Referring Clues

• Lay, e.g.
• Limerick, e.g.
• Sonnet, e.g.
• Fancy foot work?
• It may scan
• Field work
• Greeting card feature, often
• Collection of staves
• Robert Frost writing
• "Jabberwocky," for one
• "A ___ should not mean / But be": MacLeish
• Burns writing
• Ode or haiku
• Lay
• Elegy, e.g.
• "A Dream Within a Dream," e.g.
• Robert Frost piece
• Pound piece
• Work with feet
• Feature of many a sympathy card
• Pope's work
• Hallmark card text, often
• Stressful work?
• Frost lines
• Prior work
• "Odyssey," for one
• Gray lines
• Rhapsody, e.g.
• Browning meat and potatoes?
• Countee Cullen output
• Rhymer's writing
• Meter reader's reading, maybe
• Ode
• Wordsworth work
• Words by Wordsworth
• Work by 34-Down
• Rhyming composition
• Haiku, for one
• Pound work
• Whitman sampler?
• Ode, for one
• Limerick, for one
• Maya Angelou work
• Rhythmic writing
• Piece for a meter reader?
• Wordsworth words
• 49-Down, for one
• It's less lovely than a tree, to Kilmer
• Valentine's Day gift, perhaps
• Roundelay, e.g.
• Frost lines?
• Keats work
• Housman work
• Pound product
• Masters piece
• Ditty, e.g.
• Verse
• Ninth word of "Trees"
• Prothalamion, e.g.
• Sonnet, for example
• Browning bread and butter?
• Limerick, for example
• Frost product
• "Little Jack Horner" is one
• Rhyme
• Rhymed verse
• Service selection
• Limerick or ode
• Shelley selection
• Dickinson creation
• Ninth word of "Trees"
• 58 Down, for one
• Longfellow creation
• Robert Frost work
• Sonnet or haiku, e.g.
• Item for a meter reader?
• Romantic recitation
• Its structure may include feet
• "A Dream Within a Dream," e.g.
• It has been compared to a tree
• Kilmer creation
• "The Highwayman," for one
• "To Autumn," for one
• Tennyson creation
• It may consist of couplets
• Whitman output
• 59-Across, for one
• It may be measured by a meter
• Greeting-card feature, often
• Pope creation
• Limerick or sonnet
• It has feet in a line
• Piece with a rhyme scheme
• Frost creation
• Donne deed
• Pound output
• Housman piece
• Doone deed
• Dickinson opus
• "Little Jack Horner" is one
• Metric work
• It may be measured in feet and meters
• Ode or sonnet
• Scanning work, often
• "Funeral Blues," for one
• "A ___ is never finished, only abandoned": Paul Valéry
• Words from Wordsworth
• 2009 inauguration recitation
• Frost's "Fire and Ice," for one
• It's never finished, only abandoned, per Paul Valéry
• "The Raven" or "Evangeline"
• Epode
• Riddle, sometimes
• Browning work
• "The Waste Land," e.g.
• It's not as lovely as a tree
• Rhyming work
• Versifier's output
• Ode or ballade
• Frost work
• Bard's creation
• Haiku or limerick
• Haiku, e.g.
• 'Trees,' e.g.
• Ode, e.g.
• Rhyming literature
• Limerick, but not Dublin
• Masters work
• In it, feet are divisions of a meter
• Something to scan
• Frost bit?
• Work by 2-Down
• Hardy work
• Part of some greeting cards
• Poe creation
• Gray piece
• Composition in verse
• Romantic recital
• Pope piece
• Walt Whitman work
• Haiku or ballad
• "Auld Lang Syne," e.g.
• Literary composition
• "Casey at the Bat," for one
• Sonnet or ode
• Slam offering
• Limerick or haiku
• "The Raven", e.g.
• 9-Across, e.g.
• "The Road Not Taken" or "Paul Revere's Ride"
• Whitman work
• Greeting-card contents, often
• Cummings attraction?
• Mary Oliver output
• Shamen's quest
• Work with feet?
