Potential Titles: Empty

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Empty echoes of a passion crush'd and gone - W.E.A. "The Buried Flower" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]

Salute us back with empty kitchen pans - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

Light as an empty hive - Elizabeth Alexander "Equinox"

Eyes empty as her hopes of escape - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

A promenade of empty shells, automatons - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"

The fall with its empty cup - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"

Only the empty hand is free to hold - Julia Alvarez "That Moment"

A cobalt glow in an empty room - Hala Alyan "Siri as Mother"

Emptying boxes and making order out of pieces - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

Dappled with rain and emptied smudges - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

My hands stay empty - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"

Beat the empty air - James Baldwin "The giver (for Berdis)"

The yearning call went out into the empty air - Grant Balfour "Christmas Eve"

Thrown on an empty mirror - Mary Jo Bang "The Diary of a Lost Girl"

Accepted by the empty hour - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Reduced to ideas and empty rooms - Mary Jo Bang "Where Once"

As interesting as a word repeated until emptied - Ari Banias "A Sunset"

To catch the empty hand of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "All This, Before"

Inhabiting space that could go empty - Ellen Bass "I look over and there she is"

Lighting fires in the empty rooms - Ellen Bass "Not Dead Yet"

Have emptied my soul of thought - Charlotte F. Bates "Contrasted Moods" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.98, Feb. 1876]

The empty sky in threads like glass - Stephen Vincent Benet "Going Back to School"

Pigeons in an empty flower trough - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"

Empty grows every bed - John Berryman "Dream Song 1"

Emptied of all but your art - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych ii. Singing You Up"

When our fountains run empty - Jaswinder Bolina "The Reluctant Senator to His Provincial Mistress"

Our wardrobes mostly empty - Mukut Borpujari "Stoic"

Roam the empty highways in search of life - Bruce Boston "Ghost People"

Scatter myself empty as a torn dress - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"

Hold only empty names - William Brewer "Explanation of Matter in Oxyana"

Pretending that the sky is empty - William Brewer "Oxyana, WV: Exit Song"

The empty words of a dream - Robert Bridges "I Love All Beauteous Things"

The chill empty lanes of November - Vera M. Brittain "Daphne"

When mirth was not an empty name - Anne Bronte "Past Days"

A wrecked and empty nest - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"

How never to start the night empty - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"

The reptile caress of empty sound - Paul Cameron Brown "Chrysalis"

Empty warriors breakfast on lost impatience - Paul Cameron Brown "Empty Warriors"

A meaningless refrain to empty walls - Marie Hedderwick Browne "My House Is Left Unto Me Desolate"

To suit thy empty words - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The empty space not filled - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"

Life's chalice is empty - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

Quiet as an empty bathtub - Marianne Chan "The Lives of Saints"

And leave me to the empty ways of earth - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"

Up through an empty house of stars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

A kind of trash can never emptied - Heather Christie "What Big Eyes You Have"

Not for piping empty reeds - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Not for colouring empty dust - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Who gives her soul an empty room - Leonard Cohen "Death of a Lady's Man"

The memories came back empty - Leonard Cohen "Never Got to Love You"

Set an empty cup in the storm - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"

And empty its mysteries into the air - James Crews "Self-Compassion"

Fills the empty vault of Night with shimmering bars - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"

Let the pears cling to the empty branch - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"

To fill the empty stretch of hours between alms - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"

Gilded cats guarding the empty bridge - Jim Daniels "Listening to '96 Tears' by? and the Mysterians While Looking Down from My Third-Floor Window at a Kid Crossing the Panther Hollow Bridge"

Empty porticoes that led to nowhere - Deborah L. Davitt "Drowning in this Sunken City"

Morning enshrines the empty hill - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

Empty scene of water and willow - Walter de la Mare "Motley"

False moods and manners clothed in empty speech - Geoffrey Dearmer "Revelation"

My lungs empty of the innocence that was - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

Or emptied by the sun - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XVII"

Biologists will unspool her empty intestines - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"

Know the cost of singed palm and empty fist - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

A barge of plywood and empty milk cartons - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

All my lips' empty crying - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"

Firm to hover in that empty height - William Drummond "This Life"

The empty spaces left by the gods - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"

The emptying chambers of his heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "Endurance"

Voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"

Kneels before an empty fireplace - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"

To make the world an emptier place - Elaine Equi "My Taste"

Empty as the husk of a locust in drought - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"

Spoke aloud to an empty audience - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"

Beneath emptying branches - Sid Farrar "The Year Comes Round"

The night in his hands like an empty bridle - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"

A wanton ghost lavishing an empty feast - Beulah Field "Rainbow"

I am emptied of all my dreams - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"

Seven empty chairs form a circle - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

The imprint of birdsong in an empty sky - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VI"

Emptied as a fallen leaf - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"

Empty hands are clasped in vain - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]

Empty as his own expectations - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Introduction to Engineering by Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius"

Quiet hours and empty blue - Zona Gale "Wraiths"

Emptied of his hand - Tess Gallagher "Ring"

Empty out those raw strips of night - Tess Gallagher "Sad Moments"

