Potential Titles: Build/Built

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A refuge built against two reckonings - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Built of silk and cement - Elmaz Abinader "Arsenal"

Built of avoidable violences - George Abraham "Essay on Submission"

Built from half a breath - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

Built their sky one story and one stellar cluster at a time - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

I build you out of argument - Mary Alexandra Agner "Book of the Dead Woman"

Morn builds the heap which eve destroys - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle

Built of bricks of chocolate - Alise Alousi "Mess"

Build Versailles in a maple's cubby - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"

You cannot build anything soft - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"

Built a cathedral to contain it - Raymond Antrobus "Echo"

Built your bones out of air and hurt - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Build a backdrop of the faceless - Mary Jo Bang "O Means the Mouth"

To build a house against thunder and thirst - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"

Build a perch for the goldfinch - Rachel Barenblat "Open"

Build above the stars - Ardelia Maria Barton "Let Us Build Above the Stars"

Built on Moscow's plan - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"

And build my faery palace in the night - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

Idyll built of innocent words - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

The things I built are shattered now - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"

Built my house with Pain for wall - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Could build the universe from one tiny part - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Built of equations for gain - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

Builds a heaven in hell's despair - William Blake "The Clod and the Pebble"

Build a golden stairway of escape - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Pool"

They build larger jails for time - Maxwell Bodenheim "Psychic Clowns"

Built like stags of light - Ana Bozicevic "Intervals of Please"

The only maze I haven't built myself - William Brewer "Daedalus in Oxyana"

In a barnacle built for two - Calef Brown "Barnacle Built for Two"

Built up soundless overnight - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"

Built a cathedral of principles - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

The duvet built in honey - CM Burroughs "The Wait"

Build and share a tenement of stars - Witter Bynner "The New World III"

A road-bed newly built and clean - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

A tremulous star-built stair - W. Wilfred Campbell "Lazarus"

Which Hephaistos did build - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

His great chariot built of fire - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Meadows of the dew build dawn - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

The phoenix builds her spicy nest - Thomas Carew "Song"

Built strong walls and high - C.P. Cavafy "Walls" transl. from modern Greek by John Cavafy

Build nests in my arms - Hilda Conkling "Cherries Are Ripe"

Built from the salt sands of her every day - Susan Coolidge "Conqueror"

Build a bower of dawn - James D. Corrothers "Dream and the Song"

Built a huge ball of masonry upon a mountain-top - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Aeons shall build him - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Axe of the Pioneer"

Build a world with snow - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"

And build philosophy upon old schools - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"

Built of words you have said - Mary Carolyn Davies "Love Song"

Built lasting monuments of severe stone - Kwame Dawes "Requiem"

Build of them a citadel of austerity - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Under the Cypresses"

Build a nest from the stillness between - Diane DeCillis "Nest"

He built an empire of agony - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

Build their improbable nest of sunlight - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Built with towers of fretted stone - Julia C.R. Dorr "Heirship"

Ruin was inscribed in what he built - Boris Dralyuk "My Hollywood: A Triptych: II. The Flower Painter"

Built of stone or built of air - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"

Builds her nest of moss and spider webs - Camille T. Dungy "Natural History"

Built a calcite beehive tomb - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"

Built for my own mind - Tarfia Faizullah "Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth"

And the blackbirds built their strict songs - Joseph Fasano "Hermitage"

The wrens build at dusk - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"

Tell me no tale how Romans built - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

And builds a stage to mime its listless tragedy - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

I build a marble Rome, I give it to the wind - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

I build and cast down the dream - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

To be built in our blood - Nick Flynn "Homily"

A fault built on flesh - Rebecca Morgan Frank "Not Everybody's Bestiary (Yet)"

That builds shape, memory, dream and all - John Freeman "Shadows"

Serve to remind me of castles I used to build in air - Robert Frost "The Kitchen Chimney"

Built of jealous commands - Nikita Gill "Lessons from Hephaestus"

Many a crystal palace built - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "[In my boyhood's days so drear" (transl. by Edgar Alfred Bowring)

Builds himself a shelter from the night - Mona Gould "Man is a Lonely One"

Built you perfect and guilty - Kimberly Grey "Invention"

Felled to build my crumbling towers - William Griffith "Litany of Nations: Austria-Hungary"

Our bones are built of spirals - Joy Harjo "Heartshed"

Build with fadeless rubies - Frances E.W. Harper "The Building"

The sun begins to build its house of gold - Margaret Hasse "Art"

And build her eyrie in defiance proud - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

From rock-built eyrie rushing - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

Where joy had built his thoughtless bower - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--Brother and Friend"

The lilacs where the robin built - Thomas Hood "I Remember"

As well might I aspire to build a star - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Shadow built the walls - Joan Houlihan "RAG SMELL. FIRE"

