Potential Titles: Bloom
Feb. 5th, 2010 06:28 pmArt bloomed from the ash of loss - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
When the first scream blooms - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
The scent of orange bloom made redolent - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"
They bloom blood-flowers in the tearful dew - "Adonium" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
Boundless as the blooms of spring - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
The budding calla is bold enough to bloom - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"
Till the red rose blooms on the willow tree - William Allingham "The Girl's Lamentation"
Tracing bloom to departure - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"
A bobolink left the bloom of a tree - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Story of a Rose"
Unplanted, unsown, blooming alone - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCIII: Plucking a Flower" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
The Apple and the Hawthorn bloom together - Martin Armstrong "Honey Harvest"
Where grateful thistles bloom - "As-cription"
Whose freshness Time leaves blooming - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."
Only half in bloom - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"
And, even after a century, bloom - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dry Sanctuary"
A chance to bloom anywhere once - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"
All adjacent quantities bloom - Joshua Bennett "X"
Raced the chestnuts into bloom - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Song of Spring"
The majestic blooming of the century plant - Bruce Boston "A Life in the Day Of"
To bloom against the will of the sun - Jericho Brown "The Tradition"
The glad infant sprigs of bloom - William Cullen Bryant "The Planting of the Apple Tree"
Crimson glories, bloom, and song - W. Wilfred Campbell "Love"
A chalkboard blooming with equations - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"
Each bloom of strength - Andres Cerpa "The Vault"
Blooming in every crevice of my palms - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
Missing the persimmons in bloom - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"
Blooming like rust under oil and tender iron - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"
A fairy, cradled in each bloom - Florence Earle Coates "Jewel-weed"
Bloom for whom you may - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Work Without Hope"
Blooming like a guarded rose - Susan Coolidge "By the Cradle"
The right of a rose to bloom - Susan Coolidge "My Rights"
Like breath of early blooms - Susan Coolidge "A Portrait"
Bitter drop in bloom and sweet - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"
Transfigure all blight into bloom - Benjamin Copeland "The Law of Love"
Bloom more sweet than Asphodel - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Geraniums and roses round me bloom - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Open space blooming awkward between - Jim Daniels "Final/Not Final"
Clouds on viewless columns bloomed - John Davidson "London"
A million years before the blooming sun - John Davidson "Thirty Bob a Week"
Whose bloom has faded in the midnight watch - Lucretia Maria Davidson "To My Mother"
The kingdom of my blooming - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
Nothing blooms in the old field of maybe - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Ice where the lily bloomed - Walter de la Mare "Down-Adown-Derry"
Whose marble flowers bloom - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"
A white lily with seven blooms thereon - Walter de la Mare "The Three Beggars"
Forget-me-nots bloom unhindered - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Buried blooms surprise the plunderer bee - Edward Dowden "From April to October: II. Two Infinities"
The century's fiery-hearted bloom - Edward Dowden "Helena"
The black iris with their sabered blooms - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
That bloom in the Eden of light - A.E. "Love"
The Sacred Hazel's blooms are shed - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"
Blooms large in my throat - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"
Their withered bloom and idle pride - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
The moment's bloom is sunk again in cold - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
The midnight feast in the clover bloom - Eugene Field "Fairy and Child"
Striking dead both Bud and Bloom - John Fletcher "Folding the Flocks"
That shatter their stars of bloom - John Gould Fletcher "Court Lady Standing Under Cherry Tree"
Withered under blooms of ash - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hoktvlwv's Crow"
Feathers will bloom from my mouth - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"
Because she bloomed in winter weather - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "A Song [Sing a song of a little lass (red blow the roses, O)]"
When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers - Robert Frost "The Oven-Bird"
When earth lay robed in resurrection bloom - Fanny L. Glenfield "Ye Know Not What Ye Ask" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
The richest flowers of heaven bloom on the brink of darkness - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Has bloomed enough for us to eat - Kimberly Grey "Conjugating"
Again the bloom, the northward flight - Louise Imogen Guiney "Spring"
Blooming in the miraculous dark - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
Will rise in fugitive bloom - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
As long as orchards bloom again - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXVIII"
Past its brief time of blooming - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"
Uncultured bloom thy fairy bowers - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Can quiet the lily abloom - Stephanie Hemphill "Dance"
The petal of hibiscus that never blooms - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"
Handing you a knot of crimson blooms - Conrad Hilberry "With Esperanza on the Roof"
The cedar does not feel the rose bloom at its root - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
A bloom as of blush roses - Jean Ingelow "Songs with Preludes: Wedlock"
Bloom from the ashes of the dead - Helen Hunt Jackson "New Year's Morning"
