Potential Titles: Crush

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Holding crushed bird skulls in your hands - Kim Addonizio "Here"

In simulated venom crushed - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Crushed me with an iron yoke - Stephen Vincent Benet "Poor Devil!"

Fear was a grape I crushed to wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Crushed by machining, implacable hours - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

As if all Hell were crushed - Stephen Vincent Benet "Young Blood"

Meticulous crushing fog - Marianne Boruch "There Ought to Be a Law Against Henry"

Crushed beneath the furrow's weight - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"

Crushing the legs of my shadow - Tina Chang "Duality"

Your crushed heart's wound still burns - S. R. Compton "To Atlantis"

But any memory of that has been crushed out of them - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Such a crush on cruelty - Jim Daniels "Foundation"

Under the crush of chlorinated water - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Letdown"

To lift this wrong that crushes me - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Sweet Lady, fair and gentle without peer]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Can make teeth crush stone - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Blossoms by the summer lightning crushed - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

No longer be crushed with the weight of the world - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

To crush the mighty yearning down - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Crushed flowers and forlorn - Ivor Gurney "From the Window"

Crushed into forgotten ashes - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"

Crushing crystal dews beneath - Geo. Canning Hill "Theodora: a Ballad of the Woods"

Worlds to dust in fragments crushing - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Even the mountain tops are crushed - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken

When your spirit has crushed mountains - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

To admit the murdered into rooms of vast crushed comfort - Youna Kwak "After"

Crushed amid iron walls - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IV: Night Sounds"

Crushed her gathered flowers - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory fo the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"

Crushed to dust and damned to shame - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

A government crushing ambitions into pennies - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"

My grief in a crushed delivery box - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"

Of life crushed unripe - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)

Crushed under its own dream - Dawn Lundy Martin "Perspective is Supposed to Yield Clarity"

Upon my mouth do crush their wine - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"

The heel that crushed the serpent's head - Theodore Maynard "The Universal Mother"

Trying to crush beer cans against the moon - John McCarthy "Ghost Friends, Sangamon County"

Crushed a fistful of mushrooms - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"

Not expecting to be crushed by thirst - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"

To crush each spark of memory - Duncan Moore "To the Lost One"

Crush all the particles down - Marianne Moore "To a Steam Roller"

A crushed and bitter bowl - Pablo Neruda "Almeria" translated by Richard Schaaf

Or crush them in my white-fanged hands - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"

Night crushed out the day - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"

Before your anger crushed the doors - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"

From dusty borders and crushed wheat - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"

Crushed the bones of the moon - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Crushed at the vineyards' edge - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

With our bungled furies and crushes - Ira Sadoff "Biographical Sketch"

Crush down continents of powdered bones - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

Purpled with wild grapes crushed wantonly - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

Crushing hoofs and tearing feet - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Cean Duv Deelish"

In between the letters are boots crushing tumbleweeds - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

Till I am crushed with beauty - Marion Strobel "Spring Morning"

Grain still too short to be crushed - Su Tung-p'o "Rhyming with Tzu-yu's 'Treading the Green'" transl. by Burton Watson

Crushing the poisonous berries of sinister kisses - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

For treason's hydra head is crushed - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Many a fair hope crushed and broken - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)

Will crush forth our laughter - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

Crushes my house and leaves me - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"


Promethean will uncrushed and calm - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"


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