Potential Titles: Below

[somethingdarker]

Flowers above and thorns below - A.L.O.E. "The Sinners' Portion"

The marriage of ash and salt below - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Long years in damp vaults below - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"

Below its gossamer arches frail - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

And gold in the earth below - anonymous? "The Ballad of Meikle-Mouthed Meg"

Below the fuselage of my heart - Jan Beatty "Sitting Nude"

The march of the ant-hill crowds below - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

Tangled below the hum of lunar membrane - Russell Brakefield "The High and Lonesome Sound: I. Fiddle"

And the dark surge roll below - John Breslin "Rolling Home"

Lie still upon his heart--which breaks below thee - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"

Taking an accounting of the earth below - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"

Billowing clouds spread out below - "The Ch'u Tz'u: The Mountain Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson

In all our pilgrimage below - Benjamin Copeland "Anniversary Praise"

For stones below would hold them fast - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"

The clamours of the crowd below - George Crabbe "The Village"

Burying itself in the blue memory below - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

A pulsing wind below the glass - Cass Donish "You, Emblazoned"

Powers of the deep below - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"

And make just laws below the sun - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"

A glimpse into the world below the surface - Laura Foley "What Stillness"

Goes down burning into the gulf below - Robert Frost "Acceptance"

Below the ridge a raven - Robert Graves "On the Ridge"

Around campfires below the mind - Brenda Hillman "Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways"

Put down its roots below the phyla - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

The exit already closing from below - Carlie Hoffman "Point of View Where Orpheus Makes a Pit Stop at a Fortune Teller in St Germain"

Flowers that spring from the same root below - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "To an Absent Sister" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

The dragon trapped below iron, bricks, & wood - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Lost and sunk in the depths below - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IX: To that Rare and Deep-Red Burnet-Moth Only to Be Met with in the Burren"

The shadowy house below is out of bounds - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"

Thousands of feet below the olive-roots - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"

Thousands of feet below the lava fire - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"

Below the forlorn woods - John Masefield "King Cole"

Below blackened crowns - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"

Below the altar of the hills - John McCrae "The Dying of Pere Pierre"

Below a star-built arch - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"

Below the wounded day - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Trapeze wires below the cloud cover - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Shall bless the vineyards far below - Walter S. Percy "Vincit Omnia Jus"

Whose Virtue gilds the world below - Philo "The Tribute"

Swimming down below, where coolest peace prevails - Miriam Clark Potter "A Warning"

In the moonless octave below midnight - Lynn Powell "Kind of Blue"

The deep waters below me and shallow waters above - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"

In harmony with those below - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [Come to the river's side, my love]"

Time's singular city stretched below - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

I'll run below the wet young moon - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"

Song and silence are not like these below - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

From the valleys of sorrow below - Abram Joseph Ryan (aka Father Ryan) "Song of the Deathless Voice"

The Sun hangs in the black wastes below - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Thorned whispers well below a human's capacity to hear - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Below the migrant winter stars - George Sterling "The Night Migration"

Far below the crimson star - George Sterling "The Rack"

Move horizontally below the earth - Mutsuo Takahashi "Dead Boy" transl. by Jeffrey Angles

To occupy the vaults below - Jane Taylor "The Squire's Pew"

Lake trout and rainbows below us - Keith Taylor "The Numbers at Kitch-iti-kipi"

Below the willows while they wept - Paul Tran "Terroir"

That deep below are hidden strongest roots - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]

Reaches the gulf below - John Hall Wheelock "The Secret One"

Every sober clam below her - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

As hope sunk below the waterline - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"

Mist candles down below - Charles Wright "Well, Roll On, Buddy, Don't You Roll Too Slow"

Give wings to the children of earth below - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa


Navigation Links:
Go to B word index.
Go to Potential Titles: Directional and Relative Position Words [category].
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.