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somethingdarkerDivert yourself with 19th century Russian novels - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]
More glories than he bought at Aberdeen - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Among the phantom flowers in the meadows beyond Acheron - Richard Aldington "Thanatos" [The Little Review, Mar. 1917, v.3, no.9]
The dismal gulfs of Acheron's black waves - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Lift your heart up out of Acheron - T.M. Kettle "Ballad Autumnal l'Envoi"
More bitter than the depths of Acheron - George Martin "1881"
Fashioned of Aegean foam and languorous moonlight - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
Broke in a surf of blood along the Aisne - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"
In the shadow of the Alamo - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"
Everything seems romantic in Alaska - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"
Hallowed fair Albion's selectest age - William Wallace "The Stage" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
And Albyn's thousand harps awake - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
The august eye of Aldebaran - Lola Ridge "Fame"
More than the cinders of Alexandria - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"
Today the library at Alexandria is sealed - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #9: The Forgotten Yesterday (A dirge of ancient culture)" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Alps.
That cloak the Amazon and its serpentine tributaries - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
America.
Carrying the plight of the Andes in their mouth - Paul Cameron Brown "Ahoy"
Through the enormous vertebrae of the Andes - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
Blood rising under the Andes - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"
Wounds on the forehead of the Andes - Pablo Neruda "Brother Cordillera" transl. by Alastair Reid
Mow through Andromeda spirals - Mike Allen "Deluge"
In bright Andromeda's realms of fire - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XLIX: The Change"
On tiptoe from childhood to Annunciation - Rainer Maria Rilke "Mary Virgin" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Antarctic.
To render strong Antares blind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
The still shimmering plastic shards of the Anthropocene - Keith Taylor "I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes"
For a seat on Appalachia's brow - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"
Aquarius is skewered by a sliver of sleep - John Grey "Skywatching"
Half breed son of Pisces and Aquarius - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Roused from some dream of Arcadia - Guy Wetmore Carryl "The Blatant Brutality of Little Bow Peep"
Though Pan, with Arcady for judge, my claim contest - Virgil "Eclogues IV" (transl. not identified)
Publicity is the keystone in the Arch of Triumph - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
In pre-Archaean periods of elemental stress - William Hodgson Ellis "When You and I were Young, Adam"
Arctic.
That unnamed, tremendous chord Arcturus sounds - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Ascription"
Arcturus was a beacon to the winds - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Fall into the furnace of Arcturus - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
Shall learn the quietness of Arden - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Moving like the prow of the Argos - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
Of a second Argo steering before a prosperous gale - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Of Argo's wandering keel - Clinton Scollard "A Symphony of the Sea (Gloze Royal)"
Storm-worried Argo slept - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
The sighing zephyrs of sandy Argos - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Ark.
Paper all of Arkansas with your missing - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"
Murderers entombed behind Arkham's walls - Andrew Kozma "The Black Death" [Strange Horizons 8 Sept. 2025]
Armada.
Eldritch visions of the Armageddon of the Elder Gods - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"
I thought I knew something about Armageddon - Brian Gyamfi "The Thing Dead on the Road"
Till Armageddon break our sleep - Rudyard Kipling "Song of the Old Guard"
The pulsing wings of Armageddon's host - Charles Battell Loomis "A Classic Ode"
When the Armageddon sunrise breaks - Frank L. Pollock "Ad Bellonam"
The clouds still piled like Armageddon - Charles Wright "Outscape"
In Arno's vale you made yourself a nest - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
And Assyrian wine to shatter her fever - H.D. "Acon"
Huntest on the Assyrian monster's trace - Morton Fullerton "George Meredith" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
Athens.
Atlantic.
Atlantis.
Under the frigid twinkling of Gemini and Auriga - Andre F. Peltier "Hockey Night in Emmett County"
Arthur sleeps far hence in Avalon - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IV. Victory"
Heard the trumpets blow in Avalon - John Masefield "Animula"
Like scarlet domes of Avalon - George Sterling "Beauty Afar"
Then gaze across the falling Avalons - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LII: Hypnerotomachia"
What a gradient through Avernus - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
More than Avon's haunted side - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Sunk in Avon's fatal wave - Anna Williams "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"
When Ninevah and Tyre and Baalbec of the waste went down in blood - Odell Shepard "The Watcher in the Sky"
Babel.
The red moon from Babelmandel's strand looks - N.H. Carter "[No verdure smiles; no crystal fountains play]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843] (Island currently known as Perim)
Babylon.
In vain perused her Baedeker's close-printed sheets - Leonard Bacon "Fame"
spent my days staring into the eye of the Baltic - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"
A mass grave of all our Barbies interred in a pyramid - Josh Pearce "Plastic Paradise Awaits" [Strange Horizons 2 Feb. 2025]
Until these new bastiles fall - Ralph Chaplin "To France"
Through Bastile-bars it sought communion with the free - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Laura Bridgman"
Conquered first by bedlam - William Brewer "West Virginia"
Bedlam of a parallel ejected self - Chiyuma Elliott "Works on Paper"
Bedlam elected himself umpire - Sandy Florian "But This Is Ambiguous"
Airs from the Beggar's Opera on broken fiddles played - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Beggar King"
Where the remote Bermudas ride - Andrew Marvell "Bermudas"
Through Bermuda triangles of blood - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fibroids"
While Bethel's thunder peal'd another story - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Wise Men lost on their way to Bethlehem - Martin Espada "Flowers and Bullets"
For a true bit of Birmingham's best brass - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The psychosis behind Birth of a Nation - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Using the Black Sea as a mirror - Diane Seuss "Song in My Heart"
Into the Black Sea's ribs were hurled - Taras Shevchenko "Hamaleia" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Cheap balloon juice of a Blarney brew - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Over the horizon of the Blue Ridge Mountains - Aliki Barnstone "The Sign as You Exit the Artist's Colony Says 'The Real World'"
And started up Box Hill after the moon - Amy Lowell "On a Certain Critic" [The Little Review, Mar. 1917, v.3, no.9]
A bucketful of Boyne to put the sunrise out - T.M. Kettle "Ulster (A Reply to Rudyard Kipling)"
how to explain brazil to an extraterrestrial - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
Diamonds sought in deep Brazilian mines - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
And exiled Britons toss their daily port - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Swim the violent current down Broadway - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
Tales that haunt the Brocken and whisper down the Rhine - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
As it festers every August in Brooklyn - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"
Pour her fury on Byzantium's towers - Prof. Goodrich, Yale College "Venice as it Was and as it Is (written in 1826)" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Byzantine raised halos and bronze - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"
For what pale giraffes have I left Byzantium - Joyce Mansour "The Sun in Capricorn" transl. by Carol Cosman
Ten gold suns in California - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
Through the depths of the Cambrian fen - Langdon Smith "Evolution"
Of tourney won in Arthur's lists at Camelot - Martin I. Griffin "The Ride of Prince Geraint" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.30, Sept. 1873]
Camelot will not stay - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Follow him to Canaan's shore - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"
In this post-modern Canaan - Richard Solomon "Ba'al Teshuva"
Toward Canaan's blue traced golden paths - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Martyrdom in the far Canada of a hospital room - Thom Gunn "Lament"
Stranded in the Caribbean without a passport - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"
Flew their long routes back to Caribbean beaches - Keith Taylor "The Road from Galahad"
Musing o'er the dust of fallen Carthage - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
To blight 10,000 Carthages - Aimee Le "Bac Hai & the American Way"
A Carthaginian outpost sent to guard the waters - Philip Levine "Drum"
Unless I smell the Carthaginian rose - Edna St Vincent Millay "To the Not Impossible Him"
Endearing murmurs to the Caspian sea - Lermontoff "Gifts of Térek" transl. by T.B. Shaw [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXVIII, v.LIV, Dec. 1843]
From the cold Caspian to the Volga thus the sturgeons pour - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
A humble cloud can bust the lamp of Cassiopeta [sic] - John Grey "Skywatching"
Caught sturgeon in the reed-filled Caspian - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
Captured in Syrian ivory and Caucasian tin - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Snow-clad Cenis' heart of stone might melt - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]
The many intricate songs of birds flying in Central Park - Nancy Mercado "New York at 42"
Within that curtain of Charybdis - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
Who tills the Chersonesus' fruitful soil - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
an intermingling of viridian and chetwode horizons - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"
You're Iowa in the novel about Chicago - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Minor Character"
On Chimborazo's summits treads sublime - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
The ridged wings of Chicxulub's impact - M. Frost "Pterosaur" [Strange Horizons 22 Sept. 2025]
Curtailed by the ever-growing Christmas trees - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Cimmerian depths of mystery and sin - Iris Tree "Streets"
Under the comfort of Cincinnati fog - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad I"
Drive by Coachella to the Salton Sea - Christian Gullette "Coachella Elegy"
Seek Cocytus' stream that runs wailing below - Friederich Schiller "Group from Tartarus" transl. not credited
And long the way from Colchis - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
They nailed the Colosseum down - Oliver Herford "J. Pierpont Morgan"
Camels carted away the broken Colossus of Rhodes - Katie Ford "Koi"
Startling as the Colossus of Rhodes - Adolf Wolff "The Sculptor's Rhapsody"
Hands it back like prizes from Crackerjack - Sarah Getty "That Woman"
Our Cressy's too have dwindled since to penny things - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Re-staging that same old Cretaceous deathmatch - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
By the slaughter of the Cretan bull redeemed - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
That loved herb which best in Cuba grows - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung - Virgil "Eclogues IV" (transl. not identified)
Reduced to the greeting card section of CVS - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"
Cast in the unstilted Cyclades - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"
They raze Cygnus with worries for the next day - John Grey "Skywatching"
Before erupting in a field of Dakota corn - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"
From the source of the Moldau to that of the Danube - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Floating corks in the Dead Sea - Ana Castillo "Tell Me to Live for Something"
Hope with her Dead Sea fruits is there - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Fruit as bitter as the Dead Sea's - "The Misanthrope"
As moons silver the Dead Sea - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"
Stygian shadow cast upon the lone Dead Sea - Clinton Scollard "The Maid of Bethlehem"
Elbowed thru a Deadwood City saloon door - Paul Cameron Brown "Ace of Spades"
Ruffles and ribbons streaming into Delaware - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
And Washington stuck in the Delaware forever - Roger Mitchell "Going Back"
Delphi.
