Potential Titles: Belief/Believe
Feb. 3rd, 2010 07:44 pmTo fall into belief - Rae Armantrout "On Growth"
My desperate belief in other realities - Desiree C. Bailey "Woman in Dub"
Heretics believe there is a forest - Mary Jo Bang "Pilgrimage"
And scarce believes the altered voice her own - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
have shaken the fruitful tree of belief - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"
the need of believing - Elizabeth Bartlett "only this"
Believe in the small writ large, writ impossible - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"
Believing for us both - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Year's Spinning"
Believed in the sweetness of salt - Terry Blackhawk "Lot's Wife"
Becomes a herald swift beyond belief - Louise Morey Bowman "Grapes"
Though no one believed it or cared to see - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"
First believe in the force of opposites - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"
Its belief, glittering mad & megawatt - Chen Chen "In the City"
Because the skyline believes in me - Chen Chen "In the City"
Fuzzy belief systems and twisted vision of eternity - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
Hangs on her emblem of belief - Heid E. Erdich "The Deep"
And believed the billboard's promises - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Believed in a future with her face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"
Believe not Sorrow - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Believing ecstasy to be prayer - Zona Gale "Stone Cell"
The goats who would not so believe - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "To the Preacher"
To believe that life allows moments of sublimity - Mark Halliday "Hoops with Nets"
Believing the trickery of the heart - Joy Harjo "The Returning"
By scarlet waters of belief - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
The eye of faith believes - Robert Hayden "Monet's "Waterlilies""
The willing burden of an old belief - Brenda Hillman "On a Day, In the World"
All who believe in the senses - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"
Too wise with seeing to believe - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part II."
Borrowing each belief - Carly Inghram "What Sort of Animal Are You?"
So many have a sweet tooth for belief - K. Iver "A Medium Performs Your Visit"
Still waiting even to believe - Allison Eir Jenks "Night Train from Barcelona"
Tremulous beliefs, agonized hopes, and ashen flowers - Lionel Johnson "The Precept of Silence"
But refuses to believe it is haunted - Camisha L. Jones "Praise Song for the Body"
Believe a crown of kingfishers - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
Believe a curve in the road - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
But we couldn't stop believing in iron - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
To believe in burning beacons - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Again"
And fearful yet of believing in your pitiless legions - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Oft betrayed, but still believing - Henry S. Leigh "Broken Vows"
Spiced with things she cannot believe - Philip Levine "The Two"
Could have crumbled proud belief - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"
Didn't believe an x could equal a y - Thomas Lux "Nullius in Verba (Take Nobody's Word for It)"
Because we believed we couldn't get burned - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Deep fall the fathoms beyond your beliefs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"
Belief antedates evidence - Anthony Madrid "Maxims 2"
Who doesn't believe in a day's redemption - Maureen N. McLane "Passage I"
I believe it even in the dark - W.S. Merwin "Tracing the Letters"
Believed them already extinct - Rajiv Mohabir "Water-Owl, Cuvier's Beaked Whale"
A fraction of what you can believe - Jenny Molberg "Chrysalis"
And my lies still don't believe in me - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Confirmed in their beliefs - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
Believed in the gods I am searching for - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"
Believe speaking is for others - Naomi Shihab Nye "Voices"
Brittle enough to be believed - Achy Obejas "The Man with No Legs"
Belief's true echo - Carl Phillips "Brace of Antlers"
One last bright chance to believe - Carl Phillips "Of California"
The stretched canvas of belief - Carl Phillips "Self"
The willed suspension of belief - Carl Phillips "Spring"
Merely the miracle of belief - E.J. Pratt "The Passing of Jerry Moore"
Who believes in going back - Ben Purkert "The Past Suffers Too"
Don't believe in yesterdays - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
Didn't believe in poetry or outer space - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"
Who still believed in clouds - Valencia Robin "Cliche This"
To believe the universe will tap your shoulder - Sahar Romani "Sign"
Only everything you believe - David St. John "Before Dawn"
Believing in the wealth of the unruined heart - Tim Seibles "Naive"
Mad slanderers by mad ears believed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXL"
Because thy wilful heart will not believe - Clark Ashton Smith "The Crucifixion of Eros"
Believe I am striving for glory - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"
Why I believe in loops and spirals - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Grounds my belief in humanity as mystery - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
An owl refuses to believe in the sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 223: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Prayed to avian gods we don't believe in - Keith Taylor "Acolytes in the Bird-While"
Believing is different than understanding - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"
The blind belief of ivy - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
although your beliefs all chew tin - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
Not easy to believe in your own dream - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"
Evidence contrary to belief - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"
The ordinary opening beyond belief - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"
Proof of our belief in loneliness - Katie Willingham "Correction: Tonight Is Not the Longest Night in the History of Earth"
The dawn in which one bird believes - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
Who believe themselves invincible - Nancy Wood "Wisdom of the Elders"
No need to believe in thoughts - Jenny Xie "To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement"
In front of women I didn't believe in - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"
Disbelief/Disbelieve.
