Potential Titles: Blow/Blew

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As if the stone were glass fired and into beauty blown - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

A great storm had blown out the stars - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"

By the blown fuse of an imploding star - Derek Adams "Historian's Guide to the Galaxy"

Blown slowly from the wounded grain - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

The rain pours down and the four winds blow - Ellen Tracy Alden "Cluck, Cluck"

Tenderness under the blown red wing - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"

Another hammer blow on the coffin lid - Julia Alvarez "Famous Poet, Years Afterward"

Neither grafted nor grown, neither gather'd nor blown - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCIII: Plucking a Flower" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

Which in every wind is blown - Matthew Arnold "Quiet Work"

Flowers that blow in May - Frank D. Ashburn "Sonnet"

On winds from dreamland blowing - Albion Fellows Bacon "Inspiration"

Blowing raw sky and storm scream - Mary Jo Bang "Gretel"

When harsh winds blow the wrong way - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dry Sanctuary"

And blow away the smoke of fear - Elizabeth Bartlett "Insomnia in the City"

Though gales propitious blow - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

Where brilliant flowers blow in open meads - William Rose Benét "The Tamer of Steeds"

For naught their trumpets blown - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "Londonderry City Election, 1885"

Who in great zig-zag blows the bee - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"

Following the track of blowing leaves and cool white rain - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

And whisper when the wild winds blow - Anne Bronte "Memory"

Blows her sinking flame - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"

Waters blown by changing winds - Rupert Brooke "The Dead"

One side boils and the other blows away - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

Flowers of the dogwood blow over the pale anemones - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Blow your trumpets till they crack - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"

That from the crimson summer blows - Willa Cather "Thou Art the Pearl"

The stillness of blown glass - Victoria Chang "OBIT"

A blow that bends the wind - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"

A star blown on the wind - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Where the breeze in its freedom blows - "The City" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

A wind that always blows colder - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"

For the dust blows bitterly - Arthur Colton "Arcadie. I"

To-night the roses blow - Arthur Colton "To-Morrow"

From blows of fate or winds of care - Susan Coolidge "A Home"

Blown on trumpets of the wind - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Blew you through our mind's harbors - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Becomes Our Mother"

Its drums and darkest blowing leaves ignore - Hart Crane "Recitative"

Shrill the wind-winged heralds blew - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

That blew when chaos was - Adelaide Crapsey "Night Winds"

By ways uncharted blown - George Cronyn "The Derelict"

Forest dreams thru forest moonlight blown - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

Woods where primroses blow - Allan Cunningham "The Spring of the Year"

Death unfailing will strike the blow - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"

Where gales of fragrance blow - Lorenzo de Medici "Violets" translated by Felicia Hemans

Forget the distance, count no steps, nor stop to blow - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

Whose scarves are lilies blowing - E.C. Dickinson "River Song"

Which blow through equinox - Cass Donish "You, Emblazoned"

Blown open to a blank page - Rita Dove "Dawn Revisited"

Liberal to each breeze that blows - Edward Dowden "Poesia"

And lurking violets blow - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

Deft seeds blown from a thistle-head - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"

A bubble blown up in the air - William Drummond "This Life"

Through waves of old, blown glass - Rebecca Dunham "Mnemosyne to the Poet"

Everywhere the breath of Beauty blows - A.E. "The Great Breath"

When the breath of twilight blows - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

Blows up the smouldering sun - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"

Flutes which passing angels blew - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

A wind that blew a thousand years ago - "The End of All" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]

Got carried off when the northern wind blew - Daniel Errico "The Island of Bum Bum Ba Loo"

Peach blossoms blown across the wind - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"

Outbrave the bitter wind that blows - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

Round these the blast blows keen and fierce - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

Though you bind it with the blowing wind - Eleanor Farjeon "The Night Will Never Stay"

A kiss blown in the mirror - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"

A wind had blown away the sun - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 20"

My soul is backwards blown - John Gould Fletcher "Grass"

Scattered poetry blows in - Ralph Fletcher "Bad Weather"

The sand blowing over her last regret - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Touring the Earth Gallery"

A cluster of lanterns blowing out above us - Katie Ford "Koi"

The future blows of initiation and affection - Jazno Francoeur "cathexis"

The wind once blew itself untaught - Robert Frost "The Aim Was Song"