The orchid dying bloom by bloom - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"
a wilted bloom is a monstrous wish - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"
a new grief blooms in the garden - Camisha L. Jones "On Loss"
The fragrant blooms of memory - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Remembrance"
Spring lasts longer than its bloom - Fady Joudah "Venus Cycle"
The flower will bloom another year - John Keats "Faery Song"
Setting bloom where curse is planted - Henry Kendall "Christmas Creek"
Where bulbs break into bloom - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"
After the first flush of blooms - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Bloomed to fair completeness - Joyce Kilmer "Eadem"
Blooming in complaisance - Kim Unsong "Elusive"
When roses bloom most fully - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Over trees with blooms too red to look at - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
Dewy blooms with a knowledge of her ancients - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
The knowing scent hidden in each bloom - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"
Ferries where the whales bloom - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"
And bear no bloom for bees - Archibald Lampman "In October"
The torrent of the later bloom - Archibald Lampman "June"
Have seen the forest break in bloom - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"
Where scant flowers bloom - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IX: To that Rare and Deep-Red Burnet-Moth Only to Be Met with in the Burren"
Bloomed like a neon emetic - Aimee Le "Faith"
How many times have the roses bloomed? - Li Po "Thinking of East Mountain" transl. by Burton Watson
Artificial flowers bloom in the dead bodies of universes - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"
One quick breath of peach-bloom fantasy - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
Where poppies bloom for miles - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
His fairy chain of blooming amaranthine flow'rs - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]
Bloom when it thunders - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"
A violet blooming through scrap metal - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
a fertile store to feed them as they bloom - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"
A bloom of rust at your vision's edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"
An orchid doubled-over with white blooms - Joanie Mackowski "View from a Temporary Window"
Days that I dream will bloom - Archibald MacLeish "An Eternity"
Blooms ever in sunshine and shade - E.G. Mallery "The Invitation"
Memorials of Summer's ended bloom - Douglas Malloch "March"
Strange lilies bloomed in lightless cells - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"
Bursts in a bloom of fire - Don Marquis "A Mood of Pavlowa"
And pastel somethings bloom - Jamaal May "I Have This Way of Being"
The fairy bloom forsakes the peach - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of One-and-Twenty"
Bloom of the world's delight - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
With yellow oaks deliriously blooming - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"
Nor the tender bloom of promise - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"
Budded, bloomed, and shattered - Edna St Vincent Millay "Three Songs of Shattering"
Sweet magnolia bloom embalmed in dews - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"
Few note that fatal bloom - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Arrived at bloom of beauty - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)
A bloom when woods are grey - Francis Neilson "A Flower"
War's red rose sprang blooming - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
In the silent blooming of memory - Grace Nichols "Georgetown"
The delicate aristocracies of bloom - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
Geraniums bloomed on windowsills - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Bloom on my lips - Maria Antonia Ortega
Devious ways tangled with blooming - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"
Though untended, we may bloom - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Song Written for a May Day Festival"
Where the bones of poets bloom - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"
All the wild bloom and reach of dreams - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"
Strange mountain in late bloom - Kiki Petrosino "The Shop at Monticello"
Count the hushed electrons blooming - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"
To bloom from one dream to the next - Carl Phillips "When We Get There"
When the nights bloom with cricket song - Carl Phillips "Yes"
Various are the stars that bloom - Ann Plato "Forget Me Not"
Bought whatever had most blooms - Po-Chu-i "Planting Flowers on the Eastern Embankment" (translated by Arthur Waley)
The initial blooms shrivel - Cherise Pollard "Nodes of Growth"
Bloom red & pink from my back - Khadijah Queen "Something About the Way I Am Made Is Not Made"
Almonds bloom in early Spring - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Dawn Among the Olive Groves"
Of oblate blooms & blessed liquids - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Perfumes"
Taught them to bloom round my bower - Henry Scott Riddell "The Bower of the Wild"
April fills its jar with bloom - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Till the lopped staff blooms again - Lola Ridge "Red Flag"
In molten spatters of bud and bloom - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"
Lilies that refuse to bloom - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Face"
Violets have not refused to bloom - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Remembered Critic"
Testing each new path that has bloomed before me - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
Where virtues bloom eternally - F.E.S. "The Stray Blossom" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.36-v.I, 6 Sept. 1884]
Flowers blooming buried sunlight - Fritz Schnack "Blooming Sunlight" transl. by William Saphier
Beauty blooms on every threshold - Fritz Schnack "One Morning" transl. by William Saphier
What blooms bears thorns - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Protocol"
But she shall bloom in winter snow - Sir Walter Scott "A Weary Lot Is Thine"
