Potential Titles: Burn

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That burned with the vision of our prophecy - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

To burn alive with my land - Leena Aboutaleb "Art Exhibition: West Bank Girl on Fire"

Apricots and what burns - Carl Adamshick "The solitude of an apricot"

The stars and frost so burned - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Burning bush of a lost dream - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

The far ecstasy of burning noons - Richard Aldington "To a Greek Marble"

Burn to a wick and keep moving - Elizabeth Alexander "Blues"

Burn a page to set the mixture boiling - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

Saffron, gold coins, a slight burning - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"

Highways burnt then whitewashed - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"

Allowed room for grief to burn him - Mouna Ammar "The Scent of Goodbye"

Where torrid suns the mountains burn - Lennox Amott "Ah, Hast Thou Gone?"

While the burning sun her crew did freeze - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVI: Hard to Believe" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Crimson thoughts within me writhe and burn - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

Until I can burn no more - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Burn because you remember darkness - Ruth Awad "In the gloaming, in the roiling night"

The guerdon of a burning kiss - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"

Time burning back to liquid - Mary Jo Bang "The Blank of Reason Produces Blank: After Goya"

Tasting the burnt sun, the black sea - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"

A bonfire of burnt-orange - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"

Time was a brushfire burning - Mary Jo Bang "The Still Knife Still Suspended"

The deepest charcoal residue of a forest burned - Mary Jo Bang "This Morning"

Burn bright in the realm of Death - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"

What burns now is memory - Rachel Barenblat "Yahrzeit"

Who taught me to burn - Catherine Barnett "Epistemology"

caught like a leaf burning - Elizabeth Bartlett "beyond cost"

Burn a path through timeless sleep - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Test"

The smell of holes burning pockets - Samiya Bashir "You're really faithful to your abusers, aren't you?"

With matchless brilliance burn - Cora C. Bass "Even-tide"

Bear the beauty of that much burning - Ellen Bass "This Was the Door"

With midnight visions burn - Charles Baudelaire "The Sick Muse" transl. not credited

With new lustre burn - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

With tenfold fierceness burn - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"

Seared me white with burning scars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"

Flowers that burn with crystalline accord - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

That burning march under a sky of flame - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

Within whose heart no spark of ancient fire burns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

Burn the black water of night's lagoons - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

My mind kept on its burning wheel - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"

Whose very names would burn the cheek - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"

Gave her youth like a burning rose - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Burns like snow upon the mind - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

And burns at the scythe that reaps - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

The burning fuel of dead stars - Emily Berry "Allegiances"

Trying to rescue a birdcage from the burning house - Emily Berry "Freud's Beautiful Things"

Entered the world a burning storm - Remica Bingham-Risher "Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from/how did you arrive?"

On his bonfires burns the thorns and dross - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"

Armies out of the burnt void - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

Through the sear of smoky coal and burnt hair - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"

After the ambrosia had burned through her veins - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"

Let us dance by metal waters burned with gold - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

Our sad hearts smolder and burn - "The Book of Odes: No.167. We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns" transl. by Burton Watson

A rushing stream clean as a burning flame - Bruce Boston "The Last Alchemist"

Urges the palomino up a burning slope - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"

While burning herbivores strolled across a lean horizon - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"

Burning in the sun's red fire - Thomas Boyd "Love on the Mountain"

Burned a Jacob's Ladder into my eyes - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

Burns needle rags into the brain - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

The burnt edge of an unfinished history - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"

When their lamps were burning low - Vera M. Brittain "The German Ward"

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

That burns my lips and sears my heart - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee"

When all troubled burns life's flame - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

How this withering heart would burn - Charlotte Bronte "Passion"

A burning magnet on the water - Paul Cameron Brown "The Burning"

Shall neither break nor burn - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

And in the burning of the Seven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraph and Poet"

Upon their burning lips a thought - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

From heaven's burning rim - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Thy breath in the burning sky - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"

Where generous meanings burn - William Cullen Bryant "Upon the Mountain's Distant Head"

Given a prey for burning beauty to devour - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds

And makes the gray stone burn - F. O. Call "Cathedral Vespers"

An awful flash in heaven burning - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall

Every star in heaven was burning - Willa Cather "The Star Dial"

