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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-07-16 02:28 am

Potential Titles: Surprise

Some surprises with Cloud and Fire - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Half surprised by what they doubt - Elizabeth Bartlett "Perspective"

Without surprise the world might change - Elizabeth Bishop "It Is Marvellous..."

Leave ourselves available to surprise - Jericho Brown "Deliverance"

To mountains of surprise - George Spencer Cautley "Sunset on Campagna of Rome"

The surprised and ungrateful eye - Lucille Clifton [untitled]

A flower of so pure surprise - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"

And the wave the wind surprises weeps - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics"

The surprise of purple and the scent of rain - Kwame Dawes "Purple"

Buried blooms surprise the plunderer bee - Edward Dowden "From April to October: II. Two Infinities"

Encrimsoning the lips of our surprise - Max Eastman "A Visit"

All the world a glad surprise - Anthony Euwer "Little Black Bull"

A band-crash of surprise - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: III. A Poetry-Party"

To surprise its power with treason - Tess Gallagher "Ring"

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

Surprise you inside your ears - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

My spirit humbled by surprise - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

Sly frosts shall take the creepers by surprise - Archibald Lampman "September"

Whom sleep captured by surprise - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"

With hope of any new surprise - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Lest envious Aurora surprise us too - Henry S. Leigh "Lays of Many Lands No. 4: Venice"

All dreams end in surprise - J. Patrick Lewis "Christopher Columbus"

Surprised by moon - J. Patrick Lewis "The Repast of the Lion"

Of magical, sweet surprise - Katherine Mansfield "Voices of the Air"

Through widening chambers of surprise - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

The long, the new surprises of his kiss - Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"

July surprised you - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1936)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Breaks with the agony of surprise - Joyce Carol Oates "The Dark"

In the surprise of woundedness - Carl Phillips "By Force"

A ramble of mystery, pattern, accident, and surprise - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"

So that the echo surprises - Carl Phillips "Wild Is the Wind"

While sailing life's surprising ocean - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

Acknowledging an improvident surprise - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Karma"

And instinct dreads surprise - Isaac Rosenberg "A Girl's Thoughts"

A few surprising turns follow us everywhere - Ira Sadoff "A Few Surprising Turns"

No deluge of flame could surprise - Robert Haven Schauffler "The White Comrade"

With a cool kiss of surprise - Joyce Sidman "Come, Happiness"

Like a book full of surprises - Richard Solomon "The River Through Your Eyes (For Linda)"

Grim Surprise wondered that she should weep - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Innocent surprise at mortality's panache - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

Bliss enhanced by rapture of surprise - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

Uplifted in a rapture of surprise - Edith Wharton "Raffaelle to the Fornarina"

Whom fate can never surprise - Walt Whitman "Song for All Seas, All Ships"

Surprised by joy - William Wordsworth "XXIX [Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind]"

White angels of surprise - R. Walter Wright "Easter Morn"


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