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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-05-14 05:05 pm

Potential Titles: Ember

Pull air over embers of grief - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

The swift wild cry of the scornful ember - Elizabeth Bartlett "Item: Body Found"

Guarding their last embers - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of Lovers" transl. not credited

Raking the white spent embers - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

The campfire's last grey embers fall - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

And end in embers of themselves - Nikita Gill "House of Hyperion, Titan of Light"

Stirring beneath the dust and embers - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

If still the sacred embers burn - Edmund Gosse "Alere Flammam"

By the embers in hearthside ease - Thomas Hardy "The Oxen"

Embers burning in their hands - Joy Harjo "For Earth's Grandsons"

Poor earthbound ember - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"

Braided cotton converted to ember - John James "Forget the Song"

Heiress of red embers - Bettina Judd "Not My Ancestors"

As the last tune burns down to embers - Joan Larkin "The Combo"

My festival upleaping from an ember - Agnes Lee "The Silent House"

Embers scattering wide at a stronger gust - Amy Lowell "March Evening"

Bred strange fancies in its embers - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

A thing of smoking arms and ember eyes - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"

Whose smouldering embers lie, sad relics - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Afraid a new ember may stray to wildfire - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"

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

With pain’s leaping ember - Leonora Speyer "Enigma"

Fall to forsaken embers - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

A glowing ember in a desert campfire at midnight - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"

Clothed with flame and embers bright - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell

Embers of hope upon the ashen air - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell


A blackened fire grown emberless - John Philip Bourke "The Leaden Hoof"


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