A severed braid burned with sage - Meagan Chandler "Cornhusk Doll with Face"

Grief burns faster there - Jennifer Chang "How to Live in an American Town"

Cracking and burning bones as fuel - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"

Until my touch wouldn't burn - Ching-In Chen "Breath for Metal"

Came ruin and the rain that burns - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

And burn our beards in hell - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Burned with tears and flower-melt - John Ciardi "Abundance"

burned you into little shells and stars - Lucille Clifton "in the same week"

With a burning violin - Leonard Cohen "Dance Me to the End of Love"

On all these burning hearts in hell - Leonard Cohen "If It Be Your Will"

So private it can burn - Leonard Cohen "On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken"

Burned the house I loved - Leonard Cohen "One Night I Burned"

Until the gasoline burns low - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"

Your crushed heart's wound still burns - S. R. Compton "To Atlantis"

The burning heart of everything we see - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

His burning glance withered by wasting life - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Blistering nettles burning harsh - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"

With earthquake, storm and burning brand - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "The Band of Gideon"

Mile upon mile of snow, ice, burning sand - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

My burning face in the arms of the wind - George Cronyn "The Flower's Way"

With the fire of cities burnt - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"

That burning heart of blood to spend - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"

Burned my hands upon a star - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Steeped in burning flowers - ee cummings "Crepuscule"

Perishes upon burnt grass - H.D. "Acon"

Burnt to red-purple in the cup - H.D. "Prisoners"

Controlled burns and bone games and berries - Laura Da' "Bad Wolf"

Burn green shoots with withered scorn - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets I"

Dropped it while the fuse was still burning - Mary Carolyn Davies "Songs of a Girl"

Long enough for me to burn - Geffrey Davis "Hear the Light"

My belly burning with the acid of your ire - Kwame Dawes "Eat"

The controlled burning of that day - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"

And untold volcanoes burning raged - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

And all the terrors of the burning zone - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Burning in the track of fame - 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]

Burns impure incense on her altar's flame - 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]

In a burning passion caught - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Love, I had not ever thought]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Burning stars in darkness of the snow - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"

A dusk where one dim lamp burns - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"

Dance burning through the night - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander: To Margot"

One last candle burning low - Walter de la Mare "Mistletoe"

Rapt in strange dreams burns - Walter de la Mare "Music"

The pixy-pears burn in yon hawthorn tree - Walter de la Mare "Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig"

And the flower of the gorse burned on - Walter de la Mare "Sotto Voce"

Night's elfin lanterns burn and gleam - Walter de la Mare "The World of Dream"

When something cherished burns - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"

The lighthouse in the harbor burns - A.B. de Mille "Ballad"

Captive sky gathering words that burn and rise - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"

Remembrance is a letter burning in reverse - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"

Whose words burn my hands - Diana Marie Delgado "Tracing the Horse"

That pave heaven's highway with their bright and burning forms - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]

Aloes to cool the burn - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Eve Revisited"

Can't burn until a true freeze hits - Chelsea B. DesAutels "Burials"

Transformed by their own long burning - Danielle DeTiberus "The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly"

Thinks all cheeks should burn and feel how tears can run - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "To an Icicle"

On heaven's scroll with burning letters write - Irving Sidney Dix "The Comet"

Grasshoppers black as burn - Chris Dombrowski "October Suite"

Cinnabars where the flame burns purest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

White with burning heat - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

The last faint spark of its burning train - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Memories that bless and burn - Dry Branch Fire Squad "Memories That Bless and Burn"

Bright enough to burn the whole sky - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"

There is no burning token - Max Eastman "A Hymn to God: In Time of Stress"

Came warm and burning to your dream - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"

Burning crimson like a poison - Max Eastman "A Morning"

My love reborn and burning - Max Eastman "You Make No Answer"

Burning through the infinite - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"

Her shuttered barge burned on the water - T.S. Eliot "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"

And bid our lamp burn brighter - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."