The calorie content of the Diet of Worms - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
Where Dionean Caesar's star comes forth in heaven - Virgil "Eclogues IX" (transl. not identified)
Colonialism, Disney, riots & inoculations - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Built a Disneyland of yellow brick - Michelle Wirth "Campus"
In those weird wastes of Dixie - Effie Lee Newsome "Exodus"
Sprung from Dodona's tree oracular - Kostes Palamas "Our Home" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
While he read all the Domesday Book aloud - Clifford Bax "Square Pegs"
Their names went down in Domesday Book - Rudyard Kipling "The Land"
A ghastly stain in the Domesday book - Henry S. Leigh "The Plot of a Romance"
Their domino theory of quarrels - John Trudell "Restless Situations"
Demagogue tongues that sow the dragon-teeth - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Eden.
Egypt.
The Eldorado that of old haunted your lonely visions - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]
Our El Dorado's treasure stores - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
And lurked before the walls of Elsinore - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: ii) Godzilla in Shakespeare"
Elysium.
The emperor's new clothes aren't my size - John Trudell "Isn't My Life/Elk Song"
England/English.
As Demeter mourned through many-fountained Enna - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
Convoluted Enochian cyphers occupying and freeing up the mind - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"
Houses Pegasus and Equules in its dusty windows - John Grey "Skywatching"
The shades profound of Erebus, beneath the ground interred - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Untouched by fiery Etna's deadly charms - Giosue Carducci "Homer" transl. by Frank Sewall
Your Etna, your senate of dread - Donna Masini "Anxieties"
To bathe naked in the Euphrates - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
Used to play it on the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Dark Euphrates by the ruined towers of Babylon - Frederic Manning "The Vigil of Brunhild"
Shattering the moonlight on the Euphrates - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
Incised sunbaked on a slab of Euphratian clay - David Wojahn "For the Scribe Gar.Una of Uruk, 3,000 B. C."
The Sphinx that puzzled Europe - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"
When banded Europe scowl'd around in gloom - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
Hurled over Europe once on bolt and blast - Alan Seeger "At the Tomb of Napoleon Before the Elections in America--November, 1912"
The earthly dream where the stones of Europe mature - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Crossed the boisterous Euxine tide - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
[Black Sea]
The square root of Everest - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
Where the snake and alligator lurk in endless everglades - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Evolution called itself a natural history store - Margaret Ross "Evolution" [store called Evolution]
Exodus.
A longhorn winding its bells through the Field of Reeds - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Grieved in Florence for April sallies - Anne Spencer "Life-Long, Poor Browning..." [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Red tide strangling Florida's shore - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
While Fomalhaut peers in through southward mists - H.P. Lovecraft "Fungi of Yuggoth [XIV. Star-winds]"
Never really left the Forbidden City of your heart - Alexandra Seidel "The City that Wasn't There"
Our private fountain of youth - Andre F. Peltier "After Soccer Practice"
That ever Sylph had stolen from France - Marguerite, Countess of Blessington "The Belle of a Season"
Standing on the bitter ridge of France - Rita Dove "La Chapelle. 92nd Division. Ted."
That nestles safe close to the heart of France - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Dreaming her over the seas to France - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Columbine in the Hills"
On the bitter roads of France - Virna Sheard "Crosses"
That Sinbad once sailed to Gaza - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"
From beneath Gehenna stirred - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"
And e'en Gehenna's bondsmen understood - Rudyard Kipling "The Legend of Mirth"
Gehenna's abyss gleams with a light - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Dives in Torment"
Revealed in the grandeur of Gemini - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Under the frigid twinkling of Gemini and Auriga - Andre F. Peltier "Hockey Night in Emmett County"
Snuffy old drone from the German hive - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Deacon's Masterpiece: Or the Wonderful 'One-Hoss-Shay'"
Against the weight of frantic Germany - "Sonnet.--To Denmark" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]
Gethsemane.
The jagged cheek of Gibraltar - Ariana Reines "Blue Palestine"
Far from Cinderella's dainty glass slippers - Cynthia Manick "A Taste of Blue"
They don't even ask you to try on the glass slipper - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"
Golconda's pearls and diamonds rich - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
in the beginning was the gold rush - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"
And in his acorns is The Golden Age - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Nor see our Will the Golden Age restore - Maurice F. Egan "The Chrysalis of a Bookworm" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
For us the Golden Age reborn - Ita Aniol Prokop "Gold" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.29, Aug. 1873]
That you will worship a golden calf - "The Seaside Sibyl"
Husbandry to pluck golden fleece - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"
Crammed with golden fleece of stars - John Drinkwater "David and Jonathan"
With Jason ventured for the fated Golden Fleece - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
The sun remembered Golgotha - Elinor Jenkins "Ecce Homo!"
Cleft the air, and swept Gomorrah's plain - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
When proud Gomorrah reared its head - George Sylvester Viereck "The Candle and the Flame"
The wretched hour I ty'd the Gordian Knot - "The Pleasures of a Single Life, Or, The Miseries of Matrimony" [1709]
Gotham's three wise men we be - Thomas Love Peacock "The Men of Gotham"
Grail.
Preaches the holy search for a Grand Unifying Theory - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
crawled inside a grandfather paradox - M. Darusha Wehm "The Chrononaut"
Unwound them where the Great Bear swung - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Rolls and laps in a new Great Flood - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Greece/Greek.
Where Greenland's everlasting glaciers rise - W.H. Rhodes "Masonry"
Takes his sacramental sip of Guinness and resets the sky - M.C. Childs "The Admiral Pub Pinball Repairman Repairs Witch Mountain" [Strange Horizons 19 May 2025]
Hades.
Fugitive lives docking in Halifax - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"
Give Harlem's king one spoon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
Hesperides.
Long dead before Hollywood dividends could ever come - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Kissing the dust of the Holy Land - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Rest"
Seed of the fierce flame that burned on Horeb - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"
Where slain umbrellas travel across the Hudson River - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
Has robbed the spoil of Hybla's bees - Maurice Baring "Phedre"
Wander through wild Hyperborean glades - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: K"
Iberia's brood with iron sway kept down - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The unmagical invitations of Iceland - Seamus Heaney "North"
Descending over Ida's slopes of snow - W.E.A. "The Buried Flower" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]
To hear ice recite The Iliad - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"
The wall is an Iliad of granite - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
The grand exploits of half an Iliad rise - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."
Breath like the Indian clove - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Oh, sunny love!"
His tatters rich with Indian dyes - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
As the Indus turns him back - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
You're Iowa in the novel about Chicago - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Minor Character"
Before the mad clicking on an iPod commenced to spin - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
Too greatly noble for this iron age - Aldous Huxley "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam"
On Hell's last engine of the Iron Cross - Richard Le Gallienne "To Belgium"
When Israel's race from bondage fled - Charles Sprague "An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City"
Fair Italy with atmosphere of fire - David Gray "The Luggie I [sonnet]"
Taking the treacherous road to Ithaka - Tony Hoagland "The Third Dimension"
Burned a Jacob's Ladder into my eyes - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
So she climbed up Jacob's Ladder - Walter Crane "A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden"
Jericho.
Jerusalem its dreams outsoared - William Rose Benét "The City"
The white bones of fanged Jerusalem - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
And Jeremiah mourns Jerusalem - George Santayana "King's College Chapel"
Build me a city and call it Jerusalem - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"
Jordan.