Canker blooms have full as deep a dye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIV"
Autumn poppies bloom and die - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"
Huddled in our buds waiting to bloom - Joyce Sidman "Letter to the Sun"
The wholeness of our original bloom - Maurya Simon "Angels"
That bloom but to an azure sun - Clark Ashton Smith "Triple Aspect"
A riven bloom on a restless branch - "The Song of Crede, Daughter of Guare" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves
Cast a bloom around the heart - "Spring Blossoms" [Spring Blossoms, no date, no editor/author, Project Gutenberg]
A sudden flower blooms in my heart - George Sterling "You Are So Beautiful"
Do we not bloom after lying in wait - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
To bloom into some unexpected beauty - Carmen Sylva "The Sentinel"
Deadheading flowers after their first blooming - Keith Taylor "The Gleaners"
Cast her own spell of bloom and blood - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"
The soft wine turned to bloom - Herbert Trench "Musing on a Great Soldier"
Behind the purple bloom of the horizon - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"
The purple and golden blooms of the sun - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
An azure flower secretly blooms - Perhat Tursun "The Tarim River" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Complete without a blooming rose - Irvin W. Underhill "Solitude"
To steep their drowsy bloom in the tide - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"
Gleaming silverly down through the manifold bloom - Henry van Dyke "Sierra Madre"
Bloomed from young throats - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "A Field of Onions: Brown Onions"
An orchard in its pink-tipped bloom - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"
Ants still emerge from a jasmine bloom - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"
Rocks where blooms the mountain rose - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
Sickle made of blooming flowers - Charles William Wallace "The Sickle of Flowers"
With myrtle blooming and music ringing - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist
At my window in full bloom - Lucian B. Watkins "The Flower at My Window"
The roses of my heart shall bloom - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"
Will bloom within those trackless lands - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
On woods that dream of bloom - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"
As of that blooming - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"
What blooms on airy precipices grow - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"
Sidestepping your bullets bloom - Lynn Xu "Earth Light: I"
A carrion flower never in bloom - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"
A solitary cherry-tree in bloom - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
The dandelion blooms in a garden of stone - Kevin Young "Snapdragon"
The dance of flame in full bloom - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #9" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Dark hills whose heath-bloom feeds no bee - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"
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When the first scream blooms - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
The scent of orange bloom made redolent - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"
They bloom blood-flowers in the tearful dew - "Adonium" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
Boundless as the blooms of spring - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
The budding calla is bold enough to bloom - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"
Till the red rose blooms on the willow tree - William Allingham "The Girl's Lamentation"
Tracing bloom to departure - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"
A bobolink left the bloom of a tree - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Story of a Rose"
Unplanted, unsown, blooming alone - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCIII: Plucking a Flower" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
The Apple and the Hawthorn bloom together - Martin Armstrong "Honey Harvest"
Where grateful thistles bloom - "As-cription"
Whose freshness Time leaves blooming - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."
Only half in bloom - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"
And, even after a century, bloom - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dry Sanctuary"
A chance to bloom anywhere once - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"
All adjacent quantities bloom - Joshua Bennett "X"
Raced the chestnuts into bloom - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Song of Spring"
The majestic blooming of the century plant - Bruce Boston "A Life in the Day Of"
To bloom against the will of the sun - Jericho Brown "The Tradition"
The glad infant sprigs of bloom - William Cullen Bryant "The Planting of the Apple Tree"
Crimson glories, bloom, and song - W. Wilfred Campbell "Love"
A chalkboard blooming with equations - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"
Each bloom of strength - Andres Cerpa "The Vault"
Blooming in every crevice of my palms - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
Missing the persimmons in bloom - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"
Blooming like rust under oil and tender iron - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"
A fairy, cradled in each bloom - Florence Earle Coates "Jewel-weed"
Bloom for whom you may - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Work Without Hope"
Blooming like a guarded rose - Susan Coolidge "By the Cradle"
The right of a rose to bloom - Susan Coolidge "My Rights"
Like breath of early blooms - Susan Coolidge "A Portrait"
Bitter drop in bloom and sweet - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"
Transfigure all blight into bloom - Benjamin Copeland "The Law of Love"
Bloom more sweet than Asphodel - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Geraniums and roses round me bloom - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Open space blooming awkward between - Jim Daniels "Final/Not Final"
Clouds on viewless columns bloomed - John Davidson "London"
A million years before the blooming sun - John Davidson "Thirty Bob a Week"
