Potential Titles: Blossom

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Blossoming into a head full of seeds - Rasha Abdulhadi "Lanternseed"

Someone scattering seeds of light that will blossom into faces - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"

Yours is the blossom's weather - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Thalia"

Creeping around the huge oak with its blossoms of gold - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

In the spinning blossom of your love - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"

The meadows of the Sirens starred with blossoms - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

with rough of bark to blossom - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

The old tree weeps for its blossom - Elizabeth Bartlett "Full Circle"

Astral honey and blossoms of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "Landscape: With Bread"

Gather remorseful blossoms - Charles Baudelaire "Contemplation" transl. not credited

All my fertile memory blossom - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited

Buckling to blossoms now - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Dysphoria"

Blossoms a wreath of meadows - Julius Berstl "Highland" transl. by William Saphier

Blossoming in the shadow of the mind - Tanella Boni "There where it's so bright in me" transl. by Todd Fredson

An easy breeze at blossom time - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"

The fairest blossom of the garden dies - William Browne "The Rose"

How rich the hawthorn's blossoms - Robert Burns "Highland Mary"

Blossoms of sweet and sour light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"

The instant's fostered blossoms - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

Passing like potato blossoms - Jos Charles "Seagull, Tiny"

Not a bud that blossoms - Florence Earle Coates "An Adieu"

Could change forever how blossoms fell - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

That buds and blossoms in her eyes - James H. Cousins "Ireland"

Blossomed with white stars - George Cronyn "Night-Flowers"

Our ancestors watched it blossom - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

shall seek all blossoms that do learn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

Blossoms of opal fire - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"

Barb'd blossom of the guarded gorse - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"

Tree frogs blossoming after a country rain - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"

Cutting vines that blossom in the dark - Diana Marie Delgado "The Kind of Light I Give Off Isn't Going to Last"

Being quieter than blossoms - Toi Derricotte "The Blessed Angels"

The bergamot's red blossom leans the stilly stream across - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Blossom and bud between - Edward Dowden "Salome"

These sprigs of blossoming heartbreak - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"

Making the wild waste blossom - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Revive one blossom for Thy bliss - Helen Parry Eden "Post-Communion"

Will sing among the hawthorn blossoms - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

Peach blossoms blown across the wind - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"

Red ivy iron fire and the brick blossoms florid - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"

A tiny germ that yet shall bud and blossom - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

And the great orchards burst from bud to blossom - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

Those blossoms haunt the rocks - James Elroy Flecker "Areiya"

Aches with all the hawthorn blossom - F.S. Flint "Lunch"

Watch for the rest of eternity as it blossoms - Sandy Florian "But This Is Ambiguous"

Multitudes blossom and waver and breathe - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

Golden in autumn's sweep and blossom - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 2"

The apples that blossom during a February heat wave - Sarah Freligh "In this Poem, We Will Not Glorify Sunrise"

Blossoms by the summer lightning crushed - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

A flower that blossoms without light - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"

Which blossoms in the winter - Rae Gouirand "Quince Suite"

How ego blossoms in paraphrase - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

The wreath of orange blossoms on her brow - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

Blossoms of blessing - Nikki Grimes "Truth"

Down the blossomed aisle of April - Louise Imogen Guiney "Borderlands"

Underneath the garden's rage of blossoms - Donald Hall "Freezes and Junes"

An invisible tree blossoming - Robert Hass "Tomas Transtromer: Song"

Each blossom of the soil - Felicia Hemans "To My Mother"

Plum blossom riot moments - Brenda Hillman "The Hour Until We See You"

Where the stone wishes to blossom - Linda Hogan "Home in the Woods"

Where the sweet hawthorn blossoms - Mrs. Volney E. Howard "The Dusty White Rose"

Cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

A rose of fire that must blossom - Aldous Huxley "Waking"

Crocus and spikenard blossom - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Blossom in the zone of calms - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: Sand Martins"

The incense of her blossoming - Jean Ingelow "The Star's Monument"

Ten square feet of tossing blossoms - Sade Iverson "Ten Square Feet of Garden"

The blossoms of the New Year's crown - Helen Hunt Jackson "New Year's Morning"

Fickle light on barren blossoms - Elinor Jenkins "April Nights"

Blossoms with a thousand thorns afret - Emily Pauline Johnson "Thistle-down"

Fallen from their blossoming height - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

Blossom bloody on an afternoon - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

A wisteria poked its lank blossoms through the cloudbank - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

White blossoms fondly murmuring - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"

A thousand Blossoms with the Day - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

All the blossom-breathing South - Joyce Kilmer "The Sorrows of King Midas"

Out from the blossoming shore - Archibald Lampman "Cloud-Break"

Every black tree blossomed outright - D.H. Lawrence "The Attack"

Blossoms of gold and blossoms of blood - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Blossoms at the brink of night - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"

Whose throat blossoms with spicy chocolates - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"