A Judas' kiss will burn your cheek - Frank Horne "On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church"
Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day - Jean Toomer "Cotton Song" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Jupiter.
And Kansas knew his valor when he fought her rights to save - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Upheavals in the steppes of Kazakhstan - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
that hauled Kilimanjaro into Kentucky - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"
that hauled Kilimanjaro into Kentucky - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"
That locked King Philip's War in its annulated core - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Pack a snack-bag with the Kraft food groups - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"
La Mancha's cavalier reposes - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Driven by the winds from the great Lake Victoria - Nicolás Guillén "The Clouds" transl. by Aaron Coleman
I don't know the Latin names of flowers - Sara Nicholson "The Burden"
Dragged a net of Latin through the fields - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"
Endymion, lost and immortal in Latmian dreams - Robert Winkworth Norwood "His Lady of the Sonnets"
While Endymion sleeps on Latmos top alone - Edward Shanks "Song for an Unwritten Play"
For the ghost of bread in Lebanon - Naomi Shihab Nye "Darling"
Old as Lebanon cedars - Marguerite Swawite "I Am Woman"
Burning in Lent's black-bordered dress - Emily Pauline Johnson "Easter"
Daubed with ashes of myriad Lents - Dorothy Parker "Ballade at Thirty-Five"
In one swift Lenten smear of ash - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"
Lethe.
Bees whose stings were deadlier than the Libyan asp - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"
By Lima's crumbling walls I'd pondered - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Homeward Bound" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Limbo.
Darkness from the Little Dipper's spoon - Chris Dombrowski "Statesboro Blues"
London.
Our hearts were left in Los Angeles - Andre F. Peltier "All Good Things"
Los Angeles is laughing through her vines - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
Fare with undiminished speed toward Lyra's stars - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The roads go out to Macedon - Furnley Maurice "Little Boys"
Let someone else ascend the heights of Machu Picchu - Dana Gioia "Travel"
The red clay of Macon dusting his bones - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
The hundred year old air in Macy's - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
A gift from Madagascar - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"
Only the bullying sun of Madrid - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 4. Summer 1969"
Like the tearful saint of Magdala - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)
Who visited Magic Kingdom every summer - Leonora Simonovis "Little Bruja"
You who saw him facing Manhattan - Witter Bynner "This Man"
In the smoky canyons of Manhattan - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
That flow of fabrics and waters of Manhattan - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Burn up Manhattan like a reed - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Manna.
Chalice from Marah's bitterest spring distill'd - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
Marathon.
The black lungs of the Marlboro woman - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
Mars.
That redder rain on bloody Marston Moor - "The Watchword" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
The Mayan night breathing deep - Joseph Bruchac "Neh Tsoi"
On the way to Mecca, many dangers - Rumi "Someone Digging in the Ground" transl. by Coleman Barks
Black Mercedes with the Ayn Rand vanity plate - Kevin Prufer "Bread and Cake"
Mercury.
Scrolling through Merriam Webster's youngest words - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
O'er the Midgard-monster mighty Thor loomed - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Pauline"
Revealing the curved arc of our shared Milan - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"
Milk and Honey
Milky Way.
In which I escape to the Minnesota lakes - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
Mississippi.
Plant vigor along the Missouri - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"
Come close to the Mojave's affection - Faylita Hicks "Self-Care"
From the source of the Moldau to that of the Danube - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Trapped in an attic with rats that play Monopoly - Fleda Brown "Afternoons at the Lake"
Face to face with Monsanto - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"
Half a mile down from Monticello - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"
Built on Moscow's plan - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"
Mud of Moscow, scum of Warsaw - Taras Shevchenko "To the Dead" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
That burning Moscow's memory there may sleep - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
The motown long plays for the comeback of Osiris - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Vesuvio's flame reflected clear in glassy seas of Napoli - J.S. [John Sterling] "Goethe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Venice and Naples learned their part - Henry David Thoreau "A River Scene"
In the best accent of Nebraska's plain - Leonard Bacon "Fame"
Nor fled to low nepenthes for your pain - Richard Le Gallienne "If, After All...!"
Mixes the cup nepenthe - Louis J. McQuilland "The House of the Strange Woman"
Nepenthe-streams of ecstacies - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
With a saving drink of iced Nepenthe comes - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Neptune.
New England's tapestry of stone - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Your New England uncanniness - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
Shed these wools of my first winter in Upstate New York - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
Niagara Falls.
Nile.
Ninevah.
Noah's Ark: See Ark
You'd better ask the cold North Sea - Rudyard Kipling "Frankie's Trade"
Between Orion and the Northern Wain - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"
Those specters thawing out of the Northwest Passage - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
The witches of Norway pluck their geese - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]
On the bleak shore of Norway - Henry S. Leigh "Songs of the Sick Room No.1: Cod Liver Oil"
Old World.
Olympian/Olympus.
That once I strove with beasts in Omaha - Leonard Bacon "Six Long Hours in Los Angeles"
Until the final asteroid hides Omaha - Michael Dumanis "Nebraska"
Ending in an ouroboric blaze of regret - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"
Over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"
We sought Pacific's tranquil seas - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
The grey Pacific unrolling its scrolls of surf - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
At once Baroque and Paleolithic - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Jewels lost in Palmyra of old - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
Paris [city].
Leading up Insects and Birds to Parnassus - "The Council of Dogs"
a pause then to Parnassus reach - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Poet at Play"
Towards the steep Parnassian way - Richard Le Gallienne "To a Poet"
The heights of Parnassus climb - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"
Where Time has dallied with the Parthenon - David Gray "The Luggie I [sonnet]"
Trying to transfer at the Pearly Gates - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
A treeful of angels at Peckham Rye - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
Houses Pegasus and Equules in its dusty windows - John Grey "Skywatching"
Where Pelion's twilight shadow falls - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
Filled your streets with your comic Pentecost - T.M. Kettle "Asquith in Dublin"
Levelled Pergamus' beleaguered towers - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The sons of Odin tread on Persian looms - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Phoenicians destroying Greece for Persia - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"
With Persian roses crowned my stay - Justin H. McCarthy "Dedication [Hafiz in London 1886]"
Who wore the crown of Persia - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"
Hid by emeralds from Persia - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"
Perugia's portals and Siena's towers - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XXXVI"
The key to a philosopher's stone - Noel Quiñones "Orange"
Dark Phlegethon's detested maze - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Phlegethon no more need fright us - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
Drank full many a draught of Phlegethon's black flood - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Phoenicians destroying Greece for Persia - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"
Phoenicean fabrics far surpass - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"
Phoenicians battling with the sea brought me from far away - Kostes Palamas "The Answer" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
And sought th' adulterer's Phrygian bed - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
At this dread crisis Phyrgian heroes rise - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The city where my Phrygian votaries dwelt - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
By steeds that browsed the Phthian lawn - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Half breed son of Pisces and Aquarius - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
The mean annual rainfall on Plato's Republic - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
Pleiades.
Graze my palm on the Pliocene - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"
Pluto/Plutonian.
Rifling Polaris and the Seven Stars - E.J. Pratt "The Fog"
Pomegranates growing from Pompeiian ash - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog"
Before Pompeii was hot - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"
The flame of a Pompeian lamp - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Cantina"
Breathless along Pompeii's streets we strayed - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Drawn like apostles toward Popocatépetl - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
O'er crimson Potomac the sound rose again - "Give Us Room" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Marched across the bridged Potomac - Edmund Clarence Stedman "How Old Brown Took Harper's Ferry"
Promised Land.
A rock where Punic faith should bide its vow - Roger Casement "Hamilcar Barca"
Taught Punic faith and mocked the laws - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
I'll unpack my dark heart and Purell my hands - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"
Purgatorio in the pond's reflection - Charles Wright "With Alighieri on Basin Creek"
Purgatory.
Roland's song comes down from the Pyrenees - Mark Jarman "Song of Roland"
The rage with which he sought the Pythian tripod - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Whom I have stationed in the Pythian realm - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
a Galatea in Python too cold to share a bed with - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"
The Red Sea of mine own passion - Helen Parry Eden "A Prayer for St Innocent's Day"
Arid expanses where the Red Sea meets the sand - Matthew Shenoda "Donkey Carts and Desolation"
Crossing the Red Sea of Revolution - Adolf Wolff "On Seeing the Garment Strikers March"
Round the broad Rhine's unchurched billows - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Where the Rhine pours down its sounding tide - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"
And at our elbows ran the Rhine - George Meredith "Rhine-land" [Household Words no.330, July 19, 1856]
Tales that haunt the Brocken and whisper down the Rhine - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Where Rigel sends no word of might - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
The Road of Ghosts is blue in the heavens - Margaret Noodin "They Arrive" transl. by the author
Clutching their holly on Roanoke island - Paul Cameron Brown "Ancient of Days"
Flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"
Rome.
the roundtable turned square - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Russia.
