Potential Titles: Giant

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Who sing in the wind with mouths of giants - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"

The tones from giants flung - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XI--Sunset"

Fashioned for a giant's delight - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited

The preserved remains of a bronze giant - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"

Giant feet grounded deep in bedrock - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"

Giant dervishes dancing under the ancient stars - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"

Like a giant in his strength - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

The giant's unchained strength - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

A dwarf on a dead giant's shoulders sees more - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

Giants sleeping in their shrouds - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

The giant swirled with grey and shadow - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

Which wrought the tempest's giant wrath - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "The Artist"

Shaken of the joy of giants - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"

Give balm to giants - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life IX: The Test"

Giant clouds like warring foes - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"

Of shadows and their giant wars - Helen Parry Eden "Lullaby for a Little Girl"

When Quijote roared his challenge to giants - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"

A giant of my glory shorn - George Blackstone Field "The Deserted Coast"

On spines of sunken giants - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Afterweather"

Balance on spines of sunken giants - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Afterweather"

Wedged in the giant eye of an invisible needle - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"

Watched the cataract's giant play - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

A shivering giant in its glistening cloak of white - Ellyn Hall "Bringing home the holly" [Laugh and Play, no date, Project Gutenberg]

Giant shadowed guardians of the port - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "An Evening in October"

To track down a few hundred giants in chains - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

Requiring giant infusions of illusion - Tony Hoagland "Ten Questions for the New Age"

With the mighty voice of a giant challenged - William Dean Howells "The Pilot's Story"

Saw the footprints left by giants - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Spectral gnomes of giant size - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

The ascendant of a giant gaseous planet - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Giant strength and peerless height - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

Many a giant oak is sleeping - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"

Guardian giants of this solitude - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Cover me with your everlasting arms]"

Causing a chain reaction of giant black holes - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"

From the forge of a giant - Archibald Lampman "Morning on the Lievres"

The brazen giant of Greek fame - Emma Lazarus "The New Colossus"

Giant shells from the jasper sea - Vachel Lindsay "Harps in Heaven"

Giants afar still touch the sky - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"

A giant hound that never sleeps - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Potent a giant's limbs to bind - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Nor any giant drive him hence - Theodore Maynard "Don Quixote"

Kept by an unseen giant - W.S. Merwin "Clear Water"

Sprawls across the earth like a fallen giant - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"

Through a giant's empty house - Edna St Vincent Millay "Low-Tide"

A giant cap to hold the dreams in - Naomi Shihab Nye "Even at War"

Layers of giant time - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem's Smile"

Gilded aerialists in their giant dirigibles - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

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

Metallurgy could fight the giants - Nicky Russell "Machinist Hands"

Behold the hidden and the giant fires - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited

Sighing melodies to a strange giant - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

With such harmonies only the giant hills can ever find - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

The sea belongs to giants - Joyce Sidman "Giants"

A parade of giants and clowns - Richard Solomon "Dream Caused by the Fight of the Bumblebee"

Like giants flushed with wing - "Song" from Poems on Golf by the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society

Just a paper giant - Evaleen Stein "The Picture-Book Giant"

A chant of giants heard afar - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

Before the giant champions of shame - Henry van Dyke "Richard Watson Gilder: In Memoriam"

The Giant Robber clad in steel - Henry van Dyke "Stand Fast"

A giant cubist mosaic of their prophet - Michelle Wirth "Campus"

Dispersing its giant crowd of light - Kevin Young "Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]"


When shadows pass gigantic on the sands - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

The ceaseless round of a gigantic harmony - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"


The shoes Jack Giant-killer wore - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."


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