Brushes the blossoms against the balustrade - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough

Taking us deep into lotus blossoms - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson

Wave blossoms for my delight - Li Yu "[Wave blossoms for my delight]" transl. by Burton Watson

Beneath a blossoming lime - Amy Lowell "Clear, with Light Variable Winds"

Like April blossoms wind-pursued - Don Marquis "The Rondeau"

Gunpowder and blossom - John McCarthy "Planting"

Bees and blossoms speaking each to each - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ackerman Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Bees are dreaming in a blossom's crown - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Day" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

And no blossom close - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

That blossoms underground - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Ode to Silence"

Fresher than spring's blossoms be - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen

Blossoming over the sea - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Expressed themselves with thorns and sudden blossoms - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Glacial orange blossom of silence - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: II" transl. by James Nolan

With its long whip of lemon blossoms - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

This maze of blossom and sweet air - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"

When you gaze on the blossom - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live

The blossoms laughed and spoke to me - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Early Start"

Seed that promised blossom - Roden Noel "The Pity of it"

The little murmurs of the broken blossoms - Mary Oliver "Goldenrod, Late Fall"

Adored every blossom - Mary Oliver "Luke"

For the white blossoms, and the secrecy - Mary Oliver "Someday"

The blossoms from Juliet's breast - James Oppenheim "A Handful of Dust"

Lotus blossoms reach out and unfurl - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson

Lilacs blossom just as sweet - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"

Tiny blossoms on the battlefield - Ping Hsin "Spring Waters" transl. by Kai Yu Hsu

Warbler voices resonant under the blossoms - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

The dogwood blossoms cast a light - Alexander Posey "Spring in Tulwa Thloco"

Just because the rose has blossomed - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Float like blossoms of dust - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with Wanting Something"

The same as made blossoms in Eden - Andrew Ramsay "Atkinson's Mill"

Splendors of blossomed time - Theodore H. Rand "In Autumn's Dreamy Ear"

Making dolls of hollyhock blossoms - Molly Raynor "Grandy, 1939"

Made marble blossom in quarries - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"

Moth and blossom, blade and bee - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Recessional"

The thrush will pipe at twilight to draw the blossoms out - Lloyd Roberts "One Morning when the Rain-Birds Call"

Sudden blossoming of one more rose - Alice Wellington Rollins "Influence"

Refuses long to blossom - Alice Wellington Rollins "Purity"

A smut on every human blossom - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"

For Oppenheimer's optimal blossom - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"

And blossom in their dust - James Shirley "The Same"

Faith may blossom green again - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A New Year"

Where was blossom hangs a berry - "Silly Sweetheart"

Blossoms stirred by wings of eidolons - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

Apple blossoms buried in the tall grass - Richard Solomon "Spring Cleaning"

Upon branches of a thousand blossoms - "The Song of the Thrush"

While blossom bright the stars - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

My chest too small to hold the blossom - Alison Swan "Catalogue"

The yearning of the blossom toward the fruit - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"

The primrose that blossoms in the night - Keith Taylor "Through the Friendly Silence of the Moon"

To blossom from my dust - Francis Thompson "To My Godchild--Francis M. W. M."

Blossoming like afterthought - Natasha Trethewey "South"

Vermilion blossoms bear no fruit - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson

The weight of apples in the blossoms - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

The rumor of blossoming boughs - Louis Untermeyer "Healed"

Blossoms like the earliest tree - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Mockery"

Far-flung blossoms of desire - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XII" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Blossoms into a hyacinth-flower, cold, fragrant, white - Maximilian Voloshin "The Birth of a Poem" transl. by A. S. K. [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Break happily into blossom - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

Kissed the bony branches into blossom - Charles William Wallace "The Old Benoni Tree"

Peach blossoms thought only of fruit to come - Wang Chien "Palace Song" transl. by Burton Watson

His name still blossoms with the daisies - Edith Wharton "Lines on Chaucer"

That puts its magic blossom forth and dies - Edith Wharton "Nothing More"

Lifting her single blossom - John Hall Wheelock "Legend"

Fair blossoms spring from villany of weeds - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"

Rose blossoms, traitors to the night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Rose-Colored Camelia-Tree"

The gorgeous blossoms of the garden's tropic heart - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

In a fury of lilac blossoms - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"

How deep behind burned the blossoms of the mind - Humbert Wolfe "Envoi [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"

Where death's raven marriage blossom falls - Humbert Wolfe "Heine's Last Song"

Pay attention to blossoms and smoke - Nancy Wood "The Sacred Songs of Our Ancestors"

Hung on time's blossoming stem - George Edward Woodberry "St. John and the Faun"

The memory of onion blossoms - Wendy Xu "Looking at My Father"

With the broken blossom vanishing - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"

Trees whose blossoms shine no less - Francis Brett Young "Song [I made a song in my love's likeness]"


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