Potential Titles: Answer
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somethingdarkerThe moon answers all questions obliquely - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
The moon's answers slip around behind it - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
An answer to your constant thirst - Alise Alousi "How to Name the Baby"
Indirect askings and parallel furtive answerings - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"
And to the sun God gave a speedy answer - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XIV: The Maiden and the Sun" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Answers not the hour's demand - Albion Fellows Bacon "Eclipse"
Ride the lightning, answer the thunder, penetrate the whirlwind - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
That compels us to answer the questions it asks - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Answer my soft whistle with a scream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
I asked the river for answers - J. Mae Barizo "Indeterminacy"
Stacked in rows of answered arguments - Elizabeth Bartlett "Mental Hoeing"
Can hear his own answered call - Elizabeth Bartlett "Self-Evident"
things i won't be answering - Samiya Bashir "i traveled the world. it was fine."
Spirits that call and no one answers - Hilaire Belloc "Hannaker Mill (1913)"
Answered by a thousand shouts - Henry Kirby Benner "Ballads of the Campaign in Mexico no.III: Monterey"
I said your name but silence answered - Arna Bontemps "Gethsemane"
Answer the crack of the whip - John Philip Bourke "The Gospel of Shirk"
A math problem divided by no living answer - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
Moans defiance and answers roar for roar - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To George Sand: A Desire"
The answer that balances an equation - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"
Will not answer as plummets to fathom the depth - E.B.C. "Streck-Verse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Some chattering squirrel answers - W. Wilfred Campbell "Morning on the Shore"
The bridge of fallen answers - Leonard Cohen "Drank a Lot"
She lets the river answer - Leonard Cohen "Suzanne"
Answered me sweetly - Hilda Conkling "The Brook and its Children"
The answer is not rest or peace - Susan Coolidge "Laborare Est Orare"
Found answer in a thousand throats - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Who would answer for the color of a rose - Nathalia Crane "The Blind Girl"
Answering note for note - H.D. "Holy Satyr"
Answered like a dreaming Muse - Olive Tilford Dargan "Path Flower"
Selfish with answers - Kwame Dawes "How I Pray in the Plague"
Except to appear with answers - Meg Day "Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]"
I look to the stars to bring me answers - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"
The pheasant of an answer flushed - Chris Dombrowski "Poem with Several Keatsian References, Poem Burning Up in the Fire I Lit to Warm My Son, or Do as I Say Not as I Do"
Answered the cuckoo's folly - Helen Parry Eden "Cries of London"
Mouth painted shut on the answer - Louise Erdrich "The Sacraments"
Writing your answer in dirt and sweat - Anthony Euwer "Builders of Highways"
Refuse to ask or answer - Tarfia Faizullah "Diary"
Answering the challenge of apocalyptic times - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]"
Arms that carry answers for me - Annie Finch "Samhain"
Imagine your answer - John Freeman "Saudade"
If you can comfort me by any answer - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
Forgive me not answering your knock - Robert Frost "The Housekeeper"
Sure that a rose answered me - Zona Gale "Roses"
my answer to the terror of being alone - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"
Find an answer in the leaves - Manmohan Ghose "[Thou who hast follow'd far]"
Every answer is a grave - Andrea Gibson "The Day You Died Because You Wanted To"
My heart answering to the call - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Devil's Edge"
An answer that would eclipse this - Noah Eli Gordon "Vesuvius"
And shake the reefs with answer - Louise Imogen Guiney "Ode for a Master Mariner Ashore"
To answer the winds in song - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
Answering well each vision - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Will answer to knife - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"
An echo that answers to nothing - William D. Howells "Clement"
And set our answer free - Jean Ingelow "Winstanley"
As if the flat earth could answer - Gary Jackson "Kansas"
Answers the peace of the stars - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
To answer your rifle's last question - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"
Answer my tendriled craving - Saeed Jones "Kudzu"
Water won't answer our questions - Saeed Jones "Meridian"
Narcissus cries and Echo answers - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "April"
To answer the wind at play - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "You and I"
That answered well the weeping skies - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Answers imploding into yourself - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
Turn to sunlight for answers - Joanna Klink "Given"
The highway of answers - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"
And have no right answer for what this means - Youna Kwak "After"
Never drops an answer from those worlds unknowns - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"
Breasting the sun like an answer - D.H. Lawrence "Eagle in New Mexico"
New answers in the universe of ourselves - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"
My insomniac answer to self-addressed prayers - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
Answers from a thousand throats - Dorothea Mackellar "September"
Time only can the answer give - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "Who in this new God's acre?" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
That neither answers nor forgets - W.S. Merwin "The First Days"
Only my heart makes answer - Edna St Vincent Millay "Journey"
No wind with answers blowing - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"
A thousand answers on contemptuous lips - Pablo Neruda "Men XIV" transl. by William O'Daly
In answer to the shrouded heart - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid
Whom Fates deny answer - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
And all the echoes answer her - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Answering something you couldn't say - Alice Notley "No world is intact"
A deep river answering a brook - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"
Air answers breath remembers - Naomi Shihab Nye "Some Days"
