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Potential Titles: Bury

Beneath this burial of light - Chris Dombrowski "October Suite"

Each word dressed for burial - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"


The names those noteless burial-stones display - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan


And bury that flower to ferment - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"

Buried the faces of my sisters - Aria Aber "Ideology"

A buried light cutting its path through ink - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"

New views burying the old - Howard Altmann "After Hours"

To keep the traces of buried experiences intact - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

Buried under sleek pavement and spindly landscaping - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

Orpheus sang to life his buried joy - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"

For all the buried yesterdays - Ardelia Maria Barton "Yesterdays"

Strains at the weight of a buried stone - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

The way anything buried aspires - Joshua Bennett "On Blueness"

Those buried hours - Reginald Dwayne Betts "Legacy"

Beneath each one there is someting buried - Arna Bontemps "Golgotha Is a Mountain"

Buried in the night, preparing destinies of rust - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"

Bury her and bury her deep - Sterling A. Brown. "Maumee Ruth"

From beneath the dust of buried centuries - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

A saga of cities ancient and buried - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

Buried ambition in the forest - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Ambition]"

Where seven sunken Englands lie buried - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

Down to the buried kingdoms creep - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"

Bury your troubles in the ground - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson

Leave my own buried roots - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Hidden Love"

Bury my soul in a scrapbook - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"

Spells from buried mountain oracles - Arthur Colton "Verses from 'The Canticle of the Road'"

Old King Cotton's dead and buried - "Corn Is King" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

The buried dust of broken hearts - George Cronyn "Tasting the Earth"

Burying itself in the blue memory below - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

In darkness buried deep for ever be my ghost - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"

Owls buried against the black roofs - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"

A riverbank cut deep enough to bury us - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Buried warmly under the quilts - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Diviner of my buried life - Edward Dowden "The Divining Rod"

Buried blooms surprise the plunderer bee - Edward Dowden "From April to October: II. Two Infinities"

Buried whispers in pine needles - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"

Pitiless of the buried years - Eleanor Farjeon "A Burying"

A flock buried in the blindness of winter - Joseph Fasano "Mahler in New York"

Until I was but dust, buried unknown - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"

Burying my Lares in the basement - Sandy Florian "House"

Her mute song buried - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

Walk where drums are buried - Carolyn Forche "Song Coming Toward Us"

Even its monstrous size can be buried in dark waters - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Give the buried flower a dream - Robert Frost "To the Thawing Wind"

Some buried witch-bell rings - Zona Gale "Ballade of Old Perfumes"

Putting banned words in bottles to bury - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"

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

What we bury will always return - Nikita Gill "Discoveries"

The house where we buried the years - Dana Gioia "Cold San Francisco"

Last summer's garden buried in snow - Dana Gioia "The Heart of the Matter"

Buried in the desert of her heart - Ellen Glasgow "Aridity"

As the past is buried in the future - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"

Across buried virtues and slain sins - Louis Golding "Fires of Change"

Voices buried in the Mississippi mud - Joy Harjo "New Orleans"

Caught upon a buried sky - Avis Harley "Catching a Butterfly (2)"

Awakens my buried past - Bret Harte "A Newport Romance"

Half of his Eden sunlight buried - Margaret Houston "The Baby's Curls"

Buried deep within my heart - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

The light from buried eyes - Jean Ingelow "A Dead Year"

Already the daffodils bury their heads in the dirt - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Let me be buried in the rain - Helene Johnson "Invocation"

Without burying splinters in his eyes - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

Catastrophic histories buried in my eyes - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

Buried lie in purple beds of thyme - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Cover me with your everlasting arms]"

Buried the names you once were called - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Where some buried Caesar bled - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

a small lie buried in a garden - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

buried in a garden with snow peas and basil - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

Bury my dreams first thing in the morning - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"

Find our childhood buried in the sand - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"

Absorb the torments buried there - Eugenia Leigh "Glossolalia"

Both brave and buried bones - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

Fairest flowers o'er the grave of buried time - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Stainless quarries of deep-buried days - James Russell Lowell "My Portrait Gallery"