Before the Roman came to Rye - G.K. Chesterton "The Rolling English Road"
The windy levels spread about the gates of Rye - Rudyard Kipling "Puck's Song"
Notes that resound in the caves of Sacromonte - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
Can spin Sagittarius into spider - John Grey "Skywatching"
Sagittarius has an arrow drawn at the very heart of Scorpio - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
By what law did Sagittarius make his squatter's claim - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
An expanse of sand that beggars the Sahara - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"
How far is St Helena from a fight in Paris street? - Rudyard Kipling "A Priest in Spite of Himself: A St Helena Lullaby"
Must soon enchain St. Lawrence' [sic] mighty tide - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
Foaming to the sewers of St. Paul - David Wojahn "August, 1953"
And lifts her dome yet higher than St. Paul's - "The Druriad" [1798]
That led to Salem's towers and temple high - J. Rheyn Piksohn "A Contrasted Picture: from 'Passion Ode,' an Unpublished Poem" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Where Salerno day-dreams in the noon - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"
Drive by Coachella to the Salton Sea - Christian Gullette "Coachella Elegy"
Hot Santa Ana wind mopes across clay courts - Christian Gullette "The Fish"
Saturn.
Of Saxon eyes and barbarous soul - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
Even the Saxons bowed before you - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Strewed their shorn tresses on Scamander's banks - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Sagittarius has an arrow drawn at the very heart of Scorpio - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
As Scorpio rises, Orion goes down - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
A branch from Scotland's shore - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."
Hums a little Scottish ballad about time - Major Jackson "Addiction"
Loved by him whom Scotland loves - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Across the silvery dusts of the Sea of Tranquility - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"
Only the wind from the Seven Hills - Beulah Field "The Wayfarer"
With the stride of seven league boots - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"
Had heard the voice of the seven sins - Richard Le Gallienne "Sore in Need Was I of a Faithful Friend"
The holy kings ride down by Severn side - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
You must have died once in Seville - Andrea Cohen "More Stones"
Shanghaied without a steady place to eat - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
The one in that park in Shanghai - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
Followed Sherman's march, triumphant to the sea - W.H. Rhodes "The Love Knot"
Which made doomed Shinar a memento of human pride - W.H. Rhodes "The Merchant's Exchange"
Wandering across the porcelain Siberia - Joanie Mackowski "Ants [excerpt]"
Waded through rough surf to a sunny beach in Sicily - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
Perugia's portals and Siena's towers - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XXXVI"
Silent Lake with something of wild dimensions - Paul Cameron Brown "Reading the Tides: Petroglyph Park"
Heard Mount Sinai's thunder roll - John Castillo "Old Sam! or the Effects of the Gospel"
A lightning sent from Sinai and a gleam from great Olympus - Kostes Palamas "Our Home" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
cut text="Sirius">Sits in Sirius' disc all night - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
I plucked down Sirius like a pear - T.M. Kettle "The Lady of Life"
Where parching Sirius set in drought - Herman Melville "The House-top"
A draught from Sodom's lake - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
This last night of Sodom - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"
And the lines attested by Solomon's Seal - Walter Crane "A Flower Wedding"
Like the mystic seal of Solomon, it scratched a magic knot - Kostes Palamas "The Comrade" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Some sudden spell Soviet doctors connected to his heart - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Till the spears of Spain came shivering in - W.E.A. "The Heart of the Bruce" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
A Spanish horse saddled for her dreams - Robert Graves "Baloo Loo for Jenny"
An accidental import from Spain - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"
In lost Spain's darkened noon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
And the Spaniards were seeking gold - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"
Spartan coolness temper'd Roman fire - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
As firm as Sparta's king - Sir Francis Hastings Doyle "The Private of the Buffs"
The iron lilies of the Strand - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"
Stygian: See Styx/Stygian.
Styx/Stygian.
For music carved on Sumerian stones - Carolyn Forche "Dulcimer Maker"
Rifle in Babylon rifles in Sumer - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"
Superior throbbing her meter deep into the basalt - M. Bartley Seigel "Into the Thicket" [Lake Superior]
Where the Syrian cedars grew - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
Captured in Syrian ivory and Caucasian tin - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Lend fires to Syria's East at dawn unveiling - Virginia "Lamartine to Madame Jorelle from the French" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Taj Mahals that rise out of the mist at dawn - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"
Old, with our crystalline bones of Tao - Wang An-Shih "Flourish Time-worn and I Wander Beguiled and Never Meet" transl. by David Hinton
For the vengeance of Tara's proud hill - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
Tartarus.
Cast a ray to light lone Tasso's gloom - Marie J. Ewen "Corinna at the Capitol" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.449, 7 Aug. 1852]
The radio impulse pouring from Taurus - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"
Misplaced my faith in Tennessee - Randall Mann "End Words"
Where the Teslas spun their burnished wheels - David Wojahn "Inauguration Day, 2025"
Replicant echoes in red earth and Tesla coils - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"
Texas heat stalks me like a question - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Split time between metal and Tejano - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"
Some Texas limestone golem - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"
Each Theban erst attuned the jocund lute - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Gray prophet of the fount of Thebes - Michael Field "An Antiphony of Advent"
Spoke the sacred names of Thebes - Ann K. Schwader "Horizon of the Aten"
To guard their own Thermopylae - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"
A song from stern Thermopylae - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Bred Thermopylae its heroes - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
As if eating were a thousand and one nights - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"
Bathes his gory heel in Tiber's rills - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
I want to breathe in the Tide of cleanliness - Andrea Carter Brown "On Reading Allen Ginsberg's 'Homework'" [italics in the original]
Used to play it on the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Time Machine.
Your golden lie of Tir-na-n'Og - T.M. Kettle "Dedication Sonnet to My Wife"
The time we didn't go to Topeka - Jaswinder Bolina "Aviary"
In foam and flame at Trafalgar - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"
An arm hanging from the branch of the Tree of Knowledge - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Wrought our souls from the Tremadoc beds - Langdon Smith "Evolution"
Riding the backs of the Trojan Women - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
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Troy.
We will know when we give it a Turing test - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Raised by Wolves"
Tuscan rhymes of love and wine and dance - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Woven from the cloth of Tyre - Fenton Johnson "The Vision of Lazarus"
When Ninevah and Tyre and Baalbec of the waste went down in blood - Odell Shepard "The Watcher in the Sky"
That sailed from Tyre a thousand years ago - Francis Brett Young "The Dhows"
From the Tyrrhene foam to the rent heart of Rome - Algernon Charles Swinburn "A Song of Italy"
Eternally exposed at Union Square - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
The U.S. school-to-prison state's laser-like vision - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"
Shed these wools of my first winter in Upstate New York - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
Felt the burden of sin in Urban Outfitters - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
Went to Utah on a hired truck - Maya Marshall "The Collection Room"
Valhalla.
Their thunder rolling from the Vatican - Francis Mahony (Father Prout) "The Bells of Shandon"
All the Vatican sparrows killed so he could pray - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]
Venice.
The ticking clocks in Vermont sway back and forth - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
The saccharine gardens of Verona - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Under the Cypresses"
Build Versailles in a maple's cubby - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"
Versailles half expressed - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"
One to the thief of Versailles - Taras Shevchenko "To the Goddess of Fame" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Reverse the errors of Versailles - Humbert Wolfe "France"
Vesuvius.
Wallowing in an orgy of Baroque facades and Victorian gingerbread - Samantha Pious "Interior Castle" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]
Unsealing the mystery of Virgo - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Wear Virgo's diamond in your hair - John Grey "Skywatching"
Virgo halfway across the heavens - Charles Wright "Double Salt"
From the cold Caspian to the Volga thus the sturgeons pour - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Their ears will hear the Wakhan ridge call - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"
Walden Pond has been drained - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
The haze of Wall Street touching clouds of double consciousness - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Mud of Moscow, scum of Warsaw - Taras Shevchenko "To the Dead" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Washington's elite that vowed to drown them - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
In the drizzle of this wild west town - Bernadine Evaristo "Amo Amas Amat"
Tells a story the Woolworth Building may repeat - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Whistled up past the Woolworth - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Within the World-Tree's mighty arms - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"
Those penny-ante Xanadus - Boris Dralyuk "Bargain Circus"
For the lost terrains of Xanadu or Johannes Kepler - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
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]
Literary values before the days of YouTube - Elaine Equi "Cats, Now and Forever"
Watch the smooth airships of Zen - Tony Hoagland "Upward"
Practicing the Zen art of vanishing - Philip Schultz "At the Manhattan Social Security Office"
For use only by a zen sun laughing - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"
A dragon's gotta get zen with emphemerality - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Wakening amid the silent ruins of Zion - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Zion of drainage and damp cement - Hailey Leithauser "Jiminy"
The round Zion of the water bead - Dylan Thomas "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"
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More glories than he bought at Aberdeen - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Among the phantom flowers in the meadows beyond Acheron - Richard Aldington "Thanatos" [The Little Review, Mar. 1917, v.3, no.9]
The dismal gulfs of Acheron's black waves - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Lift your heart up out of Acheron - T.M. Kettle "Ballad Autumnal l'Envoi"
More bitter than the depths of Acheron - George Martin "1881"
Fashioned of Aegean foam and languorous moonlight - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
Broke in a surf of blood along the Aisne - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"
In the shadow of the Alamo - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"
Everything seems romantic in Alaska - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"
Hallowed fair Albion's selectest age - William Wallace "The Stage" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
And Albyn's thousand harps awake - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
The august eye of Aldebaran - Lola Ridge "Fame"
More than the cinders of Alexandria - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"
Today the library at Alexandria is sealed - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #9: The Forgotten Yesterday (A dirge of ancient culture)" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Alps.
