Potential Titles: Good/Goodness
Jul. 8th, 2010 02:05 pmWith our heels digging into the good mud - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"
One good turn on the luxuriant wheel - Carl Adamshick "Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging"
How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
The power of a good man's prayer - "Away to the Fray" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Upon a good foundation based - Cora C. Bass "Press On"
Good at trenches, bad at bridges - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"
Bestowed on us good grain - "The Book of Odes: No.245. She Who First Bore Our People" transl. by Burton Watson
A hymn to loving something so generous and good - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
That laid my goods now in the dust - Anne Bradstreet "Verses upon the Burning of our House"
Measure out the distances from good - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Now good for only weeping - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Made good ale in the glen - Jeremiah John Callanan "The Outlaw of Loch Lene"
Good citizen torch bearers out to set the night ablaze - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Of all good sights and sounds bereft - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Or some goodness not in me - Susan Coolidge "'Of Such as I Have'"
The charred remains of despair's good times - Jim Daniels "Foundation"
A work of all good yokes - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
My paws no good for fire-starting - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"
Claimed it as her good luck charm - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Ordinary Things"
On the good tide of the world - Edward Dowden "Recovery"
Where their good luck turned hard - Cornelius Eady "Home (Running Man)"
A good night's sleep before deadly fame - Hazem Fahmy "Interrogation of an Alternate Timeline"
The world turned its one good eye - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"
But nothing good descended - b ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"
Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
With no good sense of discretion - Angel Garcia "Vestiges"
When all the sky flamed with good news - Herbert H. Gowen "Jerusalem 1917"
All these ventures at goodness - Linda Gregerson "Dido in Darkness"
Of votive goods and sabred fugitives - Seamus Heaney "Kinship"
Make a cookbook where poison tastes good - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Kudzu"
When good stars agree - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: A Tribute"
Envy the good bones in the garden - Carly Inghram "Assured Environments"
This sweat of slaves is no good wine - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Good right to laugh in scorn - Lionel Johnson "Lines to a Lady upon Her Third Birthday"
with good reason to crumble - Camisha L. Jones "Wrecking Ball"
A good mile and a half of wind - Ilya Kaminsky "A Widower"
Ever cures the good man's ill - John Keats "Faery Song"
Only the foundation of good intentions - Hallie Knight "To Rebuild"
Once they got good at keeping warm - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"
A good place for the stolen mind - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"
Some good fortune just beyond our sight - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
Good luck arrives only on its way to someone else - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
Strangers of good will - Philip Levine "The Communist Party"
Starved on dreams, and found them good - Amy Levy "The Last Judgment"
The coral-gossip of these good bones - Ada Limon "Fin"
Protected by mandates of good nature - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
Still have the fragrance of a good name - Lu Yu "Feeling Sorry for Myself" transl. by Burton Watson
Sprang from his good grey steed - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
With the last good, forgiving, breeze - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Whose feet upon good errands run - Edwin Markham [Untitled]
Why should we leave good things broken? - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"
You be Good, I'll be Night - Eve Merriam "You Be Saucer"
The good nights are not made for sleep - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
The good days for dreaming in - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
To be a good thing again - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"
With constant soul in good or ill - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Then good are such tidings to hear - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Between the good earth and the great sea - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author
Executing all the deaths that goodness requires - Christina Olivares "Preserving an Ecosystem"
Isn't just butter and good luck - Mary Oliver "Evening Star"
Made good ale in the glen - "The Outlaw of Loch Lene" transl. by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
Throwing good years after bad - Lauren Parker "Miranda"
Every atom belonging to me as good - Andre F. Peltier "Ishirou Honda to the Edge of Panic"
All the varieties of good fortune - Carl Phillips "Wake Up"
Good and bad like rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Our valleys by good angels tenanted - Edgar Allan Poe "The Haunted Palace"
Our quest for the good that Fate has given - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
The luxury of good sleep - Sina Queyras "Years"
at all the funerals when my name was good - m.s. RedCherries "playing america in spring"
A split rind emptied of all good - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
To be destroyed for no good end - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
No tangible good to stop for - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Who vowed to give them good care - Marin Sorescu "Thieves" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
That maps the good and the evil in the future's bewildering folds - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Not for one good second - Gerald Stern "Grass and Water"
What insult is good enough - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Pound grain to make good wine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Matching a Poem by Secretary Kuo, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
Good for viewing the lingering past - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Late harvests gather good fruit - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
Consider what good lessons you'd been taught - "The Whore"
The earth closing its one good eye - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
Makes no good first impression - Jane Yolen "Little House in the Wood"
A good record of that fatal point - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #18" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
In the good night of my company - Lucie Brock-Broido "Soul Keeping Company"
Shopping has become my good-night kiss - Maggie Farren "Palms"
No morning till we've said goodnight - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
