Potential Titles: Alone

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Sweetness at sunset all alone - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Pursues the vast alone - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Alone amid so much dark - Francisco X. Alarcon "Somewhere Else"

The stars' soft eyes alone may see - Louisa May Alcott "Fairy Song"

For now I climb gray hills alone - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Alone with the famished dark - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

Unplanted, unsown, blooming alone - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCIII: Plucking a Flower" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

We can't heal or hurt alone - Diannely Antigua "I Buy My Monster Roses"

The heart can bind itself alone - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"

Embarked alone on our tomorrows - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

The most dreadful way to be alone - James Baldwin "Song (for Skip)"

Not alone in your truths - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Waiting for winter to leave me alone - Mary Jo Bang "When I Was an Inanimate Object"

And wake likewise alone - Rachel Barenblat "Change"

All heavy and alone - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"

And learn to stand on air, alone - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Test"

A symbol you alone could hear - Emily Berry "Ghosts (Homage to Burial)"

Walk alone through a midnight graveyard - Terry Blackhawk "A Blessing of Scallops: Eastern Market, Detroit"

Alone with the moon on its path - Richard Blanco "Somewhere to Paris"

Where grief alone would kill - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: Rosamund's Song of Hope"

A day wherein remembered sun alone comes through - Arna Bontemps "To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country"

But those alone may know the cost - John Philip Bourke "The End of the Episode"

Burning, freezing, alone - Geoffrey Brock "Forever Street"

Before me truth can stand alone - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

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

In a little garden all alone - William Browne "The Rose"

Alone with the terrible hurricane - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"

Time delights in dealing wounds which he alone can heal - Clarence Frederick Buhler "The March of Life" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Madness alone of evils do I dread - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"

Alone in this thin place of existence - Anthony Butts "Triptych"

Alone in the silence of disbelief - Anthony Butts "Voices' End"

Silence alone wears majesty - Witter Bynner "The Last Words of Tolstoi"

Made to be alone - Julie Byrne "Follow My Voice"

Eve, surrounded by peonies, and alone - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"

Bearing alone the load of liberty - Tommaso Campanella "XXIX. To Venice" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Alone by the wind-beaten hill - Thomas Campbell "Exile of Erin"

In a world of stifling air alone - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall

Alone against hundreds - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "At Sea"

To seek for bliss alone - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Alone and effortless - Jennifer Chang "The World"

Alone with the voice of my mother - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"

Alone with nature's tricks - Onyedikachi Chinedu "Snail-Picking"

Standing alone in the light - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"

Alone in the wrong image - Lucille Clifton "mirror"

Alone until the times change - Leonard Cohen "Welcome to These Lines"

I worshipped the Invisible alone - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

Not alone these swelling tears - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

The slow avalanche alone replied - Arthur Colton "The Roman Way"

No new way to feel alone - CAConrad "[everyone asks for the you they remember]"

Alone in the light of my magnificence - Cynthia Cotten "Resistance"

As small as a world and as large as alone - E. E. Cummings "maggie and milly and molly and may"

Where once I stood alone - H.D. "We Two"

Singing alone to the years - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"

Friendless and all alone on this unsweetened stone - W.H. Davies "The Example"

Alone from divine wrath exempt - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Passion's fire alone that draws him - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Alone enchant the heaven - "Deirdre's Lament for the Sons of Usnach" (Translated by Sir Samuel Ferguson)

Who dreams of taking Troy alone - Carl Dennis "Help from the Audience"

Not expressed by suns alone - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXV"

Playing tetherball alone - Chris Dombrowski "May"

Alone and naked by the weeping tree - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"

Both go alone into the dark - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Alone with the gold last light - Heid E. Erdich "Stung"

Nor wit alone dispense - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""

Where music dwells alone - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

Remember each hour alone - Nick Flynn "Epithalamion"

Mine inward plight is one that stands alone - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

The road alone maintained itself in mud - Robert Frost "Our Singing Strength"

my answer to the terror of being alone - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

being alone in a graveyard of buried stars - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

Could survive forever on death alone - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"

Alone in spring's ephemeral cathedrals - Dana Gioia "The Apple Orchard"

Alone shall be his gods - Louis Golding "Shrift Among Hills"

Dancing in a glade alone - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"

Quite alone beneath the moon - Angelina Weld Grimké "To Joseph Lee"

Must dwell in glory all alone - Edgar A. Guest "The Simple Things"

Walk old ways alone - Ivor Gurney "Afterwards"

Alone beneath the palace roof - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"

Why should pine and cypress alone be prized? - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

Allowed to grieve alone - Nathalie Handal "She"

alone among the dying stars - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."

Hopes my thoughts alone have known - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"

Alone in the attic of creation - Margaret Hasse "Art"

Chambers peopled by the dead alone - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

In proud supremacy of guilt alone - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

Vengeance alone may breathe - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"

Their echoes should repeat alone - Felicia Hemans "The Troubadour and Richard Coeur de Lion"

Alone with the terrible hurricane - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant

For Strength I'd back my claws alone - Oliver Herford "How the Lion Became King"

Play and sing to Birds alone - Oliver Herford "The Wakeful Princess"

Be mine alone the darkness and the sorrow - Walter Herries [found in his papers after his death, attribution uncertain] "Good-Night" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

We are not quite alone - Robert Hillyer "Fog"

Doomed to tread the sands alone - E. Curtiss Hine "Christine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

And I alone was cursed and loathed - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

All alone and full of fancies - Sade Iverson "Ten Square Feet of Garden"

Where pleasures alone will be mine - Charles Jefferys "Let Me Rest in the Land of My Birth"

Alone with ancient night - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"

Depends on how alone you feel - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"

Alone in that enchanted desert - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"

Within the Potter's house alone - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

That you wander forth alone - Joyce Kilmer "Chevely Crossing"

The morning star hung alone - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"

Arrive empty-handed and alone - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Hunting Party"

Alone here in the gentle breeze - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

Death alone has sympathy - Alfred Kreymborg "Dirge"

The wind alone can tame you - Archibald Lampman "Among the Millet"

Persisting bleakly for one end alone - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

By torch-light and alone - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

Where Fancy alone can find them - Henry S. Leigh "Where--and Oh! Where?"

