Potential Titles: Wood/Woods

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Shut my bramblewood door - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.2" transl. by Burton Watson

Trampled on brushwood and fern - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Hunting the King 1792"

Dreamt a grove grown for coffinwood - Chase Berggrun "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"

Traces scars cut deep into the dreamwood - Russell Brakefield "Mackinaw Island"

Driftwood.

Fifty years under the greenwood tree - Andrew Lang "The Brigand's Grave"

The keening of dust on hardwood - Julia Bouwsma "Upon Opening Another Folded Day"

Further down pinewoods' blood horizon - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"

Surrendering to a piece of plywood - Tyree Daye "Friday Night on the Hill"

A barge of plywood and empty milk cartons - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Four letters in painted plywooden proclamation - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

Sandalwood venom in my scattered mouth - Wendy Guerra "Red" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Let him fashion you from sandalwood - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 2"

paper from the inner bark of sandalwood - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

Cut from an awkward block of ship-wood - H.D. "Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4"

Down aisles of tangled underwood - Don Marquis "The Rondeau"

Wildwood.


a walk in a midwinter ochre wood - Jason Allen-Paisant "And You..."

Dante's dark wood closing in - Julia Alvarez "Last Trees"

Startling the wood bird's madrigal - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"

The stripped woods and chilled waters - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

Characters branded for a monument of wood & rock - William Archila "El Mozote"

The way wood changes to fire - William Archila "El Mozote"

Speaks through your hollow carved wood - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

Since woods were only acorns - Devan Barlow "Dear Charles Perrault"

Sang wonder through the woods - Elizabeth Bartlett "Afternoon of a Journey"

Wander through a tangled wood - Charles Baudelaire "Correspondences" transl. not credited

Ageless things in awakened woods - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

Lost together in a wood turned rock - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"

The waltz of iron and wood - Joshua Bennett "Ode to the Equipment Manager"

Wreck of splintered wood and twisted wire - Paul Bewsher "The Crash"

The last alchemist will retreat to a birdsong wood - Bruce Boston "The Last Alchemist"

Braids itself up the woods - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, in winter my camp on the hill becomes"

A path through every tangled wood - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

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

A pleasure in the pathless woods - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)

Stands loaded with wood and stone - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds

As bonds of brittle wood - W. Wilfred Campbell "In Holyrood"

Green blackness of the tangled wood - Giosue Carducci "F. Petrarca" transl. by Frank Sewall

All the green woods forsaking - P.J. Carroll, C.S.C. "Lady Day in Ireland"

Sought the wood in summer - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

Sought the wood in winter - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

The vampire echoes of the hoarse wood - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

The winter wood and its great absorbent heart - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"

When Robert's snowy woods glow with an unearthly light - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [Robert Frost]

To hunt the wolf in the woods - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Choral Song of Illyrian Peasants"

Through the wood of shadows - Hilda Conkling "Adventure"

Rushed masterless, by tower and town and wood - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Woods where primroses blow - Allan Cunningham "The Spring of the Year"

From lonely downs and silent woods - Olive Custance "The Vision"

Seek the woods, the nightingale, and moon - William H. Davies "Wasted Hours"

Snakes the color of wood ash or fresh dark - Tyree Daye "Town Day on the Hill"

Wood ripped from studs and joists - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"

To strongholds in the thickest woods - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

In woods where many rivers run - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 19"

From all the wood came but the owl's hoot - John Freeman "Stone Trees"

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"

In the wood play hide-and-seek - R.L. Gales "A Childermas Rhyme"

Searched for chestnuts in the wood - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"

This old pilgrim in the woods - Cynthia Grady "Underground Railroad"

Blind with wood smoke - Winnie Lewis Gravitt "Sippokni Sia"

Deep notes across the sombre woods - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull

To go unseen in a dark wood - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"

No pathways in the woods - Ivor Gurney "For England"

Sharpen wood's warp to a rust - francine j. harris "senses"

Run through the woods blindfolded - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"

Boots in the ashes of a wood fire - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"

An ancestry of wood and wire - Conrad Hilberry "Mousetrap"

Throughout the wood's dark mazes - Geo. Canning Hill "Theodora: a Ballad of the Woods"

The woods took them back - Jane Hirshfield "Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight"

When in the woods I wander - Edward Hovell-Thurlow "The Sylvan Life"

And soaks the wood in flame - John James "Lullaby"

Nightingales hold the wood - Lionel Johnson "Bagley Wood"

Within the breath of autumn woods - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"

The wind in the angry woods - Lionel Johnson "Summer Storm"

Music of the wood, the wave, the wind - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

Sleeping woods and sheltering mountains - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

A voice low in the sunset woods - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"

Shut the road through the woods - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"

dogs who bark into the woods - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

