Potential Titles: Sink
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somethingdarkerWe're all on our own sinking islands - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"
When in darkness sinks my sun - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"
Our footsteps weary sink upon the winding way - Effie Afton "Lines to a Married Friend"
Slowly and steadily defying the sinking destruction - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"
Follow Apollo's sinking wain - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
Vapors round the sinking sun - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"
I follow the star that's sinking - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Sinks in roaring voids of night - Robert Hugh Benson "The Teresian Contemplative"
Sink into the badger's grief - Robert Bly "How David Did Not Care"
How can I rouse my sinking soul - Anne Bronte "Despondency"
Blows her sinking flame - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"
Sinks beneath Oblivion's wave - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "On the Long Island Indian"
When time and fear sink down - Bliss Carman "Seven Things"
Slow sinking through the tearful mist - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"
Sinking in the distance dim - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
All sink beneath the boiling wave - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
Sink his name in deep disgrace - T.D. Curtis "The Cross and Crown: Prologue"
Mark the last sunbeams, while sinking to rest - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"
Bathe with green fire the sinking soul - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"
Half reluctance that sinks gradually to rest - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
This is how one foot sinks into the ground - Rita Dove "Persephone, Falling"
Sinks deep into the dunes of time - Boris Dralyuk "My Hollywood: A Triptych: I. Aspiration"
Sinks beneath the hand of time and fate - "The Druriad" [1798]
Our voices sink in silence and in night - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Emerging from its past disgraces, sinks afresh - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Sinks afresh into inextricable ruin - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
We sink o'erwhelmed with woe - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Subject to these vicissitudes now sinks - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
And sink to silence, conquered by the storm - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
As the sun sinks headlong in the ruined west - Robin Flower "The Bacchante"
Hunger's sickle sinking deep - Diamond Forde "Rememory"
Sink into my soul's eclipse - "Frangipanni"
Still sinking through unturned earth - Robert Graves "Down"
Sinking a new well when the old ran dry - Robert Graves "In Procession"
A lighthouse sinking invisible ships - francine j. harris "fume"
Reviving freedom mock'd her sinking foe - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
Even the bitterest rain can sink into sand - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"
In peril's hour sustain a sinking land - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
Only to be wrecked on ice, and sink - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
'Twill take your thoughts and sink them far - A.E. Housman "Last Poems I: The West"
Their dead weight sinks our histories - Tsitsi Ella Jaji "Ritual Object"
Then quite silently to sink in quiet seas - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Lethe" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Knowing our kitchen sink of years has dripped away - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"
Lest I sink down beneath my load - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"
Then sinks in silence the lament - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Sink my spirit to the dust - Archibald Lampman "Peccavi, Domine"
A fire sinking into itself - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"
Pouring clouding rain into the sink - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"
A sinking ship in the bathtub - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"
Sinking into the damp, fragile shelter of body - R.B. Lemberg "The Blanket, the Secret, the Dark" [31 March 2025]
The beat of kettles hurries the sinking moon - Lu Yu "Border Mountain Moon" transl. by Burton Watson
Ever sinking with the dying flame - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
That is born with the sinking sun - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
Sinking in a sea of jewelled fire - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"
Sink in a storm cloud's frown - John McCrae "A Song of Comfort"
Sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth - Claude McKay "America"
Treasures sinking in the sand - Claude McKay "America"
Sink beneath the tidewaves, of their weight - George Meredith "An Orson of the Muse"
Yoke tossed off and sinking - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"
The frail thing sinks and mounts Eternity - Robert Morris "A Sea Scene" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]
With faith that sinks and feet that tire - Sarojini Naidu "To a Buddha Seated on a Lotus"
Sinks and binds the copper's cell - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
sink inside tombs before the boundlessness - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "Night in the forest" transl. by Phương Anh
sinking his teeth into anything with a pulse - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"
Let the bitterness sink to the bottom - January Gill O'Neil "In the Company of Women"
Rise forth from the abyss and sink in it again - Kostes Palamas "The Answer" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Sink deep into our heart's recesses - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Companion molecules to bubble and sink and swirl - Andre F. Peltier "Cedar Swamp"
Climb into the sinking dark - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"
To speak against the daily sinking flame - Marie Ponsot "Imagining Starry"
How to sink and how to rise - James Richardson "Forty--Less One" [St. Nicholas v.V no.9, July 1878]