The house is fallen that none can build again - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XVIII"

Hollowed out and built of praise - Mark Irwin "Life Is a Red Car"

Waiting to build their homes over my bones - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"

Built for terror and self-sacrifice - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Doo-Wop"

In a land built from death - Ashley M. Jones "All Y'all Really from Alabama"

Build their undoing into their architecture - Douglas S. Jones "A Tuesday Night"

i build an economy on anything i can - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"

Built to kill by slow degrees - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Victory"

Built my tomb walls strong enough to keep me safe - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

Let the birds build nests out of your lies - Vandana Khanna "Fable"

Built my loneliness twig by twig - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Rewrites Myth"

Who builds the world without you - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

Do not build your bed on dictionaries - Jill Khoury "Sleep Hygiene"

Builds a bulkhead 'twixt Despair and the Edge of Nothing - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Shall we build to Ambition - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

Build to the purple of Pride - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

Obscene because it was built to endure time - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

Where aberrant creatures build cathedrals - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

We built this city out of magic, sand, and dust - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

Who built everything worthy of the name - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"

Build a home on the moon - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"

Every bliss is built this way - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

Crows shall build in the eagle's nest - Andrew Lang "The Sudden Bridal"

Built of the same stuttering flesh - Aimee Le "Ode to Phil"

To build new cosmos - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"

Built of stencils and explosive devices - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Calcified gravity, built up and broken down - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

Build it up with iron and steel - "London Bridge"

Build it up with wood and clay - "London Bridge"

Build it up with stone so strong - "London Bridge"

Which filled and built an ache in our lungs - Thomas Lux "Haystack of Needles"

Built an unnamed altar in my heart - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"

The cathedrals we've built out of sorrow - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

The mice that build among the wheat - John Masefield "King Cole"

To build a ship of truth - John Masefield "Truth"

Who would build a star - Florence Ripley Mastin "Dust"

A crooked city built of laughter - Jamaal May "Ask Where I've Been"

Can't be built out of ocean - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"

To build a crown of flames - Shara McCallum "Dear Hours"

Built to claw an eye from the storm - Campbell McGrath "Charlie Parker (1980)"

Bare rocks where the eagles build - Claude McKay "Courage"

Built a house to withstand a cyclonic catastrophe - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

A headless tyrant built of wealth - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Below a star-built arch - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"

And build the lofty rhyme - John Milton "Lycidas"

Long waves that gather and build - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

A house that was never built - Daniel J. Nadler Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems

The mind can build itself a home - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

So this transparency was built - Pablo Neruda 100 Love Sonnets LIV (trans. by Stephen Tapscott)

Builds His strength in bronze - Effie Lee Newsome "The Bronze Legacy"

Build the nest on the sea - Hoa Nguyen "Revenge Poem"

Not built by brute force - Lorine Niedecker "Darwin"

The chattering jackdaw builds - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

The curious realm he chose to build - Alfred Noyes "Invitation to the Voyage"

Build his own stairs to heaven - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

To all the soul builds high - Thomas O'Hagan "Giotto's Campanile"

Built their parapets in the air - Thomas O'Hagan "Langemarck"

I followed here the heart I built for you - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

Built of loneliness and its consequences - Mary Oliver "The Snow Cricket"

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

We built up the blocks for nearly a mile - "One Afternoon" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]

Will build their huts out of mud and bones - Gregory Orr "The Dead in Early Spring"

Built to penetrate heaven - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"

a caste of lies is built as cells - Ugonna-Ora Owoh "Syndrome"

Built of cinderblocks and barbed wire - Paul Park "Ragnarok"

The eagle builds his eyrie nearest to the fervid skies - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Will let sparrows build their nest there - Kailee Pedersen "Aviary"

Built of wickedness and joy - Carl Phillips "First Night at Sea"

Built from things too difficult to speak of - Carl Phillips "Fist and Palm"

Built to hold every gaze - Xan Forest Phillips "Splay My Country"

We're going to build a ship some day - Miriam Clark Potter "A Ballad of Three"

Vainly builds itself on dark despair - Quince "Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Built on a jutting crag - Mrs. Mary Robinson "The Alien Boy"

Into ports that were not built to receive us - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"

Built over the sheer depth - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"

Built his monument with the winds of time at strife - George William Russell "Reconciliation"

Built her dreams about her - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"

where cotton built cathedrals - C.T. Salazar "River"

Build a house no wind blows over - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"

Build separate homes from red tag items - Janice Lobo Sapigao "HomeGoods"

How one builds a house from the inside - Janice Lobo Sapigao "HomeGoods"

Built their lives of stone & gold - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"

The realm you built to your own grandeur - Alexandra Seidel "The City that Wasn't There"

This fortress build by Nature - William Shakespeare "Richard II"

Pyramids built up with newer might - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIII"

