Potential Titles: Distant

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A distant and forbidden sunken sun - Etel Adnan "Night"

Distant journeyings enough - Albion Fellows Bacon "A Song"

A magnified photograph of a distant quasar - Mary Jo Bang "The Actual Occurences"

Heard the distant horn of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"

When distant mountains bend - Elizabeth Bartlett "Time Will Tell"

In distant lands and evil times - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"

An injunction from a distant government - Emily Berry "Unexhausted Time"

In what distant deeps or skies - William Blake "The Tiger"

Ash woven into a distant sky - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, you say all our bones are made of paper"

O distant, sinful heart - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

Sending love to distant towers - Sue Budin "False Borders"

Floors of distant forests - Anne Carson "Short Talk on Pain"

Drumming on a distant tuft of cloud - Adrian Castro "The Sound of One Immigrant Clapping"

Fires fueled by a distant hunger - Tina Chang "Fury"

Your seeds are scattered on distant summer shores - May Chong "Kamcia"

Yearning for your distant hands - Misha Collins "Clasped"

And other distant dogs respond - Frances Cornford "At Night"

Keep your distant beauty - Stephen Crane "Untitled"

And to that distant hope directs her flight - Danske Dandridge "A Question"

On the distant breeze's quaking the lion's roar - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh

So distant to alarm - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XXVII: Aurora"

From the distant tower of my head - Stephen Dunn "The Muse"

More distant and more solemn than a fading star - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

Thunder of spring over distant mountains - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"

The pale green light of distant moons - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

Draw our hearts more distant - Jeannine Hall Gailey "As Venus and Jupiter Come Together, We Fall Apart"

A memorial to distant waters - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Every Human Is a Black Box"

Betrayals in the distant backstory - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Supervillain Studies: For the Love of Ivy"

The distant notes of the hunter's horn - Mona Gould "I Run With the Fox"

A speck, like kindling for its own distant fire - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

Romance, beating his distant magical drum - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"

The lore of distant time - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"

Few and distant on the desert soil - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Embrace each distant isle - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

In memory's distant sky - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Alice Vernon"

The hollow moan of distant seas - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "Thermopylae"

Thrice fifty distant isles - "The Isles of the Happy" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Careless of the distant doom - James Weldon Johnson "If I Were Paris"

Distant from bees and flowers - Fady Joudah "Unacknowledged Pollinators"

With distant arrivals of light - Janet Kauffman "Decaying to More"

Far-travelled herald of some distant storm - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

The brave Music of a distant Drum - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Dreams of distant worlds arise - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"

Linking bygone day to distant scene - Henry S. Leigh "Things that Might Have Been"

That distant lands his steps might trace - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]

Stretching ever to distant horizons - Amy Lowell "The Way"

Distant bells screaming for salvation - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"

Glow of a distant promise - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Distant islands in the field of time - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"

Standing stones form distant islands - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"

Distant as a dream's flight - John G. Neihardt "Morning Glories"

Ripened to a distant sweetness - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Fauna from a distant sun - Pablo Neruda "Ode to a Stamp Album" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

The sea of distant song and deepest waltz - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Maize" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Ash of the distant burning - Pablo Neruda "Sex" transl. by Alastair Reid

Distantly tethered to the bestial earth - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

Pointing toward some distant Troy - Grace Nichols "Helen of the Gables"

Under the dazed and distant sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Lead you now by distant shores - Meredith Nicholson "Good Night and Pleasant Dreams"

Those who inhabited my distant town - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"

This bard from an old and distant city - Romeo Oriogun "Griot of Strange Places"

The chambers of the distant west - James F. Otis "Stanzas"

Discover in the distant echoes - Boris Pasternak "Hamlet" (translated by Lydia Pasternak Slater)

To thread the trackless, distant sea - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"

Praying for distant wings - Phan Nhien Hao "May" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

The distant brim of silent waters - E.J. Pratt "Evening"

Among the shoals of distant stars - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

Distant stars and heaving clouds of dust - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

And occupy those distant worlds again - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

A distant murmuration swallowed from sight - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"

Distant gardens withered in the heavens - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumn" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Come forth from distant myths - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens at Confirmation" transl. by Jessie Lemont

An arc of atoms resonating with distant stars - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"

Distant spheres obey her power - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

The coyotes howl on the distant tracks - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #34"

This spangled canopy of pyres to the distant dead - Ann K. Schwader "Dead Light"

With tales of spears and distant victories - Tobias Seamon "We Asked"

The music of her distant siblings dying - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"

The distant beat of Spring's irrevocable feet - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: II. A Road Song in May"

Who sing from a distant place - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

Distant bodies eclipsing each other - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"

Fresh altars in a distant sphere - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

Enthralled by war in distant lands - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"

The slow, sad murmur of far distant seas - James Stephens "The Shell"

The distant glitter of the January sun - Wallace Stevens "The Snow Man"

Distant echo from dead melody - Wallace Stevens "Sonnet [Lo, even as I passed beside the booth]"

The fierce storm-lion's distant growl - Alfred B. Street "The Devil's Pulpit: Tupper's Lake"

To call your distant soul their own - Henry David Thoreau "The Atlantides"

Had loved your distant voice - Eunice Tietjens "To S"

Like some distant Monday - Natasha Trethewey "Three Photographs"

Kiting off after distant glimmers - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"

Five sons gone to distant battle - Tso Yen-Nien "Call to Arms" transl. by Burton Watson

Bound for distant duty - Tu Fu "On the Border, First Series" transl. by Burton Watson

Saw the light of fires along a distant shore - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"

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

Like echoes of the distant brine - Charles William Wallace "The Old Benoni Tree"

Nearer than my flesh yet distant as a star - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

The deep mysterious caves forget the distant night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"

And bursts the system's distant bound - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Winding rivers seeking distant homes - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"

Were each other's distant shore - Nancy Wood "Commitment"

Ochre grains of distant battlefields - Ray Young Bear "Four Hinterland Abstractions"


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