Potential Titles: Desert
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somethingdarkerA desert of living bones - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
Silence the mind's deserts - Etel Adnan "Night"
Faded deserts and the unceasing sea - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Dwells in a desert by her ruins made - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Where desert monsters prowl - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Behind a desert moon now green - Elizabeth Bartlett "Civilized Spring"
Deserts waiting to expel your bones - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"
Sad sand upon the desert's verge - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited
And change life's desert to a living green - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The nine eyes of the desert - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"
Clasp the nine eyes of the desert - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"
South of hidden deserts - Louise Bogan "A Tale"
In the desert province of Sunday - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"
Vex the desert with vain angers - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Decay has dried up realms to deserts - Byron "To the Ocean"
In the gangplank desert - Cyrus Cassells "Courage Song for Scott Warren"
Lightning and thunder throw punches in the desert - Ana Castillo "Insomnia" translated by Sara Solaimani
The desert of those eyes - Willa Cather "Street in Packingtown"
squat in the hungry desert fingering stones - Lucille Clifton "dear fox"
In dusty deserts of the spirit find - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
In the stony deserts of the city - Helen Gray Cone "Soldiers of the Light"
Ancient rivers that green the desert's edge - Kwame Dawes "Eat"
How much love can a desert drink - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Lone deserts echo our exiles' cry - James B. Dollard "The Sons of Patrick"
Still pining on Negation's desert isle - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
The desert's nameless fear - George Blackstone Field "The Rhyme of the Rolling Stone"
On the pale and crystal desert hills - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"
Between deserts and seas - James Galvin "Cherry Blossoms Blowing in Wet, Blowing Snow"
Fragrance shed on the desert air - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"
Buried in the desert of her heart - Ellen Glasgow "Aridity"
Desert paths which have no masters - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Breaking the desert's boundaries - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"
Waste its sweetness on the desert air - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Desert the hills to walk on common plains - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"
The doves in the desert - Robert Hass "...White of Forgetfulness, White of Safety"
Sons of the desert and the rock - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
Through the desert's pathless maze - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
Few and distant on the desert soil - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Trailed its bitter breath over the desert - Conrad Hilberry "Wise Man"
From desert wastes of greed - Leslie Pinckney Hill "A Far Country"
Forever fled from time's bleak desert shore - E. Curtiss Hine "Christine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Where the fairy desert lies - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Just To-day"
Crossed the deserts of parting - Ahmet Igamberdi "My Star" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Traversing these infinite deserts - Emily Igwike "my mother prepares ofe egusi"
Hot coals in their desert mouths - Camisha L. Jones "My Anxieties Learn to Pray"
Whom the ravens fed in the desert - Zilka Joseph "Prophet of the Rock"
Through desert tracts of Silence and of Night - Sir Nizamat Jung "Prologue"
Alone in that enchanted desert - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"
No desert in the land of life - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Blaspheme not thou thy sacred life, nor turn]"
Divides the desert from the sown - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Living in the desert of the real - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"
Deserts sometimes dream of water - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"
For whom the desert was a keyhole - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"
Round a white hearth of desert - D.H. Lawrence "Men in New Mexico"
Dust on the sage-grey desert - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"
in the entrance of the glass desert - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"
A seed of desert drought - Casandra Lopez "The Hottest June"
The desert refused to swallow - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Eugenia Harvest Tower"
Cast on the deserts of eternity - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Double eyelids for the desert dust - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"
A thousand deserts between us - Joyce Mansour "Auditory Hallucination" transl. by Carol Cosman
Forge a desert with my own arms - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
In the desert of despair I cried - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (6)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Call up a swamp in this desert - Farid Matuk "from 'For a Daughter/No Address'"
beside a road carved out of desert night - Andy Miller "All Those Bleached Bones"
The desert we return to - Jane Miller "Memory at These Speeds"
The oaks of their deserts - Dugald Moore "The Forgotten Brave"
Paged through desert dunes - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "History" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Deserts of pure geography - Pablo Neruda "Happy Year to My Country in Darkness" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The desert of the forgotten dawn - Pablo Neruda "There's No Forgiving" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The vivid shades of dissolution rival the desert - Robbi Nester "Rot"
Opal of the drifting desert sand - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"
And the desert soaking up echoes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Those Whom We Do Not Know"
The black river beneath the desert of the world - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
The call of quails across the desert - John Presland "The Deluge"
To some rich desert fly - Punch "Ballad of Bedlam"
The squirrel deserts his nest - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "House Hunting"
Under the molten silence of the desert - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Grown from the desert's surge - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
More secret than desert light - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
That crop-eared horror who haunted deserts - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"
Our airless desert seared by stars - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"
The wide pathless desert of dim sleep - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Of a desert peopled by storms - Charles Simic "Shelley"
deserts build water so drink the lightning - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
Desert years in one deep kiss - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
In icy deserts of the sky - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Black desert gripped in iron silences - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
That make their path a desert - Carmen Sylva "A Coronation"
Empty as ancient desert streams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Watery dreams against the desert of her days - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"
Choke the deserts with her tides - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"
Dust turned to waves in the desert - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"
Destiny across an open desert - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
And the desert sands whispered in the wind - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"
The hot sun and the relentless desert beyond - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Mama's Water Story"
A glowing ember in a desert campfire at midnight - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"
Right and left earth and sky desert me - Mark Van Doren "River Snow"
The sepia of this desert city - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"
Startling on her desert throne - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
The way water thinks about the desert - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"
Their strings over the desert sands - Charles Wright "Long Ago and Far Away"
Out from the desert's tomorrow - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #9: The Forgotten Yesterday (A dirge of ancient culture)" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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Silence the mind's deserts - Etel Adnan "Night"
