Potential Titles: Clear

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As the moon did into clear air move - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Repeating three clear tones - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

On a morning of clear sunlight - Meena Alexander "Grandmother's Garden [excerpts]"

Clear of the storms that twist the sky - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"

Clear eyes aware of sight - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Trap"

This chaos dark to clear - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"

Blurred visions of a clear intent - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Original Impulse"

Pricked clear against a splash of woad - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

The storied chords of that clear harp - Craven Langstroth Betts "In Memorium"

Against this motion clear in steel - MacKnight Black "Corliss Engine"

Streetlights on clear nights - John S. Blake "No Room to Form"

In a clear delirium - Gwendolyn Brooks "The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith"

An isle with utter clearness lit - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

The scholar's harp has a clear note - Ch'in Chia [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)

Close up clear eyes - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Hidden Love"

A fitful note, clear from infinity - Arthur Colton "Wordsworth"

Nor counting the debt clear then - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"

Every night of clearness - Hilda Conkling "Morning"

The clear, mocking walls - Susan Coolidge "Gulf-Stream"

Clear as skies of paradise - T.A. Daly "October"

Gazing at the stars that bubbled in clear skies - W.H. Davies "In May"

Smoke clears from her smile - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

Crying his sorceries shrill and clear - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

Clear strains of hymn - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XVII: The Book of Martyrs"

A clear cry at daybreak - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Clear harmonies through the infinite - Edward Dowden "Emerson"

Clear in this dismantled hour - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"

Two clear raindrops in your eyes - Carol Ann Duffy "The Light Gatherer"

Memory and all its clear relations - T.S. Eliot "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"

Where the loon's loud laugh rings wild and clear - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

A fist of clear confusion - Mari Evans "How Sudden Dies the Blooming"

In a stream clear with flowering stones - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen D"

To a target viewed clear on the sight - Gilbert Frankau "A Song of the Guns"

Every fleck of russet showing clear - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"

And wait to watch the water clear - Robert Frost "The Pasture"

The covenant of a clearer sight - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"

The clear glory of the torrent's breath - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"

The clear rumbling of your heart at ease - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"

Keen January with cold eyes and clear - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"

With clear rays kindled - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

The unlit chambers of clear space - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Heroism"

Clear darkness, sheer light - Louis Golding "Wind of Black Night"

Rise clear above the traffic's hum - Harry Graham "The Cries of London"

To clear our heads of everything but wind - J.P. Grasser "Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild"

Dress with glory and clear jewels - David Gray "Despondency"

Shall make all darkness clear - Ivor Gurney "Afterwards"

Might have seen beauty clear - Ivor Gurney "Song of Pain and Beauty"

As the sky reflected in clear streams - Ivor Gurney "To an Unknown Lady"

Make prayers of clear stone - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"

Listening for those whispers clear - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Haunted House"

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

Clear light that makes men joyful - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Written on the Lake, Returning from the Retreat at Stone Cliff" transl. by Burton Watson

A punch that knocks the wind and spirit clear - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"

Clear the vexation of Time from my heart - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

A vast clearing on the cosmos - Jennifer Jean "Inspiration Point"

A flawless crystal coldly clear - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

That clears the air for peace - Lionel Johnson "Bronte"

While the clear stars shake - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

Details unbearably clear in the replay - Janine Joseph "Circuitry"

When the skies cleared and the waters retreated - Zilka Joseph "What Ravens Do"

Clear spring and haunted well - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

The glad sunlight of clear thought - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Through tears they see more clearly - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

Sky clear all the way up to the stars - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

As your vision clears through higher dimensions - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"

High and clear as a flock of blackbirds - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"

In the clear abyss of mind - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"

Whose clear torches kindle - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"

Clear like flowers undone - D.H. Lawrence "Green"

Clear a path through jungles of shame - Joseph O. Legaspi "Vows (for a gay wedding)"

The stare of clear, cognizant stars - Hailey Leithauser "Boys of L.A."

