Potential Titles: Hunger/Hungry

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Shall hide me from the hunger of fear - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Facing the hunger between the stars - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"

Hungering after memory - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"

Then hunger invented light - Rae Armantrout "Operations"

Reach out hungered arms to flowing change - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

Never stops knowing hunger - Mary Jo Bang "Apology for Want"

The hunger to be held in a box - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

In one vast hunger of desire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

A thistle will do away with your hunger - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

I don't hunger for your glittering glory - Bruce Boston "Ajax Redux"

The emerald hunger stretches farther still - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

I don't hunger for you glittering glory - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"

Her hunger of desolate passion - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 10"

Hunger still in every bite - Sue Budin "Argyria"

The time for apple hunger - Witter Bynner "Young Eden"

How much hunger I had to devour - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "In the Animal Garden of My Body"

With a pent-up hunger of hate - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

Of hunger toothed with iron - Willa Cather "A Silver Cup"

Fires fueled by a distant hunger - Tina Chang "Fury"

Sit under the tree waiting for hunger - Tina Chang "Lion"

their hunger entering our loneliness - Lucille Clifton "blake"

the name of the first was hunger - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"

ribbon of hunger and desire - Lucille Clifton "scar"

Here where hungers rest - Leonard Cohen "Drank a Lot"

Our hunger blessed by the sun - Leonard Cohen "This Marriage"

Pouring hunger through my heart - Henri Cole "Dune"

Who will reconstruct the etymon of hunger - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan

Tunneled my hunger down deep - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"

who will their hungering whispers hear - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

That hungers for delight - Olive Custance "Primrose Hill"

Chose hunger over thirst - Diane DeCillis "Reconsidering Yellow"

A fever and a hunger that never leaves - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"

Words stained by hunger - Jordi Doce "With Eyes Opened on the Edge of the World"

That one hunger devouring all others - Cheryl Dumesnil "Instinct"

Ate hunger for breakfast - Cheryl Dumesnil "Melodrama of the Suburban Kindergartener"

Came from a land of hunger - Heid E. Erdich "One Girl"

Red blood of hunger - Heid E. Erdich "Vial"

When need and grim hunger come by - "The Flower of Nut-Brown Maids" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Hunger's sickle sinking deep - Diamond Forde "Rememory"

Astounding hunger for edges - Elizabeth W. Garber "Feasting"

Became the hunger that they fed - Dana Gioia "The Angel with the Broken Wing"

Satiate the hungers of your restlessness - Dana Gioia "Seaward"

Night will always bring the old hungers - Dana Gioia "Starting Over"

Calling the hunger out of ourselves - Natalie Goldberg "Home"

Shared our hungers evenly - Rae Gouirand "Broth"

I hunger up toward dreaming - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

The strictures of hunger - Linda Gregerson "Make-Falcon"

Where tears and hunger have no grace - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "My Friend"

Hearing the wolves of hunger bark - Frances E. Watkins Harper "Out in the Cold"

An icepick of hunger - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"

Letting your hunger ride a ten-foot span - Conrad Hilberry "Pelican"

Why the night hungers for the day - Edward Hirsch "Heinrich Heine"

Add salt to hunger - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"

Who brought hunger from other lands - Linda Hogan "Map"

Hungering in the blood garden - Andrew Hudgins "The Snake"

this hunger transitive as the night - fahima ife "post-acid"

Best if we don't always reciprocate their hunger - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

The spoils of the hunger's moon - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Train Dogs"

In hunger of the heart - Lionel Johnson "Desideria"

Ravenous with a cautious hunger - Douglas S. Jones "Sexy in the Food Chain"

Isolate among the hungers of the trees - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Wind the hot gnaw of hunger into a tight spool - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

What hunger fierce and wide - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"

A nameless hunger of the soul - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"

Little gray hunger that nibbles the night - Hailey Leithauser "Charm against Insomnia"

To their dark home of hunger again - Chas. G. Leland "The Wolf Hunt" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

The rich, rich song of my hunger - Kenji C. Liu "Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah"

Having swallowed your irate hungers - Mina Loy "The Dead"

At midnight with the hunger of hunters - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

To the cannons that hunger in battle - Edwin Markham "The Toilers"

Tiptoe with hunger for the sky - Jeannette Marks "Somewhere Tonight"

A hunger I can never grasp - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"

And I forgive you hunger - Edgar Lee Masters "Samuel Butler Et Al."

