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Potential Titles: Head
Behead.
Blossoming into a head full of seeds - Rasha Abdulhadi "Lanternseed"
To amaze the dark heads with strange fire - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
The bright heads of eagles - Samuel Ace "I hear a dog who is always in my death"
Absolute zero is stirring in the President's head - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Its ruby, a searchlight in the center of its head - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"
Her Cerberus grew far more heads than most - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Winged jugglers with hummingbird heads - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Fragments of a design only his head could hold - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Woe to legs with a foolish head - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Turtles banging their heads against rocks - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"
Spilling in the white noise of my head - Peter Balakian "Waiting for a Number"
Collected on the heads of chamomile plants - Taneum Bambrick "Intimacies Received 5"
On his way to a donkey-headed nowhere - Mary Jo Bang "P Equals Pie"
Nod our collective and singular head - Mary Jo Bang "S Is for Strategies for Making Sense of Spectacles"
A mouthful of nail heads - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
Clean and sweet from head to feet - "A Bath-Tub Joke" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Brought alms in floods upon his head - Charles Baudelaire "The Seven Old Men" transl. not credited
Trains heading to all galactic points - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"
My head is full of this insomniac light - Emily Berry "Arlene and Esme"
Jonquils and pansies round her head - Laurence Binyon "Psyche"
Her head was a morning in April - Max Bodenheim "A Head"
My head upon the breast of time - Roscoe W. Brink "Helen Is Ill"
The head still does light labor - Geoffrey Brock "Goodbye"
To glimpse a Naiad's reedy head - Rupert Brooke "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"
A ransom parleyed against the crowned heads of this world - Paul Cameron Brown "The Treasure Ships"
Claws and teeth inside my head - Ana Castillo "Cat's Mad Lick"
Three golden hairs from the demon's head - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
Stick their heads out for an instant - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
With aching bones and heavy head - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"
The peasant's curse upon his head - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
and honey was heaped upon my head - Lucille Clifton "beloved"
The liar's curse upon my head - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blank Misgivings of a Creature moving about in Worlds not realized"
lift broken down cars over our heads - Gerald L. Coleman "Age of Villains" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Like a tree above my head - Hilda Conkling "Blue Grass"
If I could but lift my head - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Mirth was a crown upon his head - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Tyrants and conquerors bown your heads - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
A diadem of stars at feet and head - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
Lifts his head from the lip of the sea - Charles Dalmon "O What if the Fowler"
And many an arum lifts her hooded head - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Pull the night up over our heads - Meg Day "10 AM is When You Come to Me"
Walking through a forest filled with alabaster heads - Oliver de la Paz "Dear Empire [these are your temples]"
Acid green on the crown of his head - Monica de la Torre "Intimacy in Discourse: A Comedy in Three Movements"
My head weighed down with dreams - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "I Sit and Sew" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
From the distant tower of my head - Stephen Dunn "The Muse"
A war trots out of your chiaroscuro head - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"
A dull head among windy spaces - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Raise your head among the noble powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 35. E-Duba, the Temple of Zababa in Kish" transl. by Sophus Helle
Upon her head a crown of gold - anonymous? "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men"
The mourner lays his head on the cold oak - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
O'er her low head grey and dim - Samuel Ferguson "The Fairy Thorn"
Where crashed the cyclop's head - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7"
No garland for this aching head - "Frangipanni"
Each nail had a diamond head - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Ballad of the Black-Smith's Sons"
Bowed their heads to the radiant tide - Rose Fyleman "The Hayfield"
Each word rings out over our terrified heads - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
There the great oak shall stir his solemn head - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Such a number of rooks came over her head - "Good-Night and Good-Morning" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
The tall pink foxglove bowed his head - "Good-Night and Good-Morning" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
To clear our heads of everything but wind - J.P. Grasser "Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild"
That can keep horror bristling round the head - Robert Graves "A Child's Nightmare"
Head burning and heart snarling - Robert Graves "Oh, and Oh!"