With billions of years left to burn - Terri Kirby Erickson "Goldfinch"

When the burning wings ascended - Joseph Fasano "Hermitage"

Wax burned in the land of milk - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"

Free and burning and bright green - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

Countries where the white moons burn - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"

With thirst of praise and glory burns - "Flora: a Vision"

Burned gowns gathered in the shade - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 12"

The burn of the panther's mouth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"

Where the ditches have burned - Carolyn Forche "Burning the Tomato Worm"

A little burnt sorrow - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

Burning the slightest lapse of sea - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"

The chariot wheels of burning levin - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

The earthquake rising from his burning lair - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

With a host of burning shadows - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Change their sweets to bitter burning - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Goes down burning into the gulf below - Robert Frost "Acceptance"

Smell of burning on every plume - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"

Visions of half the world burned black - Robert Frost "The Gum-Gatherer"

Whose leaves already are burnt with frost - Robert Frost "October"

There we bowed us in the burning - Robert Frost "Rose Pogonias"

The sweet of bitter bark and burning clove - Robert Frost "To Earthward"

With the slow smokeless burning of decay - Robert Frost "The Wood-pile"

The burning tears of wild despair - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

Speaks a word like burning light - Zona Gale "Half Thought"

Born burning in the dew - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"

The cool burn of something not quite on fire - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"

Burn through their masks of radiant desire - Jenny George "Sunflowers"

And burning on both of us - Christopher Gilbert "How the Stars Understand Us"

Redder and redder burns the rose - Rosa Gilbert "Song [The silent bird is hid in the boughs]"

Look at the way the stars burn - Nikita Gill "Endings"

As stars burn down like candle-wicks - Louis Golding "The Moon-Clock"

Burned longer than Mars - Louis Golding "To A.L.O."

If still the sacred embers burn - Edmund Gosse "Alere Flammam"

Burning sympathy that glows unchecked - C. L. Graves "'Bleak House'"

Head burning and heart snarling - Robert Graves "Oh, and Oh!"

And when the burning moment breaks - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"

All this musical burning - Kimberly Grey "The Function of You and I"

Anger that burns my breath - Nikki Grimes "Crucible of Champions"

Darkness burns to ashes - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"

How long a ruined thing will burn - Paul Guest "1987"

On a crystal pivot burned and swung - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

Where strong sunsets burn - Ivor Gurney "De Profundis"

Fierce Ambition breathes his burning vow - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Embers burning in their hands - Joy Harjo "For Earth's Grandsons"

Magic burned into the roots of antelope words - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"

Drenched with burning tears - Frances E.W. Harper "Nothing and Something"

Stitch them tight or burn them down - K.D. Harryman "Whipping"

Through mirrors of burning - Robert Hayden "October"

The burnt horizon - Anne Hebert "Crown of Happiness"

That fearful beacon as it burns - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

The dread volcano's burning trace - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"

Strange fire upon his altars burn - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Once ambition burned my breast - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Endie"

The fire of time that burns everything - Bob Hicok "No Stones"

Burn away the night - Edward Hirsch "Blue Hydrangea"

Go up and down the burning sky - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

When the faint but certain star of destiny burned clear - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

The language burns on the other side of a closed window - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

False the light ambition burns - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Of the burning heart of the world on fire - Richard Hovey "The Death Song of Taliesin"

In the slender vases burning - William Dean Howells "Forlorn"

Puzzled brain and burning heat - William D. Howells "Vagary"

Everything we burned to keep the power on - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"

Burns up another set of firsts - Allison Hutchcraft "Though from Here I Can't Smell the Smoke"

Seven burning years before I remembered - fahima ife "shamanism"

The moon's floodlights burning - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"

The words which burn upon my tongue - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Burned unseen by the world's eye - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

The burning incense of flowers - "IV: Mexica Otoncuicatl | An Otomi Song of the Mexicans" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Not for joy the stars burn - Robinson Jeffers "Joy"

Studded with three nails of burning gold - Robinson Jeffers "Wonder and Joy"

Still burn in their mouths - Allison Eir Jenks "The Church of St. Sulspicious"

All of that yearning to live on in burning - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"

All of that burning to anchor the yearning - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"

The wind burns the grasses bare - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Line of Reason"

Our house burns blue with news - Daniel Johnson "In the Absence of Sparrows"

Or burn in me a second mouth - Daniel Johnson "Inheritance"

Burning in Lent's black-bordered dress - Emily Pauline Johnson "Easter"

Wherein cloud shadows burn - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Idlers"

