Potential Titles: Weed

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A perfect flush of weeds and flowers - Sandra Alcosser "Cry"

Seeds for next summer's weeds - Julia Alvarez "Last Trees"

Above the weeds of death - Maya Angelou "Elegy"

Rooting out weeds, trampling on trash - William Archila "Bury This Pig"

Where the salt weed sways - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

But weeds, in time, are flowers - Ardelia Maria Barton "Nature's Plan"

Would borrow thy sad weeds - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "Song"

Elastic humbleness of flowers and weeds - Maxwell Bodenheim "Landscape"

And weeds usurp the ground - Anne Bronte "Home"

Poisonous weeds of artifice - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

Out of tangled weed and thorny seed - Madison Cawein "Ghosts"

Thorns and weeds fill the palace chamber - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Idly watering weeds of casual growth - Hartley Coleridge "Regrets"

Stained among the salt weeds - H.D. "Sea Iris"

Weeds already rising from the dead - Jim Daniels "Elegy for the Nasty Neighbor"

One lone-wind-whipped weed - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"

As the sea develops pearl and weed - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVII: The Wife"

Stir the dark weeds with the turn of the tide - Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Murdered Lover"

who these vinyl weeds so irritate - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

In the tangled weeds of recurring dreams - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XI"

When I sat in the weeds - Katie Ford "Breaking Across Us Now"

Fumbling for weedy steps with foot and hand - John Freeman "Waking"

Up from the tangle of withered weeds - Robert Frost "A Late Walk"

Just as the soil tarnishes with weed - Robert Frost "Putting in the Seed"

Ice and snow, dead weeds and unmated birds - Robert Frost "Wind and Window Flower"

Upon a rainbow drift of weeds - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

To weed the hell from my mind - Andrea Gibson "Living Proof"

A violence in the weeds - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

A spell to blast the weed - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

Weed well your own deceitful hearts - Eliza Paul Gurney "Ephesians 4:32"

Where weeds and ivy climb - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

By winding weeds embraced - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Noon"

A green itch of weeds - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"

Summon the seeds & weeds - Brenda Hillman "Girl Sleuth"

Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Inversnaid"

The yellow weeds you used to ride - Nora Hopper "The Wind Among the Reeds"

Worthless weeds upon the shore of Time - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"

Weeds have become our asphodel - Maurice Hutton, LL.D. "Introduction [to Wayside Poems by William Hodgson Ellis]"

A tangle of medicinal weeds - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"

Brushed her mortal weeds against their wings - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"

Boulevards sprouting their haystraw weeds - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"

But let it run to grass and weeds - "Johnny's Garden" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

At ease beneath some pleasant weed - John Keats "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"

Hidden in a drawer of wilt and weeds - Vandana Khanna "Goddess in the Dark"

Weeding out sharp thorns and nettles - Jan Kochanowski "Laments V" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Walk across the field of goldenrod and mustard weeds - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Pick out my death from the weeds - Christopher Kondrich "Map of Belonging"

As a weed beneath the ocean - Archibald Lampman "Passion"

Crowned and swathed with weed - Archibald Lampman "September"

The weeds your fields have marred - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

The weeds by hostile breezes sown - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

With weedy havoc tossed by searching winds - Agnes Lee "The Silent House"

The lone weed tumbles ten thousand miles - Li Po "Seeing a Friend Off" transl. by Burton Watson

With hope as wild as weeds - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"

A weed stalk is the devil's walking stick - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"

As weeds continue to idle - Sandra Lim "Certainty"

The weed from Lethe wharf - James Russell Lowell "To C. F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe"

Sweet nectar out of weed and cloud - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"

A fist full of weeds that rise yellow - Jamaal May "I Have This Way of Being"

Lays aside her tattered winter weeds - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"

Let the world grow weeds - Edna St Vincent Millay "Interim"

Like a weed that grows to naught - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Suicide"

The roses in a waste of weeds - William Mountain "Dies Irae"

A path that weeds could not efface - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"

Tie knots around the heads of weeds - Naomi Shihab Nye "Feather"

Clothed with ragged weeds - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull

A voice in the weeds - Mary Oliver "'Just a minute,' said a voice ..."

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

The lush weed of our sin - Shaemas OSheel "Thanksgiving for Our Task"

A jungle of weeds and brush - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Incense of the social weed - W. Theodore Parkes "Bohemians, Hail!"

Coiling into thickets of sharp weeds - Kiki Petrosino "In Louisa"

Only weeds by a better name - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"

Yellow lading slips among the weeds - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"

No friends in sable weeds appear - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

Go hide among the darkest weeds - Miriam Clark Potter "The Solemn Frog"

Down deep, among the dungeon weeds - Miriam Clark Potter "The Solemn Frog"

Your garden raises only weeds - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Haunted Tree"

Give me the deep-rooted weeds - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with African Violets"

A weed we named white whisper - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"

That had tumbled in the weeds - James Whitcomb Riley "Das Krist Kindel"

Gathering weeds by the stars - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"

With a glimmer of rustling weeds - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

The weeds now have their hour of beauty - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Good Old Days"

the bathtub full of your spring weeds - C.T. Salazar "River"

The soul's garden you have weeded - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

The sweet smell of weeds - Diane Seuss "Weeds"

Keep invention in a noted weed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVI"

Among the weeds I'll always be - Joyce Sidman "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain"

Fetched up from the weeds of the drowned - A.E. Stallings "The Catch"

With onyx pebbles and orange weed - George Sterling "North Wind"

Go hence with flowers and weeds - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"

Choked with weeds of car - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"

And every weed grow proud - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Fair blossoms spring from villany of weeds - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"

Green stars of scrawny weed - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"

Which royally did wear her crown of weeds - William Wordsworth "Mutability"

Downwind through the winter weeds - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."

Both alike are wind-driven weeds - Yin Shih "Parting from the Courtier Sung" transl. by Burton Watson

Of grey lavender bushes and weedy lawns - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"


Before they became wayweeds - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"

Pace up the weed-grown paths - Charlotte Mew "The Sunlit House"


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