Potential Titles: Pale

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Pale in saffron mist - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

And tortured hands so pale - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

The sunbeams have paled with fear - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"

Pale in the dust now is my sun - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles

To forsake this absent god tired in the pale grass - William Archila "Childhood"

Orange moon, pale night, and cricket hum - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"

And its pale tenement of clay - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

Perchance in the pale halls of Hecate - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"

While pale Medea culled her deadly flowers - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"

If the diary of a heart pales - Lou Barrett "Notes on a Thursday Feast"

Into the pale of that dry sea - Elizabeth Bartlett "Afternoon of a Journey"

Pours a gloomy torrent on the pale lessees - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Blazed with the pale dazzle of an April moon - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"

Pale Queen of the silent night - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"

Pallid dawns and pale sunsets enclosing our gray inclinations - Bruce Boston "Gray People"

A muster of pale stars - Lucie Brock-Broido "Basic Poem in a Basic Tongue"

The pale blight of time and sorrow - Charlotte Bronte "Mementos"

The switchgrass pale and starved for groundwater - Molly McCully Brown "Virginia, Autumn"

Pale glitterings and fiery flakes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Wrote their epitaph in pale wood flowers - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Grew pale toward a morning of sun - Witter Bynner "This Man"

Flowers of the dogwood blow over the pale anemones - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

When the pale stars fade at dawn - C.S. Calverley "Arcades Ambo"

Beneath whose folds the trees grow pale - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"

Planets pale in violet skies - Willa Cather "Song"

The cold pale patina of sky - John R. Chamberlain "Lines"

The cups of red wine turned pale - Mary Coleridge "Unwelcome"

With the far stars pale above them - Henry Rutgers Conger "The Purple Hills"

Our paler festival of hope - Susan Coolidge "Easter"

That pale and grieving shore - Susan Coolidge "Flood-Tide"

Like some pale huntress - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

The stars of night grew pale before the morning's light - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"

The wind in gardens where pale roses die - Adelaide Crapsey "Oh, Lady, Let the Sad Tears Fall"

In the pale hollow of those ghostly hands - Adelaide Crapsey "To Man Who Goes Seeking Immortality"

Upon this pale and passion-frozen star - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Up with the pale important stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"

Paler be they than daunting death - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

The frail, pale music of my memory - Russell W. Davenport "Poems V"

A great pale apple of silver and pearl - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"

A pale sound like running - Meg Day "10 AM is When You Come to Me"

Those who rule the paler orbs of night - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Pale despair rules no longer - Christine de Pisan "Virelay [Sweet, in whom my joy must be]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

The primrose queen lights her pale lamps - Geoffrey Dearmer "May-June"

A bracelet adorning the land's pale wrist - Chris Dombrowski "Was it a sign? I think it probably was"

And the pale moon came up silently - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Summer"

Wreathed with moon-flowers pale - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

A pale dream of Nature mocking man - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

When the swift stars pale - Edward Dowden "A Song"

Pale from light obscure - Edward Dowden "To a Child Dead as Soon as Born"

The large, yearning eyes of pale Narcissus - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"

Of passion pale and amber-kissed - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"

Pale as the spirit of the stories - Heid E. Erdich "Our Words Are Not Our Own"

The pale green light of distant moons - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

The northern streamers paled Napoleon's lurid star - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

On the pale and crystal desert hills - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"

Where nevermore the rose of sunset pales - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

From pale river-pools of sky - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Upon the pale lower terraces of my dream - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

A pale ideal lost in the vast grey sky - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

The Milky Way's pale streamers flash past in flame - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"

When from the window poured pale light - John Freeman "Stone Trees"

Of some beloved hue that pales - Zona Gale "Light"

How the moon makes the planets pale - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Kindled pale with promise - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Those numbers pale and horrid - Richard Glover "Admiral Hosier's Ghost"

From vivid crimson paled to fainter gloss - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