That burns on cupid's sacred shrine - James Weldon Johnson "The Passionate Lover"

That burn and flare unquenched - Lionel Johnson "Men of Aquino"

Who bade thee burn - Lionel Johnson "The Red Wind"

Red Wind of burning death - Lionel Johnson "The Red Wind"

If I burned the world around me - Ashley M. Jones "Summer Vacation in the Subjunctive"

Their footprints burn holes in the sand - Saeed Jones "Daedalus, After Icarus"

A war burns at the edge of the map - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"

Neptune in the waters burned - Ben Jonson "Venus' Runaway"

The stove is cold so salt won't burn - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

The burned light of his own country - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Burn like opal arrows - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"

Self-betrayal in its sudden burn - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

Nothing behind us to burn - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

Fingers burning into straw, into gold - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

They lie down and roar and burn - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"

Burns me away without control - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

My nights of burning tears - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"

Bright flood of burning light - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Lady, whom my beloved loves so well!]"

A bride burning like her own planet - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"

Heartache on my skin like an old burn - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"

Songs of burning line your throat - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"

Hear the dusk burning from the sky - Vandana Khanna "In Captivity, Sita Contemplates Fidelity"

Against shadows of all that burning - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

Burned to darkly golden hue- Joyce Kilmer "Imitation of Richepin's Ballade of the Beggars' King"

Through the burning vales of Hell - Joyce Kilmer "Love's Thoroughfare"

My life candle burning still - Kim Unsong "Life Candle"

Into tombs of burning silence - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"

To believe in burning beacons - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Again"

Burned our way into the wood - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"

Burning with the fury of subduction scorned - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

All burning in the quarter notes - Stephen Kuusisto "Essay on November"

Seek to quell its secret burning - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Burnt stars oceanic gardens - Philip Lamantia "Celestial Estrangement"

Sister of Burnt Dreams - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"

Rolls a great and burning star - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"

A vision of the great and burning star - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"

The burning grasp of life - Archibald Lampman "We Too Shall Sleep"

The coal burning his family's hatred - Susan Landgraf "Flower"

As the last tune burns down to embers - Joan Larkin "The Combo"

We are burning here with no escape - Dorothea Lasky "This Beautiful Planet"

Fretted with burning stones, and trellised with red gold - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Orchards burn their lamps of fiery gold - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Burned strange incense - Herve Noel le Breton "The Burden of Lost Souls" (translated by W.J. Robertson)

The gold of his burning dreams - Richard Le Gallienne "Faery Gold (To Mrs. Percy Dearmer)"

live in a burning world - Joseph Lease "Falling"

we wait for the earth to burn - Joseph Lease "Falling"

The window burn in silence - Stephen Leggett "On Poverty"

Can afford to burn a rushlight - Henry S. Leigh "An Old Cynic"

Paths to burn along my symmetry - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"

Star by star to burn the doubt - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

As brittle as the world's burning - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

Goes ahead burning the little candle of his breath - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

Burning crystals settling on the evening ocean - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

On each side the level glory burned - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

When autumn burns along the hills - Li T'ai-Po "Songs of the Marches" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Red eyes burning back in the mirror - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"

You burned your people like a torch - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"

And burn the Pilgrim's kiss - Ada Limon "Publicity"

A thousand burnt up years behind - Vachel Lindsay "Harps in Heaven"

Unsubdued by burning dawn - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"

Blow a different horn, burn a different bridge - Marissa Lingen "The Plural of Apocalypse"

Eyes the green of kerosene burns - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

Erupting out of the shadows into the burning streets - Angela Liu "The Witches Are Without Work"

Bind on your helms of the burning gold - "Lovel and John" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Blue through the window burns - Amy Lowell "March Evening"

To burn our souls before altars dim - Amy Lowell "New York at Night"

Should have understood their burning - Amy Lowell "Vespers"

The velocity of the burning world - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Except a burning learned just once - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Because we believed we couldn't get burned - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

That sets the stream alight with burn and glitter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "kingfisher"

With a stroke the stars renewed their burning - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swallow"

The bright apples burn - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson

We hold the stars already, and we burn, we burn - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Burn the fog's letters - Ruth Madievsky "Fog"

How I am cold around your burning - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

Shaken light burns in the memory - Jeannette Marks "Proem"

