Potential Titles: Young
Jan. 5th, 2012 06:26 pmA young leopard prancing from the skies - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"
Too young to own the flame - "The Alter'd Lay"
Of how the young world took to sin - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [A hundred years ago the church bells spoke]"
Grows young with wonder - James Baldwin "Song (for Skip)"
Where young hot hopes grow cold beneath - Stella Benson "Saint Bride"
The blue eye of that young crow cocked to me - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Stay young in a bubble of speed - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
The very edge and presence of the young moon - Witter Bynner "Veils"
The young dawn's golden fire - F. O. Call "On a Swiss Mountain"
Opening to dawn's young footsteps - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Fortune smile upon the young - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
The gray stones beneath you feel young again - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
Young dawn of our eternal day - Richard Crashaw "Verses from the Shepherd's Hymn"
When I was young and sure of heart - Shutta Crum "The Highway of the Three Graces"
Through the young and awkward hours - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
When time was young - Brent Cunningham "from Back on Earth"
Cluster round the young heart's shrine - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
And fame like a young curled leaf - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"
Younger than the dawn - Russell W. Davenport "Poems I"
Snared young foxes in the dells - Walter de la Mare "The Isle of Lone"
Makes a young heart melancholy - Aubrey de Vere "Song"
Scrolling through Merriam Webster's youngest words - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
Whose hopes and young ambitions fell and faded - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Lulls some young fool to dreams afar - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
Sound like liars to the young - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
Young as its newest rapture - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Lured young Achilles from his haunted sleep - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"
A young Phoenix flaming into birth - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Old hope in her young eyes - Zona Gale "Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young"
All the yesterdays on which I was younger - Theodora Goss "Mirror, Mirror"
With fourteen young ravens to feed - C. L. Graves "On Re-Reading 'Barchester Towers'"
Sharp unrest of the young year - Louise Imogen Guiney "April Desire"
Young Cupid's lances strike as deep as ever - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]
Any witch's youngest daughter golden and bold - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"
Swimming on a young October sky - Marsden Hartley "Fishmonger"
Singing among young oak leaves - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "April Will Come"
If young hearts were not so clever - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIX"
When dawns were young - Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
When power was great, and faith was young - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
They have dreamed as young men dream - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Old Black Men" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
While their young enemies feast on milkweed - Tanque R. Jones "Monarch"
Young buds sleep in the root's white core - John Keats "Faery Song"
The joy that young existence yields - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
Youngest and fairest of the four - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Young July with all her flowers - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"
This young companion of an ancient star - Joyce Kilmer "Mount Houvenkopf"
Young hearts round this new life can twine - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]
Too young to remember the smoking gun - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"
As a young woman who knew steel - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
A young probationer of light - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"
Hot young engines confused for devotion - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
Emptiness where the young winds wrestle - R.B. Lemberg "Between the Mountain and the Moon"
Tranquil as this young moon - Denise Levertov "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January"
Two discrete young snakes left their skin - Robin Coste Lewis "Summer"
Spiced winds which blew when earth was young - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"
A fund to train young imps - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
When wise Minerva still was young - James Russell Lowell "The Origin of Didactic Poetry"
The songs of the young girls binding up the corn - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
A young and secret moon - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "I Watch Swift Pictures"
The mad young autumn wind - Percy MacKaye "School"
And glory in a dream of time when earth was young - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"
Young lord of the realms of fancy - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"
When the butter was much younger - H.P. McKnight "Forget? No, Never!"
The fresh young sense of Sweet - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
That to young sunlight crows - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Young as the slip of the new moon - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
So young and infinite and lost - Charlotte Mew "Le Sacre-Coeur (Montmartre)"
Younger sister of stern Death and Sleep - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Sonnet to Nemesis, Goddess of Remorse"
Mirth and youth and young desire - John Milton "Song on May Morning"
Young and full of possibilities - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
Young warrior of darkness and copper - Pablo Neruda "Amor America (1400)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
To trap the young and unsuspecting fly - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Book I [Elemental Odes]" transl. by Edward Hirsch
A young ram leapt from the copper depths - Mari Ness "The Restoration of Youth"
Was young as truth is - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
The youngest child of time - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
Dared not look on the sweet young rain - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Roam with young Persephone - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"
In younger truth is traced - Walter S. Percy "The Old Moon in the Arms of the New"
Dreamed we were young again - Carl Phillips "Archery"
And envy all your younger brothers - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Bridal of Belmont"
Which we cast at the young heart's devotion - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Young stars in the belt of Orion - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Day is at the gates and a young wind - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
The whirlwind through young wheat - Charles G.D. Roberts "Cambrai and Marne"
I'll run below the wet young moon - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"
When the Titans yet were young - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"
Young love and broken life - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: II. The Park Band"
The highway takes them young - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"
Watch me grow younger every year - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
The young goat's at mischief - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"
For the eye of the young alligator - Wallace Stevens "Nomad Exquisite"
When that ashen land was young - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"
Glowing forth to young imagination's quickened sight - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
From out the tomb of my young misspent years - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
A young birch-tree in a forest of pines - Marian Thanhouser "Young Witches"
When these woods were young - Edward Thomas "Under the Woods"
Young as our streams after rain - Edward Thomas "Words"
Young affection no regret has brought - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"
Her young disciples leaves behind - Henry David Thoreau "A River Scene"
The sleep of the young and unknowing - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
Such cobwebs of knowledge as careless young fingers may hold - J.T. Trowbridge "My Brother and I" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
Rock the young birds within the nest - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
The young moon with her head in veils - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"
Bloomed from young throats - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "A Field of Onions: Brown Onions"
The first young twigs that burst in green - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"
Enchanting scenes of young delight - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
The purple flowers of Dis burn their young foreheads - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"
