Potential Titles: Moss

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In a crib of black twigs and moss - Seth Abramson "The Woods in Concord"

Through moor, and moss, and many a mire - "Annan Water"

Stars of flowers brightening the moss - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

Dark with the thick moss of centuries - William Cullen Bryant "Monument Mountain"

Covered their remains with mourning moss - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Fringed with moss and flowers - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu "Grotte d'ou sort ce clair ruisseau" translated by Felicia Hemans (Author attribution in source only gives 'Chaulieu' as the poet's name. Based on the translator's dates, this poet seems most likely as the author.)

Dear to the moss - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature II: May-Flower"

Overgrown by cunning moss - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LIV: Charlotte Bronte's Grave"

The mosses creep to her dancing feet - Julia C.R. Dorr "Over the Wall"

Underneathness and the welcome of mosses - Camille T. Dungy "Characteristics of Life"

Builds her nest of moss and spider webs - Camille T. Dungy "Natural History"

Knocking off the mosses from its antlers - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"

All moss and radioactive daffodils - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

The hangings woven all of rocks and mosses - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Green mosses in the melting snow - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"

And the moss creeps after - Richard Hughes "The Ruin"

Warps and wefts amid mats of moss - Jenny Johnson "Gay Marriage Poem"

With wealth of moss and fern - Lionel Johnson "In England"

Turning life into gray moss - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Above mosaics of tinted moss - Lucy Larcom "November"

The moss is a fiction of my mind - Rickey Laurentiis "Writing an Elegy"

O'ergrown by creeping tendrils and rank moss - Emma Lazarus "The South"

Fairy rings on floors of moss - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"

Four stones with their heads of moss - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XII: Ryno, Alpin"

An empire of moss, dead yellow, and carapace - Randall Mann "The Fall of 1992, Gainesville, Florida"

Whirlpool surrounded by ocean and hanging moss - Maya Marshall "Port of Entry"

When old eternity becomes mossy and gray - James E. McGirt "True Love"

The mossed hush of ruins - M.S. Merwin "Walkers"

Stones under the moss of the viridescent storm - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

Kingdom of the mysterious mosses - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Towards the ancient scent of moss - Pablo Neruda "Ox" transl. by Dennis Maloney

A mouse in the moss - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hummingbird"

Transparent mosses for my beard - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

Shadows the color of moss at dusk - Walter Pavlich "Road with Five Waterfalls"

Shoals of mossy rocks and mussel shells - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"

Will be looking up at moss - Sina Queyras "Cut"

Moss behaving like a guide - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

Threads her fingers through the moss - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"

One was the smell of cool wet moss - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "At the Water"

Stamped the miles of mosses and blackened out the day - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"

Moss swelling in concrete cracks - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

His table is bedecked with moss - anonymous? "The Royal Court"

A creeper clinging to the moss - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Overgrown with azure moss and flowers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

Hemming us in with a cloak of mosses - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

The shield of moss encircling - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Heliotrope"

The ragged ferns and roughened moss - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "November"

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

Sunlight drops its gold upon the moss - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Give me wild things of moss and peat - Muriel Stuart "The Cloudberry"

Between the moss and the stone - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"

behind our walls of thatch and moss and tin - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"

Step by step in mouldering moss - Henry van Dyke "Light Between the Trees"

Wish for socks of moss - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Moss"

Flinty fragments clad in moss - Thomas Warton Jr. "On King Arthur's Round Table at Winchester"

Moss gentles my broken stones - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Hore Abbey"

Scrape the moss from our names - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"

From the eaves of moss and cypress - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Rain crocheting moss from mist - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"


Grey-mossed and lichened by centuries - Arthur Colton "The Poet and the Fountain"

Set thick with moss-grown boulders - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

Filmed over with moss-roses - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"

Moss-weed root tangled in sand - H.D. "Sea Iris"


From the peatmoss of our winter-keep - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"


Silences that hang like Spanish moss - Conrad Hilberry "Loping Road"

That clings with nails to Spanish moss - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


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