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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-06-03 03:33 am

Potential Titles: Fed/Feed

Your citadel fed to the birds - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"

Fed on flecks of sunshine - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "A Little Goldenhead"

Where you on kisses fed - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"

Fed on graveyard charms - Charles Baudelaire "The Dance of Death" transl. not credited

Your cressets are fed with spices - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Fed the torrents of its living veins - William Rose Benét "The City"

Fed them platters of minced scandal - Maxwell Bodenheim "Captain Simmons' Wife"

Fed without the aid of joy - Emily Bronte "Remembrance"

Stalls where now the ox is fed - John Castillo "The Country Love Feast"

Fed with nourishment divine - Abraham Cowley "The Grasshopper"

On immortal ardors fed - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Gods and Heroes of the Gael"

And on what rapture fed - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Anger as soon as fed - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XLII: Time's Lesson"

Full fed by surging hopes - Irving Sidney Dix "The School of Life"

The food could have fed seven hundred and two - Daniel Errico "The Island of Bum Bum Ba Loo"

From what troubled streams his heart is fed - Arthur Davison Ficke "Sonnet XXIX"

Became the hunger that they fed - Dana Gioia "The Angel with the Broken Wing"

The earth spirits were fed with songs - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"

We fed refusal to the storm - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"

Whom the ravens fed in the desert - Zilka Joseph "Prophet of the Rock"

Plains where fed the herds of Pan - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Where never Shepherd fed his Flock - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"

That fed the blood-stained hydra mouths - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"

Fed the haze of a hundred fires - Agnes Lee "A Roman Doll (In a Museum)"

Fed by Time and Chance - Maria White Lowell "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle"

The mechanisms of late capitalism keeping us fed - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"

For all the gravel you were fed - Rachel McKibbens "deeper than dirt"

When I fed it tin and paper - Eve Merriam "Catch a Little Rhyme"

roads must constantly be fed - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

because the birds were fed with nothingness - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

After the multitude was fed - Mary Oliver "Maybe"

Fed by the oil of promise - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"

By it shall the hungry be fed - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Baby's Hand"

Fed them honey of his heart - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

And his heart is fed with water - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Where men are fed into the fires - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"

On royal meats I've fed - anonymous? "The Royal Court"

Not wholly fed by fear - Mary Jo Salter "The Upper Story"

Fed with poison-honey - Clark Ashton Smith "Love Malevolent"

Even art demands to be fed - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"

Knock and enter and be fed with fire and wine - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

Among whose reeds the wild fowl fed - Arthur Weir "Ode for the Queen's Jubilee. 1837-1887"

The world on dreaming fed - William Butler Yeats "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"

Fed the heart on fantasies - W.B. Yeats "VI - The Stare's Nest By My Window"


Pastures deep in rain-fed grass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

Some gentle spirit sorrow-fed - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fire-Flowers"

Derived sun-fed design - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"

Altars unfed and temples overturned - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"


Feeding the flood of flame - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Feed a thousand chains of regret through greasy barrels - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"

Woe to the wolf whom the ravens feed - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

A sadness feeding on itself - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel and the woman"

Should a dragon linger at your hummingbird feeder - Devan Barlow "Your Visiting Dragon"

Fire that feeds on stones - Elizabeth Bishop "At the Fishhouses"

The hare that feeds at eventide - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

And feed on bitter fruit - Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping"

Feed the moths and wasting dews - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"

Feeding the hungry beggar bees - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Bed-Time"

Feed my heart on poisonous thoughts - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LXX. A Prayer for Strength" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Who feeds on the crumbs - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Lazarus of Empires"

Feed the snakes nothing - May Chong "Catering"

Be careful how and who you feed - May Chong "Catering"

Feed her with nectar, shelter her warm - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Young Dandelion"

If you feed me with thin parchment - Kwame Dawes "Eat"

To feed on the burdens of your heart - Kwame Dawes "Eat"

Feeding only on my tears - Christine de Pisan

Come strike and feed first spark - Dom "Number Cruncher: Be the Spark"

Feeding rosehips to the cat - Chris Dombrowski "Koan"

Feed on a living sorrow's sacredness - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

This house that feeds on death - Rebecca Dunham "There Lies the Hydra: 1. Heracles and the Hydra"

Reputed to feed on sand - Chiyuma Elliott "J-572 (431) I"

Will gentle words feed me - "The Flower of Nut-Brown Maids" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Will not rouse itself to feed - Dana Gioia "Tedium"

Flames choose what feeds them - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

