Potential Titles: Ken

With faithful ken to know the rescued truth - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]

Will a new LEONARDO arise on our ken? - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

What lay flickering just beyond the ken - Scott Cairns "Draw Near"

Gazing beyond the ken of lesser souls - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "I Sit and Sew" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Rolling sphere's beyond earth's ken - John Mitchell "Oh! Waft Me to the Fairy Clime"


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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 )

Outwear/Outworn.


Wear Out/Worn Out.


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 )

Songs interwoven of lights and of laughters - Henry Kendall "Bell-Birds"

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"


Thy chain shall prove a sand-woven rope - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]


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


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Potential Titles: Welter

Until her darkest streets ran weltering fire - William Rose Benét "The City"

A welter of other pseudo impressive formula abound - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"

Weltering first in crimson gore, may Menelaus rise no more - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Weltering in gore to vultures lie exposed - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull

These weltering alleys keep their outcast treasury - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

In a welter of bells & holy water - Kiki Petrosino "Elegy"


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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: Wend

Through the umbered spaces wend - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

They now resolved to wend their way from earth - Edward Edwin Foot "The Death, Burial, and Destruction of Bacchus"

As evil spirits near them wend - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

Full of thought and microbes wend their way - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

The rivers wend a lawless course - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Crow's Nest Pass"


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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

Wore out all but a fragment of my memories - Paul Cameron Brown "Dry Guillotine"


( Worn Out )

Out.

Outwear/Outworn.

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"

An unwedging at the scapulas scattering birds - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]


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