Pale and purse-proud children of the fog - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

A pale gap in stone's imagination - torrin a. greathouse "Medusa with the Head of Perseus"

A pale bird, circling you with air - Kimberly Grey "What We Have Lost"

I see her pale face looking down - Viscountess Grey "Echo"

The pale unsistered Phaedra - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"

Pale antlers barely stirring as he hunts - Thom Gunn "Considering the Snail"

Till the brow of Night grew pale and starless - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Star-like gems which blow beside pale sorrel - J.C.H. "A Day in Early Summer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.44-v.I, 1 Nov. 1884]

With pale reflection of her star - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"

Where pale stars pierced the dark - Tom Hall "Her Reverie"

Where death's pale angels tread - Frances E. Watkins Harper "I Thirst"

Gaunt and pale remorseless king - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Though pity's cheek grow pale - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

What pale augury, what benison, what ancient prophecy - Charles L. Hildreth "Mithra" [Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1885]

Take heart in the pale light - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

The silver beams of the pale stars - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"

What pale excuse is this - Elizabeth Curtis Holman "After a Reading of 'Darkwater'"

With emblems of pale silver - "The Hosts of Faery" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Gather up the poor, pale shreds - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"

The pale down-trodden aster lifts her head - Helen Hunt Jackson "November"

The pale rust of this moon - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"

Last night the sun went pale to bed - Dr. Jenner (1810) "Signs of Rain" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 15, June 30, 1832]

A strand of the pale moon's hair - Helene Johnson "What do I care for morning"

The final pale song of the sky - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"

To unclose the pale gates of sunrise - James Joyce "Chamber Music: III"

Pale flowers on his mantle, dark leaves on his hair - James Joyce "Strings in the Earth and Air"

Thro' the sad echoes of pale Memory's cave - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Of pale-mouthed prophet dreaming - John Keats "Psyche"

The sun gems their pale robes with diamonds - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [Walking by moonlight on the golden margin]"

The pale blue fabric of the air - Ted Kooser "Turkey Vultures"

Where the pale sun bobbed in the sump of the granite - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

As at the noon's pale core - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"

With the pale gray shadowy plumes - Archibald Lampman "By an Autumn Stream"

Patched with pale water sleeping - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"

Pale against this gorgeous hour - Lucy Larcom "November"

Flakes of pale and orphaned foam - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway I: The Shadow on the Shore"

The wan, wondering look of the pale sky - D.H. Lawrence "Bei Hennef"

A pale smoke of violin - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: Second Movement"

The paler primrose of a second spring - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Crimes that pale the cheek to dream - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things III: Ruins" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

The wraith of winter, grown so pale - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Miracle"

Where the pale sea melts into the sky - Dorothea Mackellar "Sea-Fog"

A highway where pale lilies blow - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

For what pale giraffes have I left Byzantium - Joyce Mansour "The Sun in Capricorn" transl. by Carol Cosman

Pale legs exposed to infernal snow - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"

I shall be pale lace of wind - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"

Where hope grew pale - George Martin "Marguerite"

Pale icicle and lambent flame - Louis J. McQuilland "Queens in Red and White"

A pale suit stitched from a riverbank - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"

The pale angle of time and eternity - N. Scott Momaday "Angle of Geese"

Pale wooer of the solemn night - Robert Morris "The Student's Dream of Fame"

The circles of grief turn pale - Pablo Neruda "General Franco in Hell" translated by Richard Schaaf

The pale pleasure of the sand - Pablo Neruda "Goodbye to the Snow" transl. by Alastair Reid

Followed upon the pale jaguars - Pablo Neruda "Guatemala" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Honey in the belly of pale melons - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Your pale fifteen-eyed head - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Before the old rose grew pale - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"

Pale and narrow and hidden in the roots - Mary Oliver "Daisies"

Sweetly tint the paling lies - Dorothy Parker "Recurrence"

