Potential Titles: Die/Dying

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I was laughing when I died - Mary Alexandra Agner "Sleeping Beauty"

Some words die caged - Francisco X. Alarcon "Words Are Birds"

Died without a windy agony - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

And the song died out of her heart - Ellen Tracy Alden "Queen Mabel"

Snows come and all my Isaacs die - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"

Too wild to last, too rare to die - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Hosts of leaves come down to die - A.B. "Autumn in the Woods" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.717, 22 Sept. 1877]

that hour cannot die - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"

now that the flame has died - Elizabeth Bartlett "pilgrimage"

without the energy to die - Elizabeth Bartlett "washday in the tropics"

All that I serve will die - Wendell Berry "The Wish to be Generous"

Words that die before meaning - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"

Memory of the Past may die - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"

The alien firelight died away - Emily Bronte "I [A little while, a little while]"

For twenty years I have seen them die - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"

A gift someone had to die for him to use - Jericho Brown "Reunion Tour"

The fairest blossom of the garden dies - William Browne "The Rose"

The sun himself must die - Thomas Campbell "The Last Man"

And all that dies silently - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"

Flat with bones which don't die - Stephanie Cawley "Not"

The monster abandoned on the ice and left to die - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Also where lynched men die - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"

Die so he could be the ocean - Leonard Cohen "Drank a Lot"

Must die for the lie in his voice - Leonard Cohen "A Singer Must Die"

Ever since the river died - Leonard Cohen "You Got Me Singing"

Men die, but sorrow never - Susan Coolidge "The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey"

Some words die in cages - Eduardo C. Corral "To Francisco X. Alarcon (1954-2016)"

The wind in gardens where pale roses die - Adelaide Crapsey "Oh, Lady, Let the Sad Tears Fall"

Haggard beggars of hours that die - George Cronyn "Song in Winter"

The enamoured sun pretending that he dies - Countee Cullen "Brown Boy to Brown Girl"

The lost bee flies to die in golden broom - Danske Dandridge "A Question"

The stars die a million years ago - Kwame Dawes "Last Days"

She swam a great distance to die alone - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"

After the phantom of our Freedom died - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"

The nightingale may sing and die - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"

Let all the song-birds die of love - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"

Dying as echo dies - John Hunter Duvar "John A'Var's Last Lay"

Die in the large and charitable air - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Let his weakness die in self-reclaiming dust - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

If I laughed when the crocodile died - "Father William" [but not the Lewis Carroll version]

As autumn dies to bring winter back - Annie Finch "Samhain"

That Beauty lives though lilies die - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Never thought the tyrant could ever die - Mina Florea "Remember"

With fright almost ready to die - "The Fox and the Geese"

The steady shadows shook and thinned and died - John Freeman "The Wakers"

With what I learn from having died - Robert Frost "Away!"

How the cold creeps in as the fire dies - Robert Frost "Storm Fear"

When did Spring die? - Zona Gale "When Did Spring Die?"

my grandmother who died of dreams - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer

Even when we're scheduled to die - Golden "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"

Dies by water as well as fire - Linda Gregerson "Dido in Darkness"

Wild as when Abel out of Eden died - Louise Imogen Guiney "On Some Old-Music"

A place where nothing can die - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

Do tell why love must die - Jennie Earngey Hill "Song of the Brook"

Each day dies with sleep - Gerard Manley Hopkins "41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]"

Where thousands met to die - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "Thermopylae"

So now I shall not die in debt - A.E. Housman "Last Poems V: Grenadier"

Mithridates, he died old - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LXII"

And a god died at the crown - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Another day that dies unwept - Aldous Huxley "Quotidian Vision"

Artifacts of deaths that no one died - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

Dies in the hush of distance - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

Die where there is no earth - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"

Die before the shears of Atropos - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

And I have thought it died of grieving - John Keats "I Had a Dove"

And every daisy dies - Joyce Kilmer "Theology"

Die like the falling leaf - Kim Unsong "Detachment"

Eliminate those who die - Galway Kinnell "The Fundamental Project of Technology"

That dies inside the sparks - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"

Die slowly from the olive sky - Archibald Lampman "Sunset"

The new-born trusts that died - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Life's Burying-Ground"

The breaking heart can only die alone - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "One and One"

With the darker gods has died - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory fo the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"

Taught the cicadas how to die - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"

When the plant of Eden dies - James Russell Lowell "Arcadia Rediviva"

Must the callow twins too die? - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]

Cry to aspirations that would die - Edwin Markham "Music"

