Potential Titles: Strange

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To amaze the dark heads with strange fire - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Hypnotized by the beauty of this strange new view - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"

Strange garrisons of emerald-mailed chameleons - Harold Acton "When Frigates from Long Voyages ..."

With strange and mystic breath - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

And through the night strange music - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

In the strange exhilaration after - Elizabeth Alexander "One Week Later in the Strange"

Plant the strange seed to see how it grows - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

Always the strange order of smoke - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

The strange tales of Ocean it tries to confess - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

On new strange roadways bound - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Bouncing Bet"

A very strange me is waiting - James Baldwin "Munich, Winter 1973 (for Y.S.)"

Spices that you might find Strange - Carmen Bardeguez-Brown "Rican Issues"

Strange to be claimed by a dream - Lou Barrett "The Account"

The strange region of a foreign heart - Ellen Bass "Experiment in Empathy"

Strange and ghastly winds - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"

Strange love for the living, strange love for the dead - Emily Berry "The End"

The strange sounds of flowers - Richard Blanco "When I was a Little Cuban Boy"

In a tangle of strange sheets - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, when I said all I ever wanted was land"

Nor deem it strange - Anne Bronte "The Penitent"

And on a strange road journeyed - Emily Bronte "Plead for Me"

Each meet the strange New Year alone - Caris Brooke "Before Parting"

Strange and defiant lovers - Sterling A. Brown "Challenge"

Their strange beauty my secret - Susan Browne "Becoming a Poet"

These strange contrasting glooms - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

With strange astonished smiles - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Poured forth strange flower - William Cullen Bryant "The Burial-Place"

Strange language and new laws - Francis Burrows "The Well"

The strange awarding of the prizes - Willa Cather "A Likeness"

Never is a strange design - Jennifer Chang "Mount Pleasant"

So strange and frozen feels your love - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Strange spears hung with ancient charms - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Gifting the sea's new strange stones - Donte Collins "they need some of us to die"

Strange smiles and questions - Hilda Conkling "Shiny Brook"

Lifting strange columns of light - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Poured strange knowledge through my mind - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]

Greet strange heralds offering tribute - William Cory "Amavi"

Strangely green like fox-fire on the fen - Mary Elizabeth Counselman "Witch-Burning" [Weird Tales October 1936]

Strange that I should have grown so suddenly blind - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Out of the strange still dusk - Adelaide Crapsey "The Warning"

How strangely cold these few yet bitter words - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"

Ask the strange hands of the wind - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"

Strange midnight lands adorning - Coningsby Dawson "Dreamland Love"

Warbled sweetly strange enchanted words - Walter de la Mare "As Lucy Went a-Walking"

Fields of stars that strangely stir - Walter de la Mare "Beware!"

Swirls and sways to her strange tryst - Walter de la Mare "The Moth"

Rapt in strange dreams burns - Walter de la Mare "Music"

A strange riddle both did share - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"

Fills with the strange rain of stars - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Strange constellations tracing his steps - Chris Dombrowski "Like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade"

Like some strange bouquet for her table - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

By means of a thousand strange herbs - Lizzie Doten "Love and Latin"

Our lady of strange dreams - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame"

Sad eyes bright with strange tears - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VI. In the Wood"

The light of strange discovered skies - Edward Dowden "If it Might Be"

Assayed in what strange fire - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

Ships from strange and storied lands - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Ponders with strange old eyes - A.E. "Mystery"

Seek the strange within the same - Katherine Edgren "Prospecting"

Her strange synthetic perfumes - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land II: A Game of Chess"

Be strange as pity - Louise Erdrich "Fooling God"

In one of those strange hours - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Strange altars of the midnight - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Working the strange colors of clamor and bells - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

The sun's strange amulets - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 5"

Beyond my husband there are strange trees growing - Katie Ford "Colosseum"

Pouring strange light on things more strange - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

A strange room entered by wild moonlight - John Freeman "Waking"

Strange mad old cities brooding - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Strange shadows led me down - Theodosia Garrison "The Child"

Strange to one another - Louise Gluck "Lamentations"

Strange spices from uncharted lands - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"

The first footprint on strange worlds - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

Not on some strange outlandish star - Ivor Gurney "Home-Sickness"

Strange in that rich peace - Ivor Gurney "Interval"