Ancient cities built on cliffs - Joyce Sidman "The Mushrooms Come"

Build me a city and call it Jerusalem - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"

deserts build water so drink the lightning - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

a city that too builds its water from fly ash - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

Out of my sorrow I'll build a stair - Leonora Speyer "Duet (I sing with myself)"

Ripen, grow wings, and build songs - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"

i'll build a glass house of these wonders - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"

Some garden built by sin - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"

And from the nave build haunted heaven - Wallace Stevens "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman"

The boat was built of stones - Wallace Stevens "Prologues to What Is Possible"

Dealing with walls being built on straw - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 139: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Built for the sunlight and not for the storm - Charles Swain "The Ship 'Extravagance'" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Light builds a monument to its passing - Tess Taylor "Solstice"

Built my spirit's house - Sara Teasdale "At Midnight"

Built myself a house of glass - Edward Thomas "I Built Myself a House of Glass"

The wise man builds his house nowhere - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

What blurs then builds a forest - Michael Torres "Writing Prompt"

In that tower built of skulls - Perhat Tursun "Elegy" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

How to build a case against the bees - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

These broken arches have taught generations to build - Henry van Dyke "The Glory of Ruins"

Who build bridges between the dead and the living - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"

Built before the rising of this world's sun - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"

Built you on a dark day - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Built a boundary out of five pounds of definition - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

They built huge castles up with sand - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"

The stuff Hope takes to build her brittle boat - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"

Built with bricks of shame - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Built a Disneyland of yellow brick - Michelle Wirth "Campus"

Built my life up from very shaky ground - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"

build dark dwellings of negative space - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"


Ere Cheops had builded his pyramid - Charles Mair "The Voice of the Pines"

Builded without the sound of hammer or chisel - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Had builded it up at the rainbow's end - Miriam Clark Potter "The Laughter-Mill"

Builded about the hollow of their dream - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

Builded on broken hearthstones - John Jerome Rooney "The Empire Builder"

A truth that is builded on doubt - George Santayana "Fair Harvard"

Builded far from accident - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIV"

Of my dreams have I builded an inn - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"

Nor altars builded to Oblivion - George Sterling "At the Grand Canyon"

Builded round with diamond walls - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"

Was builded on that broken city's tears - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


A stone the builder needs - Ardelia Maria Barton "Nature's Plan"

Old Neptune's silent builder - "The Corsair"

The shadow of a builder god - Michael Lauchlan "Outside the Community Center"

Bridge-builders of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

Sacrificed at the builder's doorstep - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Threshold"

Our misfortunes are builders - Charles Simic "Makers of Labyrinths"


The amber dower of the building bee - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXVIII: A Soul's Sweetness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

A building's collection of angles - Mary Jo Bang "One Photograph of a Rooftop"

Building sweet music high above - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"

Finding birds in the building with no roof - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"

Streets and buildings in constant flux - Bruce Boston "Dream People"

Building past his knowledge - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

The buildings splitting in a rapture of foundations - Russell Brakefield "Gate Keeper"

Buildings that bleed no natural light - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"

Building your mansion with other folks' sticks - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Blackbird and the Rooks"

The darkness between two buildings - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"

Every building wears a milk-white dome - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "After a Snow Storm"

Building the altars of their souls - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2"

Building their confidence on stolen land - Andrea Gibson "Your Life"

Building seawalls higher and higher - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Seawall soliloquy number two: she built a seawall"

Sleeps in broken buildings - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Tall brick buildings slipping into a ravine - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Among the jumbled heap of murky buildings - John Keats "Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell]"

Stumbles over pebbles with the form of building - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

Buildings that take root inside the land - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

Building a throne of sand - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Could orchestrate the building of cities - Amari Low "Themself"

from the building of letters, syllables, characters - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"

Building Babel's towers - Don Marquis "News from Babylon"

Air above mountains, buildings in our hands - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

An apartment building of locked jaws - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

Building that star of tears - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Death machines building death machines - Jose Olivarez "Mexican Heaven"

Building the first house of song - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Scaffolds envelop the buildings - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"

Building your own refuge - Emilio Porta

Building my next in the old apple-tree - Ruth Revere "A Bluebird's Song"

Plague of old refurbished buildings - Salik Shah "Field Notes"

Building things that don't need to last - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"

People building a burning house - Ocean Vuong "Homewrecker"

Building joy from absolutely nothing - L. Ash Williams "Red Wine Spills"

To see a rat building a house - "The World Turned Upside Down / Or, No News, and Strange News"


A half-built garden of theft - Erika Meitner "Ghost Eden"


Avenues porous with ill-built adornments - Adrian Matejka "16 Bars Poetica"


Low-built nests where robins sing - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"


Rimmed round by steel-built battleships - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"


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Unbuilt all walls of thought - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"


Tell me of your wrath-built Babel - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]


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