with easeful Death - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

All the yearning mystery of death - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Triumphed over many-weaponed Death - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

For Love forbids her death - Joyce Kilmer "In Memoriam: Florence Nightingale"

Wear only Death's livid, dreadful white - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

Their death inevitable - Kim Unsong "Natural"

Death is a one way street - Kim Unsong "One Way Street"

Pick out my death from the weeds - Christopher Kondrich "Map of Belonging"

Mapping the nodes of universal birth and death - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"

Death alone has sympathy - Alfred Kreymborg "Dirge"

Death behind his back - "The Lament of Queen Maev" (Translation by T.W. Rolleston)

Dissolves the grasp of death - Archibald Lampman "Favorites of Pan"

Temperamentally unfit for death - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

Death's rigorous law repealing - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Gertrude: [In Memory: 1877]"

You unlade your riches unto death - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"

Like mustard-seed rolls out of the husk of death - D.H. Lawrence "War-Baby"

Who ran to a wild death with laughing feet - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

Imagine the death of the wind - Joseph Lease "True Faith"

Who promises that death is gentle too - Amy Levy "The Promise of Sleep"

Death is the second terror - Amy Levy "The Two Terrors"

Who taught Death romantic gestures - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"

Entelechy wrapped in scales of life and death - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"

Knocking at the brazen bars of Death - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"

Lyric elixir of death - Mina Loy "Poe"

This place of nine parts death - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson

On to the undiscovered haven of death - Francis J. Lys "Life's Voyage"

That death need regret - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Song of the Sleeper"

A flame in the wind of death - Dorothea Mackellar "Fire"

Death walked between them to the field - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: VII"

Death rides the burning blast - George Martin "The Crisis"

By what death you reign - John Masefield "The Khalif's Judgment"

That pay no toll to death - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

We, who pull breath, confuse death's irony - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"

Narrowly conquering death at the expense of glimpsing any heaven - Wes Matthews "Immortality"

Death in many a varied guise - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"

Splendid death untouched by grief - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"

Death at the rudderless wheel - John McCrae "The Song of the Derelict"

Screw of death in cupped hands - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

Trust death as a friend - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"

The palm trees chose victory or death - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

With Life and Death I walked - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Learn the secret of the shrouded death - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Nightmares of bankruptcy and death - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

He is Death that weds a ghost - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Round you Death his shadows dense - George Meredith "To a Friend Lost (T. T.)"

Ships the whirlpools seize to drag to death - Adam Mickiewicz "Baydary" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

The horse riding out to the pasture of death - Joseph Millar "One Day"

Friends with death - Edna St Vincent Millay "Love Is Not All"

Birth and death in only minutes - Jenny Molberg "Storm Coming"

Tastes the wide seas of death - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"

What was your death's taxonomy? - James Fujinami Moore "Diagnostic Quiz for Human Ghost"

When the footstep of death is near - Thomas Moore "A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp"

When the footstep of death is near - Thomas Moore "The Lake of the Dismal Swamp"

In the ranks of death you'll find him - Thomas Moore "The Minstrel-Boy"

Life and death alike come out of the East - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

To seek within the jaws of death - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"

Leads but to death in the dark - William Morris "The Pilgrims of Hope II: The Bridge and the Street"

Like death in humid air - Walter Dean Myers "Bill Cash, 30, Boxer"

Death and prism in my open fist - Angel Nafis "Directions to Finding You, or Maybe Just an Inferior Prayer"

Before whose shrine the spells of Death are vain - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"

Death's secrets in one heart - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Death threats on the clothesline - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

The clandestine falcon of death - Pablo Neruda "Alvarado" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Teach the geography of death - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: VII" transl. by William O'Daly

The game between death and existence - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Death's brilliance within the emerald - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Death in its stone aspect - Pablo Neruda "Fully Empowered" transl. by Alastair Reid

The jewel of death and the sea - Pablo Neruda "Minerals" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Many waters and infinite death - Pablo Neruda "Puerto Rico, Puerto Pobre [Song of Protest]" transl. by Miguel Algarin

Like the crow over death - Pablo Neruda "Unity" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Riding shadows on the wall of death - Hoa Nguyen "The Flying Motorist Artist"