Where Shakspeare buried gold - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"

Burying melancholy with jasmine and sweet osmanthus - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

A million graves to nurse the buried seed - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

A living tomb of buried hopes - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Expired words buried in open graves - Naomi Long Madgett "Packrat"

Buries old habits for centuries - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Sonnet for Judith"

Bones of long since buried acres - John Masefield "Biography"

Honey buried underneath my feet - John Masefield "Biography"

Leading her backward to the buried past - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Imprisoned in the buried seeds - Theodore Maynard "Prophecy"

Chews the end of a bone already buried - Charlene McClure "Caretaker"

We kill the parts of us, or at least bury the bones - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

Bury justice in loopholes - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Samaria Rice, Tamir's Mother"

The buried Titan in the heart - T. Sturge Moore "The Sea is Kind"

Amid the multitude of buried hours - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

A dream of cherries buried - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Returns" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Like an old buried tear - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh

My faith lay in a buried tower - Pablo Neruda "First Travelings" transl. by Alastair Reid

Buried you in cold edicts - Pablo Neruda "The Judges" transl. by Jack Schmitt

An eternity of buried mouths - Pablo Neruda "Night XCV" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Like bitter trees that bury you - Pablo Neruda "October Fullness" transl. by Alastair Reid

Where the invader's claws are buried - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Burying lamps in the deep solitude - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems XVII" translated by W.S. Merwin

Buried each gift in small boxes along the beach - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"

Bury screams beneath the roots - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part I)"

Ghosts of buried centuries - Sir Noel Paton "In Shadowland"

Buried among the reeds and the crocodiles - Andre F. Peltier "Graceland"

Echoes of our buried love - Walter S. Percy "Grief and Joy"

Half in cliffs and chasms buried - Walter S. Percy "Paupack"

With its buried corkscrew of hate - Kiki Petrosino "Young"

That buried hope with dust - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"

The phantom of the buried tide - Theodore H. Rand "The Bowing Dyke"

Nothing buried or thrown away - Lola Ridge "Mother"

A sad thought buried in light - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"

The tombs of buried hours - Isaac Rosenberg "My Hours"

Buries the year's naked forests - Reg Saner "The Red Poppy"

Buried in the dust of thrones - Dorothy L. Sayers "Pygmalion"

Flowers blooming buried sunlight - Fritz Schnack "Blooming Sunlight" transl. by William Saphier

The warm scent buried like a promise - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Smell of Dog"

Apple blossoms buried in the tall grass - Richard Solomon "Spring Cleaning"

A memory I buried in the herb garden - Elizabeth Spires "Snail Revisited"

The barrow of the buried year - A.E. Stallings "The Compost Heap"

All the scarlet buried in the bud - George Sterling "California"

Altars of the buried sun made red - George Sterling "Duandon"

Buried deep in Lethe's magic pool - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Buried behind a thin layer of clouds - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"

A snowstorm that buries the best of everything - Russell Thorburn "The TV Guide as the Book of Job"

Buried deep and buried rough - Eunice Tietjens "Winter Rain"

Burying you to keep us alive - TC Tolbert "felo-de-se-- Melissa"

Radio active [sic] garbage buried at the core - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

Tokens of history long buried - Natasha Trethewey "Elegy for the Native Guards"

Before I bury it all under - Leah Umansky "Come, Pioneer"

buried beneath an often borrowed freedom - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

Two spectres conjured up the buried past - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Buried each slow light - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Rainbows curled on buried storms - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

To increase the coin buried inside yourself - Joshua Weiner "The Not-Yet Child"

The mystery of ages buried deep - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."

Buried them all the same - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"

Cut a branch and bury it - Katie Willingham "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame"

The bitterness buried itself in my tongue - Tanaya Winder "Becoming a Ghost"

The thorny crowns of buried trees - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"


Some elusive bog-buried Lucy - Mary Jo Bang "I Could Have Been Better"


Ruined temples half-buried in sand - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"


Long-buried springs in my heart awaken - Robin Flower "The Pipes"


Unburied till an earthquake digs his grave - William H. Davies "The Captive Lion"


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