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The garden's cultivated grace - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)

The luxury of neatness round - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)

The careless amplitude of space - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)

The summons of the evening bell - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)

Which stalked along the lovely shore - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)

The clouds which there a tempest gave - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)

The bloody words of ruffian war - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)

Avert the scourge of victory - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)

The aim of envious men - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)

The portals of the solemn sphere - V. "The Grave"


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All the ghosts within your breast - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin

Dropped like pearls of melody - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin

The shell the scuttling beetle wears - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin

Joy the seedling of a dream - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin

Where starlings scream and swirl - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "On the Tower" transl. by James Edward Tobin

Skim lightly over foaming reefs - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "On the Tower" transl. by James Edward Tobin


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Grasp of their particular moons - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal [cross symbol]

Their ghost a homing signal - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal [cross symbol]

The coin in your throat for passage - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Angelica Root"

A ship of welded stars - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Aurelio, Seer Tecolote"

Wedded to this weakened hour - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Aurelio, Seer Tecolote"

Toward the wrong lights - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Beto, Sheep of Heaven"

An empty ballad that plays on loop - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Cardinals, a Novena"

Curled its soft lure into bone - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Built you on a dark day - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Buried each slow light - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Failure fragrant as magic - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Our tender impossible longing - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Made of your sacrifice - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Ascend the spirit into the design - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

In our citrus laughter - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Crossover Album"

Knit basil into rosaries - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Crossover Album"

Crack its melancholy galaxy - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Crossover Album"

Born to saints in pilgrimage - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "A Field of Onions: Brown Onions"

Hear you over the regret - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "A Field of Onions: Brown Onions"

Bloomed from young throats - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "A Field of Onions: Brown Onions"

Pulls even at hanging planets - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "A Field of Onions: Brown Onions"

In a confusion of glass - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Glass Trail"

And verify the journey - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Glass Trail"

Count coins you do not have - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Horned Woman Ancestor"

Hunt the wilderness in myself - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Malinche"

Eat a crown of lead - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Malinche"

Braid the poisoned river and the lost tongues - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Malinche"

Who have already survived you - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "O, Casada"

A knowing so inherited - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "O, Casada"

Someone else's dream foreclosed - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oak Falls"

Storms in the shape of names - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oak Falls"

Slow bewildered bone - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oracular"

Greet each other in collapse - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"

Still looks like a life - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"

Suspended in rags of snow - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"

The me that made this heavenless night - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"

Low stars and difficult earth - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"

Stacked immense against every fact - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"

Since the forest is her echo - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Praying Herd: For Safe Journey"

Coax flowers into stories - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Ram, Laborer"

For all of our second chances - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Ram, Laborer"

His song in the distance - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Ram, Laborer"

To the memory of water - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Sea of Drowned Caves"

Ache toward the tide - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Sea of Drowned Caves"

The rotated stars - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Sea of Drowned Caves"

The chaos of locusts - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "The Stranded Lamb"

Unsaved in the wilderness - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "The Stranded Lamb"

A shatter of rain - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Thirteen"

Escape a patrolling moon - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Thirteen"

As waves gather from chaos - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Time, Two-Headed: Corpus Christi, 1984"

One of us had to falter - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Time, Two-Headed: Corpus Christi, 1984"

Quiet pulled ever apart from peace - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Time, Two-Headed: Corpus Christi, 1984"

As you emerge from the light - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "To Hide a Goddess"

A father to my loneliness - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "To Hide a Goddess"

Inherit a palace of locked doors - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Tropical Depression"

The ocean is always knocking - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Tropical Depression"

An overheated moon pulling at the waters - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Tropical Depression"

To obliterate borders - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Tropical Depression"

Savage and strange as birth - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "The Way Back"

And so discarded by the dream - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "The Way Back"

Begs to be made the moon - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "The Way Back"

Pulled blood to salt - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Who Waits at the Lake"


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Like fog from a mirror - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"

Face the bottomless nights - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"

Write poems about dead ends - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"

Can blame the past - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"

All this dizzy sadness - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"


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To have and to keep unspoken - Suzanne Vega “Crack in the Wall”

What you can’t contain - Suzanne Vega “Don’t Uncork What You Can’t Contain”