Swaddled in strange air - Marilyn Hacker "Nearly a Valediction"

Some strange, swift decree - Hermann Hagedorn "The Ghost"

What strange keels touched her shore - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"

Glow with strange significance - Patricia Hampl "This Is How Memory Works"

Or some strange wind whistling hard - Joy Harjo "A Hard Rain"

The strange seas that bore him - F.W. Harvey "The Moon"

Before you sip strange whiskey - Terrance Hayes "We Should Make a Documentary About Spades"

Strange voices of no mortal tone - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

Strange fire upon his altars burn - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Strange oracles would stammer - Walter Herries "Reminiscences of a Reader"

Have chosen the strange garments of confusion - Tony Hoagland "No Thank You"

Their strange wild music - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

Strange noises between roof and rafter - William Dean Howells "Forlorn"

I taste a strange apocalypse - Aldous Huxley "Revelation"

Strange tenant of a thousand homes - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"

Strange fossils for future archaeologists - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

We pour strange wines and purples all - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Strange shapes and grieves ghosts - Elinor Jenkins "The Last Evening"

Strange merchants of a stranger merchandise - Elinor Jenkins "Wind-pedlars"

The stars are forming strange new words - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

Paris makes me speak this strange language - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

How dim and strange your features - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

Chased by legends strange - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"

Strange music startle the still air - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"

Strange colors on the foaming sea - Joyce Kilmer "Star o' Love"

Forty years' strange winds had fanned - William Kirby "The Sparrows"

Strange trees, reluctant in this forest - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"

Her thorax full of strange ideas - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

In sudden strange decision - Archibald Lampman "New Year's Eve"

The strange bright murmur of life - Archibald Lampman "One Day"

The harsh sweetness of strange words - Joan Larkin "Mozart's Songbook"

Back on a strange parabola - D.H. Lawrence "Man and Bat"

Down the strange lanes of hell - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"

Life has grown strange and cold - Emma Lazarus "Age and Death"

Burned strange incense - Herve Noel le Breton "The Burden of Lost Souls" (translated by W.J. Robertson)

The pilgrim of strange lore - Herve Noel le Breton "Hymn to Sleep" (translated by W.J. Robertson)

And mistletoe strange berries of bitter tears - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

Are made so strange by echo - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Two halves of the same strange atmosphere - Ada Limon "The Crossing"

A strange intimacy of pavement and heat - Ada Limon "The Great Erector of Invisible Pets"

Making our strange disasters suddenly public - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

In the perpetual round of strange mysterious change - Longfellow "Rain in Summer"

And profess four strange languages - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

Bred strange fancies in its embers - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Waking in strange rooms - Thomas Lynch "The Exhibitionist"

Strange voices of an alien sphere - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Fountain-Springs"

Strange traditions drag their spectral robes - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"

Strange is the silent guest - Kate Seymour MacLean "Ballad of the Mad Ladye"

As a strange knock at the door - Naomi Long Madgett "Arrival"

Strange lilies bloomed in lightless cells - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Earns his bread in strange new lands - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"

With strange delight - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."

With the strange chill of the silent heart - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

Last rites in strange establishments - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"

Should strange Fates withhold - George Meredith "Grace and Love"

Blackened by strange blight - Edna St Vincent Millay "Recuerdo"

Among familiar things grown strange - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]

We are together in strange places - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

Who admired strange birds - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"

Not even you knew I was strange - Gala Mukomolova "Return"

While still this truth seemed strange - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"

Full of voices strange and sweet - Sarah Noble-Ives "Beginnings"

The kindly-beaming eye grow cold and strange - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

You learn something strange when you garden for souls - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

A most strange and melancholy note - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Three Flowers of a Modern Greece III. The Cypress"

Chance's strange arithmetic - Wilfred Owen "Insensibility"

Compounds a strangely mingled cup - John Oxenham "Cup of Mixture"

The strange tea still warm - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"

Strange mountain in late bloom - Kiki Petrosino "The Shop at Monticello"

Strange designs that shine and recede again - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

Sapped of their strange, dark potency - Tim Pratt "Making Monsters"

Through a strange and sacred radiance - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: My Will"

Strange craving for forgotten things - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "One Evening Near Nice"

Remember the strange meat of your dreams - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"