• Browning thing
• 46-Down, for one
• Sonnet, for one
• Sonnet or haiku
• Offering in The New Yorker
• Pound or Whitman product
• Work with a writer of its ilk contained in it
• Emily Dickinson work
• Verse creation
• Rhyming piece of work
• Rhymer's creation
• "A ___ should not mean / But be": Archibald MacLeish
• Doggerel
• Laureate's creation
• Subject of a meter reading
• Pope output
• It has many feet
• Byron work
• Rhyming lines
• It rhymes
• It rhymes, sometimes
• "Paradise Lost", e.g.
• It may rhyme
• Work with a meter
• Beautiful lyrics, to some
• Dylan song?
• Dylan lyric?
• Pretty lyric?
• Some consider Dylan's words to be this
• Author marks work by Yeats
• Writer's masterwork?
• See 22
• Verse composition
• Literary work in English penned by Englishman
• Poet's creation
• Greeting-card writing, often
• Maya Angelou creation
• Frost bit?
• "Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," e.g.
• It “begins in delight and ends in wisdom”: Robert Frost
• Service lines, e.g.?
• Service lines?
• "Brown Penny," e.g.
• American writer, male, produces verse
• Overwork measure of verse
• See 15
• Fancy foot work?
• Metrical composition
• 35-Across, e.g.
• Coleridge creation
• Whittier work
• Literary verse
• Creative writing assignment
• Work by Maya Angelou
• "Ode on a Grecian Urn," for one
• Written piece that might rhyme
• Sonnet or limerick
• It "should not mean / But be," per Archibald MacLeish
• Ode or limerick
• Lyric, essentially
• Literary work
• Open mic reading, perhaps
• Coffeehouse recitation
• "The Star-Spangled Banner," basically
• Recitation at some slams
• Greeting card feature
• "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," at first
• Metered lines
• Metered work, usually
• Work often recited
• Frost lines?
• Mope around composing verse
• Greeting card words, often
• Sonnet
• Mope around composing something beautiful
• Mother Goose offering
• Work by Wordsworth or Whitman
• Work with feet?
• "Trees," for one
• Joy Harjo or Emily Dickinson piece
• Common greeting card content
• Bard's work
• Greeting card text, often
• Rupi Kaur creation
• "Jabberwocky" is one
• It might involve a cat, rat and bat
• Sonia Sanchez creation
• Many a hymn, essentially
• Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus," for one
• One adorns the Statue of Liberty
• Song lyric, sort of
• "America is a ___ in our eyes": Emerson
• It may be measured in feet
• Victoria Chang creation
• Byron offering
• Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb," for one
• Common greeting card inclusion
• It's measured in both feet and meters
• Muhammad Ali's "Me! Whee!," e.g.
• Adrienne Rich work, e.g.
• Dylan Thomas product
• A short one by Ogden Nash reads "Parsley / is gharsley"
• Cathy Park Hong creation
• Megan Falley creation
• See 1-Down
• Dickinson work
• Rhyming piece
• Haiku or tanka
• Amanda Gorman creation
• It's measured in feet, not inches
• It may be measured in both feet and meters
• "___ in Praise of Menstruation" (Clifton work)
• Lucille Clifton creation
• Audre Lorde creation
• Work such as Nikki Giovanni's "I Wrote a Good Omelet"
• "A ___ begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness": Robert Frost
• Maggie Smith's "Good Bones," e.g.
• "A Litany for Survival," e.g.
• Claudia Rankine creation
• Stressful work?
• Ada Limón work
• One might begin "Roses are red ..."
• Work by Rumi or Hafez
• Haiku or sestina
• Epigram or elegy
• Work by Ada Limon
• "Snow and Dirty Rain," e.g.
• Robert Burns' "Halloween," e.g.
• Mary Oliver work
• Something a meter reader reads?
• Browning's work
• Inclusion in a love letter, maybe
• Sapphic work
• Cinquain, e.g.
• Wilde thing
• Villanelle, e.g.
• Frost piece
• Robert Frost creation