Potential Titles: Blind

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A blind man knows the night - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

Such fighting as blind Homer never sung - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

And fire to strike men blind - Stephen Vincent Benet "Campus Sonnet: 2. Talk"

The world is blind but more dangerous - John Berryman "The Possessed"

A blind and soothing admiration - Maxwell Bodenheim "Country Girl"

The dust will blacken and blind - "The Book of Odes: No.206. Don't Walk Beside the Big Carriage" transl. by Burton Watson

Within the system of blind planets - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"

Hail from a blind sky - Jericho Brown "Prayer of the Backhanded"

Half blinded with rapture - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A Summer Wooing"

When blind desire ran free - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LI. First Reading. Love in Youth and Age" transl. by John Addington Symonds

That make blind chance the heir - Tommaso Campanella "XXXI. To Poland" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Benighted, blinded and confused - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

And strife but blinds the eyes - Arthur Hugh Clough "Noli Aemulari"

Strange that I should have grown so suddenly blind - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Among the blind brown worms - Adelaide Crapsey "Warning to the Mighty"

In the blind white grip of ice - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

In the heart's blind waste - Edward Dowden "Life's Gain"

Backward down the blind gulfs of night - Edward Dowden "To a Year"

Would that my soul were blind - John Drinkwater "The Old Warrior"

To the deep wrong of modern Mammon blind - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"

A flock buried in the blindness of winter - Joseph Fasano "Mahler in New York"

Or are backward glances blind - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

The blinding traffic of night's beheading - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten IV"

This blindness for names - Carolyn Forche "Book Codes: III"

A blinding flash of dry lightning - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"

That go blindly pouring past - Robert Frost [untitled]

To point out colours to the blind - Thomas Gent "Poems"

Bitter, blinding, binding words - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Blind with wood smoke - Winnie Lewis Gravitt "Sippokni Sia"

Come down from the light that blinds - Scott E. Green "Killers from the Light, Killers from the Heat"

The glare of wisdom blind my eyes - Edgar A. Guest "The Simple Things"

The faith of the blind - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

Of troubled instances and blind instruction - Terrance Hayes "Anchor Head"

My heart on my fist like a blind falcon - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

Blinded by fierce calcium rays - Oliver Herford "The Hydra"

A blind mule toiling at a task lost to time - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"

Blind except for the fireflies - Conrad Hilberry "Path to the Cabin"

Blinds the eyes with blood and vengeance - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Until my eyes were blind with stars - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

The blinding, pathless night - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"

Flashes blinding revelation green - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"

And pressing blindly sunwards - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"

Shadows so blinding I ache - Jess Hyslop "After"

The window itself blind with grief - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"

The gloom of dreams, a blinding flame - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"

Blind to your own eye's intricate machine - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

Blind faith in despondence - Kim Unsong "Reality"

As we played some deadly game for blind gods - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Blinded by the moon's indifference - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"

From a blind sky - Maxine Kumin "New Hampshire, February 7, 2003"

Entomb blind joy in its spell - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"

Blind Milton's memory of light - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Dazzled moths blind in a searchlight's cone - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

Blindest in Sunlight - Philip Levine "In a Light Time"

Here also, drifting clouds may blind the sun - Li T'ai-Po "Feng Haung T'ai: Ascending the Terrace of the Silver-Crested Love-Pheasants at the City of the Golden Mound" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Snowblind with grief - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"

Standing blind in train tracks - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Drink from blind lakes - Airea D. Matthews "Sexton Texts a Dead Addict's Daughter During Polar Vortex"

In my eyes a blind apocalypse - Theodore Maynard "Unwed"

Half blind with the same sound - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"

Snow that fell blindly on the heart - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"

Gnawing the green roots from a blinded moon - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

Blind cave cricket dream - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

The night to be long, the moon blind - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

A little blind reaching - Rusty Morrison "in the flood"

Heaped high by blinded Stars - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

The roads are blind with storm - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Golden Shoes"

Some would blind you if you didn't turn away - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

the blinding mirror image of near-sighted dreams - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Grief-blind on ice - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

In the trek of the blind snow - Lola Ridge "Back Yards"

The white eyes of blind gods - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Blind robbing the bees - Lauren Russell "Descent" [selection]

Winter snows of jealousy and blind mistrust - F.E.S. "The Stray Blossom" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.36-v.I, 6 Sept. 1884]

On the blinded eyes that weep - Frederick George Scott "The Everlasting Father"

His eyes blinded shut with night and stars - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

Blind in blood - Percy Bysshe Shelley "England in 1819"

Blindly lost in folly's maze - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Life"

Blinded by bitter wind - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Dies, or Doesn't"

Asleep at the bottom of a blind lake - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Is Slow to Love"

To render strong Antares blind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Hallows your blind obsession - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

Green to gold to blinding white - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"

In the stern and black immense that has blinded every eye - James Stephens "The Shadow"

And waves that journeyed blind - James Stephens "The Shell"

Blinded by a leafy crown - Sara Teasdale "Leaves"

Buffeted with bouquets and blinded with confetti - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"

Made by blind gods waving sieves - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"

The blind belief of ivy - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Driven by blind perturbations - Henry van Dyke "The Great Cities"

When the Devil goes blind - anonymous song title "We'll All Go To Heaven When the Devil Goes Blind"

Blind as a thread of water - Yvor Winters "The Moonlight"

Annul the blinding gesture of the sword - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"

So beguiled as to be blind - William Wordsworth "XXIX [Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind]"

Making blind moons of all your eyes - Elinor Wylie "Escape"

Unlighted through blind space - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"

Caught in the blinding stars of the future - Ray Young Bear "To See as Far as the Grandfather World"

The blinded measuring snake a Moebius strip - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Above me the day-blind stars waiting - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"


Half-blinded by its golden rapture - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"


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