In order to be defined as empty - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: IV"

The deep empty longing in the voice of birds - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson

Gold from empty bags in torrents rolled - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Only when you are empty - Kahlil Gibran "On Joy and Sorrow"

Even when the arena is empty - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"

Broken meat for empty bellies - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Hare"

The pathways of the gods are empty, flat, and hard - Dana Gioia "The Freeways Considered as Earth Gods"

We've emptied all the garden's fields - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"

Empty on a December weeknight - Christian Gullette "Tattoo"

Explored this emptying intermediate state - Thom Gunn "Lament"

Empty promises of a broken land - Hawa Haji-Hassan "Carrying Anticipation"

Waltzed with the empty lover - Joy Harjo "Deer Dancer"

Your mouth will make no empty shapes - francine j. harris "something in the water"

Her head is empty of the drowned - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"

That once could empty out an hour - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"

The clearing yard loaded with empty freight cars - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

My empty suitcase and I returned - Jane Hirshfield "My Life Was the Size of My Life"

Has emptied all the vengeance of the storm - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"

Dusk enfolds the empty curtains - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Fulling Cloth for Clothes" transl. by Burton Watson

Death becomes an empty cabaret - Langston Hughes "Sport"

And find my Muse asleep within an empty Box - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

A birthright to sing until emptied - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #39: Jigglypuff"

I live in the empty hands discombobulated bastards - Jzl Jmz "Drenched in Reflection"

To dissolve an empty hour - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Curiosities"

Like empty pitchers to a full fountain - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Screaming out to an empty street - Jenny Johnson "Spaces"

Empty arms stretching to embrace - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"

The sidewalks stay empty of my steps - Camisha L. Jones "No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain"

Pushing a grocery cart of empty beer cans - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"

Empty interstate by starlight - Richard Jones "Rest"

Every empty hour is wrought of gold - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As a Still Brook"

Wander weeping through empty halls - Juan Chi "Singing of Thoughts 5" transl. by Burton Watson

The eternal pit had emptied forth its demons - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Emptied herself into that blazing child - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

her tears were empty chairs - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"

Empty as a shell and hollow - Donika Kelly "The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings."

An empty bowl careful with my wanting - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

And fill the room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "The Exequy"

The room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Pursue their empty sorceries - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Emptying night from its branches - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"

And reeled the years back empty - Ted Kooser "Casting Reels"

Where a cold wind pinches clothespins down an empty line - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

Blow through an empty station on a mechanical wind - Edgar Kunz "Good Deal"

Sprawl of generations emptying onward - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

The bubble hemming this empty existence with lights - D.H. Lawrence "Elegy"

Children draw about the empty hearth - Emma Lazarus "To R. W. E."

The empty spaces you once filled - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"

Empty in the August glare - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"

Envy will empty your wallet - Hailey Leithauser "Loneliness"

Two angels gather at the empty chest - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"

Let the golden cups never stand empty - Li Po "Let Us Drink Wine" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Empty stars we've tossed aside - Ada Limon "Marketing Life for Those of Us Left"

Held nothing but the empty dawn - Amy Lowell "Crepuscule du Matin"

The key which hides a world empty of hours - Amy Lowell "The Matrix"

An empty phantom as cold as summer dew - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

Empty your bones of heather and moor - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"

Pick a Fight in an Empty Room - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "magpie"

Empty songs with weary voices - Naomi Long Madgett "Where Do We Go?"

Empty as the cup of days - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"

Full of cups to be emptied - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)

A torus-image whose empty center we sought - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In spheres and cupolas it moved through empty spaces - Harry Martinson "Aniara 4" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

While the bridge between us stayed an empty place - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Make a metaphor for the empty - Jamaal May "Yes, I Know She's Dying"

Raised to a mouth emptied - Charlene McClure "Caretaker"

Hanging thick round empty tower and broken minaret - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Owl-calls over its empty track - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

Put a roaring halt to our empty rabid existence - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

Towers of empty mirrors - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"

Empty pools and dry waterfalls - W.S. Merwin "One Valley"

Emerged empty and entire - M.S. Merwin "The West Window"

Utter silence and the empty world - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

Through a giant's empty house - Edna St Vincent Millay "Low-Tide"

Two empty suitcases sit in the corner - Jim Moore "Almost Sixty"

My sobs echoing through the empty rooms - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"

From heartless empty fate - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (7)" transl. by Dennis Daly

A fistful of empty flint - Pablo Neruda "Amor America (1400)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Returning an empty dream to a bitter pasture - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Our lives like empty mollusk shells - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly

Parched loneliness and the empty night - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Consumed by an empty god - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner

Aimed litanies at an empty sky - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"

A pair of empty swing sets - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"

How empty the cup of hope can feel - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Northern Ireland They Called It 'The Troubles'"

That last tone emptying into air - Naomi Shihab Nye "Music"

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

An empty skin for the mice to nibble - Mary Oliver "Black Snake This Time"

The ocean empties its pockets - Mary Oliver "Morning Walk"

Sing down an empty road - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"

A tiny bowl, empty but for hope - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Skippers"

