Potential Titles: Volcano

( Volcano )

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Potential Titles: Voyage

Within the unvoyaged sea - Lionel Johnson "Upon a Drawing"


( Voyage )

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Potential Titles: Voiceless

Voice.


( Voiceless )

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Potential Titles: Votary

What sort of god is Bacchus by his votaries deemed? - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Send numbers adapted to her votary's pains - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

That god the Bacchanalian votaries own - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

To see my faithful votaries ever blest - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The city where my Phrygian votaries dwelt - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The knaves own all her votaries for slaves - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

An earnest votary of Evening - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)


Votive.


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Potential Titles: Vouch/Vouchsafe

Who for the truth of that account can vouch? - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

That vouched the dark as done - Thomas Hardy "Barthelemon at Vauxhall"

Vouched for all that Solomon said - E.J. Pratt "The Passing of Jerry Moore"


Use the time that's still vouchsafed you - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

The hen vouchsafes no safety - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"


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Potential Titles: Vow

Exchange avowals and desires - Auguste Angellier "Eyes and Lips" transl. by Henry van Dyke

With untoward avowal break the peace - Carmen Sylva "A Room"


Now disavowed of illusions - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

The time allotted for disavowels - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"


( Vow )

Stargrit. Heartlocked. Vowstrung - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"


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Potential Titles: Vortex

( Vortex )

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Potential Titles: Vocal

Vocal even in its somber tread - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"

Moving through the vocal dark - "Comforted" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Among the vocal reeds - "Flora: a Vision"

Vocal with the seawind's breath - Robinson Jeffers "To an Old Square Piano"

Crowned with vocal reeds - John Milton "Lycidas"

Still vocal in their ocean depths - Arthur J. Stringer "Canada to England"

To burn and give birth in the same vocal gesture - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa


Voice.


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Potential Titles: Voluntary/Volunteer

The involuntary plan - Gwendolyn Brooks "A Street in Bronzeville"

Beets made into involuntary supports - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"


Volunteer wildflowers take defiant root - Rachel Barenblat "Peak"

Theirs is a volunteer intervention - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"

Crows in the volunteer hickory sapling - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"


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Potential Titles: Volume

( Volume )

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Potential Titles: Vodka

Came to me in a feverish vodka dream - Michael Chang "Plump Rat"

A lifestyle fueled by vodka - Yona Harvey "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love"

Burns like a shot of vodka - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"

That mixes vodka and lightning bolts - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: XI" transl. by William O'Daly

Great stars clear as vodka - Pablo Neruda "The Future Is Space" transl. by Alastair Reid

Camouflaged as a vodka ad - Philip Schultz "Aardvarks"


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Potential Titles: Void

( Void )

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Potential Titles: Voice

( Voice )

Vocal.


Slender, cloud-voiced rings of notes - Maxwell Bodenheim "While Hearing a Little Song (Solveigs Lied)"


Stretch but a claw toward the dream-voiced pipes - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"


Answered earth's myriad-voiced petition - W.P.W. "Love's Seasons" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.149--v.III, 6 Nov. 1886]


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

And let the folly-chimes outvoice the tone - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"


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


A trumpet-voice of phantom hosts - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"


Voiceless.


Of voice-over and steel drums - Tommye Blount "But the Weather, the Weather"

The authority of the voiceover - Noah Eli Gordon "Vesuvius"


Not with the war-voice of our elder clay - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]


World-voices chanting grand arias - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"


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Potential Titles: Vowel

( Vowel )

The vowel-dark grapes of autumn - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


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