Back to her alone - Suzanne Vega “Fool’s Complaint”

The vortex is her heart - Suzanne Vega “Fool’s Complaint”

Air beneath my footstep - Suzanne Vega “Fool’s Complaint”

Expensive innocence - Suzanne Vega “Fool’s Complaint”

Poet of the dark - Suzanne Vega “I Never Wear White”


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Lamplight when the moon rises - Emily van Kley "Birches --for A & D VK"

On the ice-edge of starvation - Emily van Kley "Birches --for A & D VK"

No doubt the trees eat light - Emily van Kley "Fall Color"

The frozen lake's perilous breath - Emily van Kley "Lacustrine"

To kiss the edge of their universe - Emily van Kley "Lacustrine"

This liturgy of pragmatism - Emily van Kley "Last of the Month"

True amid the red instant - Emily van Kley "Premises"

Proof of where the hot blood sang - Emily van Kley "Rules of the Game"

Worships water over light - Emily van Kley "Sarracenia, Purpurea"

Divides the monstrous from the sublime - Emily van Kley "Sarracenia, Purpurea"

Penitent as eyelashes - Emily van Kley "Small Traffic"

A certain blend of balefulness - Emily van Kley "Streak"

Some ragged aura hovering - Emily van Kley "Streak"

Practiced at the hollowed-egg art of leaving - Emily van Kley "Superior"

From the made to the maker - Emily van Kley "Until the Heavens Ring"

Swallows his own name - Emily van Kley "Upper Peninsula"

Receive the satisfaction of no answer - Emily van Kley "Varsity Athletics"

An instrument of some vital love - Emily van Kley "Vital Signs"

Stepping light as snowfall - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"

That breaks the waiting - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"

Heart hurtling toward its final career - Emily van Kley "Weight Training"

The ice axe of memory - Emily van Kley "You Aren't Sure & I May Not"

All praise to your iron style - Emily van Kley "You Aren't Sure & I May Not"


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Books remain where the mind cannot hide - A. Van Jordan "'Integrated School Books' Apeggio"

A pawn on the chess board of intellect - A. Van Jordan "'Integrated School Books' Apeggio"

Becoming a wind myself - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

Raised my arms to the clouds - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

Pure nature in the night - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

But offered nothing to anyone - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

More than a desire - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

Every word I spoke to the wind - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

The scent of his regrets - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

A breeze of my indifference - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

The hypnotist's narcotic of clarity - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

Which proves a curare for the heart - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

Under which memories pulse - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

Only so much space for the truth - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

In a hotel room for fifteen years - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

The trance into which you were born - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

Under the spell of your guilt - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

Shadows of the memory haunting your spirit - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

Observe history in your eyes - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

Lingers through acts of forgetting - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

In the factory of my dreams - A. Van Jordan "A Tempest in a Teacup"

Would never go unseen - A. Van Jordan "A Tempest in a Teacup"

Trying to stir a storm - A. Van Jordan "A Tempest in a Teacup"

A razor cuts across a frame of film - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"

Making a story from some pieces of truth - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"

Thousands of moments spooling out - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"

Dragging my imagination behind me - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"

Following the path of ants from your palm - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"

Joining gently the edges of time - A. Van Jordan "Vestiges"

A voice breaks to the surface - A. Van Jordan "Vestiges"


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Her absence is filling a quota - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Measured"

What formal suggestion of darkness - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Measured"

Turn ourselves into the question - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"

An axis we defy - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"

A gift for our unboxing - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"

Transformers handed lightning - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"

The absolute value of the lyric - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"

Drawing silence from my throat - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"

Scripture an ocean gave me - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"

Rhythm of roar and stillness - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"

Crash and salt of will - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"

As the sunset breathes the sky - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"


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The bright awe of his gift - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

Worthy to wait alone - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

To the brittle wind - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

And still itself unknowing - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

Uncounted hours of presence - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

Yields only that despair - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

To the entrails of the earth - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

Each atom of your silence - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954


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Under the room of what we say - Jean Valentine "At the Conference on Women in the Academy"

Suffocated in the country - Jean Valentine "Black Wolf"

Just when life is not afraid - Jean Valentine "Black Wolf"

Making for the door out of your life - Jean Valentine "The Drinker"