Head white with eyes of motionless stone - Nicolás Guillén "The Aconcagua" transl. by Aaron Coleman
And the red dust settles on my head - Han-Shan "[Have I a body or have I none?]" transl. by Burton Watson
My head unturned lest my dream should fade - Thomas Hardy "The Shadow on the Stone"
The sacred world lifts up its head to notice - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
Lift my head up through the blades - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"
Her head is empty of the drowned - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"
Splintering their heads in a furious race - Ben Hecht "Moods"
Against three angry Heads prevail - Oliver Herford "Cerberus"
To keep your head and save my Pride - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
Who has a thousand heads at least - Oliver Herford "The Hydra"
That head of curling snakes to dress - Oliver Herford "Medusa"
Left nothing for the head of Holofernes - Mary Hickman "Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait"
The wingless flight of streetlights headed south - Conrad Hilberry "Midnight"
With an abject knight yodeling his head off - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
The night with its head in its hands - Edward Hirsch "Gabriel" [excerpt]
Bitterness that pillows his head - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
That break the heads of dreaming men - Jean Ingelow "Brothers, and a Sermon"
Lays her head on the knees of Night - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Time's fountain and head - Islwyn "The Vision and the Faculty Divine" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
The pale down-trodden aster lifts her head - Helen Hunt Jackson "November"
Already the daffodils bury their heads in the dirt - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
The moon in halos hid her head - Dr. Jenner (1810) "Signs of Rain" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 15, June 30, 1832]
Rub chalk maple over the head of a screech - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
Whose bad luck or misfortune will be sitting on your head - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"
Touched its head in poisonous salute - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
This solitary pirouette on the head of a spindle - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
And pick up pebbles larger than their heads - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"
Someone to smooth the sharp thorn of my head - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
And cypress wreaths above thy head - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"
The jewel in the toad's brown head - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Giving head to your shadow - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"
Leave all the lights on in my head - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"
The seeds of okra in trade winds headed to a new world - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
Belongs to a girl still burning inside my head - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"
Scrawled and chalked in her head - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"
In the cryptic center of my head - Nick Laird "The Vehicles and the Tenor"
Ladders into the bright haven above our heads - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
By her head wild thyme and rue - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"
In the dense echo chamber of your head - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
Vainly might Plato's head revolve it - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
The dark woods bow their heads in sorrow - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
Born with a full head of teeth - Aimee Le "Devil Woman Plus the Luckiest Guy in the World"
Lost loves come shaking ghostly heads - Ruth Lechlitner "Afterward"
With grief like a bandage around our heads - Ruth Lechlitner "Quiz Program"
With the moon in her head - Dennis Lee "Silverly"
Stone heads of sphinxes nod - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"
When o'er his head the tempest burst - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
Invites me in with a twist of his head - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Heading home by evening boat - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson
Lay velvet heads to the hearts of flowers - Li Po "The Girl at Home" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The song in my head has whiskey in it - Ada Limon "World Versus Girl"
The Grail above your head in splendor - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"
Toss your head and sing of tomorrows - P. H. Low "Ode"
And a gold comb for my head - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
Four stones with their heads of moss - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XII: Ryno, Alpin"
Hanging branches crowned her head with bays - Charles Mair "Innocence"
Two candles at her head - Jeannette Marks "Two Candles"
Ripe apples drop about my head - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
This uneasy current in my head - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"
Placed his head on your doorstep - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (9)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The thought inside my head blossoms into a hyacinth - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"
Fantastic forests toss their heads - Theodore Maynard "Blindness"
A square stone above my dreamless head - Theodore Maynard "Requiem"
The heel that crushed the serpent's head - Theodore Maynard "The Universal Mother"
All gold and true inside my head - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
An aim beyond the head - George Meredith "Internal Harmony"
