Potential Titles: Overcome

Fling to them mountains to overcome - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

When all the others are overcome with drinking - Chang Wu-chien "The Poet and the Dancers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Temptation overcomes the star - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"

The endless work of overcoming - Kay Ryan "Why it Is Hard to Start"

Till through the weight of overcoming hours - C.H. Sorley "German Rain"


Come.


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Potential Titles: Overshadow

O'ershadowed by new wings of greater fear - Ralph Chaplin "Escaped!"

Overshadowed by cypress and pine - "The Ch'u Tz'u: The Mountain Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson

The dim phantoms of o'er shadowed pleasures - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Whose conquering sails o'ershadow every sea - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

Shifting light and overshadowing cloud - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"


Shadow.


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Potential Titles: Overgrown

( Overgrown )

Grow.


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Potential Titles: Oval/Ovate

An ocean of grief pressed into ovals - Mary Jo Bang "This Morning"

To lift the oval of my soul - Maxwell Bodenheim "While Hearing a Little Song (Solveigs Lied)"

An oval that's a metaphor for life - Bob Hicok "Calling him back from layoff"

rendered as a grouping of ovals - Monica Youn "Study of Two Figures (Ignatz/Krazy)"


The last of the maroon crabapple ovates - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"


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Potential Titles: Overthrow

( Overthrow )

Throw.


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Potential Titles: Overhead

( Overhead )

Head.


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Potential Titles: Oven

The oven of the body - Meena Alexander "Stone Oven"

His eyes two open ovens - Tina Chang "Celestial"

By the oven with a loaf for a pillow - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"

The oven as it opens every afternoon - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"

The cold oven at the lush forest's heart - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti


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Potential Titles: Overflow

( Overflow )

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Potential Titles: Overcast

A grey overcast of noise - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"

Circular tracts overcast with stars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"

On sunny days a moment overcast - Robert Frost "The Oven-Bird

The image of evil shall be overcast - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"

And should life's sky be overcast - John Napier "Who Knows?"

Overcast by clouds of doubt - Arthur Caswell Parker "Faith"


Cast.


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Potential Titles: Overlook

To overlook what he had arranged to surpass - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"

woke up in the overlooked dark - Hoa Nguyen "Autumn Poem 2012"

Overlooking the broken cliffs of the moon - Wendy Rathbone "Grief"

The cost of a moment overlooked - Morris Rosenfeld "The Nightingale to the Workman" transl. by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank

A wraparound window overlooking the universe - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"

A glass palace overlooking an airport - Jackie Wang "Life is a Place Where it's Forbidden to Live"


Look.


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Potential Titles: Overtake/Overtook

Overtaken too far from its nest - Robert Frost "Acceptance"

Set forth upon my track to overtake me - Robert Frost "Into My Own"

O'ertaken as by some spell divine - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

His want overtook his will - Maxine Kumin "The Burners, the Buriers"

It was not fate which overtook me - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

When memory escapes, overtake it - Achy Obejas "Conceits"

Freedom has overtaken me - Grace Paley [untitled]


Take/Took.


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Potential Titles: Overwhelm

( Overwhelm )

In black Oblivion's waves should whelm his name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle


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