Faded deserts and the unceasing sea - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Dwells in a desert by her ruins made - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Where desert monsters prowl - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Behind a desert moon now green - Elizabeth Bartlett "Civilized Spring"
Deserts waiting to expel your bones - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"
Sad sand upon the desert's verge - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited
And change life's desert to a living green - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The nine eyes of the desert - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"
Clasp the nine eyes of the desert - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"
South of hidden deserts - Louise Bogan "A Tale"
In the desert province of Sunday - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"
Vex the desert with vain angers - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Decay has dried up realms to deserts - Byron "To the Ocean"
In the gangplank desert - Cyrus Cassells "Courage Song for Scott Warren"
Lightning and thunder throw punches in the desert - Ana Castillo "Insomnia" translated by Sara Solaimani
The desert of those eyes - Willa Cather "Street in Packingtown"
squat in the hungry desert fingering stones - Lucille Clifton "dear fox"
In dusty deserts of the spirit find - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
In the stony deserts of the city - Helen Gray Cone "Soldiers of the Light"
Ancient rivers that green the desert's edge - Kwame Dawes "Eat"
How much love can a desert drink - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Lone deserts echo our exiles' cry - James B. Dollard "The Sons of Patrick"
Still pining on Negation's desert isle - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
The desert's nameless fear - George Blackstone Field "The Rhyme of the Rolling Stone"
On the pale and crystal desert hills - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"
Between deserts and seas - James Galvin "Cherry Blossoms Blowing in Wet, Blowing Snow"
Fragrance shed on the desert air - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"
Buried in the desert of her heart - Ellen Glasgow "Aridity"
Desert paths which have no masters - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Breaking the desert's boundaries - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"
Waste its sweetness on the desert air - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Desert the hills to walk on common plains - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"
The doves in the desert - Robert Hass "...White of Forgetfulness, White of Safety"
Sons of the desert and the rock - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
Through the desert's pathless maze - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
Few and distant on the desert soil - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Trailed its bitter breath over the desert - Conrad Hilberry "Wise Man"
From desert wastes of greed - Leslie Pinckney Hill "A Far Country"
Forever fled from time's bleak desert shore - E. Curtiss Hine "Christine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Where the fairy desert lies - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Just To-day"
Crossed the deserts of parting - Ahmet Igamberdi "My Star" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Traversing these infinite deserts - Emily Igwike "my mother prepares ofe egusi"
Hot coals in their desert mouths - Camisha L. Jones "My Anxieties Learn to Pray"
Whom the ravens fed in the desert - Zilka Joseph "Prophet of the Rock"
Through desert tracts of Silence and of Night - Sir Nizamat Jung "Prologue"
Alone in that enchanted desert - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"
No desert in the land of life - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Blaspheme not thou thy sacred life, nor turn]"
Divides the desert from the sown - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Living in the desert of the real - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"
Deserts sometimes dream of water - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"
For whom the desert was a keyhole - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"
Round a white hearth of desert - D.H. Lawrence "Men in New Mexico"
Dust on the sage-grey desert - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"
in the entrance of the glass desert - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"
A seed of desert drought - Casandra Lopez "The Hottest June"
The desert refused to swallow - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Eugenia Harvest Tower"
Cast on the deserts of eternity - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Double eyelids for the desert dust - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"
A thousand deserts between us - Joyce Mansour "Auditory Hallucination" transl. by Carol Cosman
Forge a desert with my own arms - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
In the desert of despair I cried - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (6)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Call up a swamp in this desert - Farid Matuk "from 'For a Daughter/No Address'"
beside a road carved out of desert night - Andy Miller "All Those Bleached Bones"
The desert we return to - Jane Miller "Memory at These Speeds"
The oaks of their deserts - Dugald Moore "The Forgotten Brave"
Paged through desert dunes - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "History" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Deserts of pure geography - Pablo Neruda "Happy Year to My Country in Darkness" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The desert of the forgotten dawn - Pablo Neruda "There's No Forgiving" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The vivid shades of dissolution rival the desert - Robbi Nester "Rot"
Opal of the drifting desert sand - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"
And the desert soaking up echoes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Those Whom We Do Not Know"
The black river beneath the desert of the world - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
The call of quails across the desert - John Presland "The Deluge"
To some rich desert fly - Punch "Ballad of Bedlam"
The squirrel deserts his nest - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "House Hunting"
Under the molten silence of the desert - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Grown from the desert's surge - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
More secret than desert light - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
That crop-eared horror who haunted deserts - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"
Our airless desert seared by stars - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"
The wide pathless desert of dim sleep - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Of a desert peopled by storms - Charles Simic "Shelley"
deserts build water so drink the lightning - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
Desert years in one deep kiss - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
In icy deserts of the sky - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Black desert gripped in iron silences - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
That make their path a desert - Carmen Sylva "A Coronation"
Empty as ancient desert streams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Watery dreams against the desert of her days - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"
Choke the deserts with her tides - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"
Dust turned to waves in the desert - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"
Destiny across an open desert - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
And the desert sands whispered in the wind - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"
The hot sun and the relentless desert beyond - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Mama's Water Story"
A glowing ember in a desert campfire at midnight - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"
Right and left earth and sky desert me - Mark Van Doren "River Snow"
The sepia of this desert city - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"
Startling on her desert throne - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
The way water thinks about the desert - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"
Their strings over the desert sands - Charles Wright "Long Ago and Far Away"
Out from the desert's tomorrow - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #9: The Forgotten Yesterday (A dirge of ancient culture)" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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