With fourteen young ravens to feed - C. L. Graves "On Re-Reading 'Barchester Towers'"

Air that feeds his bones - Leah Naomi Green "To the Cardinal, Attacking His Reflection in the Window"

Surveillance feeds on death - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"

More nimble each time it feeds - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"

Tomorrow I will feed the dead - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"

Feed chlorophyll to gutters under gasoline - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Feeds the hungriest ghosts - Yona Harvey "Sonnet for a Tall Flower Blooming at Dinnertime"

Feeding myself pretty lyrics and lead - Faylita Hicks "Self-Care"

Hope for the nitrogen feeding your grass - K. Iver "For Missy Who Never Got His New Name"

Feeding breadcrumbs to geese - John James "Sonata"

The flocks which feed on a thousand hills - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"

A raven feeding upon a quarter - Ben Jonson "The Witches Song"

Where the summer bees feed in thyme and clover - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Like one who walketh in a plenteous land]"

Which such Thin Food can feed - Anne Killigrew "The Discontent"

Digesting our emotions to feed her future - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Quince Bedroom"

Feed carbon black into morning breezes - Petra Kuppers "Forest Starships"

Feed on the carpet fibers of worry - Petra Kuppers "Gut Body"

As the planed length time feeds to the mind's lathe - Nick Laird "The Vehicles and the Tenor"

And folks on oyster memories feed - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

They feed on the sacred raisins - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Scarce like to feed the ogre - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Who feed upon the wind and stars - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"

a fertile store to feed them as they bloom - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"

Feeding her heart with day dreams - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"

Feed them a single crust - Campbell McGrath "My Sadness"

Feeds me bread of bitterness - Claude McKay "America"

who will feed the roots of the tree - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"

Count the years as we feed the beast of time - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

A desperate feeding of desire - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Song of Solomon Remix"

Sometimes they feed me make-believe - Rebecca Deming Moore "The Wooden Horse" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Through many a fen where the serpent feeds - Thomas Moore "A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp"

Watching the swallowtails feed on the aster - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"

Dark hills whose heath-bloom feeds no bee - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"

On which ambitions feed - Francis Neilson "The Boon"

Feeding in a freezing drizzle - Howard Nemerov "Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry"

Feeds on what went before - Robbi Nester "Rot"

No one sees the fuel that feeds you - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hidden"

Feeding on theoretical considerations - Frank O'Hara "On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art"

Feed from this sadness and grow tall again - Stephanos Papadopoulos "The Station"

I never said they feed my heart - Dorothy Parker "Faut de Mieux"

Feed us with hopes, yet with-hold us relief - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

Yet feeds our inspirations - Walter S. Percy "Fireflies"

feed on the fruits of my demise - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"

Feeding with the sap of hope - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"

Feed me pitted pomegranates full of smoke - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

Feeds his soul at Wisdom's lip - Theodore H. Rand "In the Cool of the Day"

Feeding the partisans from frugal larders - Adrienne Rich "Char"

That feed on the vast fig of evening - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Who feed you on cardboard ships - Lola Ridge "Phyllis"

To feed unsinning at the iron dish - Lynn Riggs "Song of the Unholy Oracle"

Feed them only candy - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"

Will served to feed new wonders, more delights - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"

Could feed a multitude with our sorrows - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"

Feed the birds of my failures - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait"

Whom she ordained to feed her holy fire - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

Handed out to feed hungry souls - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier

To feed me the correct concoction of controlled toxins - Chet'la Sebree "An End"

With the richest love he feeds me - Mary Dana Shindler "Chastening, a Proof of Love"

To feed your ravenous eye - Patricia Smith "What Betsy Has to Say"

Who feed in the untamed openings - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"

Feeds on what the finches leave behind - Elizabeth Spires "Moment Vanishing"

When the dew-drop feeds the roses - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Elfin Song"

To feed on a hundred sins - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Feeds his heart full of the day - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Can feed each hungry minute - John B. Tabb "The Time-Brood"

The Pelican of Passion feeds - F.W. Thomas "A Slighted Woman"

Because comedy wasn't feeding him - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"

Feeding upon each other's isolations - Iris Tree "Streets"

Feeds her golden flocks with light - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"

Secret rivers that darkness feeds on - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"

Would feed on brighter flowers - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

On joy and pleasure let my wishes feed - "The Whore"

To feed my fond despair - John Wright "The Maiden Fair"

Feed on sand - Jenny Xie "Long Nights"

The mind feeds on synonyms - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"


Harvest-feeding dews, fine-winnowed light - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"


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