A wind with a wolf's head - Edna St. Vincent Millay "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"
Under my head till morning - Edna St Vincent Millay "What lips my lips have kissed (Sonnet XLIII)"
In a foreign country in my own head - Jane Miller "Life's Ironies"
A two-headed snake of smoke - jessica Care moore "After 1986 (for Brad Walrond)"
Yellow harvest seldom crowned his head - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
And half your head with it - John Murillo "Mercy, Mercy, Me"
Letting something go from a restless head of light - Jesse Nathan "Panhandle"
Two heads of molten volcanoes - Pablo Neruda "Evening LXXVI" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Sharp right angles passed heading northward - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Your pale fifteen-eyed head - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Fluorescent heads aimed inward - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
Over our heads there were millions of stars - Sarah Noble-Ives "Thro' Fairyland"
Tie knots around the heads of weeds - Naomi Shihab Nye "Feather"
Covering my head like cool prayers - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Words Under the Words"
Only if there are angels in your head - Mary Oliver "The World I Live In"
Tip your hat and bow your head in memory - Andre F. Peltier "At the Grave of Little Sadie"
This cathedral in my head - Carl Phillips "And If I Fall"
Watery pallbearers heading seaward - Carl Phillips "Swimming"
Clogs the head and dims the eyes - "Pleasures of Snuff-Taking" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.333, 27 Sept. 1828]
A feather from Ma'at's radiant head - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
She makes me live in my head - John Prine
Treads the ripened honey of clover heads - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Lay down your head upon my knee - "The Queen of Elfland"
Lifting the green head of aconite - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"
Turn every head into a cautious metronome - Roger Reeves "Brazil"
A head that lies where Saul's has lain - Adrienne Rich "David's Boyhood"
Cramming my head with light - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"
Her hydra heads above the avenues - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
And the high stars trail their heads - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"
With bowed head and footstep slow - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]
When the trees bow down their heads - Christina Rossetti "Who Has Seen the Wind"
Search their heads for meanings, stories, stars - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"
Many a head that's filled with smoke - Friedrich Schiller "Bacchus in the Pillory"
The bracken curtain for my head - Sir Walter Scott "Song from 'The Lady of the Lake'"
the wolf in a guise of three heads - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"
The gracious light lifts up his burning head - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VII"
So many fires start in my head - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"
The pawnshop renting space in my head - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"
From the head of some fierce Maenad - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
And maps the birds in his head - Jacob Shores-Arguello "Workshop"
Crows circling over my head - Charles Simic "Heights of Folly"
A blueprint of history in my head - Tom Sleigh "Blueprint"
We might put a song on your head - Danez Smith "Two Deer in a Southside Cemetery"
In the library of her head - Hope Anita Smith "My Mother's Rule Book"
Omens that raise their cloudy heads and roar - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Lost the diamonds hidden in their heads - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Lift their heads to rumor - Gary Soto "Falling in the Presence of Ants"
A dim nimbus on my head - A.E. Stallings "Evil Eye"
Not a beaver showed his head - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"
My little primrose lift its head - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"
Above my head the stars rejoice - Richard H. Stoddard "Shakespeare" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
To pour his mantras on our heads - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 175: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
And clovers hang their blushing heads - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
That crown the north world's head - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Rain between the bowing heads of roses - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"
Threw their heads back and whispered to the stars - Keith Taylor "Condoms, Abandoned on the Park Bench"
We head home in other starlight - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
Lifts its head to the blows of the rain - Dylan Thomas "And death shall have no dominion"
The primal curse upon his head - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Labor"
A layer of clouds above our heads - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
The young moon with her head in veils - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"
Dead roses lift their heads - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"
Our heads haloed with gnats - Ocean Vuong "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"
A jungle in the head - Derek Walcott "Pentecost"
Drag my feet in the mud inside my head - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"
The mud inside my head - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"
Our heads globes of unsifted time - Noah Warren "Cattail History"
For treason's hydra head is crushed - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Piano keys in the back of my head - Allison Benis White "Description of Symptoms"
