Potential Titles: Vein

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With the veins of your witnessing - Elmaz Abinader "Heartwood"

Sung like fire through beating veins - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

Blackbirds broke veins in their throats - Sandra Alcosser "Cry"

Veined shells and burnished scales - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

In the veins and sinews of a pine on a lone isle - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Disperse through thousands of traveling veins - Mouna Ammar "Invocation"

Whose veins are filled with fluid fire - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

Granite with blood in its veins - Mary Jo Bang "The Mirror"

Fed the torrents of its living veins - William Rose Benét "The City"

After the ambrosia had burned through her veins - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"

Hidden in the branching veins of earthbound stone - Bruce Boston "Marble People"

Fixed on scraping out my veins - William Brewer "Daedalus in Oxyana"

With a thrill in every vein - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"

Lost to hope and chilled in every vein - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVI. Joy May Kill" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Filled each leafy vein with dew - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"

Felt the winter in my veins - W. Wilfred Campbell "How One Winter Came"

Dark matter funneling through his veins - Tina Chang "My Father. A Tree."

And new fire through the veins - Annie Rothwell Christie "After the Battle"

Grief runs in his veins - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene III"

The veins in your neck slung with wind - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Does Not Care about Football"

Swallowing the veins of rivers - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

The blood of survivors coursing through my veins - Kwame Dawes "Land Ho"

This alchemy of concrete in the vein - Kwame Dawes "Talk"

A sugary alarm clock in the veins - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

My body veined in soot - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy for the Eleven: 1. Sheila Clark, Over Tea"

Slow sugar in the veins - Nicole Terez Dutton "Magnitude and Bond"

All your avid veins require - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"

Sun-fires course in all the veins of me - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

The sun shoots in golden veins - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"

Veins of wind light up - Carolyn Forche "Barley Field"

Nests in a tangle of veined violets - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

Writes itself in sheets across my veins - Suzi F. Garcia "A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood (with some help from Ahmad)"

All the five seas wash my veins - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"

One last cup from the veins of the vine - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

Glow and dance in every vein - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

The many-tinctured veins of precious marble - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

The alder's veins turn crimson - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"

Fire dropped from the veins of my thought - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

That once grew into our nerves and veins - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

A taste of helium in the veins - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Featuring Lonette Mckee as Sister"

Go dancing through my veins - James Weldon Johnson "The Poet's Heart"

Laugh in cynic vein - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"

My veins in every leaf - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"

Your blood in my veins - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

My veins run liquid flame - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"

With knots in my veins, thorns on my tongue - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"

These azure veins could boast the regal wine - Henry S. Leigh "To a Timid Leech"

In the pulsing veins of the earth - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

Summer had run like fire through its veins - Amy Lowell "A Japanese Wood-Carving"

By veins from Odin filled - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Veins where fire is hid - James Russell Lowell "On Burning Some Old Letters"

Prayed to the veins of a trembling city - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Veined with scarlet flame - Dorothea Mackellar "Colour"

Put blood of roses in his veins - Don Marquis "A Dream Child"

In a vein beside the railroad - Sandra McPherson "Poppies"

Taking lightning in the veins - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"

Confused in veins of fire - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

All vein and artery on cold sky - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

cut a vein and stain the pried petals - Elis Montgomery "Inheritance"

Through each vein reanimation rolls - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Through the veins of the volcano - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

In the desolate metal's veins - Pablo Neruda "The Day Will Come" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Frozen veins of foliage - Pablo Neruda "From Above (1942)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Each vein of jasper or sulfur - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XI" transl. by James Nolan

The air with open veins - Pablo Neruda "The War (1936)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

When your veins are full of haunting - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"

Spelling ruination in the veins of your wrist - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"

All colors have veins full of neon - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

The torpor of earth's granite veins - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"

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

That throbs in the veins of Spring - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"

To taste what his veins had hidden - Charles Rafferty "The Man Who Bled Wine"

Living in the beat of my veins - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Bomba"

Blood of earth's wild pulsing veins - Theodore H. Rand "Sea Music"

Into a bitter-chocolate vein - Adrienne Rich "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"

The veins of evening had been drained - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

To prick the vein of a father - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"

A fury fill the veins of time - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"

Their veins are rivers of mercury - Nicky Russell "Machinist Hands"

The lightning entering my veins - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #59"

Slow through the cave of my veins - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"

Fills my veins with rivers of excess - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

The stark unholy flow through veins - Lisa Sewell "Letter from a Haunted Room"

From my veins the pull of one long pulse - Charif Shanahan "Passing"

Gray highway veins narrow - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

Passion in our secret veins - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"

Through my tributary veins - A.E. Stallings "Country Song"

In thy veins a scarlet venom - George Sterling "The Feast"

Veined with sullen gold - George Sterling "Hostage"

Veins of glory and fire - Robert Louis Stevenson "If This Were Faith"

We had paid our taxes off our veins - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

All this youth in Earth's old veins - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

One grass-blade in its veins - Francis Thompson "All Flesh"

Out of their myriad sky-embracing veins - W.J. Turner "Death"

A vein of naked light - John Updike "Thunderstorm in Dorset, Vermont"

A billion stars pulsating in my veins - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"

The blood in his veins was flowing cold - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"

The light behind your veins - Derek Walcott "For Adrian"

Edged like teeth and dense with veins - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"

Veins of midnight flaw the morn - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"

This full, fragile head of veined lavender - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"


One flame in a glow of green-veined rhodonite - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"


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