In which eyes burn like star-flame - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"

Death rides the burning blast - George Martin "The Crisis"

While the waning light burns - George Martin "Eudora"

Burning curse and bitter bane - George Martin "Marguerite"

The burning heavens felt the thrill - John Masefield "Christmas Eve at Sea"

My blood burns on the stones - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"

Bruised spice and burning amber - John Masefield "The Khalif's Judgment"

Bearers of ghost that burns - John Masefield "King Cole"

From the burning heart of June - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Burning saints on burning horses - John Masefield "The Scallenge"

From a golden incense burned in Paradise - John Masefield "Vision"

A violin's bridge you cross or burn - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"

Where the lakes of Hell burn red - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"

Broke its vase of burning tears - Theodore Maynard "Mater Desolata"

That burns with sacred fire - George Marion McClellan "Love is a Flame"

And burnt you yielding - Claude McKay "Commemoration"

Lulls our burning brain to sleep - Claude McKay "Flower of Love"

Though both burn - Maureen N. McLane "As I was saying, the sun"

Bale-fires burn and cities wrapped in flame - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

The spirit of change is burning - Louis J. McQuilland "A Song of the Open Road"

The face that burned tall Troy - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"

Burning through with inherited fire - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

We two will lie and burn - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"

Red carnations burning in the sun - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

The bittersweet smoke of burning leaves - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"

Bright Seraphim in burning row - John Milton "At a Solemn Music"

A forgery that will one day burn - Rajiv Mohabir "Ode to Richmond Hill"

The wind burns my wishes on the air - N. Scott Momaday "A Darkness Comes"

Keeping the beat of burning rain - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"

And the storm's red rack in the sky is burning - Harriet Monroe "Hope"

He sat amid a burning world - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Hell" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

On whose lips the altar coal of inspiration burned - George L. Moore "Keats"

Burn clear against a sky of tender blue - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"

Reaching into the scorching sun and burning - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"

As burning paths reveal veiled huts - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"

Love's golden chain and burning vow - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

That burns in Fame's high temple - Robert Morris "The Student's Dream of Fame"

Seared all my burning brain - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Burnt by Passion's whirlwinds - Lewis Morris "Vendredi Saint"

Burned up doubt after doubt - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"

Shadowy fires that burn in secret - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

To burn for you all my illusions - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"

The city burns to the short - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

Come burn for me - Francis Neilson "Jack O'Lantern"

The burning stars, the fainting hours - Francis Neilson "The Keeper of the Kisses"

Like a jaguar burned by snow - Pablo Neruda "Antartica" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A day that burns with sacrifice - Pablo Neruda "Ars Poetica" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Burning rain over the red earth - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

Ash of the distant burning - Pablo Neruda "Sex" transl. by Alastair Reid

The coast of the burning south - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Your heart burning in the purple - Pablo Neruda "To Miguel Hernandez, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Thickets where the tiger burned - Pablo Neruda "The Traveler (1927)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

As in a coffer burned to dust - Pablo Neruda "Tupac Amaru (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Burned like a coin between my hands - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems X" translated by W.S. Merwin

Spread through the burning hills - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Punctuated by red flowers like burns - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

Burns on the swiftly flowing river's breast - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

Every inch of what could burn - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

No turpentine to cleanse or burn - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

A hush of paprika and burnt honey - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Wrap"

Under the sun's burning treasury - Grace Nichols "Like an Heiress"

The wisdom of a planet as it burns - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"

What keeps the temple of imagination burning - Idra Novey "Value City"

Dew that burns like wine - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Wounding wind that burns as fire - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

You might become any burned house - Christina Olivares "Portrait"

Burning down like a wild needle - Mary Oliver "West Wind 4"

The burning mouth of the wind - Mary Oliver "West Wind 6"

Burns like a pillar of gold - Mary Oliver "Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?"

