Potential Titles: Fell

( Fell )

Among the wind-felled bodies of my quince trees - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"


Fall.


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Potential Titles: Fence

( Fence )

For their fenceless acres shed - Benjamin West Ball "The Forgotten"


Like a lost mitten on a fencepost - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata 8"


On the unfenced height - Charles G.D. Roberts "Hill Top Songs"


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Potential Titles: Few

( Few )

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Potential Titles: Fern

( Fern )

Filled her shoes with fern-seed - Celia Thaxter "Fern-Seed" [St. Nicholas v.V no.11, Sept. 1878]


From the zenith stars to the sea-ferns - Trumbull Stickney "At Sainte-Marguerite"


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Potential Titles: Feast

( Feast )

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Potential Titles: Fed/Feed

( Fed )

Pastures deep in rain-fed grass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

Some gentle spirit sorrow-fed - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fire-Flowers"

Derived sun-fed design - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"

Altars unfed and temples overturned - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"

With the old wolf inside him unfed - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]


( Feed )

Re-routed using a feedback loop - Michael Dickman "Broadway"


Harvest-feeding dews, fine-winnowed light - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"


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Potential Titles: Festival

( Festival )

To bully me into these festive occasions - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"


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Potential Titles: February

( February )

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Potential Titles: Feral

( Feral )

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Potential Titles: Ferment

( Ferment )

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Potential Titles: Fetch

( Fetch )

Far-fetched and dear-bought - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"


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Potential Titles: Fear

( Fear )

( Fearful )

Fearless.


Woe to the gun in a fearsome hand - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

I know each step of the fearsome way - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Don't Be Afraid"

Outvoiced only by a sudden burst of fearsome thunderclaps - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A fearsome assortment of wildflowers - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"


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Potential Titles: Fearless

( Fearless )

Fear.


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Potential Titles: Fervent/Fervor

( Fervent )

The eagle builds his eyrie nearest to the fervid skies - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

The beauty of the jungle and the fervidness of prayer - Edward S. Silvera "South Street (Philadephia, Pa.)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]


( Fervor )

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Potential Titles: Ferry

Ferry him if you have the oars - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"

To carry the passenger flames o'er the devil's own ferry - C.C. Hine "Mrs. Leary's Cow"

The schedule of departing ferries - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

Ferries where the whales bloom - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

Even his shade by Charon ferried - James Russell Lowell "On Planting a Tree at Inverara"

Loud with people clamoring at the ferry - Meng Hao-jan "Returning Home to Deer-Gate Mountain at Night" transl. by David Hinton

Something ferried by the wind - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Dear God Please Make Me a Bird"


Led her through ferry boats and Ferris wheels - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"

The toll men pay to that strange ferry-boat - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"


The silver obol I must drop in the grim ferry-man's hand - Richard Aldington "Hermes-of-the-Dead" [The Little Review, Mar. 1917, v.3, no.9]

This hooded ferryman with forked tongue - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

This road requires a toll, a tip to the ferryman - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"

A whisper lost on the ferryman's lips - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"


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Potential Titles: Fen

( Fen )

Fen-fire that conducts her to her doom - William Watson "Ireland (December 1, 1890)"


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Potential Titles: Ferocious

The ferocious lies of ice - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

With the ferocity of a second lover - May Chong "Catering"

How ferocious that shock of light - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Unfastening all ferocities - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

The abrupt ferocities of chance - George Sterling "A Character"

No trace of a ferocious air - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"


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Potential Titles: Fertile/Infertile

( Fertile )

What time the fertilizing dews are falling in the Moon - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]


Crop-grower of infertile seed - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"


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Potential Titles: Fever

( Fever )

Through the fever-gulf that had me - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]


While the feverish branches chafe - Kiki Petrosino "Young"


Grown from scattered fever-seed - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"


Its blood dried up with treason's fever-taint - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]


When the scarlet fever delirium claimed him - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"


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Potential Titles: Feign

Who at the table feigns with sorry jest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On the Fly-Leaf of the Rubaiyat"

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

Earnest welcome, unbought, unfeigned, and true - Effie Afton "Lines to a Friend, on Removing from Her Native Village"

Here shine the valiant Nunio's deeds unfeign'd - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Shall array himself with judgement unfeigned - "The Wisdom of Solomon 5" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]


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Potential Titles: Fetter

( Fetter )

Unfettered.