That die on the bosom of Silence - Don Marquis "Visitors"

The flower dies the day it's born - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen

Placing a loyal hand on the star that refused to die - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

Upon his last moon's granites die - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

I will die knowing that we lived forever - Wes Matthews "Immortality"

Which side of the wall we die on - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"

Has seen white Eros die - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Dead Favourites"

A plum cake when she died - Diane Mehta "Plum Cake"

Wanted to die of anger - Jenny Molberg "Echolocation"

the spirits have refused to die by fire - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

I have died so many midnight moons - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"

When I die let me live - Meghan O'Rourke "Unforced Error"

The thousand little deaths my heart has died - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"

A faith that weakly dies - Arthur Caswell Parker "Faith"

Every foe is faithful till I die - Dorothy Parker "The Leal"

Died in the pith of August - Kiki Petrosino "Elegy"

How they died singing - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

Die against the skyline - Xan Forest Phillips "Splay My Country"

And died in the crimson west - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Sent to Heaven"

Time died so that it could return home - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "In arrival, feet flutter like dying birds"

What does not burn might still die - Dean Rader "Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's Funeral and Completed on the First Day of the New Year"

All their changing shadows died - William Renton "Mountain Twilight"

Bend to your cast that a king may die - Lloyd Roberts "A-Fishing"

The rocking echo drifts and dies - Lloyd Roberts "The Kill"

Till even my own dream dies - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

What flowers find heart to die - Rennell Rodd "If Any One Return"

Till the owl's long cry dies down - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

But when she dies in autumn - T.W. Rolleston "The Spell-Struck"

Devils only die for fun - Isaac Rosenberg "The Immortals"

Before the phantom of Pale Winter died - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Die unblessed beneath strange moons - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"

Though twice ten thousand men have died - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

Wilt and die with the autumn grass - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Beauty's rose might never die - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"

I had not learned all things must die - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

Autumn poppies bloom and die - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"

Those with destinies die complete - Marge Simon "Plaster Messiahs"

For I fear you will die of the cold - James Stephens "The Appointment"

Iron litanies of worlds that die - George Sterling "Yosemite"

Before that spirit die - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Task of Happiness"

As greatest kings might die to gain - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

The breath that makes it glow and die - Howard V. Sutherland "The Northern Light"

The stars died out with grief - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Who thought to die unmourned - Sir Thomas N. Talfourd "Sympathy"

Glad to die - Sara Teasdale "November"

Echo on echo dies to the moon - Lord Tennyson "Minnie and Winnie"

When summer died last year - Katherine Tynan "Shamrock Song"

Enough lost causes to die for- Louis Untermeyer "He Goads Himself"

All struggling not to die - John Updike "Phoenix"

One must die three times - Hersart de la Villemarque "The Prophecy of Gwic'hlan" transl. by Edward Ramos

But droops and dies before the storm - D.R.W. "Lines to the Memory of Thomas Tyrie, a Young Edinburgh Poet of Great Promise" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.691, 24 March 1877]

And die by all regretted - William Watson "Sketch of a Political Character"

Scarce had died that plaintive strain - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]

That puts its magic blossom forth and dies - Edith Wharton "Nothing More"

Dies between breath and breath - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"

We cannot die from tears - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"

When a myriad suns have burned and died - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"

Until the Hell-flower dies down - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"

The fierce queen who with a serpent died - Humbert Wolfe "Caesar and Anthony"

My candle died with love - Humbert Wolfe "Pierrot"



useless as an oath against dying - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"

Black grass dying up out of this snow - Kaveh Akbar "My Father's Accent"

Coins between a dying miser's fingers - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Maple Leaves"

Blue farewell of a dying dream - Maya Angelou "Tears"

The blood of its victims dying and dead - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"

Under the dying grass moon - Mary Jo Bang "Given to Believe"

And, dying, sings a hymn - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Flower's Prayer for Immortality"

Dying sugars of once growing fruit - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"

Fragrance of the dying season - William Brewer "Housesitting"

Bearing the scent of their dying - Geoffrey Brock "The Man Outside"

Counts his dying years by sun and sea - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Love"

With the dying splendours of the sun - Giosue Carducci "F. Petrarca" transl. by Frank Sewall

Dying strength of time - Miguel Casado "Regarding a Theory of Color"

whose only sin was dying - Lucille Clifton "morning mirror"

Dying echoes fill the valley - Henry Rutgers Conger "The Purple Hills"

Drink the sunset's dying passion - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

From the beds of dying streams - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

The dying heat of sun and mist - H.D. "Leda"