Tainted with some strange infection - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

Strange signals on the air - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Bearing strange symbols to the new dawn - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"

Strange and complicated actions - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson

Strange winds from the forgotten day - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Night in a Down-Town Street"

The toll men pay to that strange ferry-boat - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"

Gnawed a fibre from strange roots - Isaac Rosenberg "God"

Many strange unholy rumours - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

Accruing in a strange account - Kay Ryan "Playacting"

Looks with strange horror on her own abyss - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

Strange, sprawling scale of barbarous tones - Dorothy L. Sayers "Pygmalion"

Our dreams bleed out upon strange altars - Ann K. Schwader "Alien Machines"

Die unblessed beneath strange moons - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"

Comes fraught with strange illusions - Ann K. Schwader "Frost Ghosts"

Strange wisdom from a god long dead - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"

Keep strange faith with entities of elder void - Ann K. Schwader "Void Flyers"

Drinks whispers strange of fate and fear - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"

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

Millions of strange shadows on you - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIII"

Against strange maladies a sovereign cure - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLIII"

Strange truths in undiscovered lands - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Strange lights shall open as we pass - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: III. The Landsman"

And the wind's strange way was their way - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"

All this strange and noisy night - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Banagher Rhue"

Troubled like a strange dream - Charles Simic "Evening Talk"

Our strange souls and curious desires - Edith Sodergran "Pain" transl. by Jaakko A. Ahokas

Strange winds directed my poor aim - Leonora Speyer "Saul! Saul!"

Along strange winds your petals blew - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"

Some strange and wandering sound - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"

Who hath strange laughter - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"

Thou takest to thee strange wine - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"

To us time's sea is strange - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"

Too strange for fear, too vast for hope - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

Who seem so strangely out of place - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

Shaped themselves into a strange string of eons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 188: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

That wed strange hands together - Algernon Swinburne "Discord"

That strange song I heard Apollo sing - Alfred Tennyson "Tithonus"

Completes a magic of strange welcome - Edward Thomas "Good-Night"

Wild thoughts and strange imaginings - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"

That hear strange lullabies - John Todhunter "The Sunburst"

Exposed to suns too strangely bright - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"

Strange acrobats to catch them - Iris Tree "Nerves"

Hurling strange suns - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

A river of strange waters flowed - Mark Van Doren "Communication"

Water and milk in such strange ratios - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"

Some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes - Henry Vaughan "The World of Light"

Savage and strange as birth - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "The Way Back"

The light of his strange calling - Derek Walcott "Eulogy to W.H. Auden"

To transcend becoming strange - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"

Under the wheels of a strange car - John Wieners "A poem for tea heads"

A strange courage you give me - William Carlos Williams "El Hombre"

The strange hours we keep to see them - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"

Strange spectres in the moonlight - Joseph R. Wilson "The Santa Fe Trail"

The strange portent of the prophet's bush - William Henry Withrow "October"



As strangers to this landscape - Elmaz Abinader "Lines of Demarcation"

Became greater and greater strangers to themselves - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"

Steel-skeletal cars stacked with stranger cargo - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"

A dance of strangers in my blood - Fatimah Asghar "If They Come for Us"

And greet a stranger with a kiss - Willis Barnstone "At My Funeral"

As transient strangers of desire - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

Memory is no stranger - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Grew only strangers - Eric Baus "Burning Zither"

Fashioned love from strangers - Jan Beatty "Drag"

Strangers just in from the rain - Terry Blackhawk "Sun Hat: Cape Cod Photo #1"

Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue - Anne Bronte "Consolation"

Someone else with a stranger's eye - Joseph Bruchac "Prints"

Set a bar to strangers - Witter Bynner "The New World I"

Let us remain in word and action strangers - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Humanity"

The most common of strangers - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"

Stuck in a hell of strangers crying - Chen Chen "The School of Night & Hyphens"

Stranger than anything Mr. Wells could have ever imagined - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [H.G. Wells]

baggage cold in a stranger's hand - Lucille Clifton "from the cadaver"

no planet stranger - Lucille Clifton "note, passed to superman"

In the universe where we are strangers - Ama Codjoe "My Nothings"

Greet the new day like a stranger - Chris Colderly "For Our Children's Children: Celebrating Chief Dan George"

