Potential Titles: Weep

( Weep )

Outweep the very dews - James Whitcombe Riley "When I Do Mock"


Or touch the tears unwept of bitter love - William Allingham "The Lover and Birds"

Another day that dies unwept - Aldous Huxley "Quotidian Vision"


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Potential Titles: Wear

( Wear )

Wear Out/Worn Out/Outwear.


Wore/Worn.


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Potential Titles: Weather

( Weather )

In ill-weather lets the ledge show fang - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"


Roaming bazaars and sun-weathered ruins - Pramila Venkateswaran "Body Language"


A gilded weathercock at intervals glimmers - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"


Weathered their stormy rebellions - Julia Alvarez "Why I Teach"

Sober walls of weathered stone - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

They harvest weathered rocks - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Street of Broken Dreams"


Weathering the drip and drive of woe - Dorothy Parker "A Portrait"


Spoke in weather-leveled voices - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"


Set on weatherproof interdependence - Tara Hardy "Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor)"


Among the weather-worn shards - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard V: The Return"


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Potential Titles: Wed

( Wed )

Unwedded, lonely as a star - Lewis Morris "Odatis"


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Potential Titles: Well (noun)

( Well )

Climbing the beanstalk down the gravity well - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"

Far from the deep yearning of gravity wells - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"

Stairwell.

A path towards its well-defended heart - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

Well-known but half-forgotten - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

The lost, well-mannered rhetoric of your day - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Whose wellsprings fail or flow defiled - William Watson "A Child's Hair"


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Potential Titles: Went

( Went )

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Potential Titles: West

( West )

West Wind.


( Western )

( Westward )

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Potential Titles: Wet

( Wet )

Follow the tide's wet-black eyes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"


And lash the wet-flanked wind - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"


Prowling the wetlands for ghost crabs - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

A silky frenzy steeps the wetlands - Philip Schultz "Welcome to the Springs"


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Potential Titles: Weird

( Weird )

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Potential Titles: Weave/Wove

( Weave )

Where threads of gold the sun enweaves - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

Enweaves the light in woof as bright - Harriet Monroe "Love Song"


Reweave the fabric of liminal unravelings - Marilyn Hacker "Interval"

Reweave its patterning of silver wave - Edith Wharton "Elegy"


A river flooding the underweave - Charles Wright "Double Salt"


Weaving and unweaving what you are - Joseph Fasano "Odysseus"

Where shadows rebuild and unweave - Archibald Lampman "Inter Vias"

Unweaving my dreams each century - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"


( Wove/Woven )

With the capricious chime of interwoven notes - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"


Inwoven of moonbeams and foam - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

Low-breathed air and inwoven melody - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"


The silver chill caught in our wind-woven walls - Mari Ness "ICE"


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Potential Titles: Web

( Web )

Cobweb.


Do not accept, we whisper down the soul-webs - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"


Spider-Web.


Web-hung blackness of night - Robert Graves "Cynics and Romantics"


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Potential Titles: Weak

( Weak )

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Potential Titles: Weary

Half a-weary of my treasure - "Sorrow and My Heart" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]


( Weary )

( Outweary )

Unwearied.


Guardian spirits grown weary-hearted - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"

To wake the weary-hearted - Willa Cather "Going Home"


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Potential Titles: Weigh

Outweigh.


With tender anise overweighed - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"


( Weigh )

Weight.


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Potential Titles: Weightless

( Weightless )

Weight.


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Potential Titles: Meadow

( Meadow )

Across sea-meadows measureless - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ackerman Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood


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Potential Titles: Welcome

( Welcome )

Unwelcome.


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Potential Titles: Wear Out/Worn Out/Outwear

The sword outwears its sheath - Byron "We'll Go No More a-Roving"

That outwear the centuries - Helen Parry Eden "Simkin"

Has outworn the shame of time - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

A valiant armor of scarred hopes outworn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"


( Worn Out )

Out.

Wear.

Wore/Worn.


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Potential Titles: Weasel

Saw a pack of stretching weasels hunt - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

Fox and adder and weasel know - Walter de la Mare "Bewitched"

With a wise old weasel, a rat and a frog - Rose Fyleman "The Grouse"

Weasel whirls through world like wildfire - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "weasel"

Catch a weasel asleep - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Conroy's Gap"


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Potential Titles: West Wind

( West Wind )

West.


Wind (noun).


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Potential Titles: Weight

Weigh.


( Weight )

Becomes confetti circling in a paperweight - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"


Weightless.


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Potential Titles: Wealth

( Wealth )

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Potential Titles: Weld

Did thus weld bricks to life - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Dream of Samarkand"

Looked at the sun through welding glass - Joanne Merriam "No Words"

His fingers on fire and welded to pain - Charles Rafferty "Catena"

A ship of welded stars - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Aurelio, Seer Tecolote"

Welded in ice - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"


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Potential Titles: Weapon

( Weapon )

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Potential Titles: Weft

Weft of Time's humming loom - Eleanor Farjeon "From an Old Garden"

My loom's blue metered weft - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 15"

In the fragile weft of ebony night - Joy Harjo "Song for the Deer and Myself to Return On"

The warp of shade, the weft of light - Alfred Hayes "My Study"

Warps and wefts amid mats of moss - Jenny Johnson "Gay Marriage Poem"

Canted weft of rain - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"

Mineral, weft, and forge - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"


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Potential Titles: Week

( Week )

The altar's weekday thrift of gold - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"


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Potential Titles: Weed

( Weed )

Before they became wayweeds - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"

Pace up the weed-grown paths - Charlotte Mew "The Sunlit House"


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Potential Titles: Wedge

( Wedge )

The wedge-shaped engines of the sun - Harold Acton "Ventilation"


Nobody's born unwedged between dirt and sky - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"


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