The autumn's dying sigh - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"

This lyrical martyr of your dying faith - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Thank You Jesus"

The dream a dying man has - Kwame Dawes "At Anchor: The Real Situation"

Because the year is dying - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Merry Autumn"

Dying as echo dies - John Hunter Duvar "John A'Var's Last Lay"

Here in this valley of dying stars - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

With a dying fall beneath the music - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Soft as music's dying fall - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "Old Memories"

Sing to my garden, dying - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"

Watched the dying falter - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"

A bugle dying down the gale - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "November"

The dying vine can hold the strongest oak - John Gould Fletcher "The Old Love and the New"

Among the blaze and ash of its dying - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

Chimes of dying reefs - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"

The names of our dying - Tarfia Faizullah "Consider the Hands Once Smaller"

The flats fields of dying afternoon - Zona Gale "The Kilbourn Road"

From the lips of dying moments - Zona Gale "Wonder"

At the pinnacle of dying - Tess Gallagher "Red Poppy"

Orphan gentling toward a dying time - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"

Mostly because of dying stars - Andrea Gibson "America, Reloading"

alone among the dying stars - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."

As we are dying we reveal ourselves - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"

Curfew's tolling requiems of the dying world - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

And showed me my business of dying - A.E. Housman "Last Poems VI: Lancer"

Dark blue and calm as music dying out - Aldous Huxley "The Ideal Found Wanting"

The orchid dying bloom by bloom - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

The muttered curse of dying men - James Weldon Johnson "Brothers--American Drama"

Dying honey and lemon rind - Taylor Johnson "States of Decline"

Surrounded by the dying hour - C.R. Jury "Love"

Repairing and maintaining another dying universe - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Dying on its descent - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"

Which haunt some dying ear - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Sealed rooms deep in the dying earth - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

The tombed light in this design for dying - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

Ever sinking with the dying flame - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

Past dying stars and exploding suns - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "lark"

At the swallowing edge that dying opens - Farid Matuk "The Butcher's Fifth Quarter"

That stains the dying of the sun - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"

The dying of the golden and the grey - Alice Meynell "Parentage"

Grafted through dying elms - Claire Millikin "Salad Bar"

And their thousand dying verses - Jenny Molberg "Sound of the Spinning Wheel"

Streams that flow along in dying music - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Silent as a dying star - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"

Dying at the contact of your electric blood - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Worse than dying is disappearing - Susan Nguyen "What Suzi Believes"

The dying rainbow of those tears - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"

Only the lawn's dying clover - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"

Making from cricket-song and dying - Carl Phillips "And If I Fall"

Both living and dying require giving up - Khadijah Queen "Tower"

Who live, and love, and dying make amends - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Ode to Sappho"

Dying curse and choking prayer - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"

Dying flame of life's last fire - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"

Her Mother dying of the gift she gave - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"

Dying in the dew - Alice Wellington Rollins "The Difference"

This creature that defies dying - Nnadi Samuel "On the Shores of Ninevah"

Measure your pulse by their dying breaths - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"

The acid of its own long dying - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"

Dying stars our skies have long forgotten - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Dying whispers on the shore - Clinton Scollard "On Caragh Lake"

The bedside of the dying world - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

The music of her distant siblings dying - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"

Whose life is but the dying ember's glow - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Whispers away the dying - Jacob Shores-Arguello "Workshop"

The relics of the dying year - Effie Smith "December Snow"

Canopied with dying hickories - Richard Solomon "Daddy Long Legs of the Evening ... Hope!"

Can thus embrace the dying year - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Autumn"

Out of the drifting leaf and the dying light - Arthur Stringer "The Passing"

My eyes are dying of thirst - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 152: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Disappears on the far side of a dying elm - Keith Taylor "Acolytes in the Bird-While"

The year is dying in the night - Alfred Tennyson "In Memoriam"

Come from the dying moon - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Sweet and Low"

Genius cannot paint a dying scream - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"

And dance the music of their dying - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"

Who grieves amid earth's dying leaves - W.J. Turner "Death"

By the light of dying gods - John Updike "The Old Bills"

so I bequeath to earth my dying gasp - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

And sings a dirge for dying souls - Thomas Vautor "Sweet Suffolk Owl"

Skirt hems dirtied with a dying sun's dust - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"

Far beyond her dying - Rosanna Warren "Fugue, Harpsichord"

The sunlight continues its dying fall - Charles Wright "Homage to Samuel Beckett"


Of bells slow-dying from discord to the hush - Aldous Huxley "Philoclea in the Forest"


Undying.


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