Time for ships and strangers - Hilda Conkling "Tell Me"

From a stranger sea and sky - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

To entertain this starry stranger - Richard Crashaw "Verses from the Shepherd's Hymn"

That Beauty, the stranger, and I had met - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Revelation"

I wouldn't want to embarrass a stranger - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"

When the beacon star's a stranger - Max Eastman "A Hymn to God: In Time of Stress"

Home is a truth stranger than fiction - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"

Across the floors of strangers - Tarfia Faizullah "Djinn in Need of a Bitch"

Cross streets become strangers - Maggie Farren "Palms"

We never were strangers to one another - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

Fixing the flowers on a stranger's grave - Andrea Gibson "Radio"

Imagining beauty in a stranger's eyes - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"

A soft surprise to strangers - Katherine Hale "Bush Road"

Demands of both native and stranger - "The Harp of Old Erin and Banner of Stars" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Catch the stranger's curious eye - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"

I go to the land of the Stranger - Charles Jefferys "Let Me Rest in the Land of My Birth"

And strangers could give no relief - Charles Jefferys "Let Me Rest in the Land of My Birth"

Strange merchants of a stranger merchandise - Elinor Jenkins "Wind-pedlars"

Bound to a stranger's groans - Kimberly Johnson "Farrow"

The stranger I should have become - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Learning to worship the strangers - June Jordan "These Poems"

In the shadow of a stranger tongue - Fady Joudah "Taurus"

In the chaotic sprawl of today where strangers meet - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

A stranger, spine whittled to shadow - Vandana Khanna "Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation"

A space for kindness amongst strangers - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

A pistol tucked into a stranger's belt - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"

in the servitude of strangers - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

Older and stranger than speech - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VI: Is It Love? Is It Hate?"

In the doomed faces of strangers - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"

The soul of a stranger - David Lehman "Who She Was"

Strangers of good will - Philip Levine "The Communist Party"

My hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

We rely on the welcome of strangers - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"

Climbing bitterly the stranger's stairs - Vachel Lindsay "Dante"

The scintillating eyes of a million strangers - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"

A million strangers waiting for you to fall - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"

Knew no strangers - Thomas Lynch "The Student"

Then I am not a stranger here - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

Searched for our faces among strangers - Maya Marshall "Port of Entry"

Safe in company with strangers - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

At the mercy of a stranger's eyes - Miller Oberman "Taharah"

Be broke by the share of the stranger - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Accomplished somewhere among strangers - Mary Oliver "A River Far Away and Long Ago"

This echo of a stranger - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Hearing My Name"

A familiar face in a stranger - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"

If the half in common is a stranger - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"

The stranger that entered without a word - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

The mirror becoming stranger - Lee Ann Roripaugh "#to my mother's dementia #kaze no denwa"

We entertain Him always like a stranger - "A Royal Guest"

A stranger to my own ruin - Erika L. Sanchez "A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring"

A truth unbearable without this stranger's mask - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"

Strangers with myths for maps - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"

Posting missives of hidden love for strangers - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"

Summoned by strangers at their will - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"

Through an infinity of strangers between - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

Familiar faces in those of strangers - Charles Simic "Hide and Seek"

That the stranger knows what home is yours - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"

Earth wounded stranger that wandered - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"

Again the stranger's echoing tread - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Reflecting my own stranger's face in the window - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Lamplight"

Golden corn for the stranger - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "The Famine Year"

But the stranger reaps our harvest - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "The Famine Year"

Strangers in the lush province of joy - Charles Wright "Flannery's Angel"

The innocent gift of strangers - Jay Wright "Boli"

Alembics turn to stranger things - Elinor Wylie "Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin into English"


The imprecise and strangering distinctions - Robert Hayden "[American Journal]"


Red is the strangest pain to bear - Charlotte Mew "The Quiet House"

Like fish from the strangest sea - Pablo Neruda "The Poet" transl. by Jack Schmitt


Sow strangeness where you pass - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"

To glitter the air with strangeness - Sheila Black "Radium Dream"

Beauty pour upon the strangeness - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"

The strangeness of the heart's breaking seas - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"

Cannot rub the strangeness from my sight - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"

Behind the strangeness of your eyes - Charlotte Mew "On the Road to the Sea"


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