My head made of glass - Allison Benis White "Description of Symptoms"
This full, fragile head of veined lavender - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
A height that would dizzy the coolest of heads - "The Young Author's Dream" [The Continental Monthly, v.5 no.4, April 1864]
When your head splits open and the bird flies out - Dean Young "Dear Friend" [Poetry Feb. 2006]
A flinty space opens in your head - Dean Young "The Infirmament"
Through its head swim a million fishes - Dean Young "Undertow" [ Poetry Nov. 2007]
Deadheading flowers after their first blooming - Keith Taylor "The Gleaners"
Don't take faucets for fountainheads - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"
A little bubble in the glass of Godhead - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
When Gorgon-headed Night was gone - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Twin gods hawk-headed and immense - Robert Nichols "Polyphemus His Passion: A Pastoral"
Light glinting in a headdress of water - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"
Headfirst dive into stillness - Achy Obejas "Slow"
I have been falling headfirst for decades - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"
Go down to the grotto with your headlamp and crowbar - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
From headlands of celestial gold - George Sterling "The City of Music"
where the headless ghost dogs run - Joseph Lease "Falling"
A headless tyrant built of wealth - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Headless mannequins in thousand-dollar shift dresses - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
Headlight.
The headlines wrote themselves - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
To swaddle you in yesterday's headlines - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"
Headlong.
His elaborate head-piece of smoke - Dana Levin "The Gods Are in the Valley"
Where headstones claw up through the clouds - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
The milestones into headstones change - James Russell Lowell "Sixty-Eighth Birthday"
Separated from my house by a row of headstones - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Do not avoid your headwinds - Mouna Ammar "Permission"
A steady cold channel of headwind - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Go to meet the hydra-headed day - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"
And the jackal-headed god to weigh my heart - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"
must fight multi-headed ghosts alone - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
A golden nailhead, burning in your palm - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Overhead.
Whetting a spearhead on an asteroid - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Thunderheads cracking their knuckles - William Brewer "Against Enabling"
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Blossoming into a head full of seeds - Rasha Abdulhadi "Lanternseed"
To amaze the dark heads with strange fire - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
The bright heads of eagles - Samuel Ace "I hear a dog who is always in my death"
Absolute zero is stirring in the President's head - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Its ruby, a searchlight in the center of its head - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"
Her Cerberus grew far more heads than most - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Winged jugglers with hummingbird heads - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Fragments of a design only his head could hold - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Woe to legs with a foolish head - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Turtles banging their heads against rocks - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"
Spilling in the white noise of my head - Peter Balakian "Waiting for a Number"
Collected on the heads of chamomile plants - Taneum Bambrick "Intimacies Received 5"
On his way to a donkey-headed nowhere - Mary Jo Bang "P Equals Pie"
Nod our collective and singular head - Mary Jo Bang "S Is for Strategies for Making Sense of Spectacles"
A mouthful of nail heads - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
Clean and sweet from head to feet - "A Bath-Tub Joke" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Brought alms in floods upon his head - Charles Baudelaire "The Seven Old Men" transl. not credited
Trains heading to all galactic points - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"
My head is full of this insomniac light - Emily Berry "Arlene and Esme"
Jonquils and pansies round her head - Laurence Binyon "Psyche"
Her head was a morning in April - Max Bodenheim "A Head"
My head upon the breast of time - Roscoe W. Brink "Helen Is Ill"
The head still does light labor - Geoffrey Brock "Goodbye"
To glimpse a Naiad's reedy head - Rupert Brooke "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"
A ransom parleyed against the crowned heads of this world - Paul Cameron Brown "The Treasure Ships"
Claws and teeth inside my head - Ana Castillo "Cat's Mad Lick"
Three golden hairs from the demon's head - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
Stick their heads out for an instant - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
With aching bones and heavy head - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"
The peasant's curse upon his head - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
and honey was heaped upon my head - Lucille Clifton "beloved"
The liar's curse upon my head - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blank Misgivings of a Creature moving about in Worlds not realized"
