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Potential Titles: Great

Became greater and greater strangers to themselves - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"

A great storm had blown out the stars - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"

Only the sea lifted its great voice - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

The great wheel of darkness - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

Hands afire with a vision of two great towers - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Regimented shards of the Great Order - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

And in her dream a great tree grew - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVI: Dream of the Holy Virgin" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Stars keep great guard upon you - T.H.W. Armstrong "Watching"

Where great whales come sailing by - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

The great freight of the summer - Ingeborg Bachmann "The Great Freight" transl. by Bill Crisman

May not ask too great a boon - Albion Fellows Bacon "An Alpine Valley"

The desperate dance that signifies a loss too great to name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Great men on horses hunt you - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"

No greater in the heavens - Ardelia Maria Barton "A Prayer"

Whom one great desire gnaws - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited

Expressly charged to mock the great - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"

Fold your great wings about my face - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"

Great ropes of gorgeous vapor - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Its blazing wheel of great aims lost - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"

Directed toward greater coherence - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"

Who in great zig-zag blows the bee - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"

Under the great balanced day - Louise Bogan "Medusa"

The capital of the great state of Thursday - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"

Silver angels etching great cursive blessings - Laure-Anne Bosselaar "Late Afternoon Stroll on the Cliffs"

In my ears a great triumphant song - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"

Great, echoing chambers of herself - Lisa M. Bradley "The Skin Walker's Wife"

A great impassable gate of tumult - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"

And the great tides roared, assembling - Mary C.G. Byron "The Tryst of the Night (M. C. Gillington)"

Greater wonders than shook Pharaoh's throne - Tommaso Campanella "XXXIX. On the Lord's Prayer. No.3" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Where the great war banners are furled - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"

His great chariot built of fire - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

My soul is a great plain made desolate - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"

Swept away in one great gulf of flame - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Where great Plato paced serene - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"

The winter wood and its great absorbent heart - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"

A great apocalyptic wheeze - Tina Chang "Lion"

In this great world of rush and riot - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Steps"

Of great limbs gone to chaos - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

The third great thunder on the wind - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Great ghosts shall rise to vindicate the right of cats - G.K. Chesterton "To Enid who acted the Cat in private Pantomime"

In the great gaps of the system - John Ciardi "Everywhere that Universe"

The great floods of the soul - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Through the great sinful streets - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

This great wink of eternity - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

In some great Arctic arsenal - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"

Mountain ranges and great rifts that break the land - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

A message through the cages of a great whale's teeth - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"

On a great horse of gold into the silver dawn - E. E. Cummings "Song (V)"

Sang at the sun's great golden doors - Olive Custance "The Prisoner of God"

The height of a great mountain forested with night - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva

In the footsteps of the great feet of Bacchus - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org

How rich and great the times are now - W.H. Davies "A Great Time"

A great pale apple of silver and pearl - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"

The great black beautiful seeds of the Moon - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"

Four great walls have hemmed me in - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"

That great water in the west - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LII: Thirst"

Which dead in great fishes' jaws - John Donne "The Calm"

Around a goblet of great waters - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

The centre of the world's great wheel - Edward Dowden "The Secret of the Universe: an Ode"

The molten ore of the great stars - Edward Doyle "Chime, Dark Bell"

In Time's great periods shall return to nought - William Drummond "Ah! Would 'Twere So"

May struggle with great odds to gain - B.F.D. Dunn "Our Heritage" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]

Not greatly larger than a star - Lord Dunsany "The Return of Song"

Go to the great house of grief - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Riding on seven great lions - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

City where the great crown lies - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle

Wrapped in a great, frightful light - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle

Has made your dominion great - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 9. E-Hursang, the Temple of Shulgi in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle

A basilisk and a great serpent intertwined - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 33. E-Dimgalkalama, the Temple of Ishtaran in Der" transl. by Sophus Helle

Skilled in the great powers of dominion - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 33. E-Dimgalkalama, the Temple of Ishtaran in Der" transl. by Sophus Helle

Hallowed house of great powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 34. E-Sikil, the Temple of Ninazu in Eshnunna" transl. by Sophus Helle

Ten thousand magnificent greatnesses - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Grandeurs of Mary"

The great elk in the dark door - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"

The great deeds of the hopeless - Joseph Fasano "Odysseus"

A great fire muted by holy water - Camonghne Felix "Yes, It Is Possible"

The great vigilance of the 19th century - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"

A great wind of complaining - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

While he feasted all the great - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"

Displays the greatest art - "The First Hole at St. Andrews on a Crowded Day"

And the great orchards burst from bud to blossom - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

In fire the great boat beats the seas - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

Sit at the edge of our great new void - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

As the great abstractions come to take you away - Carrie Fountain "[You Belong to the World]"

The great harvest I myself desired - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"

To know that for destruction ice is also great - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"

The great work of those patient things - Zona Gale "Paradise and Purgatory"

Up to the end of the great QUEEN'S reign - C. L. Graves "Ballade of Free Verse"