Bring on a wind to blow in earnest from some quarter - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"

Swallowed up in leaves that blew away - Robert Frost "A Dream Pang"

Weak foliage that is blown upon and bent - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"

The terrifying room where things blow away to - Elisa Gabbert "The Bridge"

When there blow no winds - Zona Gale "Ballade of Eyes that See"

The free blowing curves of the grain - Zona Gale "Contours"

A thistle of cloud remote and blown - Zona Gale "Wind Song"

A whispered pray blowing the crumbs - Roberto Carlos Garcia "This Moment/Right Now"

Blowing the crumbs of a season's harvest - Roberto Carlos Garcia "This Moment/Right Now"

Blow up a second like a balloon - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"

Through pompous motions blown - David Gray "Sonnet"

While summer winds blew blithe - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Rise of the Tide"

Star-like gems which blow beside pale sorrel - J.C.H. "A Day in Early Summer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.44-v.I, 1 Nov. 1884]

And through it blows a laughing word - Katherine Hale " CalvÉ in Blue"

November blew forth its bleared airs - Thomas Hardy "On One Who Lived and Died Where He Was Born"

Blows lilacs out of the east - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"

Pollen blown off the backs of butterflies - francine j. harris "i live in detroit"

For them no lotus petals blow - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXI"

The blowing buds of lovely mirth - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet III (from Farewell)"

The wind's vowel blowing through the hazels - Seamus Heaney "Aisling"

The wild beating blows of the strong handed winds - Ben Hecht "Moods"

The flowering myrtle blows through tall arcades - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Blows full of unforgotten hours - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Blowing a calliope of promises - Conrad Hilberry "Four Kentucky Poems: Rivers"

Watch the past blow by - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"

Such scurrying of blow and bluster out - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Bit o' Cheer"

Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"

Through him the gale of life blew high - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXI"

Blows the roaring wood of dreams - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXIII"

The names of men blow soundless by - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXVIII"

This smoke of thought blow clean away - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIII: The Immortal Part"

Listless dust by fortune blown - William Dean Howells "The Mulberries"

Lifted his ordinary cornet and blew the world away - T.R. Hummer "Who Remembers Davenport"

Into the old bone orchard I am blowing - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Blowing along a dust-whipped road - Fred L. Joiner "Sikasso Snow"

And the blow shatters you to sparks - Saeed Jones "Cruel Body"

My time machine, blown off course - Laura Kasischke "The Time Machine"

Blown in from sweet-fruited floodplains - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"

Blown by the serious Zephyrs - John Keats "Hyperion"

A wind of ancient romance blows - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

the pillow's wicked blow - Kaie Kellough "if who"

Winds that blow against a star - Joyce Kilmer "As Winds That Blow Against a Star"

The richest flowers blowing - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"

Incandescent sand blew in on the west wind - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Where cacti withered and blew away - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Monoculture"

Blow through an empty station on a mechanical wind - Edgar Kunz "Good Deal"

through everything a thin breeze blows - Jessica Langer "Chaos"

Sparks blown from magician's forge - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

To blow a blast of shattering power - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

Twilight ship blown up the tide - Frances Ledwidge "The Lost Ones"

Blowing to flame the golden cup - Frances Ledwidge "Thomas MacDonagh"

Blowing its black breath in the face of creation - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

South winds blow my homing heart - Li Po "Sent to My Two Little Children in the East of Lu" transl. by Burton Watson

Blow a different horn, burn a different bridge - Marissa Lingen "The Plural of Apocalypse"

Blow their alien breath in you - Kenji C. Liu "Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah"

The bitter blows of truth - Amy Lowell "The End"

And Gabriel's trumpet blow for you - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"

With herons blowing like smoke across the sky - Amy Lowell "Hoar-Frost"

Cleaving a path between blown walls of sleet - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"

All the daffodils are blowing - Amy Lowell "Patterns"

The bitter wind of doubt has blown - Amy Lowell "To Elizabeth Ward Perkins"

Spiced winds which blew when earth was young - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"

Who blew Roland's vain blast - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Through the lonely alleys blown - James Russell Lowell "The Recall"

If you whisper when the wind blows - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "willow"

Blew up promises like bright balloons - Naomi Long Madgett "Impressions"

A highway where pale lilies blow - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