Suddenly assaulted with answers - Mary Oliver "Daisies"
One more sweet-as-honey answer - Mary Oliver "Something"
geology's answer to flakes of snow - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
An answer earned, inscribe in bubbles - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
And cry fierce answers to the angry sky - Adelaide Anne Proctor "The Storm"
Frowns at its shadow's answering frown - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
That questions are inherent within the answers - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Foreigners"
That answers very often comprise their questions - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Foreigners"
Questions which no answers can address - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Foreigners"
Answered to mock my sigh - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Makes willing answer to Love's call - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"
Answer when the wild winds call - Herbert Randall "Feel of the Wander-Lure"
Answered the solemn chime of the clock - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Desolation answering grief by grief - Christina Rossetti "Eve"
For the flesh and the answer - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Taste one sip of an answer - Rumi "Who Says Words with My Mouth?" transl. by Coleman Barks
Broken answers of remembrance - Carl Sandburg "Shirt"
Could answer the metronomes of blood - Carl Sandburg "They Met Young"
Never answer another letter - Mary Sarton "Wanting to Die"
Which asked no beat of answering pulse - Dorothy L. Sayers "Pygmalion"
Leave answers to forgotten questions - Marge Simon "The Holes Through which the Scarabs Come"
Narrow miracles and answers set to stone - Jake Skeets "Anthropocenic"
To answering tides of spears - Clark Ashton Smith "In Lemuria"
Woke no answering fire - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Montagu"
No answer for life's grey monotonies - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
our responsibility to make the answer - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
Who answer when such whispers bid - Edward Thomas "I Never Saw That Land Before"
My expectations answered - Edwin Torres "Hydra"
Youth and strength and life made answer - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Lack the answer of one heart - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"
giving parables in answer to every mathematical equation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
Receive the satisfaction of no answer - Emily van Kley "Varsity Athletics"
Missed the chance of answering - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"
My faith lost in answers - Derek Walcott "Winter Lamps"
Like a blessing that answers a prayer - Charles William Wallace "There's a Laugh"
That a story is open to answers - Jo Walton "Nemi"
Some answering glimmer of the ancient Spark - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Answers never come late - Roberta Hill Whiteman "Lines for Marking Time"
Unlike despair, happiness knows no final answer - Charles Wright "Only the I-Ching Hexagrams Are Lacking"
Answer only with my eyes - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"
Earth holds all the answers - Jane Yolen "Call and Response"
Only rain and your assistant answered - Kevin Young "Urgent Telegram to Jean-Michel Basquiat"
Composed to be answered - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"
Unanswered/Unanswering.
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The moon's answers slip around behind it - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
An answer to your constant thirst - Alise Alousi "How to Name the Baby"
Indirect askings and parallel furtive answerings - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"
And to the sun God gave a speedy answer - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XIV: The Maiden and the Sun" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Answers not the hour's demand - Albion Fellows Bacon "Eclipse"
Ride the lightning, answer the thunder, penetrate the whirlwind - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
That compels us to answer the questions it asks - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Answer my soft whistle with a scream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
I asked the river for answers - J. Mae Barizo "Indeterminacy"
Stacked in rows of answered arguments - Elizabeth Bartlett "Mental Hoeing"
Can hear his own answered call - Elizabeth Bartlett "Self-Evident"
things i won't be answering - Samiya Bashir "i traveled the world. it was fine."
Spirits that call and no one answers - Hilaire Belloc "Hannaker Mill (1913)"
Answered by a thousand shouts - Henry Kirby Benner "Ballads of the Campaign in Mexico no.III: Monterey"
I said your name but silence answered - Arna Bontemps "Gethsemane"
Answer the crack of the whip - John Philip Bourke "The Gospel of Shirk"
A math problem divided by no living answer - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
Moans defiance and answers roar for roar - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To George Sand: A Desire"
The answer that balances an equation - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"
Will not answer as plummets to fathom the depth - E.B.C. "Streck-Verse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Some chattering squirrel answers - W. Wilfred Campbell "Morning on the Shore"
The bridge of fallen answers - Leonard Cohen "Drank a Lot"
She lets the river answer - Leonard Cohen "Suzanne"
Answered me sweetly - Hilda Conkling "The Brook and its Children"
The answer is not rest or peace - Susan Coolidge "Laborare Est Orare"
Found answer in a thousand throats - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Who would answer for the color of a rose - Nathalia Crane "The Blind Girl"
Answering note for note - H.D. "Holy Satyr"
Answered like a dreaming Muse - Olive Tilford Dargan "Path Flower"
Selfish with answers - Kwame Dawes "How I Pray in the Plague"
Except to appear with answers - Meg Day "Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]"
I look to the stars to bring me answers - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"
The pheasant of an answer flushed - Chris Dombrowski "Poem with Several Keatsian References, Poem Burning Up in the Fire I Lit to Warm My Son, or Do as I Say Not as I Do"
Answered the cuckoo's folly - Helen Parry Eden "Cries of London"
Mouth painted shut on the answer - Louise Erdrich "The Sacraments"
Writing your answer in dirt and sweat - Anthony Euwer "Builders of Highways"
Refuse to ask or answer - Tarfia Faizullah "Diary"
Answering the challenge of apocalyptic times - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]"
Arms that carry answers for me - Annie Finch "Samhain"
Imagine your answer - John Freeman "Saudade"