lift broken down cars over our heads - Gerald L. Coleman "Age of Villains" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Like a tree above my head - Hilda Conkling "Blue Grass"
If I could but lift my head - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Mirth was a crown upon his head - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Tyrants and conquerors bown your heads - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
A diadem of stars at feet and head - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
Lifts his head from the lip of the sea - Charles Dalmon "O What if the Fowler"
And many an arum lifts her hooded head - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Pull the night up over our heads - Meg Day "10 AM is When You Come to Me"
Walking through a forest filled with alabaster heads - Oliver de la Paz "Dear Empire [these are your temples]"
Acid green on the crown of his head - Monica de la Torre "Intimacy in Discourse: A Comedy in Three Movements"
My head weighed down with dreams - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "I Sit and Sew" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
From the distant tower of my head - Stephen Dunn "The Muse"
A war trots out of your chiaroscuro head - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"
A dull head among windy spaces - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Raise your head among the noble powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 35. E-Duba, the Temple of Zababa in Kish" transl. by Sophus Helle
Upon her head a crown of gold - anonymous? "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men"
The mourner lays his head on the cold oak - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
O'er her low head grey and dim - Samuel Ferguson "The Fairy Thorn"
Where crashed the cyclop's head - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7"
No garland for this aching head - "Frangipanni"
Each nail had a diamond head - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Ballad of the Black-Smith's Sons"
Bowed their heads to the radiant tide - Rose Fyleman "The Hayfield"
Each word rings out over our terrified heads - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
There the great oak shall stir his solemn head - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Such a number of rooks came over her head - "Good-Night and Good-Morning" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
The tall pink foxglove bowed his head - "Good-Night and Good-Morning" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
To clear our heads of everything but wind - J.P. Grasser "Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild"
That can keep horror bristling round the head - Robert Graves "A Child's Nightmare"
Head burning and heart snarling - Robert Graves "Oh, and Oh!"
Head white with eyes of motionless stone - Nicolás Guillén "The Aconcagua" transl. by Aaron Coleman
And the red dust settles on my head - Han-Shan "[Have I a body or have I none?]" transl. by Burton Watson
My head unturned lest my dream should fade - Thomas Hardy "The Shadow on the Stone"
The sacred world lifts up its head to notice - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
Lift my head up through the blades - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"
Her head is empty of the drowned - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"
Splintering their heads in a furious race - Ben Hecht "Moods"
Against three angry Heads prevail - Oliver Herford "Cerberus"
To keep your head and save my Pride - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
Who has a thousand heads at least - Oliver Herford "The Hydra"
That head of curling snakes to dress - Oliver Herford "Medusa"
Left nothing for the head of Holofernes - Mary Hickman "Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait"
The wingless flight of streetlights headed south - Conrad Hilberry "Midnight"
With an abject knight yodeling his head off - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
The night with its head in its hands - Edward Hirsch "Gabriel" [excerpt]
Bitterness that pillows his head - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
That break the heads of dreaming men - Jean Ingelow "Brothers, and a Sermon"
Lays her head on the knees of Night - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Time's fountain and head - Islwyn "The Vision and the Faculty Divine" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
The pale down-trodden aster lifts her head - Helen Hunt Jackson "November"
Already the daffodils bury their heads in the dirt - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
The moon in halos hid her head - Dr. Jenner (1810) "Signs of Rain" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 15, June 30, 1832]
Rub chalk maple over the head of a screech - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
Whose bad luck or misfortune will be sitting on your head - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"
Touched its head in poisonous salute - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
This solitary pirouette on the head of a spindle - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
And pick up pebbles larger than their heads - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"
Someone to smooth the sharp thorn of my head - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
And cypress wreaths above thy head - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"
The jewel in the toad's brown head - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Giving head to your shadow - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"
Leave all the lights on in my head - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"
The seeds of okra in trade winds headed to a new world - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