Whose bloom has faded in the midnight watch - Lucretia Maria Davidson "To My Mother"
The kingdom of my blooming - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
Nothing blooms in the old field of maybe - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Ice where the lily bloomed - Walter de la Mare "Down-Adown-Derry"
Whose marble flowers bloom - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"
A white lily with seven blooms thereon - Walter de la Mare "The Three Beggars"
Forget-me-nots bloom unhindered - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Buried blooms surprise the plunderer bee - Edward Dowden "From April to October: II. Two Infinities"
The century's fiery-hearted bloom - Edward Dowden "Helena"
The black iris with their sabered blooms - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
That bloom in the Eden of light - A.E. "Love"
The Sacred Hazel's blooms are shed - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"
Blooms large in my throat - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"
Their withered bloom and idle pride - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
The moment's bloom is sunk again in cold - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
The midnight feast in the clover bloom - Eugene Field "Fairy and Child"
Striking dead both Bud and Bloom - John Fletcher "Folding the Flocks"
That shatter their stars of bloom - John Gould Fletcher "Court Lady Standing Under Cherry Tree"
Withered under blooms of ash - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hoktvlwv's Crow"
Feathers will bloom from my mouth - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"
Because she bloomed in winter weather - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "A Song [Sing a song of a little lass (red blow the roses, O)]"
When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers - Robert Frost "The Oven-Bird"
When earth lay robed in resurrection bloom - Fanny L. Glenfield "Ye Know Not What Ye Ask" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
The richest flowers of heaven bloom on the brink of darkness - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Has bloomed enough for us to eat - Kimberly Grey "Conjugating"
Again the bloom, the northward flight - Louise Imogen Guiney "Spring"
Blooming in the miraculous dark - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
Will rise in fugitive bloom - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
As long as orchards bloom again - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXVIII"
Past its brief time of blooming - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"
Uncultured bloom thy fairy bowers - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Can quiet the lily abloom - Stephanie Hemphill "Dance"
The petal of hibiscus that never blooms - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"
Handing you a knot of crimson blooms - Conrad Hilberry "With Esperanza on the Roof"
The cedar does not feel the rose bloom at its root - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
A bloom as of blush roses - Jean Ingelow "Songs with Preludes: Wedlock"
Bloom from the ashes of the dead - Helen Hunt Jackson "New Year's Morning"
The orchid dying bloom by bloom - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"
a wilted bloom is a monstrous wish - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"
a new grief blooms in the garden - Camisha L. Jones "On Loss"
The fragrant blooms of memory - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Remembrance"
Spring lasts longer than its bloom - Fady Joudah "Venus Cycle"
The flower will bloom another year - John Keats "Faery Song"
Setting bloom where curse is planted - Henry Kendall "Christmas Creek"
Where bulbs break into bloom - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"
After the first flush of blooms - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Bloomed to fair completeness - Joyce Kilmer "Eadem"
Blooming in complaisance - Kim Unsong "Elusive"
When roses bloom most fully - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Over trees with blooms too red to look at - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
Dewy blooms with a knowledge of her ancients - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
The knowing scent hidden in each bloom - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"
Ferries where the whales bloom - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"
And bear no bloom for bees - Archibald Lampman "In October"
The torrent of the later bloom - Archibald Lampman "June"
Have seen the forest break in bloom - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"
Where scant flowers bloom - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IX: To that Rare and Deep-Red Burnet-Moth Only to Be Met with in the Burren"
Bloomed like a neon emetic - Aimee Le "Faith"
How many times have the roses bloomed? - Li Po "Thinking of East Mountain" transl. by Burton Watson
Artificial flowers bloom in the dead bodies of universes - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"
One quick breath of peach-bloom fantasy - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
Where poppies bloom for miles - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
His fairy chain of blooming amaranthine flow'rs - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]
Bloom when it thunders - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"
A violet blooming through scrap metal - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
a fertile store to feed them as they bloom - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"
A bloom of rust at your vision's edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"
An orchid doubled-over with white blooms - Joanie Mackowski "View from a Temporary Window"
Days that I dream will bloom - Archibald MacLeish "An Eternity"
Blooms ever in sunshine and shade - E.G. Mallery "The Invitation"
Memorials of Summer's ended bloom - Douglas Malloch "March"
Strange lilies bloomed in lightless cells - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"
Bursts in a bloom of fire - Don Marquis "A Mood of Pavlowa"
And pastel somethings bloom - Jamaal May "I Have This Way of Being"
The fairy bloom forsakes the peach - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of One-and-Twenty"
Bloom of the world's delight - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
With yellow oaks deliriously blooming - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"