A hunger strong and alien - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

Succumb to the ocean and its hunger for stone - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

The edict that traps my hunger in cages - Mark McMorris "Prayer to Shadows on My Wall"

The hunger of his heart found food - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

Ireful at human hungers - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

Your hungers from their nerve - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

It eats the hunger and the mouth - Elizabeth Metzger "Control Feast"

Still my hunger's rarest food - Edna St Vincent Millay sonnet III from A Few Figs from Thistles

A century of hunger - Anis Mojgani "Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget"

Receive food in the season of hunger - N. Scott Momaday "Northern Dawn"

Haunted by millions of hungers - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Torrent"

Knew hunger like a sacred text - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid

Hoarding the eagle hunger - Pablo Neruda "Stone Within Stone" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

Our controlled hunger for climbing - Pablo Neruda "Suburbs" transl. by William O'Daly

Some sixty years of hunger - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid

Taste buds adjusting to the taste of hunger - Susan Nguyen "Letter to the Diaspora" p.56

With hungers sheathed to my sides - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"

gathering round our hunger - Angela Peñaredondo "harvest"

Of hunger's addictive and erosive powers - Carl Phillips "Scattered Snows, to the North"

Letting hunger quicken the hunter in me - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

With no fierce hungers in my soul - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Had no hunger for the light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"

Bring to you their spindling hungers - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"

Heal with a hunger - Luis J. Rodriguez "Making Medicine"

Leaning into hunger and hard luck - Kay Ryan "Waste"

Your shabbiest, weariest hunger - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"

Hunger turned the very stones to food - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

Apparition less of mist than hunger - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

Holding hunger inside them for a weapon - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

Foraged for my marginalized hungers - Prageeta Sharma "Glacier National Park and the Elegy"

The hunger of the snow - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Vagrant Heart"

better to finish the hunger right - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

A dance against hunger - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"

Urged on by hunger keen - William Somerville "The Chase"

If your hunger crave for blue - Leonora Speyer "Bavarian Roadside"

My heart is hungered fire - George Sterling "The New Goddess"

Hunger in the perished years - George Sterling "Reborn"

And hunger for departed hours - George Sterling "Revelation"

A hunger for horizons - George Sterling "The Voice of the Wheat"

But what of next year's hunger? - Su Tung-p'o "Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu" transl. by Burton Watson

if hunger abides in your blood - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

Hunger is sharper nor a thorn - "There Was a Knight"

The night when fog hungered for clarity - Russell Thorburn "Many Miles from Home"

The singing hungers of the sea - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"

Out of tune where music hungers - Iris Tree "Nerves"

With hunger the unstated core - John Updike "Pura Vida"

Learn now about hunger - R.A. Villanueva "Annus Mirabilis"

Carved from centuries of hunger - Ocean Vuong "The Smallest Measure"

Nothing to understand in hunger - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XI"

A hunger hallucinating outward - Rosemarie Waldrop "A Valentine That Can't Be Sent"

Hunger, the shadow cast by death - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

The strands of hunger, death, and love - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

The great divide of falsehood, hunger and last year - John Wieners "In Public"

The little hunger dreams of crickets - Katie Willingham "In Defense of Nature Poetry"

A hunger for awakenings - Jay Wright "Kumu"

The unseen borders of your hunger - Jenny Xie "Invisible Relations"

Hunger is a bad companion - Jane Yolen "A Long Walk to Nowhere"

Hunger of ancient density - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 10" transl. by Katherine Silver


Abandon the hunger-suffering vulture - Roger Reeves "The Head of the Cottonmouth"


