Potential Titles: Begin/Began/Begun

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The substance of the world began to sing - Bruce Boston "When Clock Is Egg"

With intrepid step began to climb - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

Until the lark began to sing - "Do You Remember that Night?" transl. by Eleanor Hull [Written down by O'Curry for Dr. George Petrie.]

When this unequal fight began - W.A. Frisbie "The Pirate Frog"

Till the heavens began to frown - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [My first is often caught in church]"

Where such a tide began - Ivor Gurney "The Fisherman of Newnham"

I began as the Queen of Hearts - Conrad Hilberry "Jack of Spades"

When nuclear testing began north of love - Brenda Hillman "1951"

In the beginning before light began - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

And rust began to bleed through - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"

Anger began as music - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"

Began to mark their changes - Thomas Lynch "The Grandmothers"

In the dark womb where I began - John Masefield "C.L.M."

Completing what night began - D'Arcy McNickle "Cycle"

No one sang until one person began - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"

False ends as false began - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Began a pond of time - W.S. Merwin "Clear Water"

That which Fate in me began - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen

And then in rapture began to sing - Miriam Clark Potter "How Sleep Was Made"

The bladder and the kidney began to quarrel - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

What began as wildfire - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"

Then began a walk through Eden's glory - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]

Kept my vigil in the waste till dawn began - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Till dawn began to walk among the ruins - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Before the thread began - W.B. Yeats "His Bargain"



Begins with pain as a mirror - Hanif Abdurraqib "The Prestige"

The changes begin to fill the corners of your eyes - Duane Ackerson "The Painting Speaks"

The first liquid the place of beginning life - Linda Addison "Evolving"

Relearn the forgotten alphabet of beginnings - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"

Where buds are beginning to break - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"

In the beginning of their white dreaming - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Begin to translate the butterflies and arrows - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

A theory of infinite beginnings - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"

The wreath begins and ends in dark - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke

The beginning as motion - Jabari Asim "Some Call It God"

Both begin as violence - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Awkward/Black/Object"

When the end comes, we hold a beginning in our hands - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

To begin again at zero - Mary Jo Bang "In St. John's Hospital"

The springless January of his beginning to be gone - Mary Jo Bang "No Exit"

Begins with the sound of a cat - Mary Jo Bang "O Means the Mouth"

Forward toward the missing beginning - Mary Jo Bang "Where"

Turned in its lost beginning - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"

Who surely as the twilight falls, begin - Clara Doty Bates "A Bear-Story" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

The silent page of the beginning - Dan Beachy-Quick "Some Consequences of the Made Thing"

Into the seed of the beginning and the end - Wendell Berry "The Wish to be Generous"

You have learned the beginning - Louise Bogan "Words for Departure"

Sets a trap, picks a spot, begins the vigil - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

All our beginnings blasting out - Christopher Buckley "Desire"

A cupful of hesitation finally beginning to loosen your tongues - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "The Houseguest"

Begin to erase myself - Chiwan Choi "portraitures and erasures"

begin with a spear of salt - Lucille Clifton "begin here"

The dream between the end and the beginning - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"

As soon as dark's dreams begin - Walter de la Mare "The Little Creature"

While repetition begins fielding itself - Monica de la Torre "Theorem of Sorts"

Begins to disintegrate within my hand - Jasmeet Dosanjh "A Spirit Friend"

Our beginnings never know our ends - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"

New song about to begin - Heid E. Erdich "Blood Chimera"

That begins just as soon as it ends - b ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"

To begin the story without being obvious - Vievee Francis "The Poems Repeat as Dreams as Tears"

Old robes worn for new beginnings - Dana Gioia "Autumn Inaugural"

Once your exile begins - Louise Gluck "Departure"

Yelling just before the world begins - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"

The raw stalks of beginning - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"

The sun begins to build its house of gold - Margaret Hasse "Art"

Bent upon vast beginnings - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

The season begins moving around us - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

I shall begin scouring the sky for signs - Edward Hirsch "I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic"

Begin with those marigolds you forgot to water - Tony Hoagland "Real Estate"

Begins sobbing tears of rain - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"

The rain begins its sober comedy - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"

