Potential Titles: Young

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A 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)"

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 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"

Whose hopes and young ambitions fell and faded - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

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"

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"

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"

When dawns were young - Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

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"

Too young to remember the smoking gun - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"

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"

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)"

Mirth and youth and young desire - John Milton "Song on May Morning"

Young and full of possibilities - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

Such cobwebs of knowledge as careless young fingers may hold - "My Brother and I" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

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]

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"

Her young disciples leaves behind - Henry David Thoreau "A River Scene"

The sleep of the young and unknowing - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"

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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