Potential Titles: Book
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somethingdarkerSet it off for the colonies with only some books - Kaveh Akbar "Ways to Harm a Thing"
That arrive with books and spring - Francisco X. Alarcon "Words Are Birds"
Better than all the books relate it - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Having watched the old movies and read the old books - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"
For whom books are love letters - Julia Alvarez "Reading for Pleasure"
Fracturing the columns of holy books - Gia Anansi-Shakur "The Owl"
Deep in the pages of a library book - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
A book of dreams and broken memories - Natalie Clifford Barney "Avertissement"
A world of books gone flat - Elizabeth Bishop "Visits to St. Elizabeths"
In life's book of years - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
The poor old books that nobody reads - Abbie Farwell Brown "Poor Old Books" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
In the book of fame - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
The opening of his iron book - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"
A riddle in the book of love - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"
A Book by seraphs writ - William Cowper "To Mary Unwin"
Classic as a book unopened - Brody Parrish Craig "Haircut in the Kitchen Sink"
Held in his hands the book of wisdom - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Intent upon the dusky book of fate - Olive Custance "St. Anthony (The Engraving by Durer)"
A prayer book tinted with red sorrow - Jim Daniels "Last Picked"
And hold the book of wildflowers open - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"
Nor read in Sibyl's book - Edward Dowden "Watershed"
The future was no sealed book - Toru Dutt "Savitri"
On the worn book of old-golden song - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
And ponder on life's tattered book - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
As the trees forgiving the books - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
Booked the best talent in Tartarus - Dana Gioia "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"
The world's a book we learn to translate - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
Surrounded by books and dust - Theodora Goss "Thorns and Briars"
A book with half the pages still uncut - Mona Gould "This Was My Brother (For Lt.-Col. Howard McTavish, killed in action at Dieppe)"
A book for the candle light - Angelina Weld Grimké "For the Candlelight"
Closed is the book we used to read - Eliza Paul Gurney "In a Season of Bereavement"
Books exchanged for bread - Marilyn Hacker "Morning News"
A preface without any book - Thomas Hardy "A Two-Years' Idyll"
Whose book of life reads blood and gold - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LV"
Aches like an open book - Terrance Hayes "God Is an American"
Ice no axe or book will break - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"
And scattered dust over harp and books - Hsin Ch'i-chi "When the Swallows Returned" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A Book which is completed by virtuous deeds alone - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Upon the Book of Time the Autocrat has writ - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
The book of poems inside me - Nazifa Islam "Stability Is a Feeling"
A picture in a borrowed book - Kaneko Misuzu "Beautiful Town" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
All his books & papers going to dust - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
The next chapter in my book of transformations - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"
Gilding the edges of unread books - Danusha Lameris "Dust"
Looking for a book made of water - Angel Leal "A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country"
A book that multiplies its pages - Joseph O. Legaspi "On an Island (New York City)"
Under wraps and off the books - Hailey Leithauser "Sex Circumspect"
My own book of your last hours - Audre Lorde "Legacy -- Hers"
Call to book a hotel in hell - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
The silence in the books - W.S. Merwin "Traces"
Condemned to follow words into a book - Michael Mesic "Night Letter"
Books and ribbons and beads - Charlotte Mew "The Pedlar"
To deliver my book into the world - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
Spilled books like holy water - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"
Turn inward on a wall of books - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
From all the dreaded lore of books - Beverly Moore "Vacation" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
I keep my books until I get to zero - Pablo Neruda "Numbered" transl. by Ilan Stavans
Would read the book of chance - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Tumbled my books all out of the shelves - "Nothing to Do" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
In a book too heavy to close - D. Nurkse "Overseas Accounts"
Watched the book of day unfold - Dorothy Parker "Testament"
Thoth closed his book of records and wept - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Breezes sweet fluttered the hymn books - "Rover in Church" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
A mosquito stain between the pages of your book - Lisa Sewell "Letter from a Haunted Room"
Your image in some antique book - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIX"
Huddled in dark unopened books - Charles Simic "In the Library"
Like a book full of surprises - Richard Solomon "The River Through Your Eyes (For Linda)"
In his eternal books of fate are written - Spenser "Death" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
