Findings:

• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• A knock there was upon the door
• And I beheld the lack of embrace, and the strife was ever-present
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was a young lady of Riga
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• There was a man and a woman
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• No shit, there I was
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There was a time when I was a better person
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• There was a baby in China
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• Where's the kaboom?
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• Candide and Martin Touch upon the English Coast -- What They See There
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• One hour there was sunlight
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• Before you, there was me
• There was a time before
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• There Was No Leak
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• There was a rose that faded young
• There was once a Man
• Disgusting Pox Upon the Earth
• There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth
• I remember, there was one
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was an old lady
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Was it ever there?
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• How the Earth was destroyed
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• and there was this girl
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• How many living things are there on earth?
• Was There a Time
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• There Once Was a Farmer
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• There Was A Friend
• I was there
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There was a cold day
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There was no one waiting for me...
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• The Day Earth Was Born
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• If a black hole were created on Earth
• There was always the blue of you
• There was a little girl
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• Upon my indulgence, I was dissatisfied
• Upon the hills where day was done
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• Once there was a way...
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• The sparkle of this angled blossoming was invading the Earth, and Vug said, "It's spring!" I kissed him.
• Gone to Earth
• Whole Earth Review
• Crisis on Infinite Earths
• Earth, Wind and Fire
• Earth 2025
• Whole Earth Catalog
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Flat Earth Society
• Gloranthan earth goddess
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Earth Girls Are Easy
• Cologne earth
• Earth shine
• scorched earth policy
• Alkaline Earth Metals
• Earth Rune
• The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth
• Night On Earth
• War in Middle Earth
• Protection of Earth
• The Good Earth
• I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
• At the Earth's Core: Chapter 5
• At the Earth's Core: Chapter 6
• At the Earth's Core: Chapter 7
• At the Earth's Core: Chapter 8
• At the Earth's Core: Chapter 12
• At the Earth's Core: Chapter 13
• At the Earth's Core: Chapter 14
• At the Earth's Core: Chapter 15
• Let the earth hear his voice
• Mother Earth Mother Board
• Earth, My Likeness
• The highways are the capillaries of the earth
• Magma is the blood that spews from the earth
• Volcanoes are the pores of the earth's face
• Flat Earth News
• Salt of the Earth
• moose flesh tastes irrevocably of the earth
• At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
• If Jesus came to Earth now
• A Song of the Rolling Earth
• T.A.Z.: Hollow Earth
• A Proposal For An Expedition To Our Hollow Earth
• Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.
• The meek shall inherit the Earth
• Earth Day
• Hollow Earth theory
• The most beautiful woman on Earth
• If biology must teach about creation, should geography teach about a flat earth?
• Living on Earth
• Friends of the Earth International
• Messages from Earth
• the leaves fell like raindrops when you touched the earth
• Earth God
• Earth's Answer
• scroll of earth
• Heaven and Earth
• Homeric Hymn to Earth the Mother of All
• Herbs to get in touch with the element of earth
• The Day The Earth Stood Stupid
• How Fragile is Life on Earth?
• Deadlands Hell on Earth
• depths of the earth
• Defenders of the Earth
• A Message To The People Of Earth
• Earth Science Reference Tables
• God of Earth and Outer Space
• All Creatures of the Earth and Sky
• All People That on Earth Do Dwell
• Visitors from Planet Earth
• The Earth is blue like an orange
• Mission Earth
• Not to Touch the Earth
• Earth Dies Screaming
• The Last Day on Earth

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