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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-02-08 05:41 pm

Potential Titles: Burst

When the world burst out of an egg - Sheikha A. "Nesters"

Burst from the seams of their souls - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Trailing a burst of fireworks - Mary Jo Bang "Pilgrimage"

That bursts the bonds of clay - James Beattie "Elegy"

Art bursting from forces in sight - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien

Cement burst jugs and make them healthy - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

All that light bursting in - William Brewer "Resolution"

And burst through brier and thorn - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

If Day burst sudden from the bars of Night - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Whose ideal bursts into the earnest Real - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

That maddened to burst from its sluices - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

Bursts to fury in my soul - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene IX"

Burst their manacles and wear the name - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "France: An Ode, 1797"

Bursts the rose of light - Susan Coolidge "On the Shore"

Dreams no sunrise joy shall burst - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"

Burst wide their glowing jaws - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Sword"

The golden increment of bursting fruit - Countee Cullen "From the Dark Tower"

the bursting of the wafted stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IV)"

Bursting whirlwinds tear their rapid course - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Watching the pink bursts of the cyclamens - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Lichen to paint my exoskeleton in bursts of blue and yellow - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Burst rose of sharded light - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 4. Catechism"

The burst ropes of stars - Louise Erdrich "The Glass and the Bowl"

After night burst the dam of day - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"

Burst the final gates of capture - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

And the great orchards burst from bud to blossom - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

Unflinchingly parading their bursts of rebellious orange - Evelyn Flores "The Flame Tree"

Shrapnel bursting a mile in front - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"

When the bursting terrors find us - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"

A thousand stars silently bursting - Nikita Gill "After the Visit"

Every flavour of a star bursting - Nikita Gill "Pallas and Athena"

Bursting with light from beyond - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

Unicorn with bursting heart - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"

The bursting of catkins asunder - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"

Who swallows such a coal would burst into flames - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"

A golden bomb bursts the glow'ring sky - Jennie Earngey Hill "Nature's Game"

Twilight bursting from thy wheels - George Moses Horton "Memory"

Rocks that burst asunder - Langston Hughes "Love"

Breath bursting to explosive fog - Major Jackson "Selling Out"

That bursts its chrysalis in scorn - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Husking Time"

Bursting, lets a thousand colors fly - James Weldon Johnson "Down By the Carib Sea (VI: Sunset in the Tropics)"

A fuse bursting into electric sprays - Jenny Johnson "Little Apophat"

Burst Joy's grape against his palate - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

A burst of tachyons signals another wave - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"

No peace till the hill bursts - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"

Bursts the dykes of oppression - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

An extra smile or a burst of tears - Henry S. Leigh "In a Hundred Years"

The sun inside me burst - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria de Lourdes Song of Plenty"

In the bursting buds of roses - Douglas Malloch "June"

Bursts in a bloom of fire - Don Marquis "A Mood of Pavlowa"

Where flashing bubbles burst and throng - John Masefield "Christmas Eve at Sea"

And jewelled daisies burst to greet - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"

Burst into ravenous flight - Vi Khi Nao "Bird Poem"

Burst full and glorious on my wondering eyes - J.G. Percival "Life: a Sonnet" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

No purple vein from the mellow grape-heart bursting - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

In every burst of agreement - Khadijah Queen "Retreat"

Burst the tyrant's chain - James Ryder Randall "My Maryland"

as it bursts full flame upon the earth - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Old fiery poisons burst their fragile goblets - Lola Ridge "Czar's Watch"

As out of a burst crystal - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

And all the myriad star-buds burst in flame - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"

Burst on the peaks of light - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"

Burst from all species of chains - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"

A group of silver birches, bursting into blood - Duncan Campbell Scott "The Fifteenth of April"

Burst through the gates of silence - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Old Maid"

Bursts into dandelion seeds - Jake Skeets "In the Fields"

Windows bursting with confetti - Richard Solomon "The Slave Market with a Disappearing Bust of Voltaire"

A thousand thronging curses burst - William Somerville "The Chase"

And burst all cages - George Soule "Rebellion"

From slanderous charnel-houses burst - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"

Green bursts out of every herb - "Summer Has Come" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Where the wine's heart has burst - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

The sky is bursting to black ice - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"

Bursting into itself as night draped above - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"

Burst the door with rage and wrath - "Valdemar and Tove (B)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Burst into the eight million gods of this world - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Older than the first burst of stars exploding the darkness - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"

The first young twigs that burst in green - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"

Whose crimson roses burst his frost - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"

And bursts the system's distant bound - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

A burst of fragrance from black branches - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"


We've chased cloudbursts ever since - Tanaya Winder "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It's the Quickest Way Through"


A dynamo of swirled memory, of fire-bursts - Ian Goh "Firework"


With outbursts of unreasoning rage - H.P. McKnight "Prelude"


A minor star-burst of cranes - Sheila Black "Radium Dream"

A starburst compass pointing in all the directions - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"


Five teeth tell the sunburst story - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"


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