If you can comfort me by any answer - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
Forgive me not answering your knock - Robert Frost "The Housekeeper"
Sure that a rose answered me - Zona Gale "Roses"
my answer to the terror of being alone - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"
Find an answer in the leaves - Manmohan Ghose "[Thou who hast follow'd far]"
Every answer is a grave - Andrea Gibson "The Day You Died Because You Wanted To"
My heart answering to the call - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Devil's Edge"
An answer that would eclipse this - Noah Eli Gordon "Vesuvius"
And shake the reefs with answer - Louise Imogen Guiney "Ode for a Master Mariner Ashore"
To answer the winds in song - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
Answering well each vision - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Will answer to knife - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"
An echo that answers to nothing - William D. Howells "Clement"
And set our answer free - Jean Ingelow "Winstanley"
As if the flat earth could answer - Gary Jackson "Kansas"
Answers the peace of the stars - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
To answer your rifle's last question - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"
Answer my tendriled craving - Saeed Jones "Kudzu"
Water won't answer our questions - Saeed Jones "Meridian"
Narcissus cries and Echo answers - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "April"
To answer the wind at play - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "You and I"
That answered well the weeping skies - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Answers imploding into yourself - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
Turn to sunlight for answers - Joanna Klink "Given"
The highway of answers - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"
And have no right answer for what this means - Youna Kwak "After"
Never drops an answer from those worlds unknowns - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"
Breasting the sun like an answer - D.H. Lawrence "Eagle in New Mexico"
New answers in the universe of ourselves - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"
My insomniac answer to self-addressed prayers - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
Answers from a thousand throats - Dorothea Mackellar "September"
Time only can the answer give - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "Who in this new God's acre?" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
That neither answers nor forgets - W.S. Merwin "The First Days"
Only my heart makes answer - Edna St Vincent Millay "Journey"
No wind with answers blowing - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"
A thousand answers on contemptuous lips - Pablo Neruda "Men XIV" transl. by William O'Daly
In answer to the shrouded heart - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid
Whom Fates deny answer - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
And all the echoes answer her - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Answering something you couldn't say - Alice Notley "No world is intact"
A deep river answering a brook - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"
Air answers breath remembers - Naomi Shihab Nye "Some Days"
Suddenly assaulted with answers - Mary Oliver "Daisies"
One more sweet-as-honey answer - Mary Oliver "Something"
geology's answer to flakes of snow - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
An answer earned, inscribe in bubbles - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
And cry fierce answers to the angry sky - Adelaide Anne Proctor "The Storm"
Frowns at its shadow's answering frown - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
That questions are inherent within the answers - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Foreigners"
That answers very often comprise their questions - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Foreigners"
Questions which no answers can address - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Foreigners"
Answered to mock my sigh - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Makes willing answer to Love's call - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"
Answer when the wild winds call - Herbert Randall "Feel of the Wander-Lure"
Answered the solemn chime of the clock - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Desolation answering grief by grief - Christina Rossetti "Eve"
For the flesh and the answer - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Taste one sip of an answer - Rumi "Who Says Words with My Mouth?" transl. by Coleman Barks
Broken answers of remembrance - Carl Sandburg "Shirt"
Could answer the metronomes of blood - Carl Sandburg "They Met Young"
Never answer another letter - Mary Sarton "Wanting to Die"
Which asked no beat of answering pulse - Dorothy L. Sayers "Pygmalion"
Leave answers to forgotten questions - Marge Simon "The Holes Through which the Scarabs Come"
Narrow miracles and answers set to stone - Jake Skeets "Anthropocenic"
To answering tides of spears - Clark Ashton Smith "In Lemuria"
Woke no answering fire - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Montagu"
No answer for life's grey monotonies - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
our responsibility to make the answer - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
Who answer when such whispers bid - Edward Thomas "I Never Saw That Land Before"
My expectations answered - Edwin Torres "Hydra"
Youth and strength and life made answer - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Lack the answer of one heart - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"
giving parables in answer to every mathematical equation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
Receive the satisfaction of no answer - Emily van Kley "Varsity Athletics"
Missed the chance of answering - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"
My faith lost in answers - Derek Walcott "Winter Lamps"
Like a blessing that answers a prayer - Charles William Wallace "There's a Laugh"
That a story is open to answers - Jo Walton "Nemi"
Some answering glimmer of the ancient Spark - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Answers never come late - Roberta Hill Whiteman "Lines for Marking Time"
Unlike despair, happiness knows no final answer - Charles Wright "Only the I-Ching Hexagrams Are Lacking"
Answer only with my eyes - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"
Earth holds all the answers - Jane Yolen "Call and Response"
Only rain and your assistant answered - Kevin Young "Urgent Telegram to Jean-Michel Basquiat"
Composed to be answered - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"
Unanswered/Unanswering.
Navigation Links:
Go to A word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