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Too young to own the flame - "The Alter'd Lay"
Of how the young world took to sin - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [A hundred years ago the church bells spoke]"
Grows young with wonder - James Baldwin "Song (for Skip)"
Where young hot hopes grow cold beneath - Stella Benson "Saint Bride"
The blue eye of that young crow cocked to me - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Stay young in a bubble of speed - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
The very edge and presence of the young moon - Witter Bynner "Veils"
The young dawn's golden fire - F. O. Call "On a Swiss Mountain"
Opening to dawn's young footsteps - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Fortune smile upon the young - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
The gray stones beneath you feel young again - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
Young dawn of our eternal day - Richard Crashaw "Verses from the Shepherd's Hymn"
When I was young and sure of heart - Shutta Crum "The Highway of the Three Graces"
Through the young and awkward hours - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
When time was young - Brent Cunningham "from Back on Earth"
Cluster round the young heart's shrine - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
And fame like a young curled leaf - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"
Younger than the dawn - Russell W. Davenport "Poems I"
Snared young foxes in the dells - Walter de la Mare "The Isle of Lone"
Makes a young heart melancholy - Aubrey de Vere "Song"
Scrolling through Merriam Webster's youngest words - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
Whose hopes and young ambitions fell and faded - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Lulls some young fool to dreams afar - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
Sound like liars to the young - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
Young as its newest rapture - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Lured young Achilles from his haunted sleep - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"
A young Phoenix flaming into birth - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Old hope in her young eyes - Zona Gale "Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young"
All the yesterdays on which I was younger - Theodora Goss "Mirror, Mirror"
With fourteen young ravens to feed - C. L. Graves "On Re-Reading 'Barchester Towers'"
Sharp unrest of the young year - Louise Imogen Guiney "April Desire"
Young Cupid's lances strike as deep as ever - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]
Any witch's youngest daughter golden and bold - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"
Swimming on a young October sky - Marsden Hartley "Fishmonger"
Singing among young oak leaves - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "April Will Come"
If young hearts were not so clever - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIX"
When dawns were young - Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
When power was great, and faith was young - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
They have dreamed as young men dream - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Old Black Men" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
While their young enemies feast on milkweed - Tanque R. Jones "Monarch"
Young buds sleep in the root's white core - John Keats "Faery Song"
The joy that young existence yields - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
Youngest and fairest of the four - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Young July with all her flowers - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"
This young companion of an ancient star - Joyce Kilmer "Mount Houvenkopf"
Young hearts round this new life can twine - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]
Too young to remember the smoking gun - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"
As a young woman who knew steel - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
A young probationer of light - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"
Hot young engines confused for devotion - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
Emptiness where the young winds wrestle - R.B. Lemberg "Between the Mountain and the Moon"
Tranquil as this young moon - Denise Levertov "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January"
Two discrete young snakes left their skin - Robin Coste Lewis "Summer"
Spiced winds which blew when earth was young - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"
A fund to train young imps - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
When wise Minerva still was young - James Russell Lowell "The Origin of Didactic Poetry"
The songs of the young girls binding up the corn - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
A young and secret moon - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "I Watch Swift Pictures"
The mad young autumn wind - Percy MacKaye "School"
And glory in a dream of time when earth was young - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"
Young lord of the realms of fancy - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"
When the butter was much younger - H.P. McKnight "Forget? No, Never!"
The fresh young sense of Sweet - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
That to young sunlight crows - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Young as the slip of the new moon - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
So young and infinite and lost - Charlotte Mew "Le Sacre-Coeur (Montmartre)"
Younger sister of stern Death and Sleep - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Sonnet to Nemesis, Goddess of Remorse"
Mirth and youth and young desire - John Milton "Song on May Morning"
Young and full of possibilities - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
Young warrior of darkness and copper - Pablo Neruda "Amor America (1400)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
To trap the young and unsuspecting fly - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Book I [Elemental Odes]" transl. by Edward Hirsch
A young ram leapt from the copper depths - Mari Ness "The Restoration of Youth"
Was young as truth is - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
The youngest child of time - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
Dared not look on the sweet young rain - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Roam with young Persephone - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"
In younger truth is traced - Walter S. Percy "The Old Moon in the Arms of the New"
Dreamed we were young again - Carl Phillips "Archery"
And envy all your younger brothers - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Bridal of Belmont"
Which we cast at the young heart's devotion - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Young stars in the belt of Orion - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Day is at the gates and a young wind - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
The whirlwind through young wheat - Charles G.D. Roberts "Cambrai and Marne"
I'll run below the wet young moon - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"
When the Titans yet were young - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"
Young love and broken life - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: II. The Park Band"
The highway takes them young - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"
Watch me grow younger every year - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
The young goat's at mischief - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"
For the eye of the young alligator - Wallace Stevens "Nomad Exquisite"
When that ashen land was young - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"
Glowing forth to young imagination's quickened sight - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
From out the tomb of my young misspent years - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
A young birch-tree in a forest of pines - Marian Thanhouser "Young Witches"
When these woods were young - Edward Thomas "Under the Woods"
Young as our streams after rain - Edward Thomas "Words"
Young affection no regret has brought - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"
Her young disciples leaves behind - Henry David Thoreau "A River Scene"
The sleep of the young and unknowing - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
Such cobwebs of knowledge as careless young fingers may hold - J.T. Trowbridge "My Brother and I" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
Rock the young birds within the nest - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
The young moon with her head in veils - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"
Bloomed from young throats - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "A Field of Onions: Brown Onions"
The first young twigs that burst in green - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"
Enchanting scenes of young delight - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
The purple flowers of Dis burn their young foreheads - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"
Navigation Links:
Go to Y word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.