Potential Titles: Bread

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Bread, wind and red tomatoes - Daisy Aldan "Women at Windows"

Polished rocks littered with bread crusts - Taneum Bambrick "Date"

A torn-bread awkwardness - Mary Jo Bang "February Elegy"

Bread fills a cup - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

For the blood that is their bread - Maurice Baring "August, 1918"

Sugar-loaves from Paradise enriched our bread and milk - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

And broken the saints for bread - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

A feasting where mailed kings break bread - Stephen Vincent Benet "Sir John Rimbeck to the Princess of Acre"

Wheat that will not be bread - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

Narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea - Elizabeth Bishop "The Moose"

That pure bread which cheers the soul - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"

What if the bread be bitter - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Cheerfulness Taught by Reason"

In the singing of the bread - Julie Byrne "The Singing of the Bread"

That broke the hilly land for bread - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "I Am the Mountainy Singer"

To whom sighing comes sooner than bread - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

Bitter was the bread of song - Willa Cather "The Poor Minstrel"

That owe my bounty for their bread - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"

And the birds had bread to eat - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

So your roses turned to bread - Susan Coolidge "To J.H. and E.W.H."

Its wages and its bitter bread - Susan Coolidge "When Love Went"

Star-dust pays for no man's bread - Adelaide Crapsey "The Fiddling Lad"

Cast bread on stagnant water - Countee Cullen "Sacrament"

And share my bread with birds - W.H. Davies "In May"

Did not know the ample bread - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life L: Hunger"

Plum-cake, instead of bread - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"

And earn at least some harvest that is bread - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"

With never a bit of bread therein - "Fairy's Album: II. The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe"

Of bread one pennyworth - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""

Make of nothing bread enough - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"

Break them the bread of love and pour the wine - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"

The mountains bread and honey - Colin Francis "Tony O"

The threshold was dry bread - "From the Vision of Mac Conglinne" transl. by Kuno Meyer

The bread of life dispense - Oliver Goldsmith "Parson Gray"

A few bits of bread for the pigeons to eat - Mona Gould "The Old Lady and the Cat!"

Breath and dreams and daily bread - Ivor Gurney "Toussaints"

Books exchanged for bread - Marilyn Hacker "Morning News"

There's poison in the bread - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"

Starving, but not for bread - Frances E.W. Harper "Going East"

Stale bread left on the shelf too long - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"

No bread in the garden of trees - Linda Hogan "Home in the Woods"

Were sold to buy them bread - Mary Howitt "The Sale of the Pet Lamb"

Cannot live on tomorrow's bread - Langston Hughes "Democracy"

Mingle our pence for some bread - "Jack Jingle and Sucky Shingle"

Flesh being grass, grass being bread - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"

Who breaks the bread of life - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

With ashen bread and wine of tears - Joyce Kilmer "The Fourth Shepherd"

The poor bread of your sorrow - Ted Kooser "Lobocraspis griseifusa"

Golden honey daubed on the bread of the ordinary - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"

Just a stone to anyone asking for bread - D.H. Lawrence "The American Eagle"

Feast richly on a little bread - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XIII: Met Once More"

Makes my daily bread taste salt - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"

With black wine and black bread - Philip Levine "Yakov"

The bread of my routines, now absent of you - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"

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

Feeds me bread of bitterness - Claude McKay "America"

Ate kings' bread in days of yore - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Dead Favourites"

When fainting heroes beg for bread - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

The gospel of bread and butter - Dante Micheaux "Striking the Tents"

No raiment, bread, nor breath of air - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"

Between the bread and the grapes - Pablo Neruda "Almeria" translated by Richard Schaaf

The errant wine and the implacable bread - Pablo Neruda "Brother Bartolome de Las Casas" transl. by Jack Schmitt

For the bread of nightingale children - Pablo Neruda "Come with Me" transl. by Teresa Anderson

Of bread kneaded on the moon - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Joy in bread and stone - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid

In the isles of bread and honey - Pablo Neruda "Letter on the Road" transl. by Donald D. Walsh

Ask for bread and dominion - Pablo Neruda "Night LXXX" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

The bread baked under the sun - Pablo Neruda "Numbered" transl. by Ilan Stavans

The harvest of new bread - Pablo Neruda "The Sadder Century" transl. by Ilan
Stavans

The serious place of bread - Pablo Neruda "Sex" transl. by Alastair Reid

This agitation of bread and sand - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

Of heavenly bread the accepted leaven - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

Love has to earn his bread - E. Nesbit "Love and Life"

Our hands filled with bread and dates - Mari Ness "Sisters"

Breaking the bread of our deepest words - Grace Nichols "In the Fleeting Now"

For the ghost of bread in Lebanon - Naomi Shihab Nye "Darling"

Bitter bread when the world was bare - Marjorie L.C. Pickthall "Mary Shepherdess"

The bread of strength - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Our Daily Bread"

The bitter bread of grief - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Our Daily Bread"

Faith tastes the bread of God - Theodore H. Rand "Song-Waves"

My father's tools quarrying bread - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"

For a peasant century's bread - Adrienne Rich "1941"

And the cost of unearned bread - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

The bread of sorrow leaven - George Santayana "Sonnet XLIV [For Thee the Sun Doth Daily Rise, and Set]"

By eating stolen bread her living gets - Friedrich Schiller "The Parallel"

Around the world I'll beg my bread - "Shule Aroon" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Bread is now than Gold more precious - John Spateman "War"

To eat the bread of strife - "Sticheron Idiomelon" transl. by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Wine and bread without lees or leaven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Not for ambition or bread - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"

Bread crumbs in my pockets - Kristen Tracy "Local Hazards"

Horseradish on your bread instead of butter - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

Circling the track of my scanty bread - Katri Vala "Winter Is Here" transl. by Jaakko A. Ahoksas

Dispensing with justice the broth and the bread - A.D.T. Whitney "The Big Shoe"

Their energy comes from bread - William Carlos Williams "11/1"


Breading and olives and cherries - Joseph Lease "America [Try saying wren]"


Satisfied before bread-breaking - Mina Loy "The Dead"


For the miracle of breaking my hands into breadcrumbs - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

Feeding breadcrumbs to geese - John James "Sonata"


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