Burned our way into the wood - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"

Ghost wood splinters into your fingertips - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"

Among the pensive woods - Archibald Lampman "The Frogs"

A magic in the leafless wood - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"

I heard her sing in wood paths dim - Lucy Larcom "November"

Swaddled wasps in its wood - Aimee Le "Inventory of a Year Before Debt"

In the old woods leave the mistletoe - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

Round pools within a wood to catch the stars - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

Build it up with wood and clay - "London Bridge"

Wood and clay will wash away - "London Bridge"

Deeps of unhewn woods alone can cherish - Amy Lowell "Leisure"

In the hidden cloisters of the wood - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The World's End"

A storm in leafless wood - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XV"

A cage of wizard wood with perch of ebony - Ruth Manning-Sanders "Come Wary One"

The phantom wood in waters deep - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"

Carved wood, wherein the death-watch ticks - John Masefield "The Haunted"

Below the forlorn woods - John Masefield "King Cole"

Peered among the silences of woods - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

The wood that frames it tired of the burden - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"

The wind's wolves through the woods are loose - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Only wolves' eyes in the wood - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

And flames wrap hill and wood - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Woods filled with nests and whispers - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner

A bloom when woods are grey - Francis Neilson "A Flower"

Pure offspring of wood - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti

That town of wood recently carved - Pablo Neruda "Where the Rain Is Born: The First Journey" transl. by Alastair Reid

No weapons of sea or of wood - Pablo Neruda "Waltz" translated by Donald D. Walsh

By field and fold and sweet wet wood - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

Time with his axe has marked our wood - E. Nesbit "To One Who Pleaded for Candour in Love"

The sweet siren of the woods - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Scorning the wood and field - Meredith Nicholson "Watching the World Go By"

Filled the woods with rapture - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Tell the woods of their danger - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

The spark between wood and wheel - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"

Which woods pertained to glory - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

Their fruits of salt & wood - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

A soft deer browsing the woods - Kiki Petrosino "Little Gals"

Confined within cells of bark & wood - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"

Woody herbs burning our tongues - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"

The panther far back in his woods - Robert Pollok "The African Maid"

Woven over wood and prairie - Alexander Posey "Autumn"

Bathed herself in wood ash and sand - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Watching the Election Results Come In"

To depths of whispering woods - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen

Hut of wood and hingeless door - "Queen Bengerd" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

In the wood the furious winter blowing - John Crowe Ransom "Winter Remembered"

In a lonely wood I wandered once - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"

Wood was also the keeper of fires - Alberto Rios "Faithful Forest"

Heard a song that the wood gods sing - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Forged out water, woods and stubborn skies - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"

Back to the woods repentant - Robert W. Service "The Song of the Wage-Slave"

Sweet green woods with heart of stone - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"

The gray ones that linger at wood's edge - Joyce Sidman "The Gray Ones"

Only the woods to echo his footsteps - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"

Throned in her realm of wood and field - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

Wild mint in the wood - May Sinclair "The Dark Night (XVIII)"

Into a wood too wide to circle - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"

As the wood without deer - Catherine Staples "Vert"

A wilder glory touched the wood - George Sterling "Moonlight in the Pines"

Through the umber woods the echo falls - Arthur Stringer "The Last of Summer"

Threading woods, tangling rocks - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson

Dancing like a peacock in the woods - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 109: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Whose new twigs stirred the woods awake - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"

When these woods were young - Edward Thomas "Under the Woods"

The jay screams through the chestnut wood - Henry David Thoreau "The Fall of the Leaf"

All bone beyond wood - Edwin Torres "Skygrass"

Writing names across funereal woods and windows - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"

Tangled wood and twisted trail - William Troy "Roads"

Out of the visionless woods of dark - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

Within this net-work of the wood - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "The First American Alliance"

Woods of gold and skies of grey - William Watson "Autumn"

A wild little gnome in the wood - Helen Hay Whitney "The Grave of Hope"

The painted woods are laughing at the faces sour and sad - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

On woods that dream of bloom - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"

Over woods of snow-hung oak - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Nuts from brown October's wood - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

A rough machine of brass and wood - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Neap"

Prowl the woods to find your wolf - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"

Vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

No darkness steps out of the woods - Charles Wright "Across the Creek Is the Other Side of the River"

Fir shadows needling out of the woods - Charles Wright "Consolation and the Order of the World"


The reluctant who turn their backs on wooded fires - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 3"

Deep in the wooded muscle of your heart - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"

And cease to haunt these wooded ways - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"


Wooden.


While eating wood-grown fruits - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.V--To a Wild Flower"


Woodland.


Before the woodman's fatal stroke - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"


Woodsmoke rising to the ashy stars - Patrick Phillips "For Paul"


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