Potential Titles: Sister

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Buried the faces of my sisters - Aria Aber "Ideology"

My sisters refuse to know me - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

Where your gentle sisters may not weep - Louisa May Alcott "The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love"

Fair sister of anemone and octopus - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

An unwinking beacon, sister to stars - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Blaster Bill" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]

Sisters in nameless sorrow - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"

little sisters belong beneath crowns - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"

Sister-words of blame - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"

A dazzling sister to the sun - T.W. Earp "Our Lady of Light"

Congenial sister of immortal Fame - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"

The brilliant sun's little sister - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Twin sister to the greedy earth - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"

Where the Sisters three are weaving - Annie Fellows Johnston "Elinor"

The mother of invention and the sister of theft - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

With all an elder sister's pride - John Keble "Fire"

Sister of the flying beam and speedy shadow - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

Sister of Burnt Dreams - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"

Map a line of sisters - Linette Lao "Becoming"

That brings the sister rains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Sweet sisters of the moonbeams - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"

Blue as your seven elder sisters - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Saw my sisters in the sawmills - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong on Silent Films"

You're the sister of the seven ravens - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"

Of an aspect sisterly with Truth - George Meredith "Time and Sentiment"

Sisters of the sacred well - John Milton "Lycidas"

To the hands of the sister and the widow - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Sisters like the fallen dust - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Mothers of Dead Loyalists" translated by Angel Flores

Seven sisters of the night sky - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"

Lived with eight sisters in a warm ocean - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

Sister to the rain - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"

Two sisters in the middle of the world - Danni Quintos "Pond's White Beauty"

My sister's eyes looking back at him - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"

While sister sprites wake laughter - Theodore H. Rand "The Crystal Spring"

Nine fair sisters in one home - Amy Redpath Roddick "England's Oldest Colony"

Now her own sister in stone - Isaac Rosenberg "Spring, 1916"

Sisters of silver creators of light - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"

Brightens the galaxy of sister stones - George Santayana "Avila"

Soul sister to the whippoorwill & crow - Ann K. Schwader "Lavinia in Autumn"

Azure sister of the spring - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

Brother forest, sister river - Taras Shevchenko "Hamaleia" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Made sister to the wordless wind - George Sterling "Before Dawn"

My heart is sister of ice - George Sterling "The Princess on the Headland"

Sister shade and phantom brother - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"

A sister of the sky - Sara Teasdale "Morning"

Sisters linked in love and light - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"

Laertes at his sister's grave bids violets spring - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Dark sisters spinning with the grace of death - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"

Sister of ebon-scepter'd Hecate - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

What threads the fatal sisters spun - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

A sister calls the western gale - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Between two sister moorland rills - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"


The virgin sisterhood of roses - Manmohan Ghose "Mentem Mortalia Tangunt"

Convocations of indispensable sisterhoods - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"

Brims with memories of our long sisterhood - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"


Step-sister of To-morrow's marmalade - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"


The pale unsistered Phaedra - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"


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