Fallen into your destiny - Jean Valentine "He Says to Me, In Ireland"

Every illusion of separateness - Jean Valentine "Margaret, d. 1985"

Gone where nothing joins - Jean Valentine "They lead me"

Shut down and opened wrong - Jean Valentine "To Ireland"


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Beauty folded in the flowers and leaves - Jehangir Jivaji Vakil "Revelation"

The songs of my youth are frozen - Katri Vala "Winter Is Here" transl. by Jaakko A. Ahoksas

Circling the track of my scanty bread - Katri Vala "Winter Is Here" transl. by Jaakko A. Ahoksas

I did not come to solitude - Xavier Valcarcel "Doppelganger" transl. by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

The unfortunate fate engulfing me - Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes "Placido's Farewell to His Mother" transl. by James Weldon Johnson

The ending of my history of grief - Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes "Placido's Farewell to His Mother" transl. by James Weldon Johnson

Home to my rage - Aldrin Valdez "ars poetica"

Looking back and taking out of context - Aldrin Regina Valdez "January"

The changing sentences and truths of being - Aldrin Regina Valdez "January"

The undertow of everything suffered - Cesar Vallejo "The Black Heralds" (translated by Clayton Eshleman)

The fatal pilots of the spider - Cesar Vallejo "Spider" translated by 'The Friend'

A gallery of things to be cracked open - Jesus I. Valles "Barnes & Noble, 1999"

To thieve speech and sense - Jesus I. Valles "Barnes & Noble, 1999"

Deliver the lessons of the new world - Fernando Valverde "The Wound Before the Tomb of Walt Whitman" (translated by Carolyn Forche)

Announce triumphant justice - Fernando Valverde "The Wound Before the Tomb of Walt Whitman" (translated by Carolyn Forche)

A glory in the sudden hour of struggle -Tertius van Dyke "Love of Life"

That stirs to meet the sunrise -Tertius van Dyke "Love of Life"

Wise by whole epochs of evolution - Michael Van Walleghen "Happiness"

Apropos of bliss - Michael Van Walleghen "Happiness"

Its blurred face of fury - Mai Der Vang "Out of Research Into Reveries"

Every era of hibernation - Mai Der Vang "Out of Research Into Reveries"

Another sweet and necessary day - Susan Varon "The Gentle Dark"

The fog riding out at day - Oswaldo Vargas "Mister"

A wedding between me and the mist - Oswaldo Vargas "Mister"

Legions of ghosts above - Angela C. Truddell Vasquez "In the Discount Lot"

And sings a dirge for dying souls - Thomas Vautor "Sweet Suffolk Owl"

The sky weeps in abundance - Ruperta Bautista Vázquez "Jícara | Boch" transl. by Morgan L. Ventura

Storing tears in the belly of the earth - Ruperta Bautista Vázquez "Jícara | Boch" transl. by Morgan L. Ventura

Drinking the symphony of the galactic parrot - Ruperta Bautista Vázquez "Jícara | Boch" transl. by Morgan L. Ventura

Confident of your ability to lead the revolution - Ursula Vernon "It Was a Day"

Everybody else saw the you in the mirror - Ursula Vernon "It Was a Day"

Could blot out all those old arguments - Ursula Vernon "It Was a Day"

Supportive of their high and lonely destiny - Ursula Vernon "It Was a Day"

Played the makings of a masterpiece off-key - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"

Scrawled in the ashes of who I might have been - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"

Burn these walls to the ground - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"

Let them rise from the heart's tomb - Lydia L.A. Very "Memory" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Five thousand coffins guard each flank - O.I. Victor "The Phantom Field"

Unloose their dead to battle on the height - O.I. Victor "The Phantom Field"

Without speech to drown our words - Cecilia Vicuna "The Disappeared" (translated by Rosa Alcala)

The directions of his imprisonment - Enrique Villasis "Birds in Flight, 1965"

Must orchestrate the shattering of mirrors - Enrique Villasis "Birds in Flight, 1965"

Dreaming to be set free - Enrique Villasis "Birds in Flight, 1965"

The multiplicity of false geometry - Enrique Villasis "Birds in Flight, 1965"

One must die three times - Hersart de la Villemarque "The Prophecy of Gwic'hlan" transl. by Edward Ramos

