Potential Titles: Rock

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The night-wind rocks the sleeping flowers - Louisa May Alcott "Fairy Song"

Rocks adorned with crowns of fallen branches - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Water in the anchored rock - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"

With a rock on my shoulders - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"

Splintered the pine and split the iron rock - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Turtles banging their heads against rocks - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"

Characters branded for a monument of wood & rock - William Archila "El Mozote"

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"

Gallery of important and iridescent rocks - J. Mae Barizo "Diorama"

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"

Lost together in a wood turned rock - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"

As you blend into shrub and rock - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

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

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

The echo of old names and weighted fill of rocks - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"

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"

Bruising my heart against its rocky breast - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

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

Some fountain gurgling from the rifted rock - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"

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"

Which out of water brought forth solid rock - "The Coral Island" [The Mirror of Literature v.10, no.279 (20 October 1827)]

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"

The rocks where gold-haired syrens sang - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Gray rocky meteors of memory flare - Jan Cronos "She Remains"

The cold ripple sneering on the rocks - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"

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"

Rocks used to hold an angel down - Tyree Daye "The Tomato Women's Meetings: The Washing of Hands"

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"

Some poor Ariel penanced in the rock - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"

Locked her words in rocks - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"

Some rock of rest - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Absence"

Whose scornings are flint on dry rock - Camille T. Dungy "Where bushes periodically burn, children fear other children: girls"

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

On frightful rocks where billows poured - "Epitaph in a Dedham Churchyard" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

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

Had no place on the rocks but a voice - Annie Finch "Edge, Atlantic, July"

Those blossoms haunt the rocks - James Elroy Flecker "Areiya"

Those old rocks break the hill that we the heights should win - James Elroy Flecker "Areiya"

Thy rocks shall down through time endure - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

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

The hangings woven all of rocks and mosses - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

While the dark vast earth shakes and rocks - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

The rock that bides the raging flood - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

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"

Rocking and rolling through the storms of Jupiter - John Grey "Son of an Astronaut"

On the ocean that hollows the rocks - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"

Tombs of rocky teeth and salt waters - Lesley Hart Gunn "The Exorcism of Icarus"

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

The crows balance and rocking on the windy lines - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"

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

Exhaustion among rocks - Robert Hayden "The Mirages"

Girded with root and rock - Seamus Heaney "Antaeus"

A boiling furnace of sizzling rock - Georgia Heard "Room of Science"

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"

In which the rocks have always been hollow - Jackson Holbert "Fragment [As if to begin some process]"

And my teeth are rocks I walk on - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"

Rocks that burst asunder - Langston Hughes "Love"

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

Pressed in a rock of mined coal - John James "End"

Weigh on the water and strain the rock - Robinson Jeffers "Contrast"

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"

In fields filled with jagged rocks - Tanque R. Jones "Slave-Feet"

Your chariot landed upon rough rock - Zilka Joseph "Prophet of the Rock"

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

Grieving on his rock under olive trees - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

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"

The void where fuel grasps at rocks - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

Whispered in language of stone and rock - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

Reach for the next outcropping of rock - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

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

Their windows crashing against rocks - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"

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

a river borne red from the rock - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"

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"

Rocks & dust & outer smoke in outer space - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

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

The silent weeping of rocks - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

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

Alone with green seas rocking him - Henry Newbolt "Messmates"

That rocks thy reeds the winter long - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

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"

Squeezing light out of a rock - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Telling a Bedtime Story"

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"

The rocking echo drifts and dies - Lloyd Roberts "The Kill"

And the rocks are at war with the waters - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

Rocked in glory in the mighty tide - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"

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"

Till on these rocks the waves returning break - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"

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

As the storm rocks the ravens on high - Shelley "When the Lamp Is Shattered"

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

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

To barren rocks and fields that have no clay - James Stephens "The Gang"

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"

Trailing talk behind each tiny summit of rock - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"

Rocks in the sea of its own primordial past - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Universe We Are"

Buttressed with unnumbered tiers of ruddy rock - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"

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"

Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

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"

By ravings of rebels and Rock - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]

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"


The doomed shrub fanned against the rockface - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"


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


Desk and counter and rock-quarried gold - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"


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

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


While yet the snow-wreaths to the rock-shelves cling - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"


Rockstrewn caves where dragonfish evolve - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"


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