Potential Titles: Shake/Shook

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Afraid to shake loose any stars still lodged inside - Duana Ackerson "The Observatory"

And shaking off the sun - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Another halo to shake loose galloping into the crossfire - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"

Just to shake the mental cobwebs - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Unseen trains shake the ground every day at 5 - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

Caprice and a cocktail shaker - Mary Jo Bang "Time Speeds, Said Louise, When a Fever Rises"

Shakes the whirling planets with a kiss - Maurice Baring "Wagner"

have shaken the fruitful tree of belief - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"

have shaken the brutal sea for relief - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"

let autumn shake its leaves - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"

The Sphinx stirred, shaking the drifted moonlight - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Shakes hands with dust - Robert Blair "The Grave"

The moon shakes the bright dice of the water - Louise Bogan "Elders"

Bodies shaken out of all but stars - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

The night shakes out its own lament - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

No craven doubt shall shake our trust - "The Brave and Free" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Nestled at the center of the shaking - Julian Talamantez Brolaski "poetry is a temporal art"

Omens will shake his soul - Charlotte Bronte "Pilate's Wife's Dream"

Through the seams of her shaken foundations - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

To turn the soul-shaking planet - Cyrus Cassells "The World That the Shooter Left Us"

Shaken of the joy of giants - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"

In shaky hands of an old maple - Chris Colderly "For Our Children's Children: Celebrating Chief Dan George"

That shake the gates of hell - Benjamin Copeland "The Resurrection"

Shaken pears came tumbling in showers upon the ground - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"

Shake from your wilding throats - Adelaide Crapsey "The Plaint"

The old gods shaking existence beneath my feet - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Shake the stars down for your sake - Olive Custance "Blue Flowers"

Shake white light in whiter water - H.D. "Fragment Thirty-six"

Some minutest atom shake - Walter de la Mare "The Dark House"

All that shaky camouflage of paper - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

Shakes rare incense at your feet - Julia C.R. Dorr "Over the Wall"

Shaking the bells awake - Carol Ann Duffy "Loud"

Shake off this planet's weight - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy for the Eleven: 4. The Mud Room"

What thrones are shaken in the skies - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Can shake the past - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"

Not the gods can shake the Past - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"

And shakes its sparkling spray of song - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs V"

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

as soon as the sound stops shaking in the ocean salt air - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"

Thought has shaken his ankles free - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"

Shake dew on the knuckle - Robert Frost "To Earthward"

Mad to shake the kaleidoscope again - Deborah Garrison "A Friendship Enters Phase II"

Who mount denial's shaky ladder - Dana Gioia "Autumn Inaugural"

See no shaken shroud - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"

A breath of shaken longing - Mona Gould "Immortal"

Shaking stones in a basket - Cynthia Grady "Kaleidoscope"

Twisted stones of shaken street - Bartholomew F. Griffin "The Other Army"

And shake the reefs with answer - Louise Imogen Guiney "Ode for a Master Mariner Ashore"

Shaken by shattered families - Jin Ha "Misfortune" (translated by the author)

And the hurricane shakes the solid land - Thomas Hardy "I Found Her Out There"

Needles shaken from out the gusty pine - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Who shook Rome's destinies - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

Shaking your heart from my hair - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"

One throbbing pulse is shaking all Nature's mighty frame - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

A thread of shaken silver - Aldous Huxley "Points and Lines"

Shaking out honey, treading perfume - Jean Ingelow "Divided"

From the husk of dusk I shake the stars - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Shaking seconds out like salt - Mark Irwin "Dedication"

A salamander shaking off light - Mark Irwin "Threshold"

Memory's stars that shake for cold - Elinor Jenkins "Sunset"

While the clear stars shake - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

Thunders of the shaken dark - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"

I shake the whole world dark again - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

To shake ambition from their memories - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

The sky-lark shakes the tremulous dew - John Keats "To a Friend who sent me some Roses"

Shake the fading stars from her robes of light - Fanny Kemble "A Farewell"

How easily autumn shakes the yellow leaves - Adele Kenny "Survivor"

Shakes the Throne of Sacred Wit - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Shake fists against the failings of insects - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

Shakes all the stalking shadows - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

Every cloud illumed with flame engulfs a shaken star - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "A Ballad of the Mist"

Shake hands with the unknown - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"

In each shaken morsel - D.H. Lawrence "Pentecostal"

In every shaken morsel I see our shadow tremble - D.H. Lawrence "Shades"

Lost loves come shaking ghostly heads - Ruth Lechlitner "Afterward"

Shake in an ounce of sifted syntax - Hugh Lofting "The Porridge Poet"

The tree of life has been shaken - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Meeting"

A shaking and cracking of dancing bones - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"

When the Northlights shake their spears - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

And shake the drowsy anchor - George Reginald Margetson "The Call to Duty"