The river banks tremble in horror - Hersart de la Villemarque "The Prophecy of Gwic'hlan" transl. by Edward Ramos

That in my heart has taken root - Francois Villon "Arbor Amoris" transl. by Andrew Lang

Beside long crumbled architraves - Sherard Vines "Permission"

Sickness, scorn, and bitterness to taste - Sherard Vines "Permission"

Like tigers on a lone lee shore - Sherard Vines "Permission"

From its hive of the sky - Virgil (translated by Kristina Chew) "The Georgics, Book IV, lines 58-66"

Here sprinkle delicacies - Virgil (translated by Kristina Chew) "The Georgics, Book IV, lines 58-66"

Will hide in the innermost cradles - Virgil (translated by Janet Lembke) "The Georgics, Book IV, lines 58-66"

Ripples flow across the cosmic lights - Dawn Vogel "The Whale Shark's Stars"

Spotted by the distant satellites - Dawn Vogel "The Whale Shark's Stars"

To meet another's dark heart - Elsa Hildegard Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven "Appalling Heart"

Hope within its circling hours to see - Hans Von Spiegel "Sonnet: to the Old Year" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]


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Greenest greetings sent to Spring - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "April Walking"

A freely flowing scarlet kite - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Colorful Actor"

Plays his part to no applause - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Colorful Actor"

Slivers sail the wind - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Dead Branch"

Forest breathes a spicy breeze - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Farewell"

Drink sips of creek - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Forest News"

Scribbled hints in footprints - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Forest News"

A grandfather fossil asleep underground - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"

Whispered a story of creatures in sand - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"

As trilobites filled up my hand - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"

Heard a pinecone fall - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Invitation"

Tracing flakes in shades of dark - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Lichens"

Wish for socks of moss - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Moss"

Smoke scatters summer air - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Puff"

Hear snowy voices crystal clear - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Snowflake Voices"

Poison has three leaves - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Warning"

One bite of winter lingers - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Wintergreen"

He types poems with his beak - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Woodpecker"


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How long the echoes love to play - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"

Around the shore of silence - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"

As falls from some enchanted bell - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"

Each voluble note offers to guide you - Henry van Dyke "The Angler's Reveille"

None of this vulgarian crew - Henry van Dyke "A Bunch of Trout-Flies"

The camp-fires of my eternal friend - Henry van Dyke "The Camp-Fires of My Friend"

A new covenant of hospitality - Henry van Dyke "The Camp-Fires of My Friend"

Earth and sky and the fair ministries of Nature - Henry van Dyke "Dulciora"

Meaning in its narrow orb - Henry van Dyke "Dulciora"

By their echo in my heart - Henry van Dyke "The Echo in the Heart"

Each minstrel weaves his part - Henry van Dyke "The Echo in the Heart"

Wakes an echo in my heart - Henry van Dyke "The Echo in the Heart"

Where scorn and falsehood hide - Henry van Dyke "A Fairy Tale: For the Mark Twain Dinner, December 5, 1905"

The impartial sun laughs down upon the battle - Henry van Dyke "The Fall of the Leaves"

Sent their misty vanguard creeping - Henry van Dyke "The Fall of the Leaves"

Candle-light and fire-light mingle - Henry van Dyke "The First Bird o' Spring"

Floods of colour long concealed - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"

The crocus runs in little brooks - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"

In shining pools of white and gold - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"

Spread into lakes of daffodils - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"

The wonderful raiment that summer weaves - Henry van Dyke "The Foolish Fir-Tree"

The cornerstone in Truth is laid - Henry van Dyke "For the Friends at Hurstmont"

Dark the night and dim the day - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"

That shook the pillars of the State - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"

Took the final arms of fate - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"

These broken arches have taught generations to build - Henry van Dyke "The Glory of Ruins"

By the breadth of the blue that shines in silence - Henry van Dyke "God of the Open Air"

Teach me how to confide - Henry van Dyke "God of the Open Air"

And restore the beautiful hopes of youth - Henry van Dyke "God of the Open Air"

Deeper than the dearth of sound broods over - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"

Until the cataract of colour breaks - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"

Vast, profound, primeval hiding-place - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"

In riven valleys where no foot may tread - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"