Great winds over the sky - Robert Graves "The Face of the Heavens"

Great rats on leather wings - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"

It's pride that makes the heart so great - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"

Only see the great gulf set between us - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

To pay our greatest debt - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Love's Mode of Action"

The great AVENGER unsheathed his awful sword - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Filled the least and the greatest places - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"

Ten bundles and four great piles - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"

Moves the seven great ebony pharaohs - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

Making a great noise to wake a dead god - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"

With great hope in its energy - Brenda Hillman "Winged One"

The great sword of understanding - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"

A great drum beaten with swift sticks - Langston Hughes "Sport"

Sleep, like a messenger of great import - Richard Hughes "Vagrancy"

Had no great plans to live happily ever after - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"

Each affliction bear a greater beauty - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"

A great fire of dreams - Lionel Johnson "Wales"

Great rush of wrecked air - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Monarch of the three great worlds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Sprung from these greater furrows - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

When my thirst got great enough to ask - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

With greater force in the forest - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

The backbeat of a world of great machines - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"

Great key to golden palaces - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

The great machinery of merchandising - Stuart Kestenbaum "Prayer in the Strip Mall, Bangor, Maine"

The Greatest Plagues to bear - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Under our great star - Kim Unsong "Silent Afar"

The great change already underway - Joanna Klink "New Year"

Their numbers as great as your soul - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

In great storms, it even crosses the sea - Danusha Lameris "Dust"

Grown great and stately with the rain - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"

Rolls a great and burning star - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"

A vision of the great and burning star - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"

By great winds in awful unison - Archibald Lampman "New Year's Eve"

The great black night scooped out - D.H. Lawrence "New Year's Eve"

The great depths of its reversed zenith - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"

Great hands open towards the west - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Gleaming spears of great Apollo's host - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 1"

Broken in time's great wound - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"

Named great planets in their orbits race - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

The great networks of the screaming air - Ruth Lechlitner "Quiz Program"

Some score too great for payment - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

To an ocean's greatest rise - Hailey Leithauser "Rapture"

When I was by a great grief stricken - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

In the great throat of a glacier - Megan Levad "Foundling"

Speaking of the great theater of conquest - Philip Levine "For the Country: The President"

Took them through seven small seas to a great ocean - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

A great ocean tasting of salt and our lives - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

She walked the great clear void - Li Po "Poem No.19 in the Old Manner" transl. by Burton Watson

Where the great black agates loom - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Under the fire of the great moon - Amy Lowell "The Letter"

Pledge of greater majesty unseen - Amy Lowell "Monadnock in Early Spring"

And grapples with great winds - Percy MacKaye "Fight: The Tale of a Gunner at Plattsburgh"

A great white flower of solitude - Dorothea Mackellar "The Moon and the Morning"

With the stars' great golden choir - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

With a great soul's deepest love - Jeannette Marks "His Name"

Hypocrisy in this great falling hegemony - David Tomas Martinez "An Alluded to Letter from DTM for Matthew Olzmann"

To ruin the great work of time - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"

In all the great cliff's gaps - John Masefield "Biography"

Send me a ninth great peaceful wave - John Masefield "Prayer"

Those great powers of marching silences - John Masefield "The South-West Wind"

Hiding in burrows of fate amid great cities - Edgar Lee Masters "Theodore the Poet"

The great scourge of the great love - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

Our own great ranges of feelings - Heather McHugh "A Physics"

The great migration of the material abandoning the nest - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"

On the brink of the great waters - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

Her great word of life - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Great silences and spaces - Charlotte Mew "Fame"

Forsaken by great winds - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"

But greatly and in gold - Alice Meynell "Lord, I Owe Thee a Death"

The golden vessel of great song - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet II from Second April

The Great Migration of words - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"

Will wander, outcasts, from the great world's gate - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Too great for silken fetters - Lewis Morris "Saint Christopher"

A candle lit from the great unending fire - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"

Great idols with phosphoric feet - Pablo Neruda "Far from Here" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Great stars clear as vodka - Pablo Neruda "The Future Is Space" transl. by Alastair Reid

The great solitude of bells tolling - Pablo Neruda "Goodbyes" transl. by Alastair Reid

By the great winds of the sky - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney

The hour of great solitude - Pablo Neruda "The Stones and the Birds" transl. by Dennis Maloney

While the great rain of July falls - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid

The firelit glow of a great hearth's gleam and glare - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Where do we fly, under deep dark sky?]"

