Potential Titles: God/Goddess

My children half wild screaming demigods - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"


( God/Goddess )

Redeem all other god-cast stones - Chris Dombrowski "Lunar Calendar"


Of gnats, amyl nitrate, and goddamn rain - Randall Mann "The Fall of 1992, Gainesville, Florida"


In our god-dazzled night - Andrew Hudgins "Two Strangers Enter Sodom"


Loved to death, to damnation and God-death - Toi Derricotte "A Note on My Son's Face"


Rivals Homer's god-enraptured dreams - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]


By dark, godforsaken inches - Mary Oliver "Rain, Tree, Thunder and Lightning"


Spice of Godhead in this brew - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"

A fake among all the real and gorgeous godheads - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"


Clenched tight on godspeak shrapnel - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"


Hear the mantra of the mouse-god sounding - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"


Boldly sings the river-god - Louise Imogen Guiney "Down Stream"


Where Nereid maids about the sea-god throng - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"

The other half of the sea-god's bones - Genevieve Taggard "Skull Song"


Where the gates of the Storm-god are - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"


A smile of Sarcophagi, Sun-gods, and Madonnas - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

To meet the sun-god's call - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Awakening of the Lilies"

Dews wrung from the Sun-god's eyes - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"


Above the prison of the captive Titan-god - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"


was made from the hands of an ungodly master - Ashley M. Jones "HOLYHEADHARRIET"


War-god banners lead us - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"


When the wind-god shrieks aloud - George Martin "Aspiration"


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Potential Titles: Gospel

Hoarse with crying gospels in the street - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Spoke our own gospels like mad messiahs - K. Iver "Gospel for Missy During Our Three-Day Birthday Season"

Relayed the new gospels across mountains - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"

Hear a million alien gospels - Alice Meynell "Christ in the Universe"

The gospel of bread and butter - Dante Micheaux "Striking the Tents"

A bughouse peddler of second-hand gospel - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"


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Potential Titles: Goodbye

( Goodbye )

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Potential Titles: Go/Goes/Going/Gone

( Go )

( Goes )

( Going )

( Gone )

Bygone.


Who come and go with fertile stardust - Charlie Espinosa "Sunflower Astronaut"

While artful shadows come and go - Jennie Earngey Hill "Distance"

That come and go with silent feet - John McCrae "Slumber Songs"

To live in the come-and-go of things - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie II"


Friend of hopes foregone - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"

Forgoing palaces for catacombs - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"


Ongoing interest in their old adversary - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"


Against the outgoing sea of ebbing mystery - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"


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Potential Titles: Gorse

Barb'd blossom of the guarded gorse - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"

And the flower of the gorse burned on - Walter de la Mare "Sotto Voce"

Girt round the feet with gorse - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"

Pooled 'mid reeds and gorse - Louise Imogen Guiney "A Reason for Silence"

When the sun burnished all the green to gorse - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"

The folded glory of the gorse - Charlotte Mew "Fame"

Sheltered by sharp-speared gorse and the berried junipers - Edward Shanks "The Glow-Worm"


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Potential Titles: Good/Goodness

( Good/Goodness )

In the good night of my company - Lucie Brock-Broido "Soul Keeping Company"

Shopping has become my good-night kiss - Maggie Farren "Palms"

No morning till we've said goodnight - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"

Until we kiss good night - Lin Oliver "Hush"


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Potential Titles: Goblet

( Goblet )

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Potential Titles: Govern

( Govern )

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

Unhinged the government's seat - Ashanti Files "Hope 2020"

A government crushing ambitions into pennies - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"

The shining governments of the damned - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"


Ungovernable angers take the waves - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene VII"


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Potential Titles: Gossip

( Gossip )

The coral-gossip of these good bones - Ada Limon "Fin"


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Potential Titles: Goat

( Goat )

Scapegoats of shore and hill - Helen Gray Cone "The Riddle of Wreck"


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Potential Titles: Gorgon

( Gorgon )

With gorgon-figured veil o'erspread - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

When Gorgon-headed Night was gone - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"


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Potential Titles: Goth/Gothic

( Goth/Gothic )

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Potential Titles: Goblin

( Goblin )

Bearded goblin-fish and sharks - Theodore Maynard "Blindness"

Will drive the goblin-horde away - Auguste Angellier "The Ivory Cradle" transl. by Henry van Dyke


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Potential Titles: Gorge

Greed, like a gorged Machiavelli - Maxwell Bodenheim "American Vaudeville Show"

Ends this gorging bliss - Avis Harley "Worldly Wise"

The doors of never-ending gorges - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"

Peddlers of the gorges - Lu Yu "I Had Occasion to Tell a Visitor about an Old Trip I Took Through the Gorges of the Yangtze" transl. by Burton Watson

Times of gorge and rush - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)

Till lust and murder gorge their fierce desire - Quince "Ambition" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Gorged with the dust of thrones - Clark Ashton Smith "The Chimaera"


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Potential Titles: Gorgeous

( Gorgeous )

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Potential Titles: Gold

( Gold )

From a billion blue-gold caverns of air - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

Cupped in brown-gold - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"

As cloth-of-gold the fallen leaves lie - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

The honey-seeking, golden-banded - H.D. "Orchard"

The gold-dusted curtains of the air - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva

The crystal pond where gold-fish play - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "Thoughts on Creation"

Husbandry to pluck golden fleece - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"

Where the gold-green waters run - Fanny Kemble "A Lament for the Wissahiccon"

The rocks where gold-haired syrens sang - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Bade adieu to each golden-hearted queen - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]

At what gold-laced speech - Bret Harte "A Newport Romance"

Your eyes are gold-leaf & reflection - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Delfonic"

Kept it for some goldless debt - Richard Hughes "Gratitude"

At night when her gold-light is spent - Charles Swain "The Ship 'Extravagance'" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Holds a goldmine in the sky - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

then temper it to golden-rose - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

in the beginning was the gold rush - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"

Gold-seeking hucksters in a noble land - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

In her hand her gold-threaded slippers - Li Yu "[Blossoms bright, the moon dark]" transl. by Burton Watson

In the gleam of the gold-washed sea - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Golden-winged through the glory swim - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

On the worn book of old-golden song - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

A rosegold gown of smoke - Molly Raynor "Yamim Noraim///Days of A W E"

A slender bunch of russet-gold keys - Rose Fyleman "Alms in Autumn"

Reap the far star-gold - Charles Baudelaire "The Venal Muse" transl. not credited

Watching Ariadne ungold time - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Love and anger and white-gold milk - Maggie Nelson "The World"


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Potential Titles: Goal

( Goal )

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Potential Titles: Gossamer

( Gossamer )

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Potential Titles: Gown

( Gown )

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