Potential Titles: Void

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Till Thought and Purpose caused the void to leap - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

Wander in and out of material and void - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Not trusting the beautiful void to seek him out - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Passes through the void with no resistance - Rae Armantrout "Chirality"

With devious feet, and void of fixed intent - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

A void within voids - Rita Banerjee "Sleep"

By dividing the form from void - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

In the void and dismal yard - F.N.W. Bateson "Trespassers"

Hurled the void abyss along - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Lingering by Lethe's tideless void - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

The Voids of Hell expand - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"

Sinks in roaring voids of night - Robert Hugh Benson "The Teresian Contemplative"

The void comes into form - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"

Armies out of the burnt void - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

Yet feel no aching void - C.S. Calverley "Contentment"

A silence over the void sky - Wilfred Childe "Sea Fairy"

Atoms and the void dimensional time - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"

Where atoms sing to the void - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"

Everlasting limbos void of time - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

When in the inexistent void I heard - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XIV"

The frigid void preserved her in a virtual stasis - Jan Cronos "She Remains"

Which lights the void which reason leaves - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

Across the vain and vacant void - Coningsby Dawson "Masterless"

Slitting a seam in the void - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

But fill the void with definition - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

Whose spirits haunt the void - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"

Sit at the edge of our great new void - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

That whispers courage in the void - Luciano Folgore "The Submarine" transl. by Anne Simon

A droning threat in the void - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"

The trackless void of scowling space - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Passage through the void of myself - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"

The ratio of the body to the void - Louise Gluck "A Village Life"

Lost in the liminal void of lamentation - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

Remote in voids star-purged - Louis Golding "The Moon-Clock"

And therefore void of woe - Barnabe Googe "The Fly"

Or honey void of sting - Hafiz "The Divan XXXI" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Reluctantly from the void - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

Wakes to behold the void within - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

Down the nethermost chasms of the Void - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"

Through voids that roll away - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"

The void's turn, mournful and absolute - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

From here and now into the void sublime - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Ever prove all void of care - Thomas Hood "To Goldenhair"

While Israfel loud chanted from the Void - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Lonely in that void even for pain - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

When mind is void - Kim Unsong "Life Void"

Jobs making infinite voids - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Limitless and void and lonely - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"

In the dust and void of time - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"

Stretching to the void of distance - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VII: A Reproach"

The void where fuel grasps at rocks - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

She walked the great clear void - Li Po "Poem No.19 in the Old Manner" transl. by Burton Watson

Vexing the void abyss - Don Marquis "The Butchers at Prayer (1914)"

Cannot wait to slip into the void - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize

Singing in the frozen void - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Sets the well-stitched void - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

A degree in a circle inside a void - Khaled Mattawa "Season of Migration to the North/Northwest"

Prone and void as any thoughtless dash - George Meredith "The State of Age"

The void is calendared in stone - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

Whose imagination flares in the void - N. Scott Momaday "Fire"

The voices of wolves ring into the void - N. Scott Momaday "The Listener"

A shipwreck in a void - Pablo Neruda "The Dawn's Debility" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A white shivering in the void - Pablo Neruda "Swan Lake" transl. by Alastair Reid

Bliss hovering above the void - Precious Okoyomon "The animal that is most vulnerable is usually the most cruel / It is impossible to separate it from what it remembers"

Bigger weapons to sound the void - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Void behind the twin masks of light and dark - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

In his void of redundancy - Robert Pinsky "Stupid Meditation on Peace"

Who stayed behind to count the void that is - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"

Separated by air and the narrowest of voids - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "It is a camp despite the name"

My eyes trespassing in every void and flesh - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"

A vast April moving on the void - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Down the void withdrawn - Charles G.D. Roberts "Eastward Bound"

With flame and blackness ridge the void - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"

Sends forth her cry into the void - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Tracing shapes of void from starlight - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"

Vengeance hurled from utter Void - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah II: The White Stone"

Keep strange faith with entities of elder void - Ann K. Schwader "Void Flyers"

Out of the void and the vast - Clinton Scollard "The Mist and the Sea"

A sudden sense of the frozen void - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Filled with circumgalactic stardust and the void - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"

To contain a drop of the void - Tom Sleigh "Space Station"

Whose floor is the lower void - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"

Flung through the void's expanse - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"

Tossed into the ecstatic void - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

My fears, in bitterness and sorrow, void of tears - Alan Sullivan "Confession, Creed, and Prayer"

Sit'st alone within her void, cold halls - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Gleams of shining wonder dazzle through the void - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The signal moon is zero in their voids - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

To perforate dense void - McKenzie Toma "Disintegrating Calculus Problem"

Who know no void nor common sense - John Updike "Song of Myself"

Delivers an eloquent speech on the void - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

That falls on the ruins or on the void - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

A bet that in the void vanishes - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Came out of the void beyond Jupiter - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Leaving behind nameless voids - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

Voids that never knew the pity of creation - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Upon the summits void of strife - John Hall Wheelock "Travail"

All void of shame, of decency, and grace - "The Whore"

We haven't heard from the void lately - Charles Wright "The Song from the Other Side of the World"

That flees the void of emptiness - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 16" transl. by Katherine Silver

That embroider the void - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 16" transl. by Katherine Silver


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