Kingly eagles wheeled alone their flights - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

The Spring wind alone can understand - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough

In the small hours even God drinks alone - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"

Teach me to leave dreams alone - Audre Lorde "Change"

Too potent to be wielded by a person alone - Amari Low "Themself"

Deeps of unhewn woods alone can cherish - Amy Lowell "Leisure"

Alone can captivate my mind - Anonymous "Loyalty Confined"

To which the lip alone gave birth - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Alone in the winter-house - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"

While my soul tips through the stars alone - Naomi Long Madgett "Star Journey"

And the garden known alone in despair - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

To tramp the dusty roads alone - John Masefield "In Memory of A.P.R."

Eternal April wandering alone - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Goes out alone on seas unknown - John Masefield "Truth"

Can you win a game you've played alone? - Donna Masini "My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire"

Stands alone in infamy and crime - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Remembered alone by the bard - Frank J. Medina "The Old and New"

To be alone with heaven - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

That cannot shine alone - Buonarroti Michelangelo "Love the Light-Giver" (translated by John Addington Symonds)

Looking back from the rearview and parked alone - Joseph Millar "Job"

Knows alone and guards too well - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"

Alone in the dark sky - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"

must fight multi-headed ghosts alone - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

A new winter more naked and more alone - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Alone in the natal jungle - Pablo Neruda "The South" transl. by Alastair Reid

Alone with green seas rocking him - Henry Newbolt "Messmates"

Alone, without or guide or chart - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

The path of those who walk alone - Maria Antonia Ortega "Lima"

The song I've been singing alone in this field - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"

A greenhouse I entered alone - Kiki Petrosino "Pastoral"

Prospero warned me against walking alone - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

A heap of dust alone remains - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

Forgot that my tears are for me alone - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"

And goes to live in memory alone - Thomas Buchanan Read "Lines, Suggested by Rogers' Statue of Ruth"

Though heaven alone records the tear - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Brave at Home"

The night that walks alone - Lola Ridge "Celia"

Alone into the Silence - Lola Ridge "Jaguar"

To yourself alone belonging - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

My heart alone wakes - Rainer Maria Rilke "Evening" transl. by Jessie Lemont

You never march alone - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"

Alone with the night wind's sigh - Rennell Rodd "Where the Rhone Goes Down to the Sea"

Had sold to us alone his birthright - Alice Wellington Rollins "With an Antique"

alone in our detailed misery - Giovannai Rosa "a force is a push, or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america)"

And went to the lattice alone - Christina Rossetti "A Chilly Night"

Convincing by speed alone - Kay Ryan "More of the Same"

Exalted, deathly, silent, and alone - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

But too late and each alone - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"

A tattered wind alone replied - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"

As if coincidence alone explained such wounds - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"

Cast forth to find their way alone - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]

All alone in the splendid emptiness - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

You are alone in your orbit - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

Perfectly alone and anonymous - Charles Simic "The Immortal"

Now I have but the wind alone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

Alone of all Time's hierarchy - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

I find myself most alone - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"

Wandered off alone and unheard of - Frank Stanford "The Forgotten Madmen of Menilmontant"

The sea alone hath speech - George Sterling "Forenoon by the Pacific"

Alone with anguish and the dark - George Sterling "The Golden Past"

Where tears alone are fruit - George Sterling "In Autumn"

Ambers found in dream alone - George Sterling "Under the Rainbow"

And Moses alone was the light - Gerald Stern "Samaritans"

Sit'st alone within her void, cold halls - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Moments when you step alone from the forest - Keith Taylor "To Face the Ordinary"

Alone and warming his five wits - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "When Cats Run Home"

To go into the unknown I must enter and leave alone - Edward Thomas "Lights Out"

And dew-drops fall for tears alone - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut

That cold house and dinner alone - Natasha Trethewey "Amateur Fighter"

The way blades of grass are alone - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Belonging"

Wake alone and older - John Updike "Endpoint"

So unforeseeably alone - John Updike "Endpoint"

Worthy to wait alone - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

Back to her alone - Suzanne Vega "Fool's Complaint"

And Night alone o'erheard - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

And I remain alone among the dead - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"

Here stands alone the grail of Adam's blood - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"

Alone in a rented chamber - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"

Stands alone in its iron-red power - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Uluru"

Shine alone in the sunrise - William Carlos Williams "El Hombre"

We are alone in this terror - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"

How does anything learn to be alone? - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Disappointment"

Eyes alone leave no trace - Katie Willingham "Terrifying Robot Update"

And each of them walks by night alone - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"

Farewell the heart that lives alone - William Wordsworth "Lines Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont"

Look up to me alone - William Butler Yeats "Two Songs of a Fool"


Secret admirer to the all-alone - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"


Lone.


Loneliness/Lonely.


Lonesome.


Standalone heron borrowing a pylon - Brian Blanchfield "Edge of Water, Portage Bay, Washington"


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