Potential Titles: Grass

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The blue cat of night glides in the grass - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

A hundred years I trembled in the grass - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Grasses obeisance in the wake - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"

A mammoth serpent winding through the tall grass - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"

The clocks are ticking in the cricket grass - Julia Alvarez "Intimations of Mortality from a Recollection in Early Childhood"

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

Take grass for granted - Fatimah Asghar "I Don't Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We've Done to the Earth"

In the grassy fields of our soul - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Under the dying grass moon - Mary Jo Bang "Given to Believe"

A grassy couch with pebbles set - Charles Baudelaire "The Corpse" transl. not credited

The disconsolate petals on the grass - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

Javelins of grass and sun - Stephen Vincent Benet "Road and Hills"

A patient willing descent into the grass - Wendell Berry "The Wish to be Generous"

Sleek as moonlit grass - Elizabeth Bishop "Behind Stowe"

Tender grass will hide the rugged stone - Arna Bontemps "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"

When you destroy a blade of grass - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"

Throw fantastic shadows on the grass - John Philip Bourke "The Golden Age"

Spark of dry grass - Susan Briante "13 Questions for the Next Economy"

Where knotted grass neglected lies - Anne Bronte "Home"

Of prayer against the grasses - Jericho Brown "Duplex"

Will tread on the golden grass - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"

Valleys of indifferent grasses - Jennifer Chang "A Horse Named Never"

Thorns falling on the imagined grass - Tina Chang "Astroturf"

Impatient as grass - Ama Codjoe "My Nothings"

Beside the poisonous grass - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"

Only the grass to fight - Hilda Conkling "Dandelion"

Told in shadows on the grass - Benjamin Copeland "The Larger Life"

Love's arrows falling in the grass - Walter Crane "Love's Arrows"

Perishes upon burnt grass - H.D. "Acon"

And sheep stand to their necks in grass so deep - W.H. Davies "In May"

Grass between dim lonely dunes of sand - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

Contending with the grass - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XIV: Purple Clover"

An anchor plummeting geologically through grass - Chris Dombrowski "See that my grave is swept clean"

A tangle of drenched grass - Edward Dowden "An Autumn Song"

Psyche slumbering in deep grass - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

Smelled of grass and gunsmoke - Kinsale Drake "(Re)location"

The cicada and dry grass singing - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"

Unravel the music of the grass - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs IV"

Make my notebooks into sheaves of grass - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Legioned like the grass - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "The Ancient Sacrifice"

Grasses strewn with delicate stars - John Gould Fletcher "The Endless Lament"

Enamelled domes tumble upon the grass - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

At a dinner party of grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Land Art"

A nervous brushwork of grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"

Guided by fragrance of grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 10"

Followed a path of winding white grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen A"

The smouldering square of flattened grass - Adam Ford "A House Is Not a Home!"

Morning ran and kissed the grass - John Freeman "The Wakers"

To borrow from the still grasses - Zona Gale "By My Side All Day Another Went"

Where the grasses bow down obedient to the blast - Deborah Garrison "Atlantic Wind"

Through hot air as through grass - Edmund Gosse "Lying in the Grass"

A wide expanse of grass dead to the night - John Grey "Skywatching"

White dew descends on the hundred grasses - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

The grass walls of a teenage wasteland - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"

Mingle with ribbons of grass - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Middle Creek, W. Va."

Grass springs green on the plain - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"

Sorting shadows long in the grass - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"

Tumbling in twenty rings into the grass - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"

Ecstasy directly transmitted to grass - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"

Over the weeping grass they drift - Mildred Howells "Fog Wraiths"

Bent grass dared not grow - Richard Hughes "Moon-Struck"

The jewelled heaven of the grasses - Aldous Huxley "Inspiration"

A dimness on the grasses - Jean Ingelow "The Star's Monument"

Where grass borders granite - Mark Irwin "Memory"

Hope for the nitrogen feeding your grass - K. Iver "For Missy Who Never Got His New Name"

The slight grass and the patient dust - Laura Riding Jackson "Prism"

In the dead grass by the stream - Robinson Jeffers "October Evening"

Flesh being grass, grass being bread - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"

The wind burns the grasses bare - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Line of Reason"

As through sun-singed grass - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

The blood-script of tall grass - Janet Kauffman "By the Time You Think Weaponry"

Nothing there but green grass and sticks - Janet Kauffman "My Father Tells Me"

A chorus of leaves and grasses - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

On the weary grass that grows near your heart - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"

The Guests Star-scatter'd on The Grass - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Restful as this quiet grass - Archibald Lampman "To the Cricket"

