Potential Titles: Plunge

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Plunging from the brink of light and being - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Plunging doubt's knives into what I love - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"

How trout and mackerel plunged from the sky - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"

Poison the steel of the plunging dart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

With one plunge leaped down the sheer abyss - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Plunge many fathom deep, and flow unresting - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"

Plunged headlong in that living sea - Lewis Carroll "The Path of Roses"

Realities plunge in silence by - Hart Crane "Legend"

To let a red sword of virtue plunge into my heart - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Plunging downward through their wild anarchic land - "Danube and the Euxine" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCVII, v.LXIV, Nov. 1848]

Plunged into distress so irretrievable - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

And plunge you in the shades beneath - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

And plunged him into this sea of troubles - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Plunge into the nether regions of the earth - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Who have disgraced and plunged my house in ruin - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Plunge me alive beneath earth's deepest vault - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Was plunged in Orcus' dreary mansions - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull

O'erthrown and plunged us in the shades beneath - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Plunge like divers to the under-world - Nora May French "Down the Trail"

Plunged me where the silver water fell - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"

Skating upon plunging rivers - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Reeling beneath the mighty plunge - Claude Halcro "Niagara"

Mud blooms in the water as the fish plunges - David Hornibrook "Preservation"

With deep devotion I've plunged in depths profound - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

Horses plunging, foam about their knees - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"

While I plunge on through my dead hopes below - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

Then plunge on without vain regrets - Sheila Kaye-Smith "A Prayer"

Plunging off of the silty shelves - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Long arcs between sets of plunge - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"

And vanish like plunging stars - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

That plunged at typhoon strength among the mountains - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Plunge within the silence, sans thought, breath - Adam Mickiewicz "Baydary" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Plunge into billow and breaker - Beverly Moore "Vacation" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Barren thorns to plunge - Hoa Nguyen "'Language Points'"

Plunge suddenly into Vortex - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Approach I. In the Grass: Halt by Roadside"

Plunge from warm waters to cool air - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

The plunge back into the shadows - Mary Oliver "Looking for Snakes"

Plunge forward without thought for consequence - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"

Takes a plunge among the luckless throng - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"

Willows plunging their bloodless roots - Lynn Riggs "The Arid Land"

Plunged into the most frightful shadow - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson

Rises and plunges into the unimaginable seventh dimension - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"

Plunge down to deep worlds - Joyce Sidman "Deep Currents"

Of plunging deep, I have no fear - Joyce Sidman "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain"

Formed from plunges and positions - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"

Invitation to a plunging ride over the edge of night - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Plunging headlong in some hollow's lap - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Plunging earthward, tossing high - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"

The eagle plunge to find the air - Francis Thompson "The Kingdom of God"

Plunging glassy funnels fall - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"


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