Potential Titles: Wonder

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In lightness of wonder rise higher - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

The hour when the wonders open - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Rise into the wonder of daybreak - Kwame Alexander "Majestic: Celebrating Maya Angelou"

Of wonder and dark envy - Maya Angelou "The Pusher"

No wonder the black mole tunnels under the garden loam - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"

Grows young with wonder - James Baldwin "Song (for Skip)"

Dizzy with the wonder of that wine - Maurice Baring "Shelley"

Sang wonder through the woods - Elizabeth Bartlett "Afternoon of a Journey"

leaps secret with wonder - Elizabeth Bartlett "art"

I lost my wonders as I had lost my stars - William Rose Benét "The City"

Small and obvious life fogged every wonder - William Rose Benét "The City"

Space's Pandora-box loosed its wonders upon him - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Contribute to this glamour of wonder - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"

Wonder exchanges for sight - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

The blue space we call wonder - Sheila Black "The Earth"

Wonder prowling through old drowned barges - Edmund Blunden "Perch-Fishing"

Translates the wonders of the sky - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Poet"

With wonder at common things - James Alpheus Butler, Jr. "Common Things"

Greater wonders than shook Pharaoh's throne - Tommaso Campanella "XXXIX. On the Lord's Prayer. No.3" transl. by John Addington Symonds

A thousand eyes in vulgar wonder scanned - A.Y. Campbell "The Dromedary"

With eyes of wrath and wonder - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto II. Hys Fyve Rules"

The promised hidden wonders - Ch'iu Wei "Visiting a Recluse on West Mountain and Not Finding Him In" transl. by Burton Watson

Lit with charge and wonder - Tiana Clark "Particle Fever"

Signs and wonders of the elements - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

He wonders if their ghosts remember him - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

That white road of wonder and delight - Olive Custance "Hylas"

Fervent with the banished wonders of undiscovered hells - Maggie Damken "Undiscovered Hells"

Anxiety and wonder and surmise - Mary Carolyn Davies "A Casualty List"

Let Fame with wonder name the Greek - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Filled with wide-shining wonder - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"

Took the narrow stair as wondering - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Deep on moon-washed apples of wonder - John Drinkwater "Moonlit Apples"

Defiling wonder that he never knew - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Startled into vivid wonder - Max Eastman "X Rays"

Signs are taken for wonders - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"

Hold all the hidden wonders - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"

Words of wonder and words of truth - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"

Your immunity to wonder will be broken - Anne Evans "A New Variant"

Brought me a lost wonder - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Winning all the wonder from the light - Zona Gale "Wonder"

While heaven wonders - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"

Wonders of the dark and day - Angelina Weld Grimke "To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke"

Knew some touch of sacred wonder - Ivor Gurney "The Day of Victory"

A labyrinth to winding wonders - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"

Wonder if forever exists - Nathalie Handal "As We Wait"

Of other wonder worlds - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXIX"

Behold a chain of wonders rise - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"

Lie awake at night wondering - S*an D. Henry-Smith "remedies I"

In the broad way of wonder - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"

Tilt and meander of wonder - Jane Hirshfield "As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the Floor Above Us"

As wondering men have always done - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

The wonder of dazzle and charge - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Prose Poem on the Snow" transl. by Burton Watson

The passionate wonder of your forest - Helene Johnson "Magalu"

I wonder about the road to hell - Ashley M. Jones "I Find the Earring that Broke Loose from My Ear the Night a White Woman Told Me the World Would Save Her"

Awash in wonder and wrath - A.M. Juster "Three Visitors"

Discover the wonder of perpendicularity - Donika Kelly "Sonnet in which only one bird appears"

Within the first order of wonders - Ted Kooser "Gyroscope"

myrtle amid the tall wonders of juniper - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"

Open myself to wonder - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"

Wonder just won't be found - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"

Walk the edge of regret and wonder - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"

A tribe of wonders coming - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Wonders spreading round you like flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"

From haunted earth broke springs of wonder - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Preside over our wonder - Mina Loy "Moreover, the Moon--"

And watch with wonder-eyes - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"

Might in a wondering season - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

No wonder I cry glass tears - Claire Millikin "Seven Stops"