his holy make-believe childhood - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"
Unbelief is you with a gun in heaven - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
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My desperate belief in other realities - Desiree C. Bailey "Woman in Dub"
Heretics believe there is a forest - Mary Jo Bang "Pilgrimage"
And scarce believes the altered voice her own - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
have shaken the fruitful tree of belief - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"
the need of believing - Elizabeth Bartlett "only this"
Believe in the small writ large, writ impossible - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"
Believing for us both - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Year's Spinning"
Believed in the sweetness of salt - Terry Blackhawk "Lot's Wife"
Becomes a herald swift beyond belief - Louise Morey Bowman "Grapes"
Though no one believed it or cared to see - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"
First believe in the force of opposites - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"
Its belief, glittering mad & megawatt - Chen Chen "In the City"
Because the skyline believes in me - Chen Chen "In the City"
Fuzzy belief systems and twisted vision of eternity - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
Hangs on her emblem of belief - Heid E. Erdich "The Deep"
And believed the billboard's promises - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Believed in a future with her face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"
Believe not Sorrow - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Believing ecstasy to be prayer - Zona Gale "Stone Cell"
The goats who would not so believe - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "To the Preacher"
To believe that life allows moments of sublimity - Mark Halliday "Hoops with Nets"
Believing the trickery of the heart - Joy Harjo "The Returning"
By scarlet waters of belief - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
The eye of faith believes - Robert Hayden "Monet's "Waterlilies""
The willing burden of an old belief - Brenda Hillman "On a Day, In the World"
All who believe in the senses - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"
Too wise with seeing to believe - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part II."
Borrowing each belief - Carly Inghram "What Sort of Animal Are You?"
So many have a sweet tooth for belief - K. Iver "A Medium Performs Your Visit"
Still waiting even to believe - Allison Eir Jenks "Night Train from Barcelona"
Tremulous beliefs, agonized hopes, and ashen flowers - Lionel Johnson "The Precept of Silence"
But refuses to believe it is haunted - Camisha L. Jones "Praise Song for the Body"
Believe a crown of kingfishers - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
Believe a curve in the road - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
But we couldn't stop believing in iron - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
To believe in burning beacons - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Again"
And fearful yet of believing in your pitiless legions - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Oft betrayed, but still believing - Henry S. Leigh "Broken Vows"
Spiced with things she cannot believe - Philip Levine "The Two"
Could have crumbled proud belief - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"
Didn't believe an x could equal a y - Thomas Lux "Nullius in Verba (Take Nobody's Word for It)"
Because we believed we couldn't get burned - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Deep fall the fathoms beyond your beliefs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"
Belief antedates evidence - Anthony Madrid "Maxims 2"
Who doesn't believe in a day's redemption - Maureen N. McLane "Passage I"
I believe it even in the dark - W.S. Merwin "Tracing the Letters"
Believed them already extinct - Rajiv Mohabir "Water-Owl, Cuvier's Beaked Whale"
A fraction of what you can believe - Jenny Molberg "Chrysalis"
And my lies still don't believe in me - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Confirmed in their beliefs - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
Believed in the gods I am searching for - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"
Believe speaking is for others - Naomi Shihab Nye "Voices"
Brittle enough to be believed - Achy Obejas "The Man with No Legs"
Belief's true echo - Carl Phillips "Brace of Antlers"
One last bright chance to believe - Carl Phillips "Of California"
The stretched canvas of belief - Carl Phillips "Self"
The willed suspension of belief - Carl Phillips "Spring"
Merely the miracle of belief - E.J. Pratt "The Passing of Jerry Moore"
Who believes in going back - Ben Purkert "The Past Suffers Too"
Don't believe in yesterdays - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
Didn't believe in poetry or outer space - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"
Who still believed in clouds - Valencia Robin "Cliche This"
To believe the universe will tap your shoulder - Sahar Romani "Sign"
Only everything you believe - David St. John "Before Dawn"
Believing in the wealth of the unruined heart - Tim Seibles "Naive"
Mad slanderers by mad ears believed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXL"
Because thy wilful heart will not believe - Clark Ashton Smith "The Crucifixion of Eros"
Believe I am striving for glory - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"
Why I believe in loops and spirals - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Grounds my belief in humanity as mystery - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
An owl refuses to believe in the sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 223: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Prayed to avian gods we don't believe in - Keith Taylor "Acolytes in the Bird-While"
Believing is different than understanding - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"
The blind belief of ivy - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
although your beliefs all chew tin - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
Not easy to believe in your own dream - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"
Evidence contrary to belief - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"
The ordinary opening beyond belief - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"
Proof of our belief in loneliness - Katie Willingham "Correction: Tonight Is Not the Longest Night in the History of Earth"
The dawn in which one bird believes - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
Who believe themselves invincible - Nancy Wood "Wisdom of the Elders"
No need to believe in thoughts - Jenny Xie "To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement"
In front of women I didn't believe in - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"
Disbelief/Disbelieve.
his holy make-believe childhood - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"
Unbelief is you with a gun in heaven - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
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