Potential Titles: Stem

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Looking through a maze of tiny stems - Stephen Vincent Benet "Going Back to School"

Dew on the crooked stem of a crooked log - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"

A wet rose single on a stem - H.D. "Sea Rose"

Surrounded by stems bent by their seeds - Chris Dombrowski "Swale"

In stemming disaster's tide - George Blackstone Field "The Mustering of the Legion"

Swing their boughs about their stems - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Teetering on red-lacquered stems - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Diamonds on the cobweb stems - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Unpeopled Eden"

Strong to stem the torrent's force - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"

With serpent folds entwining round the stem - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

we are those tough bitter stems and pits - Tanque R. Jones "Chitterlings and Collard Greens"

Help to stem the ebbing sea - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

And a serpent was coiled about its stem - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

My stem is strong as brown cedar - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"

The stem that anchors the thorn - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Cannot stem the magic of the lyre - Arthur Milliken "To--"

The stolen rose on its stem - Jim Moore "Twenty Questions"

A thousand stems leading to a thousand worlds - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"

Along the stem of its thought - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"

Grace us with green slender stems - January Gill O'Neil "For Ella"

The stem of your body unspooled - Kiki Petrosino "Study Abroad"

Rose and rosebud on one stem - Theodore H. Rand "'By the Love'"

Sweet as many roses on one stem - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

The shrunk grape clinging to the wasted stem - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"

I cannot stem the blast - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"

Where all they of Prometheus' stem must come - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"

My hand holds stems of air - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"

Golden stem of roses of illusion - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Beloved"

A choir singing on a single stem - Richard Solomon "Carrying Orchids in the Rain"

The swaying stem of some exalted flower - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Lift your flowers on bitter stems - William Carlos Williams "Chickory and Daisies"

Forty flowers on twenty stems - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"

Where their stems spangle the universe with diadems - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"

Hung on time's blossoming stem - George Edward Woodberry "St. John and the Faun"

Stemming oblivion's torrent - Miss J. Woodman "Stanzas Suggested by Gliddon's Lectures on the Antiquities of Egypt" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

With long stems dripping crystal - Elinor Wylie "August"


Sapphires adorned the bramble-stems - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Silver Thaw"

The undergrowth of many-stemmed machines - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"

The kite a thin-stemmed flower - Seamus Heaney "A Kite for Aibhin"


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