Pushed death back into the cupboard - Grace Nichols "Battle"

In the gloom of Death's eclipse - Meredith Nicholson "Estranged"

Which equally is death - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: III. The Third Hole"

Death placed him in command - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

But Death had turned the hour-glass - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Missing" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.136-v.III, 7 Aug. 1886]

To carry in your knapsacks death - Thomas O'Hagan "Louvain"

Have felt the death stings of your shells - Thomas O'Hagan "Louvain"

Executing all the deaths that goodness requires - Christina Olivares "Preserving an Ecosystem"

Death machines building death machines - Jose Olivarez "Mexican Heaven"

More ornaments of death - Mary Oliver "The Hermit Crab"

And a reputation for death - Mary Oliver "Maker of All Things, Even Healings"

Death too is a carpenter - Mary Oliver "Pilot Snake"

Newsreels captured the death of a star - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Than death itself more bitter - Robert Owen "A Prayer" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

The thousand little deaths my heart has died - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"

To arrive at death quite safe - Linda Pastan "River Pig"

The scourge of Singing Death - Walter S. Percy "The Singing Death"

Encounter only Death, the Passer-by - William Theodore Peters "Death and Love"

Versus those who attempted death - Carl Phillips "At Bay"

Whistling interludes of death - E.J. Pratt "The Conclusion of 'Rachel'"

So invite them over to our death - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "In arrival, feet flutter like dying birds"

Infinite gratitude to death's eloquence - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "With a third eye, I see the catastrophe"

I keep death in a jar - Paige Quinones "Wing Covert"

Bones don't weigh a death - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

Pushed at the gates of death - Theodore H. Rand "'By the Love'"

The hounds of Death ran out to sea - Herbert Randall "Easterly Weather"

For the darker grace of death - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"

Relic from the wreck of death - L. Rice-Oxley "The Opening of the Grave of Arthur and Guinevere at Glastonbury"

Gorgeous Death with all her spangles - Lola Ridge "Labor"

While Death stalks free in the silent world - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"

Through death to knowledge of all things - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"

Then cool to death in aeon's endless time - Amy Redpath Roddick "A Scientific Puzzle"

Iron to shoe the hoofs of death - Isaac Rosenberg "Marches"

Lover of death's tideless waters - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"

The wordless secrets of death's deep - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"

Till Death shall ply his sieve - Christina Rossetti "The Thread of Life"

On the starless brow of death - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"

Death made wide a million gates - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"

And quench her light in the dark stream of death - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Against this mad vibration of death - Sonia Sanchez "On the Occasion of Essence's Twenty-fifth Anniversary"

With their hands on the jaws of death - Carl Sandburg "Jaws"

The inward, moonless waves of death - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"

death's a similar kind of commerce - Sam Sax "Bury"

Death shall hold the hand of Life - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]

Iron crowns of Ruin and Death be mine - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

I shall sleep equal with her in death - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Anchored by the dark anvil of death - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"

The unnatural deaths of steel and concrete - Ann K. Schwader "Alien Machines"

Drift & sing the death of starlight - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"

White from the chrysalis of death - Clinton Scollard "The Mist and the Sea"

Will live when Death is dead - Frederick George Scott "Andante"

Death moves and memory doesn't - Tim Seibles "Faith"

Hid in death's dateless night - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXX"

The death dirge of the melancholy wind - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

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

One of death's juggling red balls - Charles Simic "The Initiate"

Death's new ribbon in its hair - Charles Simic "Mrs. Digby's Picture Album"

My death already consummated - Charles Simic "Story of My Luck"

Of death moving among the living - Tom Sleigh "Space Station"

That was the nurse of infant Death - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

The glad and golden death of spring - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"

To drifts of glowing death - Effie Smith "October"

As if death were the hardest battle - Effie Smith "The Test"

Gives us the keys to the kingdom of death - Edith Sodergran "Pain" transl. by Jaakko A. Ahokas

Earth that knows of death, not tears - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"

On to the gates of death with song - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"

Was first betrothed to death - "The Source of Poetic Inspiration" transl. by Whitley Stokes

And the small death of the wild card - Frank Stanford "Embark"

Stowed away on the ship of death - Frank Stanford "The Forgotten Madmen of Menilmontant"

Shall she find her wages also death? - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"

The house of death without a door - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"

The undying kings, Silence and Death - George Sterling "The Moth of Time"

Death is the mother of beauty - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

And the silent armies of death - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Song of Rahero: II. The Venging of Tamatea"

Bells that toll of death and doom - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

With his fist in the face of Death - Arthur Stringer "What Shall I Care?"