That cloak the Amazon and its serpentine tributaries - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
America.
Carrying the plight of the Andes in their mouth - Paul Cameron Brown "Ahoy"
Through the enormous vertebrae of the Andes - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
Blood rising under the Andes - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"
Wounds on the forehead of the Andes - Pablo Neruda "Brother Cordillera" transl. by Alastair Reid
Mow through Andromeda spirals - Mike Allen "Deluge"
In bright Andromeda's realms of fire - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XLIX: The Change"
On tiptoe from childhood to Annunciation - Rainer Maria Rilke "Mary Virgin" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Antarctic.
To render strong Antares blind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
The still shimmering plastic shards of the Anthropocene - Keith Taylor "I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes"
For a seat on Appalachia's brow - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"
Aquarius is skewered by a sliver of sleep - John Grey "Skywatching"
Half breed son of Pisces and Aquarius - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Roused from some dream of Arcadia - Guy Wetmore Carryl "The Blatant Brutality of Little Bow Peep"
Though Pan, with Arcady for judge, my claim contest - Virgil "Eclogues IV" (transl. not identified)
Publicity is the keystone in the Arch of Triumph - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
In pre-Archaean periods of elemental stress - William Hodgson Ellis "When You and I were Young, Adam"
Arctic.
That unnamed, tremendous chord Arcturus sounds - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Ascription"
Arcturus was a beacon to the winds - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Fall into the furnace of Arcturus - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
Shall learn the quietness of Arden - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Moving like the prow of the Argos - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
Of a second Argo steering before a prosperous gale - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Of Argo's wandering keel - Clinton Scollard "A Symphony of the Sea (Gloze Royal)"
Storm-worried Argo slept - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
The sighing zephyrs of sandy Argos - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Ark.
Paper all of Arkansas with your missing - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"
Murderers entombed behind Arkham's walls - Andrew Kozma "The Black Death" [Strange Horizons 8 Sept. 2025]
Armada.
Eldritch visions of the Armageddon of the Elder Gods - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"
I thought I knew something about Armageddon - Brian Gyamfi "The Thing Dead on the Road"
Till Armageddon break our sleep - Rudyard Kipling "Song of the Old Guard"
The pulsing wings of Armageddon's host - Charles Battell Loomis "A Classic Ode"
When the Armageddon sunrise breaks - Frank L. Pollock "Ad Bellonam"
The clouds still piled like Armageddon - Charles Wright "Outscape"
In Arno's vale you made yourself a nest - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
And Assyrian wine to shatter her fever - H.D. "Acon"
Huntest on the Assyrian monster's trace - Morton Fullerton "George Meredith" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
Athens.
Atlantic.
Atlantis.
Under the frigid twinkling of Gemini and Auriga - Andre F. Peltier "Hockey Night in Emmett County"
Arthur sleeps far hence in Avalon - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IV. Victory"
Heard the trumpets blow in Avalon - John Masefield "Animula"
Like scarlet domes of Avalon - George Sterling "Beauty Afar"
Then gaze across the falling Avalons - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LII: Hypnerotomachia"
What a gradient through Avernus - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
More than Avon's haunted side - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Sunk in Avon's fatal wave - Anna Williams "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"
When Ninevah and Tyre and Baalbec of the waste went down in blood - Odell Shepard "The Watcher in the Sky"
Babel.
The red moon from Babelmandel's strand looks - N.H. Carter "[No verdure smiles; no crystal fountains play]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843] (Island currently known as Perim)
Babylon.
In vain perused her Baedeker's close-printed sheets - Leonard Bacon "Fame"
spent my days staring into the eye of the Baltic - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"
A mass grave of all our Barbies interred in a pyramid - Josh Pearce "Plastic Paradise Awaits" [Strange Horizons 2 Feb. 2025]
Until these new bastiles fall - Ralph Chaplin "To France"
Through Bastile-bars it sought communion with the free - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Laura Bridgman"
Conquered first by bedlam - William Brewer "West Virginia"
Bedlam of a parallel ejected self - Chiyuma Elliott "Works on Paper"
Bedlam elected himself umpire - Sandy Florian "But This Is Ambiguous"
Airs from the Beggar's Opera on broken fiddles played - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Beggar King"
Where the remote Bermudas ride - Andrew Marvell "Bermudas"
Through Bermuda triangles of blood - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fibroids"
While Bethel's thunder peal'd another story - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Wise Men lost on their way to Bethlehem - Martin Espada "Flowers and Bullets"
For a true bit of Birmingham's best brass - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The psychosis behind Birth of a Nation - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Using the Black Sea as a mirror - Diane Seuss "Song in My Heart"
Into the Black Sea's ribs were hurled - Taras Shevchenko "Hamaleia" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Cheap balloon juice of a Blarney brew - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Over the horizon of the Blue Ridge Mountains - Aliki Barnstone "The Sign as You Exit the Artist's Colony Says 'The Real World'"
And started up Box Hill after the moon - Amy Lowell "On a Certain Critic" [The Little Review, Mar. 1917, v.3, no.9]
A bucketful of Boyne to put the sunrise out - T.M. Kettle "Ulster (A Reply to Rudyard Kipling)"
how to explain brazil to an extraterrestrial - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
Diamonds sought in deep Brazilian mines - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
And exiled Britons toss their daily port - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Swim the violent current down Broadway - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
Tales that haunt the Brocken and whisper down the Rhine - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
As it festers every August in Brooklyn - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"
Pour her fury on Byzantium's towers - Prof. Goodrich, Yale College "Venice as it Was and as it Is (written in 1826)" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Byzantine raised halos and bronze - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"
For what pale giraffes have I left Byzantium - Joyce Mansour "The Sun in Capricorn" transl. by Carol Cosman
Ten gold suns in California - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
Through the depths of the Cambrian fen - Langdon Smith "Evolution"
Of tourney won in Arthur's lists at Camelot - Martin I. Griffin "The Ride of Prince Geraint" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.30, Sept. 1873]
Camelot will not stay - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Follow him to Canaan's shore - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"
In this post-modern Canaan - Richard Solomon "Ba'al Teshuva"
Toward Canaan's blue traced golden paths - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Martyrdom in the far Canada of a hospital room - Thom Gunn "Lament"
Stranded in the Caribbean without a passport - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"
Flew their long routes back to Caribbean beaches - Keith Taylor "The Road from Galahad"
Musing o'er the dust of fallen Carthage - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
To blight 10,000 Carthages - Aimee Le "Bac Hai & the American Way"
A Carthaginian outpost sent to guard the waters - Philip Levine "Drum"
Unless I smell the Carthaginian rose - Edna St Vincent Millay "To the Not Impossible Him"
Endearing murmurs to the Caspian sea - Lermontoff "Gifts of Térek" transl. by T.B. Shaw [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXVIII, v.LIV, Dec. 1843]
From the cold Caspian to the Volga thus the sturgeons pour - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
A humble cloud can bust the lamp of Cassiopeta [sic] - John Grey "Skywatching"
Caught sturgeon in the reed-filled Caspian - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
Captured in Syrian ivory and Caucasian tin - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Snow-clad Cenis' heart of stone might melt - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]
The many intricate songs of birds flying in Central Park - Nancy Mercado "New York at 42"
Within that curtain of Charybdis - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
Who tills the Chersonesus' fruitful soil - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
an intermingling of viridian and chetwode horizons - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"
You're Iowa in the novel about Chicago - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Minor Character"
On Chimborazo's summits treads sublime - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
The ridged wings of Chicxulub's impact - M. Frost "Pterosaur" [Strange Horizons 22 Sept. 2025]
Curtailed by the ever-growing Christmas trees - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Cimmerian depths of mystery and sin - Iris Tree "Streets"
Under the comfort of Cincinnati fog - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad I"
Drive by Coachella to the Salton Sea - Christian Gullette "Coachella Elegy"
Seek Cocytus' stream that runs wailing below - Friederich Schiller "Group from Tartarus" transl. not credited
And long the way from Colchis - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
They nailed the Colosseum down - Oliver Herford "J. Pierpont Morgan"
Camels carted away the broken Colossus of Rhodes - Katie Ford "Koi"
Startling as the Colossus of Rhodes - Adolf Wolff "The Sculptor's Rhapsody"
Hands it back like prizes from Crackerjack - Sarah Getty "That Woman"
Our Cressy's too have dwindled since to penny things - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Re-staging that same old Cretaceous deathmatch - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
By the slaughter of the Cretan bull redeemed - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
That loved herb which best in Cuba grows - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung - Virgil "Eclogues IV" (transl. not identified)
Reduced to the greeting card section of CVS - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"
Cast in the unstilted Cyclades - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"
They raze Cygnus with worries for the next day - John Grey "Skywatching"
Before erupting in a field of Dakota corn - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"
From the source of the Moldau to that of the Danube - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Floating corks in the Dead Sea - Ana Castillo "Tell Me to Live for Something"
Hope with her Dead Sea fruits is there - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Fruit as bitter as the Dead Sea's - "The Misanthrope"
As moons silver the Dead Sea - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"
Stygian shadow cast upon the lone Dead Sea - Clinton Scollard "The Maid of Bethlehem"
Elbowed thru a Deadwood City saloon door - Paul Cameron Brown "Ace of Spades"
Ruffles and ribbons streaming into Delaware - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
And Washington stuck in the Delaware forever - Roger Mitchell "Going Back"
Delphi.