Until we kiss good night - Lin Oliver "Hush"
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One good turn on the luxuriant wheel - Carl Adamshick "Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging"
How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
The power of a good man's prayer - "Away to the Fray" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Upon a good foundation based - Cora C. Bass "Press On"
Good at trenches, bad at bridges - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"
Bestowed on us good grain - "The Book of Odes: No.245. She Who First Bore Our People" transl. by Burton Watson
A hymn to loving something so generous and good - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
That laid my goods now in the dust - Anne Bradstreet "Verses upon the Burning of our House"
Measure out the distances from good - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Now good for only weeping - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Made good ale in the glen - Jeremiah John Callanan "The Outlaw of Loch Lene"
Good citizen torch bearers out to set the night ablaze - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Of all good sights and sounds bereft - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Or some goodness not in me - Susan Coolidge "'Of Such as I Have'"
The charred remains of despair's good times - Jim Daniels "Foundation"
A work of all good yokes - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
My paws no good for fire-starting - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"
Claimed it as her good luck charm - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Ordinary Things"
On the good tide of the world - Edward Dowden "Recovery"
Where their good luck turned hard - Cornelius Eady "Home (Running Man)"
A good night's sleep before deadly fame - Hazem Fahmy "Interrogation of an Alternate Timeline"
The world turned its one good eye - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"
But nothing good descended - b ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"
Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
With no good sense of discretion - Angel Garcia "Vestiges"
When all the sky flamed with good news - Herbert H. Gowen "Jerusalem 1917"
All these ventures at goodness - Linda Gregerson "Dido in Darkness"
Of votive goods and sabred fugitives - Seamus Heaney "Kinship"
Make a cookbook where poison tastes good - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Kudzu"
When good stars agree - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: A Tribute"
Envy the good bones in the garden - Carly Inghram "Assured Environments"
This sweat of slaves is no good wine - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Good right to laugh in scorn - Lionel Johnson "Lines to a Lady upon Her Third Birthday"
with good reason to crumble - Camisha L. Jones "Wrecking Ball"
A good mile and a half of wind - Ilya Kaminsky "A Widower"
Ever cures the good man's ill - John Keats "Faery Song"
Only the foundation of good intentions - Hallie Knight "To Rebuild"
Once they got good at keeping warm - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"
A good place for the stolen mind - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"
Some good fortune just beyond our sight - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
Good luck arrives only on its way to someone else - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
Strangers of good will - Philip Levine "The Communist Party"
Starved on dreams, and found them good - Amy Levy "The Last Judgment"
The coral-gossip of these good bones - Ada Limon "Fin"
Protected by mandates of good nature - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
Still have the fragrance of a good name - Lu Yu "Feeling Sorry for Myself" transl. by Burton Watson
Sprang from his good grey steed - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
With the last good, forgiving, breeze - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Whose feet upon good errands run - Edwin Markham [Untitled]
Why should we leave good things broken? - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"
You be Good, I'll be Night - Eve Merriam "You Be Saucer"
The good nights are not made for sleep - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
The good days for dreaming in - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
To be a good thing again - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"
With constant soul in good or ill - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Then good are such tidings to hear - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Between the good earth and the great sea - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author
Executing all the deaths that goodness requires - Christina Olivares "Preserving an Ecosystem"
Isn't just butter and good luck - Mary Oliver "Evening Star"
Made good ale in the glen - "The Outlaw of Loch Lene" transl. by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
Throwing good years after bad - Lauren Parker "Miranda"
Every atom belonging to me as good - Andre F. Peltier "Ishirou Honda to the Edge of Panic"
All the varieties of good fortune - Carl Phillips "Wake Up"
Good and bad like rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Our valleys by good angels tenanted - Edgar Allan Poe "The Haunted Palace"
Our quest for the good that Fate has given - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
The luxury of good sleep - Sina Queyras "Years"
at all the funerals when my name was good - m.s. RedCherries "playing america in spring"
A split rind emptied of all good - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
To be destroyed for no good end - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
No tangible good to stop for - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Who vowed to give them good care - Marin Sorescu "Thieves" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
That maps the good and the evil in the future's bewildering folds - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Not for one good second - Gerald Stern "Grass and Water"
What insult is good enough - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Pound grain to make good wine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Matching a Poem by Secretary Kuo, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
Good for viewing the lingering past - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Late harvests gather good fruit - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
Consider what good lessons you'd been taught - "The Whore"
The earth closing its one good eye - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
Makes no good first impression - Jane Yolen "Little House in the Wood"
A good record of that fatal point - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #18" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
In the good night of my company - Lucie Brock-Broido "Soul Keeping Company"
Shopping has become my good-night kiss - Maggie Farren "Palms"
No morning till we've said goodnight - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
Until we kiss good night - Lin Oliver "Hush"
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