Ask the rain to clear my path - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

The clear ink of its meaning - Philip Levine "These Words"

Her unheard voice is whispering clear - Amy Levy "The Old Poet"

Clear comes each note and true - Amy Levy "To Sylvia"

From a dark dungeon see the clear stars shining - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

She walked the great clear void - Li Po "Poem No.19 in the Old Manner" transl. by Burton Watson

Skies clear with deceitful welcome - Amy Lowell "Epitaph in a Church-Yard in Charleston, South Carolina"

Who utters it clearest and best - James Russell Lowell "Franciscus de Verulamio sic Cogitivat"

None but the lark so shrill and clear - John Lyly "The Spring"

To clear the numberless ascensions - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

Mounted his steed of the water clear - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"

And keep the eye of conscience clear - George Martin "W.H. Magee"

The clear fountain of eternal day - Andrew Marvell "A Drop of Dew"

A clear and cleansing night of stars - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

Pure and clear as diamond scale - H.P. McKnight "Acrostic Tribute to God's Messengers, Chaplain and Mrs. C.L. Winget"

Reflecting heaven in clearness - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Raised clear horns on a transforming sky - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

having flung d'artagnan clear to luna's tepid stone - Andy Miller "All Those Bleached Bones"

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

The low tone bells of changing song ring clear - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"

Mist from clouded brows I'll clear - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "Dream" transl. by John Pollen

Great stars clear as vodka - Pablo Neruda "The Future Is Space" transl. by Alastair Reid

My clear windowpane moon - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly

Clear the eyes with chrysanthemum - Hoa Nguyen "Can't Write White and Asian"

The clear sharp fact beneath your feet - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The arches are empty clear to the sky - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"

The clear pebbles of the rain - Mary Oliver "Wild Geese"

Lesson as clear as their aura of innocence - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"

His seven horns of clear gold glowing - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Flights of autumn geese clearing the clouds - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

Clear of the saddest soul-stench - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

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

Meet in one clear symphony - Lola Ridge "Eyrie (To E.A.R.)"

A clear tone like a silver trumpet - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"

That clears to-day of unpaid debts and future fears - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Clearly reflected in the dark space of her eyes - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"

Clear and enduring as a diamond - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

Ensorcelling as their unearthly clear eyes - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

clearing the computers of all the citizen information - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"

The white curse of clearer day - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"

Clear flame in lands extreme - Clark Ashton Smith "A Vision of Lucifer"

Came to clear out my dreams - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"

Lifted clear of brick and frame - Anne Spencer "Substitution"

Shooting stars in clear October nights - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Plays on the clear viol of her memory - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

Keen, clear, flashing teeth of steel - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

From what clear wells of wonder - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

Soul as clear as sunlit dew - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"

In midsummer storing up clear shade - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Matching a Poem by Secretary Kuo, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

Make clear the road through toil and darkness - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The clear, deep marks of a grizzly's claw - Keith Taylor "To Face the Ordinary"

At your clear immortal cup - Sara Teasdale "The Wind in the Hemlock"

And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke"

A line saw itself clear to its end - TC Tolbert "What Space Faith Can Occupy"

In clear dawn departing - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson

Hear snowy voices crystal clear - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Snowflake Voices"

This landscape's clear and tender sky - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires I" transl. by Alma Strettell

Suddenly made clear by the cicadas - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"

Where honeysuckle horns blow clear - Mary Webb "Market Day"

Up the clear stair of the eternal sky - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"

Stripped clear against the sky - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"

In memory of this clear marriage - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

A clear path beyond the dust - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie VI"

A past rinsed clear of old tradition - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

To close that clear brittle door - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"

Come clear of the nets - W.B. Yeats "Into the Twilight"

In a clear flood of sunlight vibrating - Francis Brett Young "The Leaning Elm"

The illusions and disappointments of a clear sky - Zheng Min "Existence that no longer Exists #1: Van Gogh's Pleasure Boat is Gone" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Beauty fine-spun, amber-clear - Edward Dowden "Edgar Allan Poe"

Clear-cut and certain they rise - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"

The fumes of their cleargas hoard - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Feast on jade by the clear-watered shore - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson


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