Belongs to a girl still burning inside my head - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"
Scrawled and chalked in her head - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"
In the cryptic center of my head - Nick Laird "The Vehicles and the Tenor"
Ladders into the bright haven above our heads - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
By her head wild thyme and rue - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"
In the dense echo chamber of your head - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
Vainly might Plato's head revolve it - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
The dark woods bow their heads in sorrow - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
Born with a full head of teeth - Aimee Le "Devil Woman Plus the Luckiest Guy in the World"
Lost loves come shaking ghostly heads - Ruth Lechlitner "Afterward"
With grief like a bandage around our heads - Ruth Lechlitner "Quiz Program"
With the moon in her head - Dennis Lee "Silverly"
Stone heads of sphinxes nod - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"
When o'er his head the tempest burst - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
Invites me in with a twist of his head - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Heading home by evening boat - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson
Lay velvet heads to the hearts of flowers - Li Po "The Girl at Home" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The song in my head has whiskey in it - Ada Limon "World Versus Girl"
The Grail above your head in splendor - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"
Toss your head and sing of tomorrows - P. H. Low "Ode"
And a gold comb for my head - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
Four stones with their heads of moss - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XII: Ryno, Alpin"
Hanging branches crowned her head with bays - Charles Mair "Innocence"
Two candles at her head - Jeannette Marks "Two Candles"
Ripe apples drop about my head - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
This uneasy current in my head - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"
Placed his head on your doorstep - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (9)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The thought inside my head blossoms into a hyacinth - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"
Fantastic forests toss their heads - Theodore Maynard "Blindness"
A square stone above my dreamless head - Theodore Maynard "Requiem"
The heel that crushed the serpent's head - Theodore Maynard "The Universal Mother"
All gold and true inside my head - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
An aim beyond the head - George Meredith "Internal Harmony"
A wind with a wolf's head - Edna St. Vincent Millay "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"
Under my head till morning - Edna St Vincent Millay "What lips my lips have kissed (Sonnet XLIII)"
In a foreign country in my own head - Jane Miller "Life's Ironies"
A two-headed snake of smoke - jessica Care moore "After 1986 (for Brad Walrond)"
Yellow harvest seldom crowned his head - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
And half your head with it - John Murillo "Mercy, Mercy, Me"
Letting something go from a restless head of light - Jesse Nathan "Panhandle"
Two heads of molten volcanoes - Pablo Neruda "Evening LXXVI" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Sharp right angles passed heading northward - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Your pale fifteen-eyed head - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Fluorescent heads aimed inward - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
Over our heads there were millions of stars - Sarah Noble-Ives "Thro' Fairyland"
Tie knots around the heads of weeds - Naomi Shihab Nye "Feather"
Covering my head like cool prayers - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Words Under the Words"
Only if there are angels in your head - Mary Oliver "The World I Live In"
Tip your hat and bow your head in memory - Andre F. Peltier "At the Grave of Little Sadie"
This cathedral in my head - Carl Phillips "And If I Fall"
Watery pallbearers heading seaward - Carl Phillips "Swimming"
Clogs the head and dims the eyes - "Pleasures of Snuff-Taking" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.333, 27 Sept. 1828]
A feather from Ma'at's radiant head - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
She makes me live in my head - John Prine
Treads the ripened honey of clover heads - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Lay down your head upon my knee - "The Queen of Elfland"
Lifting the green head of aconite - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"
Turn every head into a cautious metronome - Roger Reeves "Brazil"
A head that lies where Saul's has lain - Adrienne Rich "David's Boyhood"
Cramming my head with light - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"
Her hydra heads above the avenues - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
And the high stars trail their heads - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"
With bowed head and footstep slow - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]
When the trees bow down their heads - Christina Rossetti "Who Has Seen the Wind"
Search their heads for meanings, stories, stars - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"
Many a head that's filled with smoke - Friedrich Schiller "Bacchus in the Pillory"
The bracken curtain for my head - Sir Walter Scott "Song from 'The Lady of the Lake'"
the wolf in a guise of three heads - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"
The gracious light lifts up his burning head - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VII"
