Potential Titles: Frost

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The stars and frost so burned - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

To charge on the insolent frost king - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Veterans"

Fair with fringes of the frost - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"

Beyond the frost of breathing - Lou Barrett "Retrieving a Frozen Newspaper"

doubts can frost and worries blight - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"

As your frost ruled my mind - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"

Like a thistle dipped in frost - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Courtesan Chats"

Lighter than frost or ashes - Louise Bogan "Words for Departure"

Bound up with frosts - Anne Bradstreet "Winter"

Hollowed out of frost - Lucie Brock-Broido "Girl at the Border of Her Own Allegory"

The slowest of my frosts - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Scion of thunder and frost - W. Wilfred Campbell "To the Ottawa"

To spread its veil of summer frost - Giosue Carducci "Virgil" transl. by Frank Sewall

Retreat from the gathering frost - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Joys of the Road"

Melt the frost of each sullen mood - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

The frost has stopped flirting with the dunegrass - Ching-In Chen "Simulacra"

With the frosty eyes of widows - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

Flowers that skirt the eternal frost - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

The frosts first silver Nature's hair - Arthur S. Cripps "The Seasons' Comfort"

The work of frosted fruit - H.D. "Lais"

Better to taste of frost - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"

Tripping from blaze to frost - Kyle Dargan "Daily Conscription"

Flowered frost congeals - Walter de la Mare "Alone"

The wild fires of frost - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander: To Margot"

The wild fires of frost shall light - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander"

Without my right of frost - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XII: In Vain"

When cancelled by the frost - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XIV: Purple Clover"

When frosts too sharp became - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LIV: Charlotte Bronte's Grave"

Grant us a splinter of frost - Dom "Crumb, Iceberg and Glimmer"

Lone as a thumbprint on a frosty windowpane - Chris Dombrowski "Nostrums (Bill Monroe)"

Shot the dark with frosty crashings - Max Eastman "X Rays"

Pebble loosened from the frost - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

The frost of the moon fell over my floor - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"

And all the languages of frost - Andrew Feld "Late-Breather"

When winter's cold brought frost and snow - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"

Wreathed with a crown of diamond frost - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

hanging gardens frosted by albino crows - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"

Whose leaves already are burnt with frost - Robert Frost "October"

strung their frosted hex-cells starwise - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

Softened by frost - Rae Gouirand "Quince Suite"

Pierce our hearts with cold death frost - James Roane Gregory "Nineteenth Century Finality"

After vigils of frost - Ivor Gurney "Le Coq Francais"

Feel the frost of cold neglect - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

No dream of frost to the flowers - William Dean Howells "The First Cricket"

A honey mist on a day of frost - Douglas Hyde "The Cooleen"

Hoards his pearls of frost - Helen Hunt Jackson "October"

Not ripen without frost - Helen Hunt Jackson "September"

Frost in the hollow of a throat - John James "Beneath the Trees at Ellingsworth"

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

After the black bite of frost - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Thinned by crows and frost - A.M. Juster "Sundowning"

When the frost has wrought a silence - John Keats "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"

Tumbled about by frost and storm - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Where the bitter barbs of frost have been - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

The sharpened fang of frost - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Dreams and silent frostiness - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"

Sly frosts shall take the creepers by surprise - Archibald Lampman "September"

Mint droops purple-tipped with frost - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

The dendrite branching of frost on a window pane - Stephen Leggett "Seven Winter Poems"

drink from stones of frost - Michael Leong "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"

Frost whorling across a windshield - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"

Embossed with silver trellis of frost - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Of water and frost and star - Thomas MacDonagh "Litany of Beauty"

Splintered with frosty air - Jeannette Marks "Blind Sleep"

Dreams harden into frosted breath - Jeannette Marks "A Thousand Years"

Searching and insidious frost - George Martin "Marguerite"

The dainty diagrams of frost - Theodore Maynard "The World's Miser"

Like frost that had over-slept - Edmond McKenna "Prelude"

Fired with frost and heaving breath - D'Arcy McNickle "The Mountains"

Under his autumnal frost - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]

And drop into the frosty arms of Winter - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Now the stubborn frost is yielding - Francis Neilson "Let Us Make a Garden"

Between frost and stones - Pablo Neruda "Landscape After a Battle" translated by Richard Schaaf

To keep your roots from frost - E. Nesbit "The Things that Matter"

The sharp chisels of frost - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard V: The Return"

His fingertips glistened with frost - Frank O'Hara "Augustus"

the frost they ought to praise - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

White scallions with frost on their spines - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson

Against the glistening odds of the frost - Lynn Powell "Aubade for the Muse"

That neither wind nor frost could close - E.J. Pratt "The Ice-Floes"

In the black December frost - John Presland "A Song"

The frost of selfish blood - Theodore H. Rand "Song-Waves"

Deadly as the frost of scorn - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

By frost and sun and bitter brine - Theodore H. Rand "Tennyson Rock"

White with a thousand frosts - Rihaku "Lament of the Frontier Guard" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)

Nipped by sudden frosts and keen - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet V"

Woven of frost and fire - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"

Sap checked with frost - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

Beneath the gossamer of frost - Evalyn Callahan Shaw "October"

The hardiest herb that braves the frost - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

And all the forms of radiant frost - Shelley "Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou"

Clad in monstrous chains of frost - Taras Shevchenko "Caucasus" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

A glass already laced with frost - Richard Siken "Little Beast"

Bound with final frost - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"

Bleak winter in their frosty eyes - Leonora Speyer "Sand-Pipings: For a Spring Day"

Morning frost touched by sunshine - Nathan Spoon "Poem of Thankfulness"

The arrows of the early frost - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

The sharp finger-tips of frost - Muriel Stuart "Forgotten Dead, I Salute You"

Frost upon the eyes of flowers - Muriel Stuart "Leda"

Last year's frost and last year's fruit - Muriel Stuart "Leda"

One branch of chrysanthemum holds out against frost - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson

The nights that a frost could fret - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Dew and frost flowering and withering - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson

Gloom and frost are free to spoil and ravage here - J. Bayard Taylor "A Requiem in the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

By the frost nearly fired - Sara Teasdale "Places"

Frost descends - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Sleep"

Through the bleak windows of frost - Iris Tree "[Oh canst thou not hear in my heart all its whispering fears]"

Who braved the polar frost - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

Whose crimson roses burst his frost - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"

Straw grey, frost grey - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"

When the frost makes all the birches burn - Elinor Wylie "Atavism"

A filigree frost of frail notes lost - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

And frost bakes clay as fire bakes - Elinor Wylie "Winter Sleep"


And blood-frosted cake - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"


Frostbite.


Across these frost-flocked rows - Jordan Zandi "Solarium"


Thus the Frost-King lost his kingdom - Louisa May Alcott "The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love"


Which frost-sprites laughing cast - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"


Pass, frost-white ghost - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"


Hoarfrost sliding its palms across fields - Judy Patterson Wenzel "School Nights at the Farm"


Manifested as sinkholes under permafrost - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"


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