The calorie content of the Diet of Worms - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
Where Dionean Caesar's star comes forth in heaven - Virgil "Eclogues IX" (transl. not identified)
Colonialism, Disney, riots & inoculations - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Built a Disneyland of yellow brick - Michelle Wirth "Campus"
In those weird wastes of Dixie - Effie Lee Newsome "Exodus"
Sprung from Dodona's tree oracular - Kostes Palamas "Our Home" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
While he read all the Domesday Book aloud - Clifford Bax "Square Pegs"
Their names went down in Domesday Book - Rudyard Kipling "The Land"
A ghastly stain in the Domesday book - Henry S. Leigh "The Plot of a Romance"
Their domino theory of quarrels - John Trudell "Restless Situations"
Demagogue tongues that sow the dragon-teeth - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Eden.
Egypt.
The Eldorado that of old haunted your lonely visions - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]
Our El Dorado's treasure stores - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
And lurked before the walls of Elsinore - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: ii) Godzilla in Shakespeare"
Elysium.
The emperor's new clothes aren't my size - John Trudell "Isn't My Life/Elk Song"
England/English.
As Demeter mourned through many-fountained Enna - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
Convoluted Enochian cyphers occupying and freeing up the mind - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"
Houses Pegasus and Equules in its dusty windows - John Grey "Skywatching"
The shades profound of Erebus, beneath the ground interred - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Untouched by fiery Etna's deadly charms - Giosue Carducci "Homer" transl. by Frank Sewall
Your Etna, your senate of dread - Donna Masini "Anxieties"
To bathe naked in the Euphrates - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
Used to play it on the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Dark Euphrates by the ruined towers of Babylon - Frederic Manning "The Vigil of Brunhild"
Shattering the moonlight on the Euphrates - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
Incised sunbaked on a slab of Euphratian clay - David Wojahn "For the Scribe Gar.Una of Uruk, 3,000 B. C."
The Sphinx that puzzled Europe - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"
When banded Europe scowl'd around in gloom - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
Hurled over Europe once on bolt and blast - Alan Seeger "At the Tomb of Napoleon Before the Elections in America--November, 1912"
The earthly dream where the stones of Europe mature - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Crossed the boisterous Euxine tide - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
[Black Sea]
The square root of Everest - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
Where the snake and alligator lurk in endless everglades - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Evolution called itself a natural history store - Margaret Ross "Evolution" [store called Evolution]
Exodus.
A longhorn winding its bells through the Field of Reeds - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Grieved in Florence for April sallies - Anne Spencer "Life-Long, Poor Browning..." [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Red tide strangling Florida's shore - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
While Fomalhaut peers in through southward mists - H.P. Lovecraft "Fungi of Yuggoth [XIV. Star-winds]"
Never really left the Forbidden City of your heart - Alexandra Seidel "The City that Wasn't There"
Our private fountain of youth - Andre F. Peltier "After Soccer Practice"
That ever Sylph had stolen from France - Marguerite, Countess of Blessington "The Belle of a Season"
Standing on the bitter ridge of France - Rita Dove "La Chapelle. 92nd Division. Ted."
That nestles safe close to the heart of France - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Dreaming her over the seas to France - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Columbine in the Hills"
On the bitter roads of France - Virna Sheard "Crosses"
That Sinbad once sailed to Gaza - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"
From beneath Gehenna stirred - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"
And e'en Gehenna's bondsmen understood - Rudyard Kipling "The Legend of Mirth"
Gehenna's abyss gleams with a light - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Dives in Torment"
Revealed in the grandeur of Gemini - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Under the frigid twinkling of Gemini and Auriga - Andre F. Peltier "Hockey Night in Emmett County"
Snuffy old drone from the German hive - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Deacon's Masterpiece: Or the Wonderful 'One-Hoss-Shay'"
Against the weight of frantic Germany - "Sonnet.--To Denmark" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]
Gethsemane.
The jagged cheek of Gibraltar - Ariana Reines "Blue Palestine"
Far from Cinderella's dainty glass slippers - Cynthia Manick "A Taste of Blue"
They don't even ask you to try on the glass slipper - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"
Golconda's pearls and diamonds rich - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
in the beginning was the gold rush - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"
And in his acorns is The Golden Age - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Nor see our Will the Golden Age restore - Maurice F. Egan "The Chrysalis of a Bookworm" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
For us the Golden Age reborn - Ita Aniol Prokop "Gold" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.29, Aug. 1873]
That you will worship a golden calf - "The Seaside Sibyl"
Husbandry to pluck golden fleece - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"
Crammed with golden fleece of stars - John Drinkwater "David and Jonathan"
With Jason ventured for the fated Golden Fleece - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
The sun remembered Golgotha - Elinor Jenkins "Ecce Homo!"
Cleft the air, and swept Gomorrah's plain - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
When proud Gomorrah reared its head - George Sylvester Viereck "The Candle and the Flame"
The wretched hour I ty'd the Gordian Knot - "The Pleasures of a Single Life, Or, The Miseries of Matrimony" [1709]
Gotham's three wise men we be - Thomas Love Peacock "The Men of Gotham"
Grail.
Preaches the holy search for a Grand Unifying Theory - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
crawled inside a grandfather paradox - M. Darusha Wehm "The Chrononaut"
Unwound them where the Great Bear swung - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Rolls and laps in a new Great Flood - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Greece/Greek.
Where Greenland's everlasting glaciers rise - W.H. Rhodes "Masonry"
Takes his sacramental sip of Guinness and resets the sky - M.C. Childs "The Admiral Pub Pinball Repairman Repairs Witch Mountain" [Strange Horizons 19 May 2025]
Hades.
Fugitive lives docking in Halifax - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"
Give Harlem's king one spoon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
Hesperides.
Long dead before Hollywood dividends could ever come - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Kissing the dust of the Holy Land - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Rest"
Seed of the fierce flame that burned on Horeb - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"
Where slain umbrellas travel across the Hudson River - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
Has robbed the spoil of Hybla's bees - Maurice Baring "Phedre"
Wander through wild Hyperborean glades - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: K"
Iberia's brood with iron sway kept down - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The unmagical invitations of Iceland - Seamus Heaney "North"
Descending over Ida's slopes of snow - W.E.A. "The Buried Flower" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]
To hear ice recite The Iliad - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"
The wall is an Iliad of granite - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
The grand exploits of half an Iliad rise - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."
Breath like the Indian clove - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Oh, sunny love!"
His tatters rich with Indian dyes - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
As the Indus turns him back - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
You're Iowa in the novel about Chicago - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Minor Character"
Before the mad clicking on an iPod commenced to spin - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
Too greatly noble for this iron age - Aldous Huxley "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam"
On Hell's last engine of the Iron Cross - Richard Le Gallienne "To Belgium"
When Israel's race from bondage fled - Charles Sprague "An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City"
Fair Italy with atmosphere of fire - David Gray "The Luggie I [sonnet]"
Taking the treacherous road to Ithaka - Tony Hoagland "The Third Dimension"
Burned a Jacob's Ladder into my eyes - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
So she climbed up Jacob's Ladder - Walter Crane "A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden"
Jericho.
Jerusalem its dreams outsoared - William Rose Benét "The City"
The white bones of fanged Jerusalem - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
And Jeremiah mourns Jerusalem - George Santayana "King's College Chapel"
Build me a city and call it Jerusalem - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"
Jordan.