So many fires start in my head - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"
The pawnshop renting space in my head - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"
From the head of some fierce Maenad - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
And maps the birds in his head - Jacob Shores-Arguello "Workshop"
Crows circling over my head - Charles Simic "Heights of Folly"
A blueprint of history in my head - Tom Sleigh "Blueprint"
We might put a song on your head - Danez Smith "Two Deer in a Southside Cemetery"
In the library of her head - Hope Anita Smith "My Mother's Rule Book"
Omens that raise their cloudy heads and roar - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Lost the diamonds hidden in their heads - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Lift their heads to rumor - Gary Soto "Falling in the Presence of Ants"
A dim nimbus on my head - A.E. Stallings "Evil Eye"
Not a beaver showed his head - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"
My little primrose lift its head - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"
Above my head the stars rejoice - Richard H. Stoddard "Shakespeare" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
To pour his mantras on our heads - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 175: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
And clovers hang their blushing heads - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
That crown the north world's head - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Rain between the bowing heads of roses - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"
Threw their heads back and whispered to the stars - Keith Taylor "Condoms, Abandoned on the Park Bench"
We head home in other starlight - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
Lifts its head to the blows of the rain - Dylan Thomas "And death shall have no dominion"
The primal curse upon his head - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Labor"
A layer of clouds above our heads - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
The young moon with her head in veils - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"
Dead roses lift their heads - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"
Our heads haloed with gnats - Ocean Vuong "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"
A jungle in the head - Derek Walcott "Pentecost"
Drag my feet in the mud inside my head - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"
The mud inside my head - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"
Our heads globes of unsifted time - Noah Warren "Cattail History"
For treason's hydra head is crushed - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Piano keys in the back of my head - Allison Benis White "Description of Symptoms"
My head made of glass - Allison Benis White "Description of Symptoms"
This full, fragile head of veined lavender - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
A height that would dizzy the coolest of heads - "The Young Author's Dream" [The Continental Monthly, v.5 no.4, April 1864]
When your head splits open and the bird flies out - Dean Young "Dear Friend" [Poetry Feb. 2006]
A flinty space opens in your head - Dean Young "The Infirmament"
Through its head swim a million fishes - Dean Young "Undertow" [ Poetry Nov. 2007]
Deadheading flowers after their first blooming - Keith Taylor "The Gleaners"
Don't take faucets for fountainheads - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"
A little bubble in the glass of Godhead - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
When Gorgon-headed Night was gone - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Twin gods hawk-headed and immense - Robert Nichols "Polyphemus His Passion: A Pastoral"
Light glinting in a headdress of water - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"
Headfirst dive into stillness - Achy Obejas "Slow"
I have been falling headfirst for decades - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"
Go down to the grotto with your headlamp and crowbar - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
From headlands of celestial gold - George Sterling "The City of Music"
where the headless ghost dogs run - Joseph Lease "Falling"
A headless tyrant built of wealth - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Headless mannequins in thousand-dollar shift dresses - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
Headlight.
The headlines wrote themselves - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
To swaddle you in yesterday's headlines - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"
Headlong.
His elaborate head-piece of smoke - Dana Levin "The Gods Are in the Valley"
Where headstones claw up through the clouds - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
The milestones into headstones change - James Russell Lowell "Sixty-Eighth Birthday"
Separated from my house by a row of headstones - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Do not avoid your headwinds - Mouna Ammar "Permission"
A steady cold channel of headwind - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Go to meet the hydra-headed day - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"
And the jackal-headed god to weigh my heart - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"
must fight multi-headed ghosts alone - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
A golden nailhead, burning in your palm - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Overhead.
Whetting a spearhead on an asteroid - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Thunderheads cracking their knuckles - William Brewer "Against Enabling"
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