Potential Titles: Finger

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His fingers catch glimpses of other lives - Duane Ackerson "The Blind Man"

Crack their wind-swift fingers - Harold Acton "Words"

Coins between a dying miser's fingers - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Maple Leaves"

Grasp a length of time with my fingers - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

A finger of terror has silenced it all - Lennox Amott "The Musician's Grave"

Her quiet fingers weave forgetfulness - Auguste Angellier "Tranquil Habit" transl. by Henry van Dyke

A sickle of silver in fingers of gold - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXIX: Lepota" transl. by Sir John Bowring

The surf dreamily fingering his drum - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"

Three fingers rubbing imaginary fabric - Ari Banias "Fountain"

By Time's slow finger written in the dust - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

The planets between their fingers - Elizabeth Bartlett "City Game: Marbles"

That makes our fingers seek revenge - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"

The tempest's wrathful fingers rend - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

And Time's cracked fingers number them all - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Knotted and cramped by fingering cold - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

A game played with cool hands and slim fingers - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Hatred" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Tapering fingers and metal eyes - Max Bodenheim "The Operation"

Velvet fingers at midnight's hush - John Philip Bourke "Till Day Is Done"

The soft comfort of flour between my fingers - Julia Bouwsma "The Schoolteacher Answers the Call"

Eerie fingers of the rain - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"

Ash tight fingers, the steel laws of fate - Paul Cameron Brown "Barbary White"

Your fingers hot to cut away the green of brush and flower - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

Shot all his shining fingers through the Dark - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

Snap your fingers at the dice - W.E. Christian "Pay Day"

My fingers around my last dollar were curled - W.E. Christian "The Tale and Wail of a Rookie"

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

Fingers ruminating on apricot nectar - Alicia Cole "On an Iranian Goblet, 5,000 Years Old"

Prisoner of the tree and its green fingers - Hart Crane "Garden Abstract"

My cool fingers of oblivion - Adelaide Crapsey "John Keats"

With every finger on a star - George Cronyn "Clouds"

Whose nimble fingers rifle your heartbeats - Countee Cullen "Lines to Our Elders" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The doting fingers of prurient philosophers - E.E. Cummings "La Guerre (II)"

condemnatory fingers thinned of pity - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

My strong fingers beneath the snow - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IX)"

Whose slick fingers cheated cards and pockets - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"

Subtracting till my fingers dropped - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love VI"

Whose fingers brush the sky - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXIV: The Wind"

Small epiphanies falling through the fingers - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

The earth beneath one finger - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Classroom Globe"

Beckoned by finger of the moon - Carol Ann Duffy "Beautiful"

gunpowder scorching the tender from your fingers - Elliott Dunstan "Inherited Battlefield"

Was there honey on his finger? - Nava EtShalom "Philtrum"

New to our little outlaw fingers - Henry Farnan "How to Make Contact with a Lost Star System"

In the nest of my inkstained fingers - Forugh Farrokhzad "Born Again" transl. by Jascha Kessler and Amin Banani

Turning your fingers to glass - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"

Visit under my looking-glass fingers - Annie Finch "Final Autumn"

Imprints of his icy fingers - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"

In her arms and in each finger flame - John Freeman "The Body"

What her longing fingers zeal had wrought - John Freeman "Waiting"

Wet against my fingers in a dream - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"

Old Nick upon his fingers tended - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

They trust me to their fingers' ends - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

The devil at his fingers' ends - John Gay "The Jugglers"

Their fingers to the soul - Carmen Gimenez "from Be Recorder"

Pinch the sun between two fingers - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Sons"

Swept by seraph's fingers - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

Silk braided between her fingers - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"

My fingers hurt from stroking the sun - Hao Guang Tse "to give the thing a name that belongs to something else"

The knives of my fingers - Jalynn Harris "The Life of a Writer"

The bruised fingers of what might have been - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

The fingers of some calamity - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for Wanda C."

Shadowy fingers of approaching Dusk - B. Higgins "Eventide"

Stuck a finger in the eye of storms - Conrad Hilberry "Early Storm"

Gentle twilight's fairy fingers - "Hours of Childhood"

Murmurs through my fingers - Ishion Hutchinson "Roof Nightclub"

A finger strums a seam of glass - fahima ife "our general banality"

Time's deft fingers scroll my brow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "My Little Dreams" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Fingers weave in the dirt - Douglas S. Jones "Sexy in the Food Chain"

And fingers straying upon an instrument - James Joyce "Strings in the Earth and Air"

I wrap you around my wedding finger - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

My fingers grow past crayon outlines - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Fingers burning into straw, into gold - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Complex finger clusters flashing - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

With a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel - John Keats "Hyperion"

The closed fingers of the ferns - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Visions Hope's bright finger traces - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet ['Twas but a dream! and oh! what are they all]"

My fingers open despite my mind - Christopher Kondrich "Ruin Valley"

Locked in a knot of his fingers - Ted Kooser "A Man with a Rake"

The little gifts of loneliness come wrapped by nervous fingers - Ted Kooser "Pocket Poem"

