Potential Titles: Rock

[somethingdarker]

A field of illicit rocks - Cynthia Arrieu-King "Poem"

On what rock stands this pride - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Polished rocks littered with bread crusts - Taneum Bambrick "Date"

Light unhinges air from rock - Mary Jo Bang "A Tour of the March Equinox"

Found rocks were kinder than clocks - Elizabeth Bartlett "As You Make It"

And rock our griefs to sleep - Charles Baudelaire "Mist and Rain" transl. not credited

The living water from the rock - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

The rocks have evil faces - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"

Communications between rocks and whales - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"

Some record of sand in the rock - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "You Are Here"

So much forgotten rock - Robert Bly "The Man Who Walks Toward Us"

Give us the shelter of strand or rock - "The Boatman's Hymn" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

The linnet in the rocky dells - Emily Bronte "Song [The linnet in the rocky dells]"

The rocks of the horrid hereafter - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

A brother to the insensible rock - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"

Unhindered by the rocks - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "A Picture"

Rocks like lilies in a storm - C.S. Calverley "Waiting"

A rock where Punic faith should bide its vow - Roger Casement "Hamilcar Barca"

And undermine it rock and root - Madison Cawein "The Speckled Trout"

A wooden cradle that rocks on the mould - "The Cherry Tree Carol"

Turned to the rock and thorn - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"

Over the monstrous rocks - Hilda Conkling "The Lonesome Wave"

Grim rocks of dread and doubt - Susan Coolidge "Ebb and Flow"

The eagle of the rock has such an eye - Carolina Coronado "The Lost Bird" transl. by William Cullen Bryant

Where the rock runs up to Heaven - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"

On the rock of harmony - Ruben Dario "Poets! Towers of God!" (translation by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva)

Music in the very rocks - Coningsby Dawson "In Bedlam"

When rocked in starry nest - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"

My acre of a rock - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XXVII"

Reflects a narrow, rocky room - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"

Chained to a wild and sea-girt rock - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

The echoing rocks have heard - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Locked her words in rocks - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"

Some rock of rest - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Absence"

Wrote the past in characters of rock and fire - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"

An eagle etched in rock - Heid E. Erdich "Morrisseau Creatures from the Woodland Painters School"

Cannot retrieve you from rock - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Refrain"

Breaks upon its rocky shore - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"

Load my rocky smile into a slingshot - Andrea Gibson "What Do You Think About this Weather"

And the rocks gave back the song - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The Convert" (transl. by Edgar Alfred Bowring)

My heart that rocks in silence - Louis Golding "Skylark Noon"

The echoing rocks repeat - James Harris Guy "Fort Arbuckle"

The woman with rocks in her pockets - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"

On rocks or thorns reposing - Hafiz "The Divan VII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves - Han-Shan "[As for me, I delight in the everyday Way]" transl. by Burton Watson

Rock with glitter angels - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"

Exhaustion among rocks - Robert Hayden "The Mirages"

Stand on a rock in the darkness - Ben Hecht "My Island"

Sons of the desert and the rock - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"

The rock no tempest shall displace - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

A thousand rocks, deep-hid - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

The rocks with their eternal towers - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Creek dodging crooked rocks - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"

Crawled under fire-forgotten rocks - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"

Staring at the thin rocky soil of me - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

Provide solace for your rocky path - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Rocks that burst asunder - Langston Hughes "Love"

Abandoned to the rocks - Richard Hugo "Death of the Kapowsin Tavern"

And strips the face of rocks - Allison Eir Jenks "Underwater Grave"

Rocks that suffer not defeat - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Crow's Nest Pass"

My rock in the glade - Rindon Johnson "There Is a Black Fly in Your Chardonnay"

the slip of a rain-glazed rock - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"

rock against my searching feet - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"

Rocks rolling across the fat plains - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"

The rocks that lock with loitering feet - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"

Unto the hollow Rocks repair - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"

Under the rocks and hidden machinery - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Again"

A breath about the rocky stair - Archibald Lampman "Chione"