Life and death and the brave who walk between - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"

While death patiently paces the sky - SM Stubbs "Faith"

Between two dates of death - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"

Weary of all but death - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

For death is one, and the fates are three - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Petty death where each in other live - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]

Not a memory of death this time - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"

Priestess in the vaults of Death - Tennyson "In Memoriam"

Death closes all - Alfred Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"

The rich dark clusters of the Vine of Death - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

From the slim-cut decanters of death - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"

Stolen from the ashen banquets of death - Iris Tree "[Lolling in snow, like kings in ermine coats]"

Tugging at the moaning bells of death - Iris Tree "[Shall we be christened poets]"

Death and music in my thought - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

To set aside the tryst with Death - "The Tryst After Death" transl. by Kuno Meyer

The falling star sinks in spiritless death - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson

Meeting Death riding in from the hollow seas - W.J. Turner "Death"

Death flickered in an owl's far cry - W.J. Turner "Death"

Death knows who is here - John Updike "Transparent Strategems"

With love that tastes like starving to death - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Indulge it to the nick of death - Mark Van Doren "The Hills of Little Cornwall"

In the garden yonder of yews and death - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell

Dark shrieks and groans and the lonely death rattle - "Waiting for News!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Baffled by death and love - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward "The Room's Width"

Dark sisters spinning with the grace of death - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"

Front Death and Danger with a level eye - "The Watchword" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

By beauty stabbed to death - John Hall Wheelock "Disdainful Beauty"

Hunger, the shadow cast by death - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

The strands of hunger, death, and love - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

The season trees begin to dress for death - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"

A veiled obsession with death - Katie Willingham "Darwin (Disambiguation)"

Some other purpose in death - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"

As if death had no power to touch him - N.P. Willis "The Shunamite"

When Death shall veil these objects - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Where death's raven marriage blossom falls - Humbert Wolfe "Heine's Last Song"

Give me the death of Tristan and Isolde - Adolf Wolff "The Call of Sex"

Made of chemicals and death - Adolf Wolff "Optimism"

When death was forgotten - Willard Huntington Wright "Later"

Lead the dance of death - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"

Discourtesy of death - W.B. Yeats "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"

You escape the mouth of death - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

Death and its mirror - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"

Death and birth the two infinite walls - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"

Stands at death's frontier checkpoint - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #17" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Deathbed shooting star - Atom Atkinson "closet with the letter 'd' on either end"

In a variety show of deathbed ways - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

To capture time on its deathbed - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "An infinite outing; or the cemetery"


The death-blow of Oppression in a better time and way - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]


Gleaming fish that gasp in the death-bright dawn - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"


The pang of death-despair pass over - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson


The death-dews of Chaos - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"


Phantoms of some old storm's death-driven Titans - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"


A pack of death-hounds guarding me - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"


Deathless.


The crimson death-lights dance - Virna Sheard "Crosses"


Cruel dawn, with icy, deathlike eyes and hollow voice - Carmen Sylva "Rest"


I am the noise with deathly thoughts - CM Burroughs "God Letter"

When Emily's deathly fly calls to her - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [Emily Dickinson]

Exalted, deathly, silent, and alone - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"


Alarmed by the heart's death-march notes - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)


To put a death-mask on tragedy - Mary Jo Bang "The Role of Elegy"


Re-staging that same old Cretaceous deathmatch - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"


Between the pizza and the death ray - Leah Bobet "Her Hero"


Day's death-robes glitter fair - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]


Haunted by the death-scenting shark - Cale Young Rice "Haunted Seas"


The stars, their death-watch keeping - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]


A thousand death-winged messengers - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]


The heat-death of prime time television - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"


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