Potential Titles: Sweet

( Sweet )

Bittersweet.


In melancholy drowsy-sweet - Robert Graves "Ghost Music"


Divine accomplice of those perilous-sweet - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"


A syrup, sweet-bitter with smoke - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"


Blown in from sweet-fruited floodplains - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"


The sweetheart of the sun - Thomas Hood "Ruth"

To catch the sweetheart wind - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Having sweethearts, but no wives - "The Rakes of Mallow" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Glance of the eye and sweetheart's sigh - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"


Sweet-smelling melons swelling on the ground - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"


Sweet-sour fruit under the moon's regard - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"


A sweet tooth, a smart mouth, and a wicked thirst - Lauren K. Alleyne "For My Brother(s)"

So many have a sweet tooth for belief - K. Iver "A Medium Performs Your Visit"

Meal planning with a sweet tooth - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"


No sweet-voiced bird will sing - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"


Friendless and all alone on this unsweetened stone - W.H. Davies "The Example"

Drench and immerse my unsweetened ego - Hailey Leithauser "In Praise of Flattery"


A wild-sweet wonder of yesterday - Herbert Randall "Hills o' My Heart"


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Potential Titles: Swan

( Swan )

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Potential Titles: Swoop

To the petrel the swooping gale - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"

Smooth with its swoop of swallows - Terry Blackhawk "Maumee, Maumee"

Swooping over the door to Tartarus - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"

A fall opening to swoop and glide - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

Earthward swoops a vulture sun - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Swoop through the hollow and hover over ridges - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"


His signature, a perfect birdswoop of wings - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"


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Potential Titles: Swallow

For the bird version of this word, see Swallow (Bird).

( Swallow )

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Potential Titles: Swear/Swore

( Swear )

( Swore/Sworn )

Nature forswears antiquity - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature II: May-Flower"

Profiles forsworn to Donatello - Mina Loy "The Black Virginity"


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Potential Titles: Sway

( Sway )

Those greed-swayed kings of sugar - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"


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Potential Titles: Swarm

( Swarm )

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Potential Titles: Swell

( Swell )

( Swollen )

Sleeker than night-swollen mushrooms - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"


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Potential Titles: Swing

( Swing )

( Swung )

Soul marks on unswinging gates - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"


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Potential Titles: Swift

( Swift )

Stars that shower swift-winged light - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"


Crack their wind-swift fingers - Harold Acton "Words"


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Potential Titles: Swamp

( Swamp )

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Potential Titles: Swirl

Aswirl at its vanishing points - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


( Swirl )

The stomach-swirling of forgetting - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"


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Potential Titles: Swim/Swam/Swum

( Swim/Swam/Swum )

Wearing a swimsuit on Thursday - Aimee Le "That Girl"


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Potential Titles: Sword

( Sword )

A sword-wound to that tender heart - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan


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Potential Titles: Swaddle

Swaddled in strange air - Marilyn Hacker "Nearly a Valediction"

Long after midnight, swaddled in dreams - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

To swaddle you in yesterday's headlines - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"

Swaddled wasps in its wood - Aimee Le "Inventory of a Year Before Debt"

Swaddled in old newsprint and hope - Toby MacNutt "When You Read this Debris"

Swaddle of electric pepper compressing - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"


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Potential Titles: Swerve

As swallows swerve in the fallow air - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Rosemary"

From which the soul swerves never - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Swerving around that unsteady silhouette - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"

Nor swerves for pain or rue - Ruth Temple Lindsay "The Hunters"

Swerving in their upper kingdoms - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"

Swerve so little from my dream - Helen Hay Whitney "Amor Mysticus"


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Potential Titles: Switch

Fairy tale characters switch roles - Alise Alousi "Skip"

Switch to the frequency of flame - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

Little orange willow switches hardly bending - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"

Etches, stitches, switches, glitches - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "wren"

As energy and matter bow and switch places - Linda Pastan "The Conservation of Matter"

Switched on a black light in the sky - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"


The backroad switchbacks of his double helix - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist with Three Moons"


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Potential Titles: Sweep/Swept

( Sweep/Swept )

This flame-swept future - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

Upon the silent sea-swept land - Sadakichi Hartmann "Nocturne"

Called through the shadow-swept air - Mary C.G. Byron "The Tryst of the Night (M. C. Gillington)"

Under the birds' low song-swept radiances - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"

Like a storm-swept flower - Claude McKay "Poetry"

The wide-sweeping meadows of truth - Cora C. Bass "The Future"


Wind-Swept.


Thirty unswept, cobweb years - Chaman Lall "'Thirty Years After'"


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Potential Titles: Swallow (bird)

( Swallow )

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Potential Titles: Swath

Swaths of medusas that hover like angels - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Consults the GPS"

Remains of you still swathed with care - John Freeman "The Chair"

Crowned and swathed with weed - Archibald Lampman "September"

And swathed around in dreams - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

When the mountain is swathed in flame - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]


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Potential Titles: Swoon

Swoon like one trembling heart - Charles Baudelaire "Sunset" transl. not credited

A likely swoon just shy of apprehension - Scott Cairns "Draw Near"

Where the clouds swoon - Louis Golding "Shepherd Singing Ragtime"

Myrrh of splendid swoons - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"

Drown Orion in a silver swoon - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"

The swoon of love that soars in fire to fall - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"


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Potential Titles: Sweater

The flickering frequencies of your sweater - Carmen Gimenez "Like an Auto-Tune of Authentic Love"

Green cashmere sweaters on top of the glass - Natalie Goldberg "Home"

Dwindled like a sweater full of moths - Jenny Johnson "In the Dream"

A familiar sweater in a garbage can - Laura Kasischke "Recall the Carousel"

Melancholy like an old brown sweater - Katha Pollitt "Happiness Writes White"


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