Potential Titles: Bless

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The blistered blessing of surviving - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Blessing the air with light - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Witness the blessing of my flesh - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

Who drink the Cup of Blessings manifold - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

The blessed clouds in pity creep downward - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

The world will break your blessing - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"

Blessed with a magician’s touch - Simon Armitage "Poundland"

Festal rites that blessed the soil - Maurice Baring "Harvest in Russia"

May harvest richest blessings - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Garland"

The blessing kind nature bestows - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Poem"

And blessed by Plato's snow - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lost Lights"

Bearing her peace like a cup of blessed wine - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"

Silver angels etching great cursive blessings - Laure-Anne Bosselaar "Late Afternoon Stroll on the Cliffs"

Heavenly blessings without number - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"

With tenfold increase blessing - Emily Bronte "Death"

Earth reserves no blessing - Emily Bronte "The Two Children"

Blessed his inclination - Gwendolyn Brooks "The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith"

A romp of otter-uttered blessings - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"

But be blessed by his peace - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Child Asleep"

A blessing for the eyes that weep - William Cullen Bryant "Blessed Are They That Mourn"

Blessed sunshine, and thrice-blessed rain - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

envy of the blessing of birds - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"

Emptiness is a blessing - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"

By the truth unsaid and the blessing gone - Leonard Cohen "By the Rivers Dark"

Our hunger blessed by the sun - Leonard Cohen "This Marriage"

The blessed, long-harvested rains - Susan Coolidge "A Thunder Storm"

Must blessing reap in tears - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

Will bless the hands that sowed the seed - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Garden"

What blessed inns they see - Charles Dalmon "Early Morning Meadow Song"

If To-morrow curse or bless - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

Prove scarce unmingled blessings - Edward Dowden "Paradise Lost and Found"

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

The blessed who walk among our ruin - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 4. Catechism"

And blessings in a storm of sound - Toru Dutt "Savitri"

An arrow blest with pollen - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"

And my dead heart would bless oblivion - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oblivion"

a blessed light came disrupting the blindfold - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

Now but a memory to bless and harry me - John Freeman "The Chair"

a cast net blessed by saint benedict - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

Savor the blessings of my refusal - Dana Gioia "Seaward"

Blessed by the frankincense of fragrant fir - Dana Gioia "Tinsel, Frankincense, and Fir"

Tribulation shall curse thy blessings - David Gray "Ezekiel"

Blossoms of blessing - Nikki Grimes "Truth"

And blest ten thousand happy things - Rev. J. Wesley Hanson "The Fairy's Gift" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]

Small suns blessed by dew drops - Joy Harjo "Eat"

And bless his dreaming land - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

The sons of utmost time to bless - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

With all the blessings of the outer air - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Disappointment"

And bring a star to bless this day - Mrs. E. Annette Hills "A Little Girl's Wedding Gift" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Their union blessed by a full moon - Alicia Hilton "The Blacksmith's Box of Haunted Memories"

With snow-scent and lavender bless you - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

Blessed beauty from mischance - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Forgetful of all our past blessings - "In Trouble" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]

Will know that it contains my blessing - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"

Helmed with the blessing of the morn - Lionel Johnson "The Coming of War"

Who counted every stone blessed - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Of the blessing from the sod - Fanny Kemble "To --- [What recks the sun, how weep the heavy flowers]"

Blessed by gravel and dust - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 1"

Left my blessings to rust in the rain - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"

Jove bless his flashing knife - Joyce Kilmer "With a Mirror"

And blesses all his bayonets - Charles G. Leland "Thank God for All" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Firebright blessings of fallen leaves - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Sunlight carried blessing - Amy Lowell "Patterns"

To all the wise a blessing - George Martin "The Lover's Dream"

The draught that blest love sips - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"

Made to bruise and bless - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Through the fingers of the blest - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

The sleep of blessed things - Edna St Vincent Millay "Weeds"

The Sabbath queen blessed my candles - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine

With a blessing of sunlight - Tim Newcomb "Everything Happens in the Columbia Gorge"

Have not a cent to bless - John Oxenham "Some--And Some"

The blessing of an open window - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"

Blessed beginner of every grace - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Shall bless the vineyards far below - Walter S. Percy "Vincit Omnia Jus"

Each step blessed but slant - Kiki Petrosino "New South"

Red soil to nurture escaping blessings in dryness - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "With a third eye, I see the catastrophe"

Of oblate blooms & blessed liquids - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Perfumes"

To taste of Bacchus' blessings - Thomas Randolph "To Master Anthony Stafford"

Blessing and cursing are born as twins - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

The blessing of what neither says aloud - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Firelight"

Bright with the conscious power to bless - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

Stood full at blessed noon - Christina Rossetti "At Home"

Not all things are blest - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"

But the seeds of all things are blest - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"

The blessing is the seed - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"

Blessed with a few gusts of wind - Ira Sadoff "Ithaca"

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

With blessings scattered with throughout the waste - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

To that remotest of reflected blessings - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"

And you in every blessed shape - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIII"

bless the bottle eight times smashed - Danez Smith "three Black poems from August"

That none shall ever bless or break - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

What other blessing could be sent? - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "Nameless Pain"

Blessed rage for order - Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"

As casual blessings the forlorn requite - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Like a blessing that answers a prayer - Charles William Wallace "There's a Laugh"

Blessed with truth and new delight - Richard Wilbur "June Light"

To bless far landscapes anew with leaf and bud - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"

The blessed bereavement of bones - Jay Wright "Kumu"

A river someone forgets to bless - Wendy Xu "Writing Home"


Blessed sunshine, and thrice-blessed rain - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]


Unblessed.


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