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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]
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Armada.
Eldritch visions of the Armageddon of the Elder Gods - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"
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"
Athens.
Atlantic.
Atlantis.
Under the frigid twinkling of Gemini and Auriga - Andre F. Peltier "Hockey Night in Emmett County"
Heard the trumpets blow in Avalon - John Masefield "Animula"
Like scarlet domes of Avalon - George Sterling "Beauty Afar"
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"
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.
spent my days staring into the eye of the Baltic - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"
At once Baroque and Paleolithic - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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]
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"
Elbowed thru a Deadwood City saloon door - Paul Cameron Brown "Ace of Spades"
Ruffles and ribbons streaming into Delaware - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Sleeps on the stones of Delphi - H.D. "Demeter"
Taking a shift in Delphi - Kym Deyn "Wolpertinger at Thebes"
The Delphic sibyl in her cave - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
The calorie content of the Diet of Worms - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
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"
A ghastly stain in the Domesday book - Henry S. Leigh "The Plot of a Romance"
Demagogue tongues that sow the dragon-teeth - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Eden.
Egypt.
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.
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"
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]
Shattering the moonlight on the Euphrates - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
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]
The earthly dream where the stones of Europe mature - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
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"
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"
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"
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]Husbandry to pluck golden fleece - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"
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]
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"
Rolls and laps in a new Great Flood - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Greece/Greek.
Unwound them where the Great Bear swung - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Hades.
Fugitive lives docking in Halifax - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"
Give Harlem's king one spoon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
The peerless apples of the Hesperides - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
Trailing to harvest home the lost Hesperides - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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.
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
Dragged a net of Latin through the fields - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"
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.
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"
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
Mercury.
Scrolling through Merriam Webster's youngest words - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
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"
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.
Palisade wrenched gold of Nineveh - Hart Crane "Recitative"
Upon the lighted roofs of Nineveh - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
The legions of atoms that overlay Ninevah's blocks - Harry Martinson "Aniara 83: The Song of Erosion" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Noah's Ark: See Ark
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.
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
The creative tempest of the Paris streets - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Paris makes me speak this strange language - Mary Karr "Lipstick"
The phoenix will still rise from the flames of Paris - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"
Leading up Insects and Birds to Parnassus - "The Council of Dogs"
a pause then to Parnassus reach - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Poet at Play"
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"
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"
Who wore the crown of Persia - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"
Hid by emeralds from Persia - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Must soon enchain St. Lawrence' [sic] mighty tide - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
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
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"
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
Wandering across the porcelain Siberia - Joanie Mackowski "Ants [excerpt]"
Waded through rough surf to a sunny beach in Sicily - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
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"
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"
A draught from Sodom's lake - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
This last night of Sodom - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"
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]
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"
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"
Where the Syrian cedars grew - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
Captured in Syrian ivory and Caucasian tin - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
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"
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"
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"
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"
That sailed from Tyre a thousand years ago - Francis Brett Young "The Dhows"
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"
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"
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]
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Armada.
Eldritch visions of the Armageddon of the Elder Gods - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"
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"
Athens.
Atlantic.
Atlantis.
Under the frigid twinkling of Gemini and Auriga - Andre F. Peltier "Hockey Night in Emmett County"
Heard the trumpets blow in Avalon - John Masefield "Animula"
Like scarlet domes of Avalon - George Sterling "Beauty Afar"
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"
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.
spent my days staring into the eye of the Baltic - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"
At once Baroque and Paleolithic - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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]
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"
Elbowed thru a Deadwood City saloon door - Paul Cameron Brown "Ace of Spades"
Ruffles and ribbons streaming into Delaware - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Sleeps on the stones of Delphi - H.D. "Demeter"
Taking a shift in Delphi - Kym Deyn "Wolpertinger at Thebes"
The Delphic sibyl in her cave - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
The calorie content of the Diet of Worms - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
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"
A ghastly stain in the Domesday book - Henry S. Leigh "The Plot of a Romance"
Demagogue tongues that sow the dragon-teeth - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Eden.
Egypt.
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.
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"
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]
Shattering the moonlight on the Euphrates - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
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]
The earthly dream where the stones of Europe mature - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
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"
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"
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"
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]Husbandry to pluck golden fleece - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"
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]
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"
Rolls and laps in a new Great Flood - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Greece/Greek.
Unwound them where the Great Bear swung - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Hades.
Fugitive lives docking in Halifax - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"
Give Harlem's king one spoon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
The peerless apples of the Hesperides - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
Trailing to harvest home the lost Hesperides - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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.
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
Dragged a net of Latin through the fields - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"
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.
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"
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
Mercury.
Scrolling through Merriam Webster's youngest words - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
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"
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.
Palisade wrenched gold of Nineveh - Hart Crane "Recitative"
Upon the lighted roofs of Nineveh - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
The legions of atoms that overlay Ninevah's blocks - Harry Martinson "Aniara 83: The Song of Erosion" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Noah's Ark: See Ark
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.
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
The creative tempest of the Paris streets - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Paris makes me speak this strange language - Mary Karr "Lipstick"
The phoenix will still rise from the flames of Paris - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"
Leading up Insects and Birds to Parnassus - "The Council of Dogs"
a pause then to Parnassus reach - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Poet at Play"
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"
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"
Who wore the crown of Persia - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"
Hid by emeralds from Persia - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Must soon enchain St. Lawrence' [sic] mighty tide - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
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
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"
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
Wandering across the porcelain Siberia - Joanie Mackowski "Ants [excerpt]"
Waded through rough surf to a sunny beach in Sicily - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
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"
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"
A draught from Sodom's lake - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
This last night of Sodom - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"
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]
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"
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"
Where the Syrian cedars grew - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
Captured in Syrian ivory and Caucasian tin - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
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"
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"
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"
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"
[play by Euripides]
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"
That sailed from Tyre a thousand years ago - Francis Brett Young "The Dhows"
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"
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"
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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