A Judas' kiss will burn your cheek - Frank Horne "On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church"
Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day - Jean Toomer "Cotton Song" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Jupiter.
And Kansas knew his valor when he fought her rights to save - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Upheavals in the steppes of Kazakhstan - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
that hauled Kilimanjaro into Kentucky - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"
that hauled Kilimanjaro into Kentucky - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"
That locked King Philip's War in its annulated core - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Pack a snack-bag with the Kraft food groups - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"
La Mancha's cavalier reposes - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Driven by the winds from the great Lake Victoria - Nicolás Guillén "The Clouds" transl. by Aaron Coleman
I don't know the Latin names of flowers - Sara Nicholson "The Burden"
Dragged a net of Latin through the fields - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"
Endymion, lost and immortal in Latmian dreams - Robert Winkworth Norwood "His Lady of the Sonnets"
While Endymion sleeps on Latmos top alone - Edward Shanks "Song for an Unwritten Play"
For the ghost of bread in Lebanon - Naomi Shihab Nye "Darling"
Old as Lebanon cedars - Marguerite Swawite "I Am Woman"
Burning in Lent's black-bordered dress - Emily Pauline Johnson "Easter"
Daubed with ashes of myriad Lents - Dorothy Parker "Ballade at Thirty-Five"
In one swift Lenten smear of ash - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"
Lethe.
Bees whose stings were deadlier than the Libyan asp - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"
By Lima's crumbling walls I'd pondered - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Homeward Bound" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Limbo.
Darkness from the Little Dipper's spoon - Chris Dombrowski "Statesboro Blues"
London.
Our hearts were left in Los Angeles - Andre F. Peltier "All Good Things"
Los Angeles is laughing through her vines - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
Fare with undiminished speed toward Lyra's stars - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The roads go out to Macedon - Furnley Maurice "Little Boys"
Let someone else ascend the heights of Machu Picchu - Dana Gioia "Travel"
The red clay of Macon dusting his bones - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
The hundred year old air in Macy's - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
A gift from Madagascar - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"
Only the bullying sun of Madrid - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 4. Summer 1969"
Like the tearful saint of Magdala - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)
Who visited Magic Kingdom every summer - Leonora Simonovis "Little Bruja"
You who saw him facing Manhattan - Witter Bynner "This Man"
In the smoky canyons of Manhattan - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
That flow of fabrics and waters of Manhattan - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Burn up Manhattan like a reed - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Manna.
Chalice from Marah's bitterest spring distill'd - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
Marathon.
The black lungs of the Marlboro woman - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
Mars.
That redder rain on bloody Marston Moor - "The Watchword" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
The Mayan night breathing deep - Joseph Bruchac "Neh Tsoi"
On the way to Mecca, many dangers - Rumi "Someone Digging in the Ground" transl. by Coleman Barks
Black Mercedes with the Ayn Rand vanity plate - Kevin Prufer "Bread and Cake"
Mercury.
Scrolling through Merriam Webster's youngest words - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
O'er the Midgard-monster mighty Thor loomed - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Pauline"
Revealing the curved arc of our shared Milan - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"
Milk and Honey
Milky Way.
In which I escape to the Minnesota lakes - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
Mississippi.
Plant vigor along the Missouri - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"
Come close to the Mojave's affection - Faylita Hicks "Self-Care"
From the source of the Moldau to that of the Danube - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Trapped in an attic with rats that play Monopoly - Fleda Brown "Afternoons at the Lake"
Face to face with Monsanto - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"
Half a mile down from Monticello - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"
Built on Moscow's plan - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"
Mud of Moscow, scum of Warsaw - Taras Shevchenko "To the Dead" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
That burning Moscow's memory there may sleep - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
The motown long plays for the comeback of Osiris - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Vesuvio's flame reflected clear in glassy seas of Napoli - J.S. [John Sterling] "Goethe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Venice and Naples learned their part - Henry David Thoreau "A River Scene"
In the best accent of Nebraska's plain - Leonard Bacon "Fame"
Nor fled to low nepenthes for your pain - Richard Le Gallienne "If, After All...!"
Mixes the cup nepenthe - Louis J. McQuilland "The House of the Strange Woman"
Nepenthe-streams of ecstacies - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
With a saving drink of iced Nepenthe comes - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Neptune.
New England's tapestry of stone - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Your New England uncanniness - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
Shed these wools of my first winter in Upstate New York - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
Niagara Falls.
Nile.
Ninevah.
Noah's Ark: See Ark
You'd better ask the cold North Sea - Rudyard Kipling "Frankie's Trade"
Between Orion and the Northern Wain - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"
Those specters thawing out of the Northwest Passage - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
The witches of Norway pluck their geese - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]
On the bleak shore of Norway - Henry S. Leigh "Songs of the Sick Room No.1: Cod Liver Oil"
Old World.
Olympian/Olympus.
That once I strove with beasts in Omaha - Leonard Bacon "Six Long Hours in Los Angeles"
Until the final asteroid hides Omaha - Michael Dumanis "Nebraska"
Ending in an ouroboric blaze of regret - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"
Over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"
We sought Pacific's tranquil seas - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
The grey Pacific unrolling its scrolls of surf - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
At once Baroque and Paleolithic - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Jewels lost in Palmyra of old - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
Paris [city].
Leading up Insects and Birds to Parnassus - "The Council of Dogs"
a pause then to Parnassus reach - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Poet at Play"
Towards the steep Parnassian way - Richard Le Gallienne "To a Poet"
The heights of Parnassus climb - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"
Where Time has dallied with the Parthenon - David Gray "The Luggie I [sonnet]"
Trying to transfer at the Pearly Gates - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
A treeful of angels at Peckham Rye - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
Houses Pegasus and Equules in its dusty windows - John Grey "Skywatching"
Where Pelion's twilight shadow falls - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
Filled your streets with your comic Pentecost - T.M. Kettle "Asquith in Dublin"
Levelled Pergamus' beleaguered towers - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The sons of Odin tread on Persian looms - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Phoenicians destroying Greece for Persia - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"
With Persian roses crowned my stay - Justin H. McCarthy "Dedication [Hafiz in London 1886]"
Who wore the crown of Persia - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"
Hid by emeralds from Persia - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"
Perugia's portals and Siena's towers - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XXXVI"
The key to a philosopher's stone - Noel Quiñones "Orange"
Dark Phlegethon's detested maze - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Phlegethon no more need fright us - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
Drank full many a draught of Phlegethon's black flood - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Phoenicians destroying Greece for Persia - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"
Phoenicean fabrics far surpass - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"
Phoenicians battling with the sea brought me from far away - Kostes Palamas "The Answer" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
And sought th' adulterer's Phrygian bed - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
At this dread crisis Phyrgian heroes rise - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The city where my Phrygian votaries dwelt - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
By steeds that browsed the Phthian lawn - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Half breed son of Pisces and Aquarius - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
The mean annual rainfall on Plato's Republic - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
Pleiades.
Graze my palm on the Pliocene - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"
Pluto/Plutonian.
Rifling Polaris and the Seven Stars - E.J. Pratt "The Fog"
Pomegranates growing from Pompeiian ash - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog"
Before Pompeii was hot - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"
The flame of a Pompeian lamp - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Cantina"
Breathless along Pompeii's streets we strayed - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Drawn like apostles toward Popocatépetl - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
O'er crimson Potomac the sound rose again - "Give Us Room" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Marched across the bridged Potomac - Edmund Clarence Stedman "How Old Brown Took Harper's Ferry"
Promised Land.
A rock where Punic faith should bide its vow - Roger Casement "Hamilcar Barca"
Taught Punic faith and mocked the laws - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
I'll unpack my dark heart and Purell my hands - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"
Purgatorio in the pond's reflection - Charles Wright "With Alighieri on Basin Creek"
Purgatory.
Roland's song comes down from the Pyrenees - Mark Jarman "Song of Roland"
The rage with which he sought the Pythian tripod - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Whom I have stationed in the Pythian realm - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
a Galatea in Python too cold to share a bed with - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"
The Red Sea of mine own passion - Helen Parry Eden "A Prayer for St Innocent's Day"
Arid expanses where the Red Sea meets the sand - Matthew Shenoda "Donkey Carts and Desolation"
Crossing the Red Sea of Revolution - Adolf Wolff "On Seeing the Garment Strikers March"
Round the broad Rhine's unchurched billows - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Where the Rhine pours down its sounding tide - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"
And at our elbows ran the Rhine - George Meredith "Rhine-land" [Household Words no.330, July 19, 1856]
Tales that haunt the Brocken and whisper down the Rhine - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Where Rigel sends no word of might - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
The Road of Ghosts is blue in the heavens - Margaret Noodin "They Arrive" transl. by the author
Clutching their holly on Roanoke island - Paul Cameron Brown "Ancient of Days"
Flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"
Rome.
the roundtable turned square - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Russia.