Buttressed with unnumbered tiers of ruddy rock - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"

Their walls are compacted of heavy stones - Henry van Dyke "The Great Cities"

Driven by blind perturbations - Henry van Dyke "The Great Cities"

Ruddy gold of sunset from cliff and canyon gleams - Henry van Dyke "The Heavenly Hills of Holland"

Choose for your emblem the vulture - Henry van Dyke "Homeward Bound"

Safe from this game of hide-and-seek - Henry van Dyke "Homeward Bound"

Upon them the cooling plash of rain - Henry van Dyke "If All The Skies"

For one sweet strain of silence - Henry van Dyke "If All the Skies"

In the quiet arms of grief - Henry van Dyke "If All the Skies"

Distils a charm of silence over all - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"

Ghosts of vanished joy and pain - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"

The Camp-fires of the Past are burning - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"

Step by step in mouldering moss - Henry van Dyke "Light Between the Trees"

The dragons of the air, the hell-hounds of the deep - Henry van Dyke "Lights Out"

Set back the clock a thousand years - Henry van Dyke "Lights Out"

You dare to say with perjured lips - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"

Unnumbered ghosts that haunt the wave - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"

Wolves to herd the helpless sheep - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"

When May bedecks the naked trees - Henry van Dyke "The Maryland Yellow-Throat"

A plentiful feast in the maple-tree shade - Henry van Dyke "A Noon-Song"

A note of sorrow trembling yet - Henry van Dyke "The Parting and the Coming Guest"

Followed the angler's winding path - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower"

As they went on their iron way - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower

Where the devil's paint-brush spread - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower"

Break forth at the devil's hour - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower"

Meet the sunrise of the soul - Henry van Dyke "Reliance"

Amid the white and crimson store - Henry van Dyke "Reliance"

Along the slender wires of speech - Henry van Dyke "Rendezvous"

A thousand accidents control - Henry van Dyke "Rendezvous"

Before the giant champions of shame - Henry van Dyke "Richard Watson Gilder: In Memoriam"

Revealed through Music's lucid veil - Henry van Dyke "Richard Watson Gilder: In Memoriam"

The river of dreams runs quietly - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

Under the branches bending - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

To steep their drowsy bloom in the tide - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

Out of the visionless woods of dark - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

In the shadowless vault of lucid air - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

A city haunted, a multitude enchanted - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

Ruined temples half-buried in sand - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

Left behind with the vanished years - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

Balsam, hemlock, spruce and pine - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"

Golden streams that never freeze - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"

Thither now I take my flight - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"

All those mighty trees are mine - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"

Lost to the rebel knave, Jack Frost - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"

Down the pathway of the night - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"

From a wrinkled seed in an earth-bound clod - Henry van Dyke "Salute to the Trees"

Camped in the whispering forest of pines - Henry van Dyke "Salute to the Trees"

Clank and clamour of the vast machine - Henry van Dyke "Sea-Gulls of Manhattan"

The river flows begrimed and troubled - Henry van Dyke "Sea-Gulls of Manhattan"

While a thousand chimneys vomit gloom - Henry van Dyke "Sea-Gulls of Manhattan"

Robed in aerial amethyst - Henry van Dyke "Sierra Madre"

Gleaming silverly down through the manifold bloom - Henry van Dyke "Sierra Madre"

What divine amends for all delay - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

Makes amends for all the wintry past - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

Except a broken and discouraged note - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

Bliss enhanced by rapture of surprise - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

In his song no tremor of misgiving - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

In the March-wind, ragged and forlorn - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

The Giant Robber clad in steel - Henry van Dyke "Stand Fast"

Far away the avalanches wake - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets: 1. The Glacier"

The frozen spell of solitude supreme - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets: 1. The Glacier"

Liquid lyrics of their waterfalls - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets: 1. The Glacier"

A thousand bells go chiming after her - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets: 3. Moving Bells"

Across the fair and flowery uplands - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets III: Moving Bells"

Full of haste and turmoil - Henry van Dyke "The Tribe of the Helpers"

To rest in the lee of the high hill land - Henry van Dyke "Turn o' the Tide"

And venture a voyage they know not where - Henry van Dyke "Turn o' the Tide"