The lost language of the book of Life - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Leave your book to the grasshopper - Edward Thomas "The Child on the Cliffs"
A book turning its own bright pages - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
Books remain where the mind cannot hide - A. Van Jordan "'Integrated School Books' Apeggio"
From the door of your book - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"
A book of reckoning keeps - Isaac Watts "Against Lying"
The book of their souls has come to an end - "XX" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
My books are full of mistakes - Dean Young "Selected Recent and New Errors" [Poetry July/August 2008]
My movements are by the book - Maged Zaher "Untitled"
All that book-learning a waste now - Sarah Getty "Presbyopia"
The bookshelves connected heaven and earth - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
Standing hushed in the aisles of bookstores - Allison Joseph "Notebooks"
The gray wizard's conjuring-book - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Make a cookbook where poison tastes good - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Kudzu"
Tear up his copy-books to fabricate a kite - Henry S. Leigh "A Nursery Legend"
A ghastly stain in the Domesday book - Henry S. Leigh "The Plot of a Romance"
In the handbook of heartbreak - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"
Making each stone a matchbook - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
Wrapped in a notebook leaking light - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"
Make my notebooks into sheaves of grass - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Pages from my notebook of the damned - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
The houses I found in my picture book - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Happy Pair"
Forgetting our woes in the picture-book world - Hannah G. Fernald "Picture-Book Time" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
A pocketbook full of bone readers - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"
Bury my soul in a scrapbook - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"
Not all records are for the scrapbook - Alberto Rios "Taking Your Olympic Measure"
Kept a scrapbook of ghost stories - Jennifer Wong "Calling the dead"
In Memory's sketchbook caught - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
The world remained a storybook - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
A spill of storybook umber - Kiki Petrosino "Approaching the Smith Family Graveyard"
The happiest ending that can come out of a storybook - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
The seeds we found in an antique textbook - Kaveh Akbar "Ways to Harm a Thing"
Not the textbook definition - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
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That arrive with books and spring - Francisco X. Alarcon "Words Are Birds"
Better than all the books relate it - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Having watched the old movies and read the old books - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"
For whom books are love letters - Julia Alvarez "Reading for Pleasure"
Fracturing the columns of holy books - Gia Anansi-Shakur "The Owl"
Deep in the pages of a library book - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
A book of dreams and broken memories - Natalie Clifford Barney "Avertissement"
A world of books gone flat - Elizabeth Bishop "Visits to St. Elizabeths"
In life's book of years - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
The poor old books that nobody reads - Abbie Farwell Brown "Poor Old Books" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
In the book of fame - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
The opening of his iron book - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"
A riddle in the book of love - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"
A Book by seraphs writ - William Cowper "To Mary Unwin"
Classic as a book unopened - Brody Parrish Craig "Haircut in the Kitchen Sink"
Held in his hands the book of wisdom - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Intent upon the dusky book of fate - Olive Custance "St. Anthony (The Engraving by Durer)"
A prayer book tinted with red sorrow - Jim Daniels "Last Picked"
And hold the book of wildflowers open - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"
Nor read in Sibyl's book - Edward Dowden "Watershed"
The future was no sealed book - Toru Dutt "Savitri"
On the worn book of old-golden song - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
And ponder on life's tattered book - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
As the trees forgiving the books - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
Booked the best talent in Tartarus - Dana Gioia "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"
The world's a book we learn to translate - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
Surrounded by books and dust - Theodora Goss "Thorns and Briars"
A book with half the pages still uncut - Mona Gould "This Was My Brother (For Lt.-Col. Howard McTavish, killed in action at Dieppe)"
A book for the candle light - Angelina Weld Grimké "For the Candlelight"
Closed is the book we used to read - Eliza Paul Gurney "In a Season of Bereavement"
Books exchanged for bread - Marilyn Hacker "Morning News"
A preface without any book - Thomas Hardy "A Two-Years' Idyll"
Whose book of life reads blood and gold - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LV"
Aches like an open book - Terrance Hayes "God Is an American"
Ice no axe or book will break - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"