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Potential Titles: Feature

Everyone a hazy quilt of features - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

How dim and strange your features - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

Torn features of wrath - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Wake with haunted features - Hoa Nguyen "Heartlessness"

Whose features are a timeless genealogy - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Beneath the Southern Cross"


Featureless and polished plutocracy - Boris Dralyuk "The Passing of the Bungalows"

Featureless winter of grief - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"


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Potential Titles: Feather

( Feather )

Featherless birds in the ruined trees - Charles Wright "Remembering Bergamo Alto"


Raven-feathers in the moon's reflex - Harold Acton "These Consolations"


Lazily waving a white-feathered fan - Li Po "Contentment [Lazily waving a white-feathered fan]" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]


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Potential Titles: Fennel

Had expected a fennel frond - Brian Blanchfield "In Their Motions"

grinding allspice and clove and fennel and cinnamon - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"

Rank fennel and broom - Effie Lee Newsome "Exodus"

And one was some fennel up on the shore - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "At the Water"

The flowering fennels and tall lilies shook before him - Virgil "Eclogues X" (transl. not identified)


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Potential Titles: Feel/Feeling/Felt

( Feel )

( Feeling )

( Felt )

Hangs in the air like the start of heartfelt applause - Adrian Matejka "Soave Sia Il Vento"

Such a breathless honey-feel of bliss - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"


Unfeeling/Unfelt.


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Potential Titles: Feet/Foot

( Feet )

( Foot )

Barefoot

Here's the crow's-foot for a sign - Don Marquis "'King Pandion, He Is Dead'"


Footbridge.


Footfall.


Foothold.


When pain has forced a footing there - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"


Over lightless pane and footless road - Edward Thomas "Aspens"


spilled past the footlights - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"

The harsh glare of the footlights - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"


Left no footmark on the floor - Anna Bunston de Bary "Under a Wiltshire Apple Tree"


We were footnotes on a charred parchment - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

A footnote to someone else's grandeur - Charles Rafferty "Forecast"

To footnote lesser evils - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

The beer and barbecue footnote - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"


Footpath.


Footprint.


Whisper in a foot-shuffle vortex - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"


Footstep.


The foot-tracked mud of my heart - Witter Bynner "The South" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]


Their boots knew the footwork - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"

Shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall - Rainer Maria Rilke "Initiation" transl. by Jessie Lemont

The flight of the fox-foot hours - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Vagabondia"

Light-Footed.

Through their million-footed dirge of unconcern - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"

Stark hours of panther-footed dark - Coningsby Dawson "Unanswerable Questions"

A seven-foot cyborg on a quest - Adam Ford "Arrival!"

Guarded by silver-footed antelope - John Presland "To a Robin in December"

On a six-foot stage of dust - Carl Sandburg "Old Osawatomie"

To teach our sober-footed hours to fly - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]

Stirred by some soft-footed breeze - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

Following with sorefooted pain - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"

Letting your hunger ride a ten-foot span - Conrad Hilberry "Pelican"


Underfoot.


Gallop through the unfooted asphodel - Maurice Baring "Julian Grenfell"


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Potential Titles: Feeble

( Feeble )

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Potential Titles: Feud

( Feud )

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Potential Titles: Fellow/Fellowship

And stand idly by while our fellows bear stones - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"

That draw their fellows deep into impiety - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne

Would you force the fellow's mettle forth - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Villainous fellows for War's regalia - Herbert E. Palmer "The Bushrangers"

With a strong fellow feeling for brandy and sherry - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

That we are fellows till the last night falls - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"


Three of one fellowship - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Whose fellowship isn't a fetter - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"

The winds of my fellowship - Lionel Johnson "In England"

Of ancient fellowships and new dissensions - Henry S. Leigh "The End of an Old Year"

Eyes for pirate fellowship - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

If only they could be of that fellowship - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound

Though I have known the fellowship of kings - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"


My ancient way-fellows convene - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"


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