Unconscious of her coming dreams - Henry van Dyke "Undine"

Wear a diadem of Wisdom's towers - Henry van Dyke "Urbs Coronata"

Played at glory's idle game - Henry van Dyke "The Vain King"

His the lance to slay the boar - Henry van Dyke "The Vain King"

The grief that is but feigning - Henry van Dyke "The Valley of Vain Verses"

Melodious tears of delicate complaining - Henry van Dyke "The Valley of Vain Verses"

The doubt that is but fashion - Henry van Dyke "The Valley of Vain Verses"

Infinite suggestion of new thought - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

Reflected in the crystal of the heart - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

Thread the labyrinth with flying feet - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

Wild steeds breaking the yoke - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

And swam the flood of air - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

The bitter creeping plant of discontent - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

That only grows in prison soil - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

Who dared in the dark eclipse - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"

Who fronted the waves of fate - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"

Bidding the heart of man to wait - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"

Floods of wrath from the frowning skies - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"

And timid breaths of vernal air go wandering - Henry van Dyke "When Tulips Bloom"

A lonely dove in silence flying - Henry van Dyke "Wings of a Dove"

Away from every careful sorrow - Henry van Dyke "Wings of a Dove"


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In the lobster-infested ruins of old Atlantis - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Where the old songs still echo like sonar - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Rockets trailing turquoise kerosene plumes - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Pine roots wound down into the black, black mud - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Made salt tea in a coral samovar - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

And the narwhals wouldn't talk to her anymore - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

A hundred thousand other files doused in kerosene - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

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

Burst into the eight million gods of this world - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

To teach the dinosaurs about ritual practice - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The importance of regular hecatombs - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Football players firing glory-cannons downfield - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

A brand new hot red myth cycle - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

A fake among all the real and gorgeous godheads - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The trickster god of silent films - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

That is no obstacle to hagiography - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The old school gods knew the value of silence - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

A mirror-creature in a red dress - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Hear the mantra of the mouse-god sounding - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

It is possible to sate a trickster - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Came out of the void beyond Jupiter - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Entropy unravels the very best of us - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The god of the secret world-on-fire - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

One long champagne binge - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Anything that common will become invisible - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The first lightspray of detonated creation - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Sell your heart off piece by piece - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

What you don't know is going to break you - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Their song comes backward and upside down - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Saw a T-Rex fight a comet and lose - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

The fumes of their cleargas hoard - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

A dragon's gotta get zen with ephemerality - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

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

Covering Beowulf's greatest hits on your tin kazoo - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Can eat all the stars and gas giants - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

A snake that eats her tail and means eternity - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

It's not nihilism if there's really no point - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

A secret down in the deep of my dark - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Whose bodies were perfect as moonlight - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

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

A forgiveness in me the size of eons - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"


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Amplified by geometric designs - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"

Who build bridges between the dead and the living - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"

Voices from the metal cloisters - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"

The agony of the world will fragment me - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"

Built before the rising of this world's sun - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"

Flooded our horizons with neon fire - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"


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A drifter in the kitchen - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"

Water and milk in such strange ratios - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"

A prestigious thread of saffron - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"

Sprigs of lemongrass, a pod of cardamom - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"

Hidden behind the airtight jars - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"


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Through the lindens of the avenue - Paul Verlaine "A la Promenade" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Exquisite triflers and deceivers rare - Paul Verlaine "A la Promenade" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Pursues the gold and purple - Paul Verlaine "L'Amour par Terre" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

As a moonlit landscape fair - Paul Verlaine "Clair de Lune" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Being sad in their fantastic trim - Paul Verlaine "Clair de Lune" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Scarce more audible than sighs - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Two spectres conjured up the buried past - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

And Night alone o'erheard - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Influence of the silence and the shade - Paul Verlaine "En Sourdine" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Touching voice of our despair - Paul Verlaine "En Sourdine" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

With secret and sarcastic mien - Paul Verlaine "Le Faune" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Through the zephyr's harping - Paul Verlaine "Mandoline" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell


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Ants still emerge from a jasmine bloom - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"

Not everything's out to take - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"

Consumed by storms and rolling heat - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"

Days opaque with mosquitoes - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"

The kills osprey commit - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"

Glint like coins in their talons - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"


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