Nor the tender bloom of promise - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"
Budded, bloomed, and shattered - Edna St Vincent Millay "Three Songs of Shattering"
Sweet magnolia bloom embalmed in dews - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"
Few note that fatal bloom - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Arrived at bloom of beauty - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)
A bloom when woods are grey - Francis Neilson "A Flower"
War's red rose sprang blooming - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
In the silent blooming of memory - Grace Nichols "Georgetown"
The delicate aristocracies of bloom - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
Geraniums bloomed on windowsills - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Bloom on my lips - Maria Antonia Ortega
Devious ways tangled with blooming - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"
Though untended, we may bloom - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Song Written for a May Day Festival"
Where the bones of poets bloom - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"
All the wild bloom and reach of dreams - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"
Strange mountain in late bloom - Kiki Petrosino "The Shop at Monticello"
Count the hushed electrons blooming - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"
To bloom from one dream to the next - Carl Phillips "When We Get There"
When the nights bloom with cricket song - Carl Phillips "Yes"
Various are the stars that bloom - Ann Plato "Forget Me Not"
Bought whatever had most blooms - Po-Chu-i "Planting Flowers on the Eastern Embankment" (translated by Arthur Waley)
The initial blooms shrivel - Cherise Pollard "Nodes of Growth"
Bloom red & pink from my back - Khadijah Queen "Something About the Way I Am Made Is Not Made"
Almonds bloom in early Spring - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Dawn Among the Olive Groves"
Of oblate blooms & blessed liquids - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Perfumes"
Taught them to bloom round my bower - Henry Scott Riddell "The Bower of the Wild"
April fills its jar with bloom - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Till the lopped staff blooms again - Lola Ridge "Red Flag"
In molten spatters of bud and bloom - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"
Lilies that refuse to bloom - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Face"
Violets have not refused to bloom - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Remembered Critic"
Testing each new path that has bloomed before me - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
Where virtues bloom eternally - F.E.S. "The Stray Blossom" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.36-v.I, 6 Sept. 1884]
Flowers blooming buried sunlight - Fritz Schnack "Blooming Sunlight" transl. by William Saphier
Beauty blooms on every threshold - Fritz Schnack "One Morning" transl. by William Saphier
What blooms bears thorns - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Protocol"
But she shall bloom in winter snow - Sir Walter Scott "A Weary Lot Is Thine"
Canker blooms have full as deep a dye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIV"
Autumn poppies bloom and die - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"
Huddled in our buds waiting to bloom - Joyce Sidman "Letter to the Sun"
The wholeness of our original bloom - Maurya Simon "Angels"
That bloom but to an azure sun - Clark Ashton Smith "Triple Aspect"
A riven bloom on a restless branch - "The Song of Crede, Daughter of Guare" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves
Cast a bloom around the heart - "Spring Blossoms" [Spring Blossoms, no date, no editor/author, Project Gutenberg]
A sudden flower blooms in my heart - George Sterling "You Are So Beautiful"
Do we not bloom after lying in wait - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
To bloom into some unexpected beauty - Carmen Sylva "The Sentinel"
Deadheading flowers after their first blooming - Keith Taylor "The Gleaners"
Cast her own spell of bloom and blood - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"
The soft wine turned to bloom - Herbert Trench "Musing on a Great Soldier"
Behind the purple bloom of the horizon - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"
The purple and golden blooms of the sun - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
An azure flower secretly blooms - Perhat Tursun "The Tarim River" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Complete without a blooming rose - Irvin W. Underhill "Solitude"
To steep their drowsy bloom in the tide - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"
Gleaming silverly down through the manifold bloom - Henry van Dyke "Sierra Madre"
Bloomed from young throats - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "A Field of Onions: Brown Onions"
An orchard in its pink-tipped bloom - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"
Ants still emerge from a jasmine bloom - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"
Rocks where blooms the mountain rose - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
Sickle made of blooming flowers - Charles William Wallace "The Sickle of Flowers"
With myrtle blooming and music ringing - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist
At my window in full bloom - Lucian B. Watkins "The Flower at My Window"
The roses of my heart shall bloom - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"
Will bloom within those trackless lands - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
On woods that dream of bloom - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"
As of that blooming - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"
What blooms on airy precipices grow - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"
Sidestepping your bullets bloom - Lynn Xu "Earth Light: I"
A carrion flower never in bloom - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"
A solitary cherry-tree in bloom - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
The dandelion blooms in a garden of stone - Kevin Young "Snapdragon"
The dance of flame in full bloom - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #9" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Dark hills whose heath-bloom feeds no bee - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"
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