Build new libraries that cannot burn - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"

Sad glories on the cold wave burn - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Brick parapets burning cold orange - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"

Gold and silver freckles burning five-pointed holes into the bone - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"

If my heart be scarred and burned - Dorothy Parker "Incurable"

A fire no flame can burn - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"

Seeing the ash of my life I burned - Chandler Peters-Durose "Rest Stop"

The king's instruments burn my hands - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

The king's stairs burn my feet - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

In her language of radial burn - Kiki Petrosino "Maria"

Burned in my skin like a stone - Kiki Petrosino "Pastoral"

Woody herbs burning our tongues - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"

In gazing burn and start - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps "The First Christmas Apart"

The stars burning gainless - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"

A thing of stars burnt into hooves - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"

The fire that burns in your rage - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

That burn a length of years - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

The moon's slow tapers burning - E.J. Pratt "The Dead Calm"

Where sacred fires once burned - E.J. Pratt "The Hidden Scar"

And worships at thy burning shrine - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"

Forgive my burning dreams - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"

Like fever chill in fever burning - John Presland "The Deluge"

From the dazzling splendor of the burning clouds - Kate Putnam "Unuttered" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct., 1863 - no.IV]

Burning despite the ghostly winds - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Which made the burning depths of hell its home - Quince "Ambition" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

The gleam and sway of burning leaves - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Autumn in Sussex"

Bathed in burning dreams - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Brother Filippo"

Pouring his stream of burning wine - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Road to Colla"

What does not burn might still die - Dean Rader "Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's Funeral and Completed on the First Day of the New Year"

Through the burning day in hope prevail - Dollie Radford "Song"

Guided by what burns - Charles Rafferty "Insomnolence"

Speed from thy burning lamp - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"

Burns in the flying spheres - Theodore H. Rand "The Veiled Presence"

Explained the chemistry of this burn - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"

Of that solitary burning - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"

Bright burns the searching flame - Edward S. Rend, Jr. "Promise" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Watch the stretch of burning sand - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"

Brilliant reveries, burning fantasies - "RÊVES ET SOUVENIRS" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

Wild thyme ripped from a burning meadow - Adrienne Rich "Char"

The clear oranges burning - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

Burnt in every cusp of brass - Lola Ridge "Czar's Watch"

Burn up Manhattan like a reed - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

A golden nailhead, burning in your palm - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

The pyre their memories burn on - Lola Ridge "The Everlasting Return"

Burning solace on his tongue - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Leaving a corpselight burning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

Seed of the fierce flame that burned on Horeb - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"

That hovers like a burning dove - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Burned from lime to apricot - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

In which the living sap might burn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"

Burning spires in aureoles of light - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Like God out of his Burning Bush - Lola Ridge "Jude"

As a fierce red spider on a burning thread - Lola Ridge "Jude"

To the rhythm of arsenals burning - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

With quiet hatred burning deep - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

The long train is lighted that shall burn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Tapers burning in the dim half-light - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"

Kissed by burning stars - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"

Unable to burn her creation - Karen A. Romanko "The Glass Blower"

The swift iron burning bee - Isaac Rosenberg "Dead Man's Dump"

Burn the unnumbered lamps of life - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

Who can say that it will not burn again? - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

As they burn up in the heat of her escape - Mark Rudolph "Tarot Cards and UFOs"

To learn that ice would burn - Kay Ryan "He Lit a Fire with Icicles"

The looking glass burned beacon for me - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"

Bless these burnt wings - Erika L. Sanchez "Departure"

Wretched stumps all charred and burned - George Santayana "Cape Cod"

Burned the forests for the wolves - Jennifer Scappettone "Syrinx Spring"

In the burned places where light is ash - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"

That burned her dreams to spiral ashes - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"

Topple and reel upon my burning blood - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

Her moon-candle burns till dawn - Frederick George Scott "In the Woods"

The colors came with the smell of burning - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"

The gracious light lifts up his burning head - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VII"

The great suns burn into whitest ash - Virna Sheard "The Cry"

A lamp of vestal fire burning - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

That foreign sun may burn him not - Taras Shevchenko "Mighty Wind" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

See how many other hearts are burning - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

My heart's only burnt match - Charles Simic "Makers of Labyrinths"

The mesquites know their time to burn - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"

Wherein a splendid poison burns - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

When candle-flames burn blue - G.B. Stuart "Haunted"

Levitated at the burning - Melissa Studdard "Everyone in Me Is a Bird"

Burn in the fire of separation - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 45: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The burning of this forest fire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 169: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Burns away the trials of the true - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 204: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

