Potential Titles: Knock

[somethingdarker]

War doesn't bother knocking - Leena Aboutaleb "Art Exhibition: West Bank Girl on Fire"

Voltaire knocks at his daughter's window - Mary Jo Bang "Ritual Gestures"

A hand knocks inside my heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lunch at a City Club"

Keep on knocking at the gates of joy - Rebecca G. Biber "Heiligenstadt"

Their glossary of knocks - Traci Brimhall "Aubade on a Ghost Hunt"

By his children's knocking - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Knock'd at each one of the doorways of life - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

The cat expects hard knocks - C.S. Calverley "Sad Memories"

Knocked at every door, yet no admittance found - Calder Campbell "By the Sea" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.425, 21 Feb. 1852]

Dead vines knocking at the pane - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"

Knocked fretful at the portals of the morrow - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

The king's knock right at heaven's door - May Chong "Catering"

Patiently knocking at justice's door - Jamie Harris Coleman "A Plea for Justice"

Busy knocking cans off the shelves - Holly Day "My Safety Net"

Knocking on the moonlit door - Walter de la Mare "The Listeners"

A diamond ring to knock your eyes out - Toi Derricotte "Weekend Guests from Chicago, 1945"

Knocking off the mosses from its antlers - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"

Nemesis is knocking at the door - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]"

And knock to the echoes as beggars for roses - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"

Forgive me not answering your knock - Robert Frost "The Housekeeper"

Knocking on hollow branches - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Remnant"

Three times I knocked upon the door - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"

Knock at Fable's portal - Hafiz "The Divan XXIX" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Knocked at the door of its house of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"

Knocking wildly at a closed door in a dream - Robert Hass "The Apple Trees at Olema"

A punch that knocks the wind and spirit clear - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"

And competition knocks me off creation - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Whose couriers knocked on every heart - Elinor Jenkins "The Last Evening"

Knocked at every door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"

we have given up on knocking - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

Knocking at the brazen bars of Death - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"

Stand at the portal and knock - John Gunter Lipe "To Miss Vic"

Which knocked insurgent at the gates of thought - Amy Lowell "Crepuscule du Matin"

Knocked at Fame's closed gate - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Inheritance"

As a strange knock at the door - Naomi Long Madgett "Arrival"

Nor knock at dusty doors to find - John Masefield "C.L.M."

Knocked at many a dusty door - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Knocking on his moons - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Sorrow knocked at my door - Edgar Lee Masters "George Gray"

Through the lighthouse foghorns knocking - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"

Hurricanes of dreams still knock them over - Pablo Neruda "So that You Will Hear Me" transl. by W.S. Merwin

Knocked at the most eternal doors - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Selling knock-off hopes - Phan Nhien Hao "The City of Ant Nests" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

Little fingers knocking on the pane - Miriam Clark Potter "Rain-on-the-Roof"

Some weary wanderer knocking - Alexander Pushkin "A Winter Evening" (translated by Martha Dickinson Bianchi)

Who entered the room without nod or knock - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

The dead hand of Winter is knocking at the door - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"

Identity theft has knocked off a few years - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"

Love's light Hand is knocking at the door - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

From our hearts at the oddest knock - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

As the bass player knocked out the bottom line - David St. John "Los Angeles, 1954"

Had to knock five hundred times - James Stephens "Behind the Hill"

Knocked on my sullen heart in vain - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Task of Happiness"

The clamours knocking without pause - Iris Tree "[What words that move on wings"]

And scarred with many a knock - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

Knock and enter and be fed with fire and wine - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

The ocean is always knocking - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Tropical Depression"

Knocking open the door to a grief - Afaa Michael Weaver "Midnight Air in Louisville"

Against the challenge of her knock - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Something buoyed, something sun knocked - Jane Wong "The Waiting"


Navigation Links:
Go to K word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.