Potential Titles: Grave

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I go to your grave and find nothing - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

Go to my brother's grave and find a well - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

A caged bird stands on the grave of dreams - Maya Angelou "Caged Bird"

Released it to a deeper grave - Diannely Antigua "Anniversary"

Everyone stabbed flowers on a grave - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"

Like some grave privilege - Joseph Auslander "In Envy of Cows"

What if the grave wins - Robert Bly "How Mirabai Did Not Care"

Hopes that lie within their grave - Maxwell Bodenheim "East-Side: New York"

Interred in my oblivious grave - Anne Bradstreet "Before the Birth of One of Her Children"

Thirsted for a green grave - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

And summon Beauty from her grave - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

In pushing vengeance to the grave - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"

Graved in what is commonplace and plain - Scott Cairns "Loves"

A grave where the hill-winds call - Nora Chesson "A Connaught Lament"

This grave spiral of hands - Gabrielle Civil "Three of Cups"

Thunder's grave black vest - John Clare "To the Clouds"

In reason's grave precision - Arthur Hugh Clough "Wen Gott Betrugt, Ist Wohl Betrogen."

Make a grave for the dreams of the Past - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Unburied till an earthquake digs his grave - William H. Davies "The Captive Lion"

Begging against the grave song - Geffrey Davis "For the Child's Mole"

On a bus looking for your grave - Tyree Daye "Uncle Gig's Return"

Graves of stars - Julia de Burgos "Poem to My Death"

An open grave with all its magnets - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"

Make not the grave too narrow - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Grave Night is no betrayer - Edward Dowden "In the Cathedral"

Dirt from Jim Morrison's grave for a voice - Denise Dumars "The Golem

Lonely graves recorded the price - George Blackstone Field "The Mustering of the Legion"

When the fawn returned to the wolf's grave - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen m"

An old woman's knowledge of graves - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"

The heart's deep anguished grave - Mary Weston Fordham "A Reverie"

Lie upon her grave like flowers - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"

The day dreams in its grave - Zona Gale "Wonder"

Every answer is a grave - Andrea Gibson "The Day You Died Because You Wanted To"

Fixing the flowers on a stranger's grave - Andrea Gibson "Radio"

The signet of the grave - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XL"

Worthy of a warrior's grave - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of General Sir E--d P--k--m."

A grave in time's abyss - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

Gone with the old world to the grave - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"

And graves at our very feet - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Brother O' Mine"

Thy root is ever in its grave - George Herbert "Virtue"

Consign an empire to the grave - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"

Drag my feet over endless graves - Jay Hulme "Seeking Trans Ancestors in Provincial Graveyards"

Let one grave our relics hold, entwined - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

Because I live inside his grave - June Jordan "The Bombing of Baghdad"

No subtile Serpents in the Grave betray - Anne Killigrew "On Death"

Memorize even into the grave - Galway Kinnell "Chamberlain's Porch"

The grave, incurious stars - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

By the ocean's obfuscating grave - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"

Admission is a graver knowledge - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"

The grave of our day - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"

The dead hours in their graves - Vachel Lindsay "The Boat with the Kite String and the Celestial Eyes"

Under the fountains and under the graves - Anonymous "Love's Enterprise"

Fairest flowers o'er the grave of buried time - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

A million graves to nurse the buried seed - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

The grave of ruined hearts which trusted - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Expired words buried in open graves - Naomi Long Madgett "Packrat"

If the grave's gates could be undone - John Masefield "C.L.M."

On all our muddy graves - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

Throwing off the grave's disguise - Claude McKay "Exhortation: Summer, 1919"

Digging his own grave with every breath - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"

The proudest seasons find their graves - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

While the grave East deepens - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Grave eyes craving light - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

The silver fence protecting Adam's grave - Marianne Moore "When I Buy Pictures"

Engulfed within the grave of Time - George Murray "The Thistle"

Grave plans for the time to come - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Dolly" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, no.113, v.III, Feb. 27, 1886]

Spectred horrors from the graves of vengeance raised - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Pelting our consciousness into the graves of time - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"

Caught between two unmarked graves - Camille Rankine "Inheritance"

Dryad hiding among fallen graves - Wendy Rathbone "Gravemaid"

From the graves of all things fair - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"

Have tempted a grave too much - Isaac Rosenberg "Girl to Soldier on Leave"

Over the graves of the thousand - Carl Sandburg "Graves"

Hand in hand with grave experience - Charles Sangster "'Tis Summer Still"

And though he strew the grave with gold - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Armies summoned from the grave - Don C. Seitz "Night at Gettysburg"

Rising in glory from their winter graves - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Graves by cloud wreaths kissed - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Any old chimera of the grave - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

Laertes at his sister's grave bids violets spring - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Naked, pure, and grave, unbroken silence - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"

Graves in every corner yawn - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell

The grave of a pillow - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

Ghosts from hungry graves - Charles William Wallace "Life's Lost Skiff"

From sunken graves returned - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"

The grave your magic sets - Humbert Wolfe "An Accusation"

No comfort in the grave - W.B. Yeats "The Man who dreamed of Faeryland"

Time treads o'er the grave of Affection - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]


The wind will be the gravedigger - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


That gravely murmurs meek desires - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"

And those stars so gravely still - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"

Dark trees, gravely conferring - Florence Ripley Mastin "Discovery"

Dandelions bowing gravely to themselves - Lynn Riggs "The Hollow"

Bend gravely and resume their silences - Humbert Wolfe "The Dancers"


Sings upon the earth grave-riven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraph and Poet"


The gravestones of our early curiosities - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"

The groom among the gravestones - Sonya Taaffe "He Should Marry the Daughter of the Angel of Death"

Still as gravestones and as hard - Jane Yolen "Baba Yaga Has Tea with Kostchai the Deathless"


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