About the structure of rocks - Rachel Levitsky "Audience"

And the rocks cannot be climbed - Li Po "The Szechwan Road" transl. by Arthur Waley

Whirl round ten thousand rocks - Li T'ai-Po "The Perils of the Shu Road" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Taunting the rocks' long shadow - Audre Lorde "Change"

By the fount of the rock - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: I: Shilric, Vinvela"

Shaken moonlight writhed upon the rocks - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

Perfect till the rocks dissolve - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

A tumble of extraordinary rocks - Marilyn McCabe "Web"

To eat rocks like fruit - Brandy Nalani McDougall "Resist"

Bare rocks where the eagles build - Claude McKay "Courage"

The rock language of all your elegant scars - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"

Black rock by sunbeams crowned - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"

An old flag and some yellow rocks - Joanne Merriam "Surface Properties"

A wren scolding from the rocks - M.S. Merwin "Walkers"

That courage like a rock - Edna St Vincent Millay "The courage that my mother had"

Some beacon on a rocky strand - Robert Morris "The Christian's Dream of the Future"

A bundle of black rocks in the heart - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Chronicle of an Execution" transl. by Joshua Freeman

To the secret logic of rock - Pablo Neruda "Farewell to the Offerings of the Sea" transl. by Maria Jacketti and Dennis Maloney

Keys spread out in secret rocks - Pablo Neruda "From Above (1942)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Fists accustomed to splitting rocks - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Quicker than rock - Lorine Niedecker "Wintergreen Ridge"

Searching the dark scripture of the rocks - Alfred Noyes "Darwin II: The Voyage"

Rocks where no mollusc clung - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

The scripture of the rocks - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

Rocked to their dark foundations - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

To breathe against those ancient rocks - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci II: At Florence"

Winds sleep in the rocky caverns - "Nurse's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull

these unrepeatable needles of rock - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

Each tree a forest, each rock a mountain - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"

The rock which is their cradle - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"

Cheering the patient rocks - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Skirted the rocks and wrecked trawlers - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"

Amusing myself with rocks - Po Chu'i "The Temple of Bequeathed Love" transl. by Burton Watson

Barren apples beard the rocks - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

Shoals of mossy rocks and mussel shells - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"

Dredged from the rock bottom of your heart - Lynn Powell "Feedback for the Muse"

They harvest weathered rocks - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Street of Broken Dreams"

Rain that fell like rocks - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

To forge a thousand theories of the rocks - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"

Against this frowning rock - Theodore H. Rand "The Tireless Sea"

Through the eye of a rock - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Rocked like a trapeze of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

Gold artery the faithful rock - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"

Fled with a roar through the rock - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

Pulling her down to that rocky undertow - Lisa Sewell "The Land of Nod"

A cradle that the moon rocks - Virna Sheard "The Sea"

Of rocky realm and haunted shade - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

Firm as the wave-beaten rock - Frank E. Smedley "The Enchanted Net"

Hacking through layers of obdurate rock - Su Tung-p'o "White Crane Hill" transl. by Burton Watson

Threading woods, tangling rocks - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson

Hushes the rocks to sleep - "'Tis Sweet to Roam"

Holding it open with a rock - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"

Seeded me with a rock your father caught - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"

Out to the ravenous rocks - C. K. Williams "Devout"

Only the bare rocks of today - William Carlos Williams "A Prelude"

Flower that splits the rocks - William Carlos Williams "A Sort of a Song"

Shield themselves with bladed rocks - Assétou Xango "Terpsichore"

The small print between rocks - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 5" transl. by Katherine Silver


Rises from bedrock hematite - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"

Lie quiet as bedrock beneath - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"


A mesh of moonrock's lapis soup - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"


From rock-built eyrie rushing - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"


To the music of rock-fretted rills - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"


Rock-ribbed and ancient - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"

Without these rock-ribbed facts - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"


Navigation Links:
Go to R word index.
Go to Potential Titles: Rocks [category].
Go to Potential Titles: Rocks - Pretty Ones [category].
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.