Potential: Grain/Granary

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Includes both edible and inedible grain.


The air and its grains of memory - Elmaz Abinader "Coming Clean"

Blown slowly from the wounded grain - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

All the lifetimes sift down like golden grains - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"

The grain of salt takes fire - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

The jigsaw-interlock of sand grains - Mary Jo Bang "Once Upon a Time"

Which scarcely stir the growing grain - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"

Years loosen one sand grain - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Horned Toad"

Bestowed on us good grain - "The Book of Odes: No.245. She Who First Bore Our People" transl. by Burton Watson

Not a grain of kindred dust - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A Mother's Grief"

With wisdom's precious grains - Eliza Cook "Song for the New Year"

By scanty fruit and tardy grain - Susan Coolidge "The Legend of Kintu"

The stars grains of salt - Jim Daniels "On Tears"

Pomp among the grain and barley - Chris Dombrowski "Self-Portrait as Dandelion Head Discovered in the Crop of a Partridge"

Listening to billions of sand grains - Chris Dombrowski "The Turn"

Grains beyond the price of gold - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Grain bends before your roar - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Giving rain to grain and flax - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 27. E-Ugalgala, the Temple of Ishkur in Karkara" transl. by Sophus Helle

A signature on a grain of rice - Eve L. Ewing "The Discount Mega Mall (in memorium)"

The river lifts its grain to crystal - Michael Field "An Antiphony of Advent"

Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain - "Fine Knacks for Ladies"

Grinds grain for you in her holy basket - "First Hymn" transl. by Sophus Helle (per translator's note, this claims, internally, to be Enheduana speaking but references things not built until well after her probable dates)

With promise of the autumn's glittering grain - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

Dust of grains poured from their summer - Carolyn Forche "Tortugas"

The free blowing curves of the grain - Zona Gale "Contours"

His little boxes change the grain - John Gay "The Jugglers"

Showed no wealth of sheep or grain - Robert Graves "On the Ridge"

Dust grains orbiting a pull - Leah Naomi Green "Week Twenty: Indulgences"

And gather the bruised grain - Frances E.W. Harper "Go Work in My Vineyard"

Sunlight splayed between grains - John James "Erosion"

For devil's grain we barter souls - Fenton Johnson "Harlem: The Black City"

Golden grain will greet the morning - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"

Glint of frost, grains of salt - Devin Johnston "Aubade"

Ripped open again his sack of grain - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Who husbanded the Golden Grain - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Each grain and atom of this dust - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Rub grains of the moon in my hands - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"

A treasure of unwinnowed grain - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"

Who in the blade perceives the grain - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

The grains these sowed in scorn - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Measure my single grain of grief - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"

Yields in peace its yearly grain - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

Hid among the grains of sand - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"

The grain of hopes that yet shall flower - Amy Levy "A March Day in London"

Against the grain of the earth - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"

Falling around you as flecks, as grains, as glitter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "goldfinch"

The sand he carried grain by grain - Douglas Malloch "The Bigger Thing"

The myriad finches in the grain - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

Sow the dusk with fiery grains - John Masefield "Invocation"

Stubborn grains of grief - Kamilah Aisha Moon "A Golden Shovel"

A fresh sheet of clay and grain - Pablo Neruda "San Martin (1810)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A grain of dust among the stars - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

In one small grain of this immortal wheat - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

A single grain of rice falling - Po-Chu-i "Climbing the Ling Ying Terrace and Looking North" (translated by Arthur Waley)

The grain a pattern of tribute - D.A. Powell "The Miracle of Giving"

And leave no grain for tomorrow - Amrita Pritam "Daily Wages" transl. by Charles Brasch with Amrita Pritam

Stored like sacred grain - Adrienne Rich "Seven Skins"

Sees little grain to reap - Clinton Scollard "A Song for Joyce's Country"

Reaping a barren grain - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"

Assessed in buckets of grain - Marin Sorescu "Destiny" transl. by D.J. Enright

Crimson fingers lift a crimson grain - George Sterling "Aftermath"

They sow a bitter grain - George Sterling "Safe"

Grain that goes heavy to harvesting - Muriel Stuart "In Memory of Douglas Vernon Cow"

Grain still too short to be crushed - Su Tung-p'o "Rhyming with Tzu-yu's 'Treading the Green'" transl. by Burton Watson

Fooled into pecking at millet grains - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 95: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Pound grain to make good wine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Matching a Poem by Secretary Kuo, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

Vacant chaff well meant for grain - Tennyson "In Memoriam"

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

Some grains of night tincture the noontide air - Henry David Thoreau "The Fall of the Leaf"

Form the sulphurous grain of war - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"

A few grains of wheat lay at the barn door - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"

each grain of rice leaving a scar on our skin - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

Nothing could touch the little soul of the grain - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

Trace flame-flicker in the grain of yellow birch - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"

Piled with poppies and gold grain - Helen Hay Whitney "Flower of the Clove"

Clothe the waste with dreams of grain - John Greenleaf Whittier "Barclay of Ury"

Ochre grains of distant battlefields - Ray Young Bear "Four Hinterland Abstractions"


Tough-grained calamities - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"


Felt the smallest sandgrain like a knife - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Streams through our sandgrain skulls - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"


The granary of images - Robert Bly "Thoughts in the Cabin"

The squirrel's granary is full - John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

Sitting careless on a granary floor - John Keats "To Autumn"

In steep sky granaries - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"

Like a rat in search of a granary - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A throne of turrets and granaries - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt


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