In the beginning before light began - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

angel at the beginning and ending - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"

Nebulae beginning to star - Sara Eliza Johnson "Combustion"

Thin threads of breath beginning to fray - Douglas S. Jones "A Tuesday Night"

Redeem the words of our beginning - June Jordan "Moving towards Home"

The stone fist of his heart began to bang - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

The blur of beginnings of branchings - Janet Kauffman "The Blur of"

When the year begins to wane - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"

Sings past even the sadness that begins it - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"

That chant of the beginning - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"

As if to erase an end with a beginning - Yusef Komunyakaa "Nighthawks"

Where the false terrain begins - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Panorama"

Begins in a different darkness - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"

Stars burned out near the beginning of time - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

Both of them sure of their beginnings and ends - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

The feast begins before the guests arrive - Angela Liu "The Machine Family"

When the stars begin to blunt - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"

The terror of the night begins with prayer - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

Begins and ends in gold - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"

Learn again to begin - Maureen N. McLane "OK Let’s Go"

Tears from all Beginning to all Ending - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

To hear the lark begin his flight - John Milton "L'Allegro"

The scraps between endings & beginnings - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Coup in Progress"

Begins the adulthood of dust - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

The dirt that packs the plant is the beginning - Mark Nepo "Under the Temple"

Brought back ancient beginnings - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid

Homocide begins with the heartbeat - Caroline Harper New "Interview with a Cervidologist"

My sheer existence heralds the beginning of the end - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

Lonely from the beginning of time - Alice Notley "Poem [St. Mark's Place caught at night...]"

the trail begins to split unmarked - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

Blessed beginner of every grace - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

High time to consider beginning - Kiki Petrosino "Ought"

That begins as memory - Carl Phillips "The Gristmill"

The way all histories begin - Carl Phillips "To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All"

With the night begins our day - Thomas Ravenscroft "By the Moon"

A trampled fire begins again to glow - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Coifed in the bright beginning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"

Lonely from the beginning of time - Rihaku "Lament of the Frontier Guard" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)

Needles were beginning to contemplate jumping - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"

Beginner's luck and a fisherman's zeal - Lloyd Roberts "A-Fishing"

For when the slow dark hours begin - Christina Rossetti "Up-Hill"

Let us nourish beginnings - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"

Error begins with duality - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton

My freckles mapping where I begin - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #81"

As night begins its metamorphosis - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"

The hermit thrush begins again - Duncan Campbell Scott "The End of the Day"

Resembling the beginning of a miracle - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"

They loved only the beginnings - Chet'la Sebree "An End"

Ours from the bleak beginning - Robert W. Service "The Pines"

Disassemble the sorrow of beginnings - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"

We begin in silence - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"

From the beginning of the spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

in the beginning was the gold rush - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"

And the fire of the end begin to burn - Arthur Symons "The Crying of Water"

Rise and their long reign begin - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Exile begins now among these clouds - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"

The beginning of invisible lives - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"

With the beginnings of unease immediately behind - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"

The dead are beginning to walk again - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

The season trees begin to dress for death - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"

Rooted, they grip down and begin - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]"

The science of difficult beginnings - Jay Wright "Sasa"

In the beginning there were knots - Jenny Xie "Alternative Endings"

Wept for the beginning of the destruction - "XXV" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Beginning a new life as rot - Dean Young "Spring Reign"

A noon as the beginning and end of existence - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"


Have begun to usurp his identity - Duane Ackerson "The Vampire's Reflection"

Rhythms of change within the heart begun - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

Invasions were begun for crows - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

I have begun to count my dead - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, II: Written in a Year When Many of My People Died"

Dame Night her tapestry's begun - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Hopes that had begun to smile - Ihsan Ismayil (Umun) "Verses of Falling" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

The battle that John Brown begun - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

And though the nightingale had just begun - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Dahlia, the Rose, and the Heliotrope"

Has begun to rend the chain of reason - Rumi "The Bird of My Heart" transl. by A.J. Arberry

Already a falling of frogs has begun - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

My cosmic feast has just begun - Allan Wolf "Black Hole"

To end something never begun - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"


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