And scattered dust over harp and books - Hsin Ch'i-chi "When the Swallows Returned" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A Book which is completed by virtuous deeds alone - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Upon the Book of Time the Autocrat has writ - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
The book of poems inside me - Nazifa Islam "Stability Is a Feeling"
A picture in a borrowed book - Kaneko Misuzu "Beautiful Town" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
All his books & papers going to dust - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
The next chapter in my book of transformations - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"
Gilding the edges of unread books - Danusha Lameris "Dust"
Looking for a book made of water - Angel Leal "A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country"
A book that multiplies its pages - Joseph O. Legaspi "On an Island (New York City)"
Under wraps and off the books - Hailey Leithauser "Sex Circumspect"
My own book of your last hours - Audre Lorde "Legacy -- Hers"
Call to book a hotel in hell - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
The silence in the books - W.S. Merwin "Traces"
Condemned to follow words into a book - Michael Mesic "Night Letter"
Books and ribbons and beads - Charlotte Mew "The Pedlar"
To deliver my book into the world - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
Spilled books like holy water - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"
Turn inward on a wall of books - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
From all the dreaded lore of books - Beverly Moore "Vacation" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
I keep my books until I get to zero - Pablo Neruda "Numbered" transl. by Ilan Stavans
Would read the book of chance - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Tumbled my books all out of the shelves - "Nothing to Do" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
In a book too heavy to close - D. Nurkse "Overseas Accounts"
Watched the book of day unfold - Dorothy Parker "Testament"
Thoth closed his book of records and wept - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Breezes sweet fluttered the hymn books - "Rover in Church" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
A mosquito stain between the pages of your book - Lisa Sewell "Letter from a Haunted Room"
Your image in some antique book - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIX"
Huddled in dark unopened books - Charles Simic "In the Library"
Like a book full of surprises - Richard Solomon "The River Through Your Eyes (For Linda)"
In his eternal books of fate are written - Spenser "Death" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
The lost language of the book of Life - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Leave your book to the grasshopper - Edward Thomas "The Child on the Cliffs"
A book turning its own bright pages - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
Books remain where the mind cannot hide - A. Van Jordan "'Integrated School Books' Apeggio"
From the door of your book - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"
A book of reckoning keeps - Isaac Watts "Against Lying"
The book of their souls has come to an end - "XX" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
My books are full of mistakes - Dean Young "Selected Recent and New Errors" [Poetry July/August 2008]
My movements are by the book - Maged Zaher "Untitled"
All that book-learning a waste now - Sarah Getty "Presbyopia"
The bookshelves connected heaven and earth - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
Standing hushed in the aisles of bookstores - Allison Joseph "Notebooks"
The gray wizard's conjuring-book - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Make a cookbook where poison tastes good - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Kudzu"
Tear up his copy-books to fabricate a kite - Henry S. Leigh "A Nursery Legend"
A ghastly stain in the Domesday book - Henry S. Leigh "The Plot of a Romance"
In the handbook of heartbreak - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"
Making each stone a matchbook - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
Wrapped in a notebook leaking light - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"
Make my notebooks into sheaves of grass - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Pages from my notebook of the damned - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
The houses I found in my picture book - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Happy Pair"
Forgetting our woes in the picture-book world - Hannah G. Fernald "Picture-Book Time" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
A pocketbook full of bone readers - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"
Bury my soul in a scrapbook - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"
Not all records are for the scrapbook - Alberto Rios "Taking Your Olympic Measure"
Kept a scrapbook of ghost stories - Jennifer Wong "Calling the dead"
In Memory's sketchbook caught - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
The world remained a storybook - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
A spill of storybook umber - Kiki Petrosino "Approaching the Smith Family Graveyard"
The happiest ending that can come out of a storybook - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"
The seeds we found in an antique textbook - Kaveh Akbar "Ways to Harm a Thing"
Not the textbook definition - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
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Go to Potential Titles: Art/Craft [category].
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