Amidst a tightening lattice of hungry radiance - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

Hungry, unappeasable furious spirit - Frank Bidart "The Ghost"

Feeding the hungry beggar bees - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Bed-Time"

Stared at a hungrier death - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"

An open vessel hungry for miracles - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"

squat in the hungry desert fingering stones - Lucille Clifton "dear fox"

Unsatisfied hearts hungry for happiness - Olive Custance "The Storm"

Their eyes still hungry with dreams - Kwame Dawes "Steel"

Never meant for the apple to make you hungry - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"

Had been hungry all the years - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life L: Hunger"

The fleeting currents, the hungry waves - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

Where the hungry rooks in clouds assemble - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

Hungry together by its rivers and bones - Katie Ford "[I Failed Him and He Failed Me]"

So hungry he went to his rest - "The Fox and the Geese"

The fangs of the hungry fire - Ellen Glasgow "Death-in-Life"

A basket going hungry - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Unpeopled Eden"

The hungry horde is dining on her heart - Mona Gould "Tea-Party"

Into the hungry rustle of antennae - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

Who hears the hungry lion's call - Frances E.W. Harper "The Sparrow's Fall"

Feeds the hungriest ghosts - Yona Harvey "Sonnet for a Tall Flower Blooming at Dinnertime"

Goes hungrily from dream to shining dream - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Soul"

Faint drums and hungry insects - Conrad Hilberry "Mario"

Hungry sparrows in the snow - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

I am here as one hungry to eat - Linda Hogan "Home in the Woods"

Meant me to be hungry - Mildred Howells "God's Will"

With his name crumbling hungry in your mouth - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

Yields no store for hungry days - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Hungry for summer - Ted Kooser "Old Lilacs"

Hungry for love and music - Amy Levy "Medea"

Hate, a hungry animal that only takes - Ann-Margaret Lim "One Summer"

Wet eyes hungry for decades-old debts - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

Hungry children abandoned by our country - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"

Guilty of being hungry - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"

Stitched by hungry ibises - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"

A hall filled with a hungry diaspora - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"

Hungry fingers moving through stories - Naomi Shihab Nye "Alien Rescue"

hungry for the fruit of cracked bones - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

A hungry well of water and memory loss - Porsha Olayiwola "We Drink at the Attenuation Well"

So hungry and so many - Mary Oliver "Red Bird"

Hungry falcons whet their beaks - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Still hungry for the scent of laurel - Linda Pastan "Firing the Muse"

Nurtured for the hungry waters - John Presland "The Deluge"

A shark with hungry teeth - Edgell Rickword "Strange Elements"

Hungry for the hum of mosquitos - Monica Rico "A Lesson from My Father about Electricity"

More cold than hungry - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"

When hungry giants come as guests - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"

Hungry as a famished tiger - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

The snouts of the hungry hunting storms - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

The hungry hunting storms - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Handed out to feed hungry souls - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier

Dark Emperor of hooked face and hungry eye - Joyce Sidman "Dark Emperor"

Because memory makes you hungry - Charles Simic "Marina's Epic"

Where the grass is hidden with a hungry hue - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"

Where the hungry sea-wolves howl - Trumbull Stickney "At Sainte-Marguerite"

To fill the mouths of hungry souls - "Stool-Ball"

Only these hungry miser-words - Muriel Stuart "Sic Transit--"

Your skull is a cup hungry for light - Jacqueline Suskin "How to Fall in Love with Yourself"

Can feed each hungry minute - John B. Tabb "The Time-Brood"

Always roaming with a hungry heart - Alfred Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"

Love will still be a hungry disciple - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"

Taken by hungry earth - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"

Ghosts from hungry graves - Charles William Wallace "Life's Lost Skiff"

Cursing the haggard, hungry surf - Francis Brett Young "Lettermore"


Just before they crawl into a honey-hungry sleep - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

And still the winds are hungry-cold - Lloyd Roberts "One Morning when the Rain-Birds Call"


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