Light spilled over her fingers - Ted Kooser "Zenith"

My fingers working at nothing - Stephen Kuusisto "Letter to Borges from London"

Had to check my fingers for bone - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"

Harp fingered of winds and rains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Under the limber fingers of the wind - R.B. Lemberg "Between the Mountain and the Moon"

Pulsed within the fingers of the world - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"

Our fingers twist crumbs from air - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"

Your fingers warm after a life in the cold - P. H. Low "Ode"

Strangle themselves against my fingers - Amy Lowell "Grotesque"

An enchanted harp to fingers fair - Francis J. Lys "To the Muse"

My reaching fingers glitter with their gift - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Throws white fingers up out of loam - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

The cool finger on the sun dial - Jeannette Marks "Proem"

Emerged from the fingers of malice - Edgar Lee Masters "Front the Ages with a Smile"

What his ghost finger traced - Louise Mathias "What If the Invader Is Beautiful"

The starfish with its five blunt fingers - Heather McHugh "The Matter Over"

Through the fingers of the blest - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

Between the dust's grey fingers - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"

The last words your fingers wrote - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"

With forced fingers rude - John Milton "Lycidas"

Each tide was a slender finger pulling - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"

A slender finger pulling at these knots - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"

Gloved fingers of light - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Finger those smooth substances spent - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly

Translucent fingers of the secret salt - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney

The triangular fingers of quartz - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XXVIII" transl. by James Nolan

An Angel's finger in the dark - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

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

Snapped by envious fingers - Joyce Carol Oates "Lines for Those to Whom Tragedy Is Denied"

Many-jointed fingers with the blood at the corners - Maura O'Dea "Dad Explains Dimensions at Outback Steakhouse"

Slate makes knives for sharpening fingers - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Moving toward the inlets of the fingers - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"

Eerie lightning shot from frostbitten fingers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Till on my brain Sleep's filmy finger falls - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Rumor passing through suspicion's fingers - Carl Phillips "Foliage"

Till the weaver's fingers ache - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

Little fingers knocking on the pane - Miriam Clark Potter "Rain-on-the-Roof"

Fingers to their lips they lift - Miriam Clark Potter "Twilight Town"

With fingers thrice refined - John Presland "Tapestry"

Problems too subtle for our clumsy fingers - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)

To unravel panic's thousand fingers - Khadijah Queen "Tower"

My fingers knew taste before the orange - Noel Quiñones "Orange"

Rivers broke off in my fingers - Paige Quinones "I Dreamed in Spanish Once"

Your fingers on our fancy's loom - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Comparison"

His fingers on fire and welded to pain - Charles Rafferty "Catena"

How seafloor forced her fingers skyward - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

With her fingers of shadowy light - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"

Trail my fingers along the Alps - Lola Ridge "The Destroyer"

The fine, intimidating witchcraft of their fingers - Arthur Rimbaud "The Seekers of Lice" transl. not credited

Threads her fingers through the moss - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"

Her fingers in the flame for me - Alberto Rios "Nani"

History's long fingers twisting the handle - Valencia Robin "Insomnia"

Ate scorpions with your naked fingers - Erika L. Sanchez "Six Months after Contemplating Suicide"

Too coarse for Nature's fingers - George Santayana "Premonition"

Fingers of red-hot steel - Robert Haven Schauffler "The White Comrade"

While all her thousand fingers play - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

Dollar bills for his index and ring fingers - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

Twelve fingers stretching for the winter sky - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"

Filtering the sea through my fingers - Marin Sorescu "The Sea Shell" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Crimson fingers lift a crimson grain - George Sterling "Aftermath"

With trembling fingers seize that foolish heart - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"

Where my fingers cramp with winter and warmth - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"

The sun put forth a shining finger - Maurice Thompson "Blooming" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.102, June 1876]

The wind's thousand thin fingers - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Correction"

Starving arms and strangling fingers - Iris Tree "London"

And shut the fingers of wind upon the rushes - Iris Tree "[Shall we be christened poets]"

Such cobwebs of knowledge as careless young fingers may hold - J.T. Trowbridge "My Brother and I" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

Awkward fingers stammering in an attempt to name - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

The finger of radiant winter weaves - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: The Glory of the Heavens" transl. by Alma Strettell

Between her fingers crystal-bright - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell

Blue fingers of the moon still play on my old lute - Wang-Wei "Best Happiness of All" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Cradle candles that dribbled hot white on their fingers - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"

Through fingers her jewels are falling - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"

And take your fingers from the monster's teeth - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"

To touch fingers with the moon - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"

The miser's fingers on his gold - Adolf Wolff "Byron"

There are no words between my fingers - Charles Wright "The Last Word"


Give us their incandescent fingerbones - Charles Wright "Detour"

The act fingermarked upon the weave - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

Fingernail.

Fingerprint.

The finger-stains of the devoured - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Fingertip.

Futile as those icy-fingered winds - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

Ivy-fingered winds - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

A many-fingered horror of daylight - D.H. Lawrence "Fish"

The wizard-fingers never rest - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XII: Psalm of the Day"


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