To sink at last in ignominious fate - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
And so sinks down into the Shades - Sir Ronald Ross "The Frog, the Fairy, and the Moon: Dedicated to Lovers"
Sink to the clasp of siren foes again - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"
jaunty angle sinking in the bioluminescent green - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"
For none loves silence and a sinking sun - Edmund Beale Sargant "The Cuckoo Wood" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
Beneath the inward fire sinks down - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems II"
Sinking to autumnal atlantean shade - Cedar Sigo "Green Rainbow Song"
The sinking stars desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
To sink the ashes of their own experience - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
That sinks upon a lily's breast - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
From the loom of suns that sink - George Sterling "White Magic"
How deep the cost can sink in cold equations - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
Which rests awhile on earth and sinks unseen - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VIII. The Lery"
The falling star sinks in spiritless death - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
Whirled afar to sink and settle in the marshes - Tu Fu "The Wind-Torn Roof" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Sun sinking away west of a painted bridge - Wang An-Shih "Drifting South Creek" transl. by David Hinton
My soul sinks crying - John Hall Wheelock "Disdainful Beauty"
Or sink where anguish dwells - Helen Maria Williams "To Sensibility"
Plash into the clean white sink - William Carlos Williams "Good Night"
That sinking sun, which sets in blood - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]
Churning up black sinkholes - Meng Chiao "Laments of the Gorges 4" transl. by David Hinton
Manifested as sinkholes under permafrost - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"
Sink holes consume fields of gold - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
Mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day - W.H. Auden "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"
In tinted splendor sank - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"
Sank quenched and desolate - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: IX. The Newest Believer"
So Eden sank to grief - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
And sank the pole-star underground - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XVII: Astronomy"
Fifty fathom they sank to ground - "The Knavish Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Where the bees sank sugar-wells in the trunks of maples - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Until they sank to sad suggestings - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
That sank a javelin in my heart - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Sank amid ripples of light - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"
Where the wizard's moonstone sank - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Sunk/Sunken.
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When in darkness sinks my sun - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"
Our footsteps weary sink upon the winding way - Effie Afton "Lines to a Married Friend"
Slowly and steadily defying the sinking destruction - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"
Follow Apollo's sinking wain - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
Vapors round the sinking sun - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"
I follow the star that's sinking - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Sinks in roaring voids of night - Robert Hugh Benson "The Teresian Contemplative"
Sink into the badger's grief - Robert Bly "How David Did Not Care"
How can I rouse my sinking soul - Anne Bronte "Despondency"
Blows her sinking flame - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"
Sinks beneath Oblivion's wave - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "On the Long Island Indian"
When time and fear sink down - Bliss Carman "Seven Things"
Slow sinking through the tearful mist - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"
Sinking in the distance dim - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
All sink beneath the boiling wave - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
Sink his name in deep disgrace - T.D. Curtis "The Cross and Crown: Prologue"
Mark the last sunbeams, while sinking to rest - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"
Bathe with green fire the sinking soul - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"
Half reluctance that sinks gradually to rest - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
This is how one foot sinks into the ground - Rita Dove "Persephone, Falling"
Sinks deep into the dunes of time - Boris Dralyuk "My Hollywood: A Triptych: I. Aspiration"
Sinks beneath the hand of time and fate - "The Druriad" [1798]
Our voices sink in silence and in night - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Emerging from its past disgraces, sinks afresh - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Sinks afresh into inextricable ruin - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
We sink o'erwhelmed with woe - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Subject to these vicissitudes now sinks - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
And sink to silence, conquered by the storm - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
As the sun sinks headlong in the ruined west - Robin Flower "The Bacchante"
Hunger's sickle sinking deep - Diamond Forde "Rememory"
Sink into my soul's eclipse - "Frangipanni"
Still sinking through unturned earth - Robert Graves "Down"
Sinking a new well when the old ran dry - Robert Graves "In Procession"
A lighthouse sinking invisible ships - francine j. harris "fume"
Reviving freedom mock'd her sinking foe - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
Even the bitterest rain can sink into sand - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"
In peril's hour sustain a sinking land - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