For burning with such ease - Jacqueline Suskin "How to Fall in Love with Yourself"

As burns the passion of the rose - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"

The music burning at heart like wine - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Of all those tears that burnt your cheeks - Carmen Sylva "A Friend"

Has burnt a mark no rivers wash away - Carmen Sylva "Lethe"

Soundless sobs of dark and burning tears - Carmen Sylva "To the Memory of Queen Victoria"

Burnt to lava by your heart's own flame - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"

And the fire of the end begin to burn - Arthur Symons "The Crying of Water"

Save this one spark of burning grief - J. Bayard Taylor "A Requiem in the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

All those old stories about your burning rivers - Keith Taylor "Dear Erie"

the door opens into the burning of the world - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

Sun burns new meaning onto my skin - Fargo Tbaki "Palestine Is a Futurism: The Dream"

Where moonlight burned - Sara Teasdale "Moonlight"

For whom all beauty burns - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"

With a burning rose hidden away - Sara Teasdale "Thoughts"

Burns all the heavens bare - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"

Age should burn and rage - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"

The cold burning of hail and wind - Edward Thomas "March"

Frail light still burning - Matthew Thorburn "These Days"

Scarce one trace of its deep burning - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"

With a burning spear, and a horse of air - "Tom o' Bedlam"

What burned in his walk - Edwin Torres "Neptune's Elegia"

Burning galaxy of buttercups - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"

Burn to a blue smoke of forgetting - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

Our red ambitions burn - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

Burps up the summer's burnt dust - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

Her tears that burnt like fire - Katherine Tynan "The Little Ghost"

Burning roses in a garden - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"

And burn the trembling orchard - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

From the dazzling splendor of the burning clouds - "Unuttered" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct., 1863 - no.IV]

The Camp-fires of the Past are burning - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"

Her captive flames must needs burn - Henry Vaughan "Beyond the Veil"

The white flame of countless diamonds burns - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell

Burn these walls to the ground - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"

People building a burning house - Ocean Vuong "Homewrecker"

Burned his last violin - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"

While horizons were burning - Derek Walcott "A Propertius Quartet III"

Even when burned in iron - Mark Wallace "Deep Cover Costumes"

When the fire burns hollow - Rosamund Marriott Watson "The Open Door"

The lake that burns with brimstone - Isaac Watts "Against Lying"

Wept the truth in burning tears - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)

The heaven of evening burning - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"

When a myriad suns have burned and died - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"

Where all the fires of fame burned glory - Helen Hay Whitney "Ambition and Love"

Have burned to their last great glow - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"

Green light burning in the stars - Dana Wilde "Abductions"

Burned like a heated opal through air - Oscar Wilde "Impression du Voyage"

Burns so coldly - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"

The burning dust from his wheels - William Carlos Williams "The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven"

The burning liquor of moonlight - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"

Of a body that burns so coldly - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"

The solar system's burning heart - Allan Wolf "The Sun: A Solar Sunnet, er, Sonnet"

How deep behind burned the blossoms of the mind - Humbert Wolfe "Envoi [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"

The purple flowers of Dis burn their young foreheads - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"

Burn for them the incense of my thoughts - Adolf Wolff "In Memoriam"

Immediate burn upon discovery of ghosts - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

The aspirations of youth burn down to char - Charles Wright "Grace II"

Out of morning's burnt phase - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

When the frost makes all the birches burn - Elinor Wylie "Atavism"

Which burns from copper into brass - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

They have burned down my libraries - Assétou Xango "Eve"

Which routes you past all burning - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

A meteor of the burning heart - William Butler Yeats "The Indian to his Love"

That burned behind the bars of evening - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Had bathed my burning eyes with milk - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

The burning eyes of a tiger barred - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Cleanse with the burning log of oak - "Yule-Tide Fires"


Through the afterburn on my retinas - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"


My face a burning bush or wheel - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"


Burn Out/Burnt Out.


Diamond-glittering mine of ever-burning stars - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)


That cheerful string of heartburn - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"


A hollowed-out candle left burning - Julia Bouwsma "Feeble-Minded"


Lit with one slow-burning flame - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


the mutterings of sunburned hearts - May Chong "Bunian Laundry"

Above your splendid sunburnt throat - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Idlers"


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