Shaking the sunlight into dance - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

Shaken light burns in the memory - Jeannette Marks "Proem"

Wakened and shaken and broken - Don Marquis "New York"

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

Where shaken sunlight slowly filters down - John Masefield "Cardigan Bay"

And shake the pillars of the world - Theodore Maynard "The Ensign"

Under the shaken ground - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Shaken veils still whispering - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Shake the bones of your prophet - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

Shaken confidence and cheated hopes - "The Misanthrope"

Unable to shake the sounds of leaving - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Initiation"

Shaking the citadel of hope - Francis Neilson "Storm"

To shake the doors with bruised hands - Pablo Neruda "Insurgent America (1800)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Shaken by a broken rose - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

The dynamite's scourge will shake you - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Earth" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Gunpowder to shake the dishonored branches - Pablo Neruda "The War (1936)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The quiet shakes at the vengeful voice - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Approach I. In the Grass: Halt by Roadside"

A comet's loveliness shaken across the midnight sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Shaken to silvery trills of elfin song - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Shaking our hearts with unaccustomed fears - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

Shake hands with disappointment - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"

Where the breezes shake the grass - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "The Geebung Polo Club"

To see a reed so shaken by the wind - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"

When silent chords are shaken - Walter S. Percy "Grief and Joy"

To shake the very stars at night - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"

That shakes at touch of light - John Reade "Kings of Men"

The wind that has shaken off its dust - Lola Ridge "Altitude"

Standing up in its shaken deeps - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"

Shake the doors of earth - Lynn Riggs "Santo Domingo Corn Dance"

A voice that shakes the shadows - Charles G.D. Roberts "Twilight on Sixth Avenue"

The cleanse and shake a wounded hemisphere - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Shaking you free from your perilous berth - Amy Redpath Roddick "A Scientific Puzzle"

Shake fierce through all the worlds - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"

A patter shaking the tamarind pod - Ira Sadoff "Once I Could Say"

Those boughs which shake against the cold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXIII"

Looks on tempests and is never shaken - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"

Shaking the riper trees to dust - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

The sequin tree shaking its spangles - Maggie Smith "Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"

And shake the monarchs of the world - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Spirit of War"

That snakes and ladders to its shaky start - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"

Melodious thunders shake the ground - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Apollo"

The shaken stars of midnight stir - George Sterling "Nora May French"

Who shake off our fates to grasp again at life - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"

Whose trumpet voice can shake the shuddering echoes of the cave - Alan Sullivan "A Question"

There's an echo shakes the valley - E. Sutton "The Drum"

As shaken and as bright - Sara Teasdale "Arcturus"

My spirit's shaken flame - Sara Teasdale "Driftwood"

Shadows shaken on the snow - Sara Teasdale "Winter Stars"

Long light shakes across the lakes - Tennyson "The Splendour Falls"

Shake crisp leaves from long-dead trees - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

Shake the sweat of nightmare - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

By demon-hands in warning shaken - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

Shuddering deeps of shaken thunder - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Till the throne of night be shaken - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

Climbed to shake the ripe nuts down - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Shakes the wide domains of air - William Henry Withrow "Cloud Castles"

When the flag is shaken free - Humbert Wolfe "England"

Built my life up from very shaky ground - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"

Shakes me free of its blue dust - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"

What most could shake his soul - W.B. Yeats "Tom at Cruachan"


The horn that shook the mountain tall - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"

And shook sparks from the sun - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"

Fresh winds shook the door - Emily Bronte "Stars"

Set the sky on blue fire and shook the ground - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

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

A wave of thunder shook my wing - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Shook the music from your branches - Joseph Fasano "Hermitage"

A coral that rattled when shook - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 14"

The steady shadows shook and thinned and died - John Freeman "The Wakers"

Shook with tempests of his woe - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Caliph and the Beggar"

And shook the forest with his sound - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

Swift Destiny shook out her purple wings - Amy Lowell "Francis II, King of Naples Written"

Nightshade in terror of being shook - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

Shook the dust of utter doubt - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"

Shook off the dust of Rome - John Oxenham "Quo Vadis?"

At whose beckoning history shook - Dorothy Parker "Song of One of the Girls"

Once shook to surging overflow - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Like the storm-shook shadows of themselves - Carl Phillips "Rockabye"

Shook the moonlight from his shoulders - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Shook unto their gnarled roots - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

This bird once shook the forest - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"

Shook the pillaring hours - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

Spring wind shook the river - 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

That shook the pillars of the State - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"

The earth shook beneath him with thunderous raps - George Warwick "Schneider Von Groot's Christmas Dream"


A handshake that becomes a squeezing contest - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"


Unshaken.


To smooth waters upshaken from the deepest deep - W.E.L. "A Dirge of Love" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.454, 11 Sept. 1852]


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