So dares affront the great god Pan - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Between the good earth and the great sea - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author

Washed by a water greater than the world - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"

The great rhythm of law - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"

In the great, black packet of time - Mary Oliver "The Orchard"

Hold us in the great hands of light - Mary Oliver "Why I Wake Early"

In the sky's great shroud of light - Ekhmetjan Osman "My Love" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

The great cedar's benedictory grace - John Oxenham "A Little Te Deum of the Commonplace"

Though great Urania guide her flight - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"

Deserter from the great autumn army - Linda Pastan "Repetitions: After Van Gogh: 1. Yellow"

Only the greatest souls can speak - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Too great to tarry questioning - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

How the great thorn trees wept - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

My great morning of wrath - Kiki Petrosino "Purgatorio"

The great equity of darkness - Emily Pittinos "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"

The great betrayals are impersonal - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"

Gathered great heaps of fraying asbestos - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"

Workshop on the avenue of greater dreaming - Tim Pratt "Mask"

A great white bird on sunlit wing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"

The great sorrow of brightness - Jeremy Radin "Evening"

A gnat in the air of greatness - Charles Rafferty "Mal Evans Counting"

The deep's great harmonies - Theodore H. Rand "Of Beauty"

Greet the great wide savannahs - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"

The paths great Homer trod - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "The Venus of Milo"

Found great solace at that song - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"

A great ship that steered into the stars - Cale Young Rice "All's Well"

Great spears folding into letters - Adrienne Rich "Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot"

Great dawns of inner mornings - Mark Rich "To Sleep"

That great flame upon the scrolls - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

Wings great enough to sustain our victories - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

Majestic discords greater than harmonies - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Like a great spurious diamond - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Crouching like a great cat - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Hear the stars as a great roar - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"

Something greater from the distance - Alberto Rios "When Giving Is All We Have"

Swing the doors to the four great winds - Lloyd Roberts "There's Music in My Heart To-day"

When heaven's great scroll is spread before us - Fayette Robinson "Supplication.--Two Sonnets" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

All things blend in the world's great harmony - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Coincidence is the great mystery of the human mind - Sahar Romani "Sign"

Joined to the great sunk silences - Isaac Rosenberg "Dead Man's Dump"

Beneath one great canopy - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

In the ray of one great sun - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

A word of rescue from the great eyes - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"

Your great way of forgetting - Carl Sandburg "Graves"

The great nail holding a skyscraper - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"

In the great west's golden urn - Clinton Scollard "Nightfall in Sligo"

The four great winds rejoice - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Rover"

Pass great worlds of silent stone - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"

You have held the throne of the Great Unknown - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Laid great bases for eternity - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXV"

The wide hallways of a great endowment - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"

The great fruits of my failure - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"

The great suns burn into whitest ash - Virna Sheard "The Cry"

Shivering like a great grey bull - Taras Shevchenko "Hamaleia" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

With ox-teams great in the fall - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Beneath a greater shadow's wings - Clark Ashton Smith "The Eldritch Dark"

The sun's great warship - A.E. Stallings "On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia"

The great weightings of the end - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"

Great Achilles crumbling on his pyre - Phillips Stewart "De Profundis"

As greatest kings might die to gain - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

Blacker the great crag's scowl - Alfred B. Street "The Devil's Pulpit: Tupper's Lake"

Creates one great impassable division twixt us and our desire - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"

Of foes who lift great mountains - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 107: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Great as mortal eye and brain encompass - Carmen Sylva "A Dream"

In hearts that are too great for hope - Carmen Sylva "Out of the Deep"

The Great Potter works no private favors - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson

Waves in the great process of change - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson

In the great rain of moonlight - Sara Teasdale "Places II: Full Moon (Santa Barbara)"

Asked for something greater - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

Great ruins of an unremembered past - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Great wonders clothed with glory - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"

The great sweep of threatening harmony - Richard Chenevix Trench "To a Lady Singing"

Great waves churn and leap - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Viewing the Ocean" transl. by Burton Watson

Floated soundless in the great gulf of space - W.J. Turner "Death"

Walked in a great golden dream - Walter J. Turner "Romance"

A thing too great for tears - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Protocols of great discretion - John Updike "Transparent Strategems"

Covering Beowulf's greatest hits on your tin kazoo - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

A great bear tracking across the endless sky - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"

Drunk with the great human battle of wills - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Life" transl. by Alma Strettell

Each great nocturnal planet steadfast - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Allow me this great sorrow - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"

Great Agamemnon lifts his hand - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

You asked, I think, too great a sacrifice - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"

With life's great venture, in an ark of clay - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"

Grey on the great wall of Thought - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"

Have burned to their last great glow - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"

Great in loneliness of grey despair - Helen Hay Whitney "Little Sad Face"

Have known great gold Sorrows - Margaret Widdemer "The Jester"

The great divide of falsehood, hunger and last year - John Wieners "In Public"

Great mother of eternal sleep - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Shelley"

Great gold cross shining in the wind - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

The corner of a great rain - William Carlos Williams "Contemporania"

In the zenith of his great renown - Joseph R. Wilson "An Actor's Epitaph"

A part of greater beauties than inform your heart - Humbert Wolfe "Cambridge"

For this Priam's great city of Troy was sacrificed - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"

At the great fork on the untouchable road - Charles Wright "Little Ending"

By that great glory driven wild - W.B. Yeats "From the "Antigone'"

Great kings of the sky - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Cousins of Clouds"


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