Potential Titles: Best
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somethingdarkerLike best friends in a maze - Kwame Alexander "How to Write a Poem: Celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye"
Best reflects the tree - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"
the best human conversation is the silence - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
The best gods of the boggled mind - Mary Jo Bang "The Experience of Being Outside"
Trust your dragon knows its business best - Devan Barlow "Your Visiting Dragon"
Out of the palace of our best efforts - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"
Best not to know the cooling kettle - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
From the ashes of the next-best-thing - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"
May the hearthstone of hell be their best bed - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear"
With my best gifts abounding - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall
The heart is the best navigator - Marianne Chan "Counterargument that Goes All the Way Around"
Do their best work on vegan fare - May Chong "Catering"
our best secret - Lucille Clifton "crabbing"
Slow to part with her best gifts - Florence Earle Coates "Probation"
The best amusement for our morning meal - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Fears in Solitude"
Will grudge us not his best - Arthur S. Cripps "The Seasons' Comfort"
The valley full of the best bones - Tyree Daye "'tween my gone people & me"
In reason's balance her best offers weigh - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Mislaid all the best of you into us - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet Imagining My Father's Uncertainty and Nothing Else"
Where life's best ships were wrecked - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"
Best gems of Nature's cabinet - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
The best weapon of the readiest wit - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
The brightest and best in the lists of fame - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Booked the best talent in Tartarus - Dana Gioia "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"
Love's best enchantment - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
The sun doing its best to be sustaining - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"
The way a saint pulls the best from a soul - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
Evening counsels best prevail - Jean Ingelow "Reflections: Looking Over a Gate at a Pool in a Field"
Best if we don't always reciprocate their hunger - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
The best that blood contains - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Riders of the Plain"
The fruit of my best hour - C.R. Jury "Sonnet"
Best known by their refusals - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Honey lasts best in the future - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
The neighbors were still dancing in their Halloween best - Edgar Kunz "Fixer"
Hope's conversation the best of the two - Henry S. Leigh "See-Saw"
The best day to eat a meal of sincerity - Ada Limon "Farmers' Almanac"
Who utters it clearest and best - James Russell Lowell "Franciscus de Verulamio sic Cogitivat"
Unfinished and best at a distance - Thomas Lynch "Woman Gardening"
The best September knows - John Masefield "King Cole"
How best to enflame the holy fire - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
The best places to hide - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Who best bear his mild yoke - John Milton "Service"
Best leave a constellation out again tomorrow - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"
Your thorns are the best part of you - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"
Being fragile I hallucinate you best - Alice Notley "Woman in Front of Poster of Herself"
The best dreams vanish most quickly - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: Eve"
One of fate's best arrows - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Prophecy and Fulfilment" [sic]
Spent decades learning how best to melt - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Should be love's best interpreter - Alice Wellington Rollins "If I Could Know, Love"
Wearing her best crow feathers - Elly Luisa Salah "Wedding Party ... Featuring, My Mother"
Give alms to my best sins - Erika L. Sanchez "A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring"
Sleep is the first and last and best of all - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"
The mandate which sent out their bravest and their best - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Time's best jewel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 65"
Who put himself delightedly among the best of company - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
Keep breathing as best we can - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
Lets bad instruments produce the best events - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Best charge and bravest retreat - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]
Best charge and bravest retreat in Cupid's fight - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]
A snowstorm that buries the best of everything - Russell Thorburn "The TV Guide as the Book of Job"
Which make the best philosophy untrue - Henry David Thoreau "Winter Memories"
Entropy unravels the very best of us - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
My heart's best treasure - William Wordsworth "XXIX [Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind]"
Tried their best to scorch my memory - Assétou Xango "Eve"
The best tune of farewell - Xu Zhimo "Second Farewell to Cambridge" (translated by Kai-yu Hsu)
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Best reflects the tree - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"
the best human conversation is the silence - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
The best gods of the boggled mind - Mary Jo Bang "The Experience of Being Outside"
Trust your dragon knows its business best - Devan Barlow "Your Visiting Dragon"
Out of the palace of our best efforts - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"
Best not to know the cooling kettle - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
From the ashes of the next-best-thing - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"
May the hearthstone of hell be their best bed - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear"
With my best gifts abounding - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall
The heart is the best navigator - Marianne Chan "Counterargument that Goes All the Way Around"
Do their best work on vegan fare - May Chong "Catering"
our best secret - Lucille Clifton "crabbing"
Slow to part with her best gifts - Florence Earle Coates "Probation"
The best amusement for our morning meal - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Fears in Solitude"
Will grudge us not his best - Arthur S. Cripps "The Seasons' Comfort"
The valley full of the best bones - Tyree Daye "'tween my gone people & me"
In reason's balance her best offers weigh - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Mislaid all the best of you into us - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet Imagining My Father's Uncertainty and Nothing Else"
Where life's best ships were wrecked - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"
Best gems of Nature's cabinet - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
The best weapon of the readiest wit - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
The brightest and best in the lists of fame - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Booked the best talent in Tartarus - Dana Gioia "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"
Love's best enchantment - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
The sun doing its best to be sustaining - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"
The way a saint pulls the best from a soul - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
Evening counsels best prevail - Jean Ingelow "Reflections: Looking Over a Gate at a Pool in a Field"
Best if we don't always reciprocate their hunger - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
The best that blood contains - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Riders of the Plain"
The fruit of my best hour - C.R. Jury "Sonnet"
Best known by their refusals - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Honey lasts best in the future - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
The neighbors were still dancing in their Halloween best - Edgar Kunz "Fixer"
Hope's conversation the best of the two - Henry S. Leigh "See-Saw"
The best day to eat a meal of sincerity - Ada Limon "Farmers' Almanac"
Who utters it clearest and best - James Russell Lowell "Franciscus de Verulamio sic Cogitivat"
Unfinished and best at a distance - Thomas Lynch "Woman Gardening"
The best September knows - John Masefield "King Cole"
How best to enflame the holy fire - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
The best places to hide - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Who best bear his mild yoke - John Milton "Service"
Best leave a constellation out again tomorrow - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"
Your thorns are the best part of you - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"
Being fragile I hallucinate you best - Alice Notley "Woman in Front of Poster of Herself"
The best dreams vanish most quickly - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: Eve"
One of fate's best arrows - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Prophecy and Fulfilment" [sic]
Spent decades learning how best to melt - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Should be love's best interpreter - Alice Wellington Rollins "If I Could Know, Love"
Wearing her best crow feathers - Elly Luisa Salah "Wedding Party ... Featuring, My Mother"
Give alms to my best sins - Erika L. Sanchez "A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring"
Sleep is the first and last and best of all - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"
The mandate which sent out their bravest and their best - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Time's best jewel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 65"
Who put himself delightedly among the best of company - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
Keep breathing as best we can - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
Lets bad instruments produce the best events - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Best charge and bravest retreat - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]
Best charge and bravest retreat in Cupid's fight - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]
A snowstorm that buries the best of everything - Russell Thorburn "The TV Guide as the Book of Job"
Which make the best philosophy untrue - Henry David Thoreau "Winter Memories"
Entropy unravels the very best of us - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
My heart's best treasure - William Wordsworth "XXIX [Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind]"
Tried their best to scorch my memory - Assétou Xango "Eve"
The best tune of farewell - Xu Zhimo "Second Farewell to Cambridge" (translated by Kai-yu Hsu)
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