Before the Roman came to Rye - G.K. Chesterton "The Rolling English Road"
The windy levels spread about the gates of Rye - Rudyard Kipling "Puck's Song"
Notes that resound in the caves of Sacromonte - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
Can spin Sagittarius into spider - John Grey "Skywatching"
Sagittarius has an arrow drawn at the very heart of Scorpio - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
By what law did Sagittarius make his squatter's claim - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
An expanse of sand that beggars the Sahara - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"
How far is St Helena from a fight in Paris street? - Rudyard Kipling "A Priest in Spite of Himself: A St Helena Lullaby"
Must soon enchain St. Lawrence' [sic] mighty tide - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
Foaming to the sewers of St. Paul - David Wojahn "August, 1953"
And lifts her dome yet higher than St. Paul's - "The Druriad" [1798]
That led to Salem's towers and temple high - J. Rheyn Piksohn "A Contrasted Picture: from 'Passion Ode,' an Unpublished Poem" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Where Salerno day-dreams in the noon - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"
Drive by Coachella to the Salton Sea - Christian Gullette "Coachella Elegy"
Hot Santa Ana wind mopes across clay courts - Christian Gullette "The Fish"
Saturn.
Of Saxon eyes and barbarous soul - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
Even the Saxons bowed before you - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Strewed their shorn tresses on Scamander's banks - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Sagittarius has an arrow drawn at the very heart of Scorpio - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
As Scorpio rises, Orion goes down - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
A branch from Scotland's shore - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."
Hums a little Scottish ballad about time - Major Jackson "Addiction"
Loved by him whom Scotland loves - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Across the silvery dusts of the Sea of Tranquility - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"
Only the wind from the Seven Hills - Beulah Field "The Wayfarer"
With the stride of seven league boots - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"
Had heard the voice of the seven sins - Richard Le Gallienne "Sore in Need Was I of a Faithful Friend"
The holy kings ride down by Severn side - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
You must have died once in Seville - Andrea Cohen "More Stones"
Shanghaied without a steady place to eat - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
The one in that park in Shanghai - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
Followed Sherman's march, triumphant to the sea - W.H. Rhodes "The Love Knot"
Which made doomed Shinar a memento of human pride - W.H. Rhodes "The Merchant's Exchange"
Wandering across the porcelain Siberia - Joanie Mackowski "Ants [excerpt]"
Waded through rough surf to a sunny beach in Sicily - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
Perugia's portals and Siena's towers - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XXXVI"
Silent Lake with something of wild dimensions - Paul Cameron Brown "Reading the Tides: Petroglyph Park"
Heard Mount Sinai's thunder roll - John Castillo "Old Sam! or the Effects of the Gospel"
A lightning sent from Sinai and a gleam from great Olympus - Kostes Palamas "Our Home" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
cut text="Sirius">Sits in Sirius' disc all night - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
I plucked down Sirius like a pear - T.M. Kettle "The Lady of Life"
Where parching Sirius set in drought - Herman Melville "The House-top"
A draught from Sodom's lake - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
This last night of Sodom - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"
And the lines attested by Solomon's Seal - Walter Crane "A Flower Wedding"
Like the mystic seal of Solomon, it scratched a magic knot - Kostes Palamas "The Comrade" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Some sudden spell Soviet doctors connected to his heart - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Till the spears of Spain came shivering in - W.E.A. "The Heart of the Bruce" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
A Spanish horse saddled for her dreams - Robert Graves "Baloo Loo for Jenny"
An accidental import from Spain - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"
In lost Spain's darkened noon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
And the Spaniards were seeking gold - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"
Spartan coolness temper'd Roman fire - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
As firm as Sparta's king - Sir Francis Hastings Doyle "The Private of the Buffs"
The iron lilies of the Strand - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"
Stygian: See Styx/Stygian.
Styx/Stygian.
For music carved on Sumerian stones - Carolyn Forche "Dulcimer Maker"
Rifle in Babylon rifles in Sumer - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"
Superior throbbing her meter deep into the basalt - M. Bartley Seigel "Into the Thicket" [Lake Superior]
Where the Syrian cedars grew - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
Captured in Syrian ivory and Caucasian tin - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Lend fires to Syria's East at dawn unveiling - Virginia "Lamartine to Madame Jorelle from the French" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Taj Mahals that rise out of the mist at dawn - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"
Old, with our crystalline bones of Tao - Wang An-Shih "Flourish Time-worn and I Wander Beguiled and Never Meet" transl. by David Hinton
For the vengeance of Tara's proud hill - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
Tartarus.
Cast a ray to light lone Tasso's gloom - Marie J. Ewen "Corinna at the Capitol" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.449, 7 Aug. 1852]
The radio impulse pouring from Taurus - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"
Misplaced my faith in Tennessee - Randall Mann "End Words"
Where the Teslas spun their burnished wheels - David Wojahn "Inauguration Day, 2025"
Replicant echoes in red earth and Tesla coils - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"
Texas heat stalks me like a question - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Split time between metal and Tejano - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"
Some Texas limestone golem - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"
Each Theban erst attuned the jocund lute - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Gray prophet of the fount of Thebes - Michael Field "An Antiphony of Advent"
Spoke the sacred names of Thebes - Ann K. Schwader "Horizon of the Aten"
To guard their own Thermopylae - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"
A song from stern Thermopylae - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Bred Thermopylae its heroes - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
As if eating were a thousand and one nights - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"
Bathes his gory heel in Tiber's rills - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
I want to breathe in the Tide of cleanliness - Andrea Carter Brown "On Reading Allen Ginsberg's 'Homework'" [italics in the original]
Used to play it on the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Time Machine.
Your golden lie of Tir-na-n'Og - T.M. Kettle "Dedication Sonnet to My Wife"
The time we didn't go to Topeka - Jaswinder Bolina "Aviary"
In foam and flame at Trafalgar - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"
An arm hanging from the branch of the Tree of Knowledge - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Wrought our souls from the Tremadoc beds - Langdon Smith "Evolution"
Riding the backs of the Trojan Women - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
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Troy.
We will know when we give it a Turing test - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Raised by Wolves"
Tuscan rhymes of love and wine and dance - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Woven from the cloth of Tyre - Fenton Johnson "The Vision of Lazarus"
When Ninevah and Tyre and Baalbec of the waste went down in blood - Odell Shepard "The Watcher in the Sky"
That sailed from Tyre a thousand years ago - Francis Brett Young "The Dhows"
From the Tyrrhene foam to the rent heart of Rome - Algernon Charles Swinburn "A Song of Italy"
Eternally exposed at Union Square - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
The U.S. school-to-prison state's laser-like vision - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"
Shed these wools of my first winter in Upstate New York - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
Felt the burden of sin in Urban Outfitters - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
Went to Utah on a hired truck - Maya Marshall "The Collection Room"
Valhalla.
Their thunder rolling from the Vatican - Francis Mahony (Father Prout) "The Bells of Shandon"
All the Vatican sparrows killed so he could pray - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]
Venice.
The ticking clocks in Vermont sway back and forth - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
The saccharine gardens of Verona - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Under the Cypresses"
Build Versailles in a maple's cubby - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"
Versailles half expressed - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"
One to the thief of Versailles - Taras Shevchenko "To the Goddess of Fame" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Reverse the errors of Versailles - Humbert Wolfe "France"
Vesuvius.
Wallowing in an orgy of Baroque facades and Victorian gingerbread - Samantha Pious "Interior Castle" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]
Unsealing the mystery of Virgo - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Wear Virgo's diamond in your hair - John Grey "Skywatching"
Virgo halfway across the heavens - Charles Wright "Double Salt"
From the cold Caspian to the Volga thus the sturgeons pour - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Their ears will hear the Wakhan ridge call - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"
Walden Pond has been drained - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
The haze of Wall Street touching clouds of double consciousness - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Mud of Moscow, scum of Warsaw - Taras Shevchenko "To the Dead" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Washington's elite that vowed to drown them - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
In the drizzle of this wild west town - Bernadine Evaristo "Amo Amas Amat"
Tells a story the Woolworth Building may repeat - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Whistled up past the Woolworth - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Within the World-Tree's mighty arms - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"
Those penny-ante Xanadus - Boris Dralyuk "Bargain Circus"
For the lost terrains of Xanadu or Johannes Kepler - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
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]
Literary values before the days of YouTube - Elaine Equi "Cats, Now and Forever"
Watch the smooth airships of Zen - Tony Hoagland "Upward"
Practicing the Zen art of vanishing - Philip Schultz "At the Manhattan Social Security Office"
For use only by a zen sun laughing - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"
A dragon's gotta get zen with emphemerality - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Wakening amid the silent ruins of Zion - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Zion of drainage and damp cement - Hailey Leithauser "Jiminy"
The round Zion of the water bead - Dylan Thomas "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"
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