Beyond the wonder of the heart to dream - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Expect us to walk away & wonder - Kamilah Aisha Moon "The Emperor's Deer"

Even the wind wondered - Angel Nafis "How Each Sister Handles the Apocalypse"

Tell it to the wondering flowers - Meredith Nicholson "A Secret"

Some are born to wonder - Naomi Shihab Nye "Your Weight, at Birth"

struck you with wonder - Sharon Olds "Song to Gabriel Hirsch"

Unfolding endlessly in signs and wonders - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Burst full and glorious on my wondering eyes - J.G. Percival "Life: a Sonnet" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Wonder what fear is for - Carl Phillips "Surrounded as We Are, Unlit, Unshadowed"

Winged wonder of motion - Theodore H. Rand "The Dragonfly"

A wild-sweet wonder of yesterday - Herbert Randall "Hills o' My Heart"

The song of wine and wonder - Herbert Randall "Hymn Ancestral"

The path to a garden of starlight and wonder - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"

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

I could not choose but wonder - Rennell Rodd "Long After"

Wonders to sweet music set - Rennell Rodd "Une Heure Viendra Qui Tout Paiera"

Wonders what world she rendered - Karen A. Romanko "The Glass Blower"

They who wrought wonders by the Nile - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

From all our wondering, wounded world - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

In the same wistful wonder - Marjorie Seiffert "The Picnic"

This composed wonder of your frame - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIX"

Had eyes to wonder - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"

From out the shadows wondering - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Bird from the West"

Drank in secrets and wonderings - Joyce Sidman "Lament for Teddy"

Witness to this dread and wonder - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"

At the borders between terror and wonder - Bruce Smith "Garden"

With peril and with wonder zoned - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"

Thy threads of wonder deep-entangled - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"

Who confuses wondering with wandering - Maggie Smith "Apologue (1)"

Recounts these careless wonders - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

New-fledged and wondering - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Setting the stars alight to wonder at the moon - James Stephens "The Shell"

In shining courts of wonder - George Sterling "Altars of Victory"

Wonder at both connections and aberrations - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

Stood bathed in a wonder crowned with pain - Arthur Stringer "Spring Floods"

Bastioned in wonder and silent with fear - Arthur Stringer "The Veil"

From what clear wells of wonder - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

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]

A terror and wonder whose core was joy - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

Gleams of shining wonder dazzle through the void - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

And wonder more than the condition of our loss - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"

Holding wonder in a cup - Sara Teasdale "Barter"

With Wonder face to face - Sara Teasdale "Open Windows"

To take earth's wonder - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"

Over the ghost who wonders why - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"

Great wonders clothed with glory - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"

The woven cloth of wonder - Iris Tree "[From far away the lost adventures gleam]"

Do not wonder or witness - Louis Untermeyer "In a Cab"

With anxious heart and wondering ear - Louis Untermeyer "Voices"

And wonder when a rain will come that way - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

Telling wonders from the sky - Isaac Watts "A Cradle Hymn"

The heart of wonder in familiar things - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

All the old wonder of your eyes - John Hall Wheelock "Phantom"

Where the wonder-seekers crowd - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"

Lit with this wonder of the moon and star - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"

Wondering about your roots - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"

The mournful wonder of his eyes - W.B. Yeats "Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea"

A poster child for signs and wonders - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"


Clad in the garb of wonder-fire - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"


The sometime wonderfulness of other - Lucille Clifton "albino"

the moved myriads wonderfully loved - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

Out of the wonderful window to nowhere - Erica Funkhouser "My Father's Lunch"

Wonderful beyond the wildest word - Edwin Markham "Joy of the Morning"

The wonderful harmony of the earth and the skies - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Your blinking wonderful eyes - Carl Sandburg "Think About Wheels"

A wonderful state of black velvet and feathers - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"

The wonderful raiment that summer weaves - Henry van Dyke "The Foolish Fir-Tree"

And our souls learn wonderful lessons - Huldah Lucile Winsted "In the Land of Dakota"


The implications of our wonderland - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"

A declining wonderland - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Imagine"

There is no room left for my wonderland - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"


Hauling their bereaved wonderment - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"


Everything wild and wonder-touched - Gretchen Tessmer "A Jar of Condensed Milk"


Wondrous.


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