Pale moonlight silvers the sobbing sea - William Theodore Peters "Death and Love"

The pale full moon, in silent pride - Geo. D. Prentiss "Lines [The Sunset's sweet and holy blush]"

The armies of earth at your sight would turn pale - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

But ever quits our western lands before the winter pale - "Q--The Quail" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

The fumes of pale camellias - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "North and South"

Palls of dusky paleness cling - M. Regan "The Hollow"

The pale flame of your foot - Edgell Rickword "Intimacy"

And Reason pales upon her throat - John Rollin Ridge "The Harp of Broken Strings"

Enshrouds the spirit sorrowing pale - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"

Hold the breath still and heart pale - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

Censored truth as pale as fear - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"

To caress the pale mask of your face - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"

Pale ruin with a heart of fire - Lola Ridge "A Worn Rose"

The pale cliffs of falsehood on the right - John Robertson "The Prince of Orange in 1672"

Grew pale beneath its light - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"

Before the paling of the stars - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [Before the paling of the stars]"

Of pale desire in incompleteness - Christina Rossetti "Diverse Worlds, Time and Eternity" [selections]

Before the phantom of Pale Winter died - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Sweet as a pale, courageous star - Margaret E. Sangster "To an Old Schoolhouse"

Paler than dry grass - Sappho (transl. by Mary Barnard)

Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIII"

Crown the pale year weak and new - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"

Pale for weariness - Percy Bysshe Shelley "To the Moon"

Pale exile from the holy land - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Unfolds like a primrose, pale and scented - Joyce Sidman "Love Poem of the Primrose Moth"

From vast pale networks underground - Joyce Sidman "The Mushrooms Come"

The pale pewter path of the trees' parting - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"

Or dancing along the waters pale - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"

A merry home amid the ruins pale - B. Simmons "To Swallows on the Eve of Departure" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]

Within its pale sad air each angry feeling fades - B. Simmons "Vanities in Verse: Letters of the Dead: To Livia" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]

While some pale Seer interpreted their tones - B. Simmons "Vanities in Verse: Letters of the Dead: Parting Precepts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]

The pale and sorrowful desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"

Pale as with eternal sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Winter Moonlight"

At the pale limits of the world - W. Force Stead "The Burden of Babylon"

Pale about the lifeless fountain - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

And only ghosts of old pale Sorrows walk - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"

The pale flamingoes of the dawn - L.A.G. Strong "The Bird Man"

The pale Boreal Child sang to the soul of Naught - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Pale with the promise of pride - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"

The peering moon went pale - Genevieve Taggard "Skull Song"

The light of this pale choked day - Edward Thomas "After Rain"

Crave the pale secrets of the moon - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

In the night's pale coronet - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"

The pale grass is still frosted with black - Lillian Tsay "The Resolution of N" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]

And sing until the stars grow pale - Tsiang-Tien "Watching and Wondering" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

All the pale stars down bright rivers wept - W.J. Turner "Death"

Silver as the moon is pale - Katherine Tynan "The Riders"

A swift dark wind that turns the maples pale - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

Great planets slip their arcs as the small pale stars multiply - Noah Warren "Shuttle"

Under a pale sky where no shadows fall - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Pale pastures of the sea - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"

Pale and misty particles of Time - Helen Hay Whitney "Aspiration I"

Pale as the ghost of a flower - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"

A pale and crownless rose - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"

The hazel's gold is paling - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"

Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Holding converse with pale lunar light - Adolf Wolff "Excuse Me, Muse"

Pale divinity of hidden evil - Francis Brett Young "Doves"

In the pale stains of stars - Adam Zagajewski "Summer '95"


Yearning for the pale-eyed star - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Song of the Watcher"

The pale-faced marble tells the softened tale - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]

A curtain hangs the pale-lit throne of Night - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

In pale-mouthed despair - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXV"

Phantoms of the pale-white stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Morning Pool"

Golden and phantom-pale they lay - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"


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