Only to be wrecked on ice, and sink - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
'Twill take your thoughts and sink them far - A.E. Housman "Last Poems I: The West"
Their dead weight sinks our histories - Tsitsi Ella Jaji "Ritual Object"
Then quite silently to sink in quiet seas - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Lethe" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Knowing our kitchen sink of years has dripped away - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"
Lest I sink down beneath my load - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"
Then sinks in silence the lament - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Sink my spirit to the dust - Archibald Lampman "Peccavi, Domine"
A fire sinking into itself - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"
Pouring clouding rain into the sink - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"
A sinking ship in the bathtub - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"
Sinking into the damp, fragile shelter of body - R.B. Lemberg "The Blanket, the Secret, the Dark" [31 March 2025]
The beat of kettles hurries the sinking moon - Lu Yu "Border Mountain Moon" transl. by Burton Watson
Ever sinking with the dying flame - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
That is born with the sinking sun - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
Sinking in a sea of jewelled fire - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"
Sink in a storm cloud's frown - John McCrae "A Song of Comfort"
Sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth - Claude McKay "America"
Treasures sinking in the sand - Claude McKay "America"
Sink beneath the tidewaves, of their weight - George Meredith "An Orson of the Muse"
Yoke tossed off and sinking - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"
The frail thing sinks and mounts Eternity - Robert Morris "A Sea Scene" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]
With faith that sinks and feet that tire - Sarojini Naidu "To a Buddha Seated on a Lotus"
Sinks and binds the copper's cell - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
sink inside tombs before the boundlessness - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "Night in the forest" transl. by Phương Anh
sinking his teeth into anything with a pulse - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"
Let the bitterness sink to the bottom - January Gill O'Neil "In the Company of Women"
Rise forth from the abyss and sink in it again - Kostes Palamas "The Answer" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Sink deep into our heart's recesses - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Companion molecules to bubble and sink and swirl - Andre F. Peltier "Cedar Swamp"
Climb into the sinking dark - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"
To speak against the daily sinking flame - Marie Ponsot "Imagining Starry"
How to sink and how to rise - James Richardson "Forty--Less One" [St. Nicholas v.V no.9, July 1878]
To sink at last in ignominious fate - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
And so sinks down into the Shades - Sir Ronald Ross "The Frog, the Fairy, and the Moon: Dedicated to Lovers"
Sink to the clasp of siren foes again - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"
jaunty angle sinking in the bioluminescent green - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"
For none loves silence and a sinking sun - Edmund Beale Sargant "The Cuckoo Wood" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
Beneath the inward fire sinks down - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems II"
Sinking to autumnal atlantean shade - Cedar Sigo "Green Rainbow Song"
The sinking stars desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
To sink the ashes of their own experience - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
That sinks upon a lily's breast - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
From the loom of suns that sink - George Sterling "White Magic"
How deep the cost can sink in cold equations - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
Which rests awhile on earth and sinks unseen - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VIII. The Lery"
The falling star sinks in spiritless death - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
Whirled afar to sink and settle in the marshes - Tu Fu "The Wind-Torn Roof" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Sun sinking away west of a painted bridge - Wang An-Shih "Drifting South Creek" transl. by David Hinton
My soul sinks crying - John Hall Wheelock "Disdainful Beauty"
Or sink where anguish dwells - Helen Maria Williams "To Sensibility"
Plash into the clean white sink - William Carlos Williams "Good Night"
That sinking sun, which sets in blood - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]
Churning up black sinkholes - Meng Chiao "Laments of the Gorges 4" transl. by David Hinton
Manifested as sinkholes under permafrost - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"
Sink holes consume fields of gold - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
Mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day - W.H. Auden "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"
In tinted splendor sank - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"
Sank quenched and desolate - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: IX. The Newest Believer"
So Eden sank to grief - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
And sank the pole-star underground - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XVII: Astronomy"
Fifty fathom they sank to ground - "The Knavish Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Where the bees sank sugar-wells in the trunks of maples - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Until they sank to sad suggestings - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
That sank a javelin in my heart - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Sank amid ripples of light - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"
Where the wizard's moonstone sank - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Sunk/Sunken.
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