Potential Titles: Paint

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Painted insects floating motionless - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

With all the band of painted forms - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Each fragment paints its little hour - Alice M. Ardagh "Sic Passim"

Soft friendships of pretty paint and kindnesses of mortar - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Structures"

While a painting dries in a furnace fire - Mary Jo Bang "Complications of Morning"

painting wings onto a dryad - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

The image of that bliss to paint - Cora C. Bass "A Song to the Zephyr"

In painted frescoes shown - Charles Baudelaire "The Evil Monk" transl. not credited

And paint with poppied words - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

He slips a painted acid in the drink - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"

The same faithful colours paint the mind - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

Put those shadows in your painting - Terry Blackhawk "In Duple Time"

Painted in a delectable poison - Tommye Blount "The Bug Chaser"

Moon-paint on a colorless house - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"

Paint your tresses with silvered brush - John Philip Bourke "Till Day Is Done"

Painted upon that fluttering kite - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"

Paint the tissue fancy weaves - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert II: The Parlour"

Then paint the world in aperture - Paul Cameron Brown "Oriface"

Darkly painted on the crimson sky - William Cullen Bryant "To a Waterfowl"

Awakes the painted tribes of light - William Cullen Bryant "The Yellow Violet"

Paints the color back onto my cheeks - Taylor Byas "I begin the day thinking"

Paint their dreams of dead desire - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"

Last year's extinctions paint the wall - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

Paint, wax, fat dragon tears - May Chong "Kamcia"

Who painted them by creation - Jamie Harris Coleman "The Artist Above"

Perfectly painted the color of cold - Misha Collins "Clasped"

Like foolish birds to painted grapes - Abraham Cowley "To the Royal Society"

If frost should paint his orchard white - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

Painted neon underneath my eyes - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"

painting of the dark with meteors - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IV)"

Leonardo's paints on canvas live - Russell W. Davenport "Poems IX"

Paint away the faults of yesterday - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

Painted by the sun - Julia de Burgos "To Julia de Burgos"

With which she paints the road to favour - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

We painted dawn into midnight - Desdamona "Once and Future"

On the beautiful bleak enamel paint job - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"

Lichen to paint my exoskeleton in bursts of blue and yellow - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Paint the small wing of a moth - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

Proud of plume and paint - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

Or paint with bleeding stroke - Max Eastman "Thought of Protagoras"

Mouth painted shut on the answer - Louise Erdrich "The Sacraments"

Painted with four-leaf clovers - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"

And paints the shadows green and red - James Elroy Flecker "The Gates of Damascus"

To paint swirls and stars on my skin - Mina Florea "Remember"

Paint her border with a smoke's thread - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Painter"

Learned to navigate painted margins - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"

Four letters in painted plywooden proclamation - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

Paintings of high art along the wall - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 3"

Spend years painting your soul - Nikita Gill "Your Heart Is Not a Hospital"

Paints an upside-down bowl of blue essence - Margaret Hasse "Art"

Painted with his fists and elbows - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 4. Summer 1969"

Thought him all her Fancy Painted - Oliver Herford "The Fairy Godmother-in-Law I: The Wedding"

Lungs of a painting - Brenda Hillman "Wood's Edge"

Paintings hanging yet in memory's ghostly halls - E. Curtiss Hine "Christine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Like the painting's fifth cow - Jane Hirshfield "February 29"

Painting pictures worth nothing at all - Richard Hughes "Isaac Ball"

The walls painted with myths - Carly Inghram "That Which Carries Breath or the Living Wind"

perfect for lipstick to paint on my lips - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"

If you lean down to smell a painted trillium - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

Hopscotch squares painted new in the street - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

Trying to paint the sea - Jeff Kass "Oh, Splotch of Blue Paint"

Bubbles up fabulous algal paints - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Painted turtles, pumpkinseed or green sunfish - Janet Kauffman "Wanting Ice"

I painted your name in lace - Amy King "You Make the Culture"

I am dreams painted onto the skin - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

Ask why he sold her painted visions - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

Paint a dark, salty blood of surreal skies & wet soil - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

What craft may paint the unearthly peace - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

While Memory paints with faithful force - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"

Sometimes the paintings come to life - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Words to paint her frantic sorrow - Isabella MacFarlane "The Two Southern Mothers" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

The problem of cigarettes and paint - Louise Mathias "The Problem of Hands"

include the image of another painting - Pattie McCarthy "a woman peeling apples, with a small child"

No tinted thoughts to paint you true - Claude McKay "Heritage"

Paint field and flower in nature's hues - H.P. McKnight "Dedication"

Paints phantom purple upon ancient snow - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Night" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Paint me with salt mud and clay - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"

Painted water blue to keep out ghosts - Claire Millikin "Coke-bottle Barbie-doll"

These painted lizards crawled aside - "The Misanthrope"

Your paintings carry the genes of rivers - Grace Nichols "Rivers"

Brushstrokes of a painting half-finished - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"

Vanishes in paint on a canvas - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"

Lead paint and sulfur dioxide - Matthew Olzmann "Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now"

All the mirrors were painted black - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

The scenes our dreams have painted - Dorothy Parker "The Passionate Freudian to His Love"

Ghosts of pictures never painted - Linda Pastan "Late in October"

Painting the leaden sky - Ann Whitford Paul "My Dog and I"

But a painted mockery there - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"

Thy rewards are painted clay - Francis Quarles "The World's Fallacies"

Freed from the painted dead - Theodore H. Rand "In Autumn's Dreamy Ear"

Paints the peacock's hundred eyes - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

Spray paint odes for boarded up storefronts - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

Scenes now painted on the map of Time - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"

My tenderness paints it large - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

A woman among them, painting - Muriel Rukeyser "Painters"

Painted over haggard bones - Carl Sandburg "Trafficker"

Paint maelstroms into Milky Ways - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"

Layered with paints and cut paper - Leslie Contreras Schwartz "A Body's Universe of Big Bangs"

Where he will paint us in silent pastels - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

With nature's own hand painted - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XX"

To the painted banquet bids my heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVII"

Though the painting grows decayed - Jonathan Swift "Stella's Birthday. 1720"

All snarled wires and smashed paint - Sonya Taaffe "Teinds"

painted with blood & constant fear - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

Taxis rubbing up against each other's paint - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

Genius cannot paint a dying scream - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"

Painting dead carnivals upon a fan - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"

Beneath the painted mask of fiction - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"

Moth-winged Cupid painted on the air - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

Paints a chess-board on paper - Tu Fu "The River Village" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough and Amy Lowell

The painted shell of disbelief - John Updike "Jacopo Pontormo"

Through the nocturnal paint of drizzling rain - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

Painting asters by the brook - Julia Carter Welch "Fall"

Triangles painted by pain - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Shape Shift"

To watch the earth paint the moon gray - Amie Whittemore "Lunar Eclipse"

Paint the golden morrow - John Greenleaf Whittier "Barclay of Ury"

The painted woods are laughing at the faces sour and sad - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Illumining grasses and painting the air - "Why?" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

That mock the painted bow of Iris - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Rain makes a painting on the earth - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

Truth is now her painted toy - William Butler Yeats "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"


Suggest the uses of paint thinner - James Marcus Schuyler "April"


A bed of painter's hands - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"

A landscape painter at pop punk court - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"

Rooted at one level in the painter's art - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"

The painter must learn his art anew - Arthur Macy "A Bit of Color"


The penciled-in figure on the painted-over mural of time - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"


Two big planets of unpainted silence - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"


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