A nourishment of my empty soul - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"

Velvet hides an empty breast - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"

Empty eyes in vacant sockets - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"

Through the empty chaos and pain - Andre F. Peltier "Martha Wayne's Pearl Necklace"

Impregnated with empty symbolism - Andre F. Peltier "Martha Wayne's Pearl Necklace"

Marooned by empty chairs - Kiki Petrosino "The Garden"

Gem of empty air - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Emptier of such distractions as fear - Carl Phillips "The Dark No Softer Than It Was Before"

A Fairy Temple with one niche empty - Po-Chu-i "Taoism and Buddhism" (translated by Arthur Waley)

An empty pool of calmness and of cold - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"

With an empty bullet for decoration - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"

Empty your thoughts to the stars - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Unpredictable years keep emptying - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"

Empty nest of eyelashes & dandelions - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"

Listen to the song of your empty house - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"

only the empty hollow of what could have been - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Pockets and heart are empty - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

As it comes in empty places - Lola Ridge "Celia"

A split rind emptied of all good - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Emptying her craters of their silvery ash - Lola Ridge "Saint's Bridge"

Emptied of the known you - Lola Ridge "Wild Duck"

Creeps down empty alleys - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Bride" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Disclosed the empty day - Rainer Maria Rilke "In April"

Let the spring of life well up and drown the empty quest - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"

How empty an absence is - Kenyatta Rogers "Labyrinth"

Empty the wild ocean with the shell of an egg - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull

The silence owns and rules from empty thrones - George William Russell "The Divine Vision"

A bird's empty nest when the tenant has flown - I.A.S. "In the Rhine Woods: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.24-v.I, 14 June 1884]

All broken hearts, empty hands, sleeping soldiers - Carl Sandburg "Fire Dreams"

When once the dregs are emptied - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"

What breath's left to shriek into the empty - Jennifer Scappettone "Syrinx Spring"

The significant silence of empty mansions - Philip Schultz "Greed"

The sounds empty makes inside a vacant house - Nicole Sealey "unfurnished"

Filling the auditoriums with empty skulls - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"

Into hearts long empty of the sun - Edward Shanks "The Return"

To empty the contents of your (un)troubled heart - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

And in our eyes, we see empty mirrors - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"

The empty truth of tears - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"

With never a spark in the empty dark - Langdon Smith "Evolution"

Unclasped and left empty in the center - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"

Empty as a bucket of tears - Richard Solomon "Heaven's Gate"

Through empty heaven without repose - Robert Lewis Stevenson "Summer Sun"

Death can empty a house of shoes worn and new - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"

Empty shells on sea-spurned sands - Muriel Stuart "A Song for Old Love"

A rust-red share in an empty furrow - Algernon Swinburne "Sorrow"

Out of the empty night arise - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"

Emptied my heart with the absence of every tick - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"

Empty as ancient desert streams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

Returns at last to the empty road - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson

Down past empty baseball diamonds - Keith Taylor "The Skateboard Park, Seen from Afar"

last sky will empty itself of airplanes - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

Chambers emptied of delight - Tennyson "In Memoriam"

Glutted with gold and dust and empty state - Iris Tree "[And afterwards, when honour has made good]"

court rats in the empty pool - David Trinidad "The afterlife of fame"

My guts are emptied of courage - Tu Fu "Captivity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

With empty schemes of praise - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

All pockets turned up empty afterwards - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

And my heart is the empty nest - Katherine Tynan "Wild Geese"

Sustains themself on empty speech - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Emptying without exhausting - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

An empty ballad that plays on loop - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Cardinals, a Novena"

Still selling to the empty streets - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"

Perfectly empty and yet not empty at all - Wang An-Shih "After Clouds Limitless by a Monk at Nirvana-Radiant Monastery on Mist-Perch Mountain" transl. by David Hinton

A thousand years of empty hopes - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton

Empty hopes in the drift of cicada song - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton

Most visible in the empty room - Rosanna Warren "Muse Not Muse"

A legend emptied of concern - William Watson "Estrangement"

Empty of faith and eager to depart - Helen Hay Whitney "False"

Dawn comes with empty arms - John Wieners "For Huncke"

Emptied houses turned shuttered eyes to the sea - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Low"

Emptying his pockets in the dark - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"

My throne is empty in Babylon - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"

And filled the empty caverns of the air - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"

Had never been the empty dark - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

Clinging onto the depths of empty - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"

Empty your heart - W.B. Yeats "The Hosting of the Sidhe"

If empty night replies - W.B. Yeats "A First Confession"

This city of riches has fallen empty - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Imprisoning empty darkness - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"

The hiss of empty air swirling past - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

A magician closed you in his hand and opened it suddenly empty - Yuan Chen "An Elegy" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Through the walls of an empty house - Jordan Zandi "Solarium"

An empty envelope filling with news - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

The sound of an empty valley - Zheng Min "A Small Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Emptiness.


Disappearing into dream-emptied pockets - Carmen Gimenez "from Be Recorder"


Arrive empty-handed and alone - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Hunting Party"

Help arriving empty-handed - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"


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