The voices of the breathing grass - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"

Pastures deep in rain-fed grass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

A sickle dropped in high grass - Hailey Leithauser "Guillotine"

Grass completely enrobed in ice - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"

The grass did not refuse - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley

And nobody but me will cut this grass - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"

The slow plan of the flowering grass - Sandra Lim "Certainty"

Holding a bundle of rattlesnake grass - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"

The demons in the bricks, the demons in the grass - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Flutter over drenched grasses - Amy Lowell "Solitaire"

Deep shadows on the grass - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"

Heaven's glory in the grass - George MacDonald "A Christmas Prayer"

Turns field to pyre, sand to grass - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "weasel"

Grass blade and star dust - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Song of the Sleeper"

No gold of autumn grasses - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"

Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"

Weight in the earth or glory in the grass - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

On grass brighter than jewels - Theodore Maynard "Blindness"

A cornucopia of wind and grass - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"

Nesting doves in the verdant grass - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"

Above the short brown grass asleep - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"

As golden rain in the singing grass - Louis J. McQuilland "Gladys in the Woodland"

Immersed in song like grass - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman

My fevered face wrapped in grass - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman

Grass rebelliously advancing to heaven - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

Of the flowers flooding grass - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

String threads of grass and slender rye - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

A silkworm caught in the grass - Tyler Mills "ectopic"

The wolfish starlings plunder the grass - Miguel Murphy "The Sunlight"

Grass with amaranth eyes - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

The Sun was sleeping in the grass - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Early Start"

Wild ferns and grass breathed it - Alfred Noyes "The Wings"

Read the slow text of grasses - Naomi Shihab Nye "In That Time"

A poem unwritten by grass - Naomi Shihab Nye "Unforgettable"

Weeds masquerading as grass - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"

The least blade of grass in the breeze - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

The cobras are partial to grass - Barry Pain "Martin Luther at Potsdam"

Where the breezes shake the grass - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "The Geebung Polo Club"

Trifling with each blade of grass - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Spellbound by the color of the grasses - Po Chu'i "Spring River" transl. by Burton Watson

Play at leap frog with the grass - Alexander Posey "The Idle Breeze"

Meadows sown with silken grass - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"

How grasses affect bison - Jessy Randall "Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963)"

Over grass and elm shadow - Diane Raptosh "World Upside Down"

Through the high grass of dream - Victoria Redel "The Pact"

Plucked grass in the dark - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"

Little kindred of the grass - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Recessional"

Plucks the purple plums and spills the cherries on the grass - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"

Cathedral of shadow and grass - Valencia Robin "Cathedral"

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

The rhapsodic seep and spray of sea grasses - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

Grass stains and beach glass - Richard Scott "Peridot"

Wilt and die with the autumn grass - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Like the trampled grass shall perish - Taras Shevchenko "On the Eleventh Psalm" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

The grey flowers and the fallen grass - Clark Ashton Smith "Forgetfulness"

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

Where the grass is hidden with a hungry hue - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"

With only the grass for bedding - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"

Moss and grasses cover their decay - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"

Grass growing upside down in the dark - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"

Grass and trees hold to their constant rule - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson

Dancing through the grass toward home - Keith Taylor "Prairie Fire"

Angled fields of grass and grain - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

Footpath creeping through the long grass to the door - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Sandhill cranes poised between the tall grass and oaks - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"

The way blades of grass are alone - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Belonging"

Grass grows in a stable - Adil Tunyaz "But a Thorn Was Left in Our Tongues..." transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Clipped to a grass blade's underside - Chase Twichell "Never"

Worthy of the patient grass - Louis Untermeyer "How Much of Godhood"

The brave persistence of the grass - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Something swift runs under the grass - Mark Van Doren "Wind in the Grass"

Bones in the grass - Derek Walcott "Salsa"

Nor let the grass of tarrying grow - William Watson "Lines (with a Volume of the Author's Poems Sent to M.R.C.)"

In the waving grass of your minds - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Where the new grass flames - William Carlos Williams "The Widow's Lament in Springtime"

A little dew on the sunrise grass - Charles Wright "Tomorrow"

Amid winds that vanquish the grass - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


The frost has stopped flirting with the dunegrass - Ching-In Chen "Simulacra"


One grass-blade in its veins - Francis Thompson "All Flesh"


Grasslands extending as if without limit - Mary Soon Lee "The Sign of the King"


Where sea-grass tangles with shore-grass - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"


Where sea-grass tangles with shore-grass - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"


Will welcome you with sweetgrass and sage - N. Scott Momaday "Song of Longing"


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