A wind of rapture blew - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"

Guided by star and blowing wind - Jeannette Marks "Two Candles"

Blown outward for a million years - Don Marquis "The Awakening"

Blown garments bright as fire - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Were blown into the salt abyss - George Martin "Marguerite"

Heard the trumpets blow in Avalon - John Masefield "Animula"

Blowing the poising kestrel over - John Masefield "On Malvern Hill"

Odours intoxicant blowing - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "A Midsummer Night's Dream" transl. by John Pollen

Blows from out the angry sky - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

Prophecy the March winds blow - Theodore Maynard "Birthday Sonnet"

Heard immortal trumpets blow - Theodore Maynard "The Ensign"

Ringing and romantic trumpets blew - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"

Blown on a bugle with an iron note - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"

That flee before a blowing wind - Theodore Maynard "To a Bad Atheist"

To blow salt across blurred borders - Brandy Nalani McDougall "Resist"

Turn forward our blown lamps - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Every breeze that blows between - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"

When first the white-thorn blows - John Milton "Lycidas"

And no fierce winds to blow - "The Month of May" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

A wayward, wilful wind that blew hot - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

No wind with answers blowing - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"

As fickle as the wind that blows, and veers - John Napier "Who Knows?"

So the lime incense blew into her life - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"

The breeze that blows from the Milky Way - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Moon"

A flame that has blown too near - Grace Fallow Norton "Love Is a Terrible Thing"

will blow our ash into glassware - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

Measure the force of the blow - Sharon Olds "Not Once"

All winds blow cold at last - Mary Oliver "The Orchard"

And still the adverse winds blew on - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Ragged holes through which a black wind blows - Gregory Orr "These Words"

A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"

Blown down in the streets of Jericho - Andre F. Peltier "At the Grave of Little Sadie"

Breeze blowing across its rusted strings - Patrick Phillips "Piano"

Crashing blows on the icy bar - Frank L. Pollock "The Trail of Gold"

How full and free they're blowing there - Miriam Clark Potter "The Children of the Wind"

The wind that blows where the poppy grows - Miriam Clark Potter "How Sleep Was Made"

And mercy deals the pain-inflicting blow - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Adversity" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Time to blow out the stars - Charles Rafferty "A Farewell to Poetry"

By sheeted rain blown tempest-wild - Theodore H. Rand "The Opal Fires Are Gone"

In the wood the furious winter blowing - John Crowe Ransom "Winter Remembered"

Here blows another tumbleweed - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"

The south wind blew it around the world - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "The Ballad of the Fairy Spoon"

The dim torch that Zarathustra blew on - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

The bugles of the light are blowing - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

Blew a golden horn among the olive trees - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"

Spices drifted out of the blown fire - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"

A torch blown along the wind - Lola Ridge "To the Others"

their trumpets blown inside out - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"

The warning blown back on every wind - Rennell Rodd "Disillusion"

Caressing surveillance cameras and blowing whisper kisses - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"

Fire blown bright by thought - Isaac Rosenberg "Expression"

Dark music blown from Sleep's trumpet - Isaac Rosenberg "Louse Hunting"

When the breath of twilight blows to flame - George William Russell "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

Enchanted waters pour through every wind that blows - George William Russell "The Nuts of Knowledge"

Build a house no wind blows over - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"

The winds that blow contagion - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"

Still feels the star-winds blow - Ann K. Schwader "Lavinia in Autumn"

A wild tempest blows the daylight out - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

To be shattered even when blown away - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"

Under the blow of thralled discontent - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIV"

Blow upon your pipes of joy - Frank Dempster Sherman "Snow Song"

Who, breathing on the stars, blows out the sun - Dora Sigerson Shorter "I Am the World"

The winds that blow you backward - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Vagrant Heart"

Petals blown from flower-hued stars - Edith Sitwell "Fireworks"

Along strange winds your petals blew - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"

The force that blows everyone off course - A.E. Stallings "The Mother's Loathing of Balloons"

While the bugle of conflict was blown - "The Star-Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Where winds of sorrow blow - George Sterling "Evanescence"

Swept by winds that never blew before - George Sterling "The Last of Sunset"

The blown banners change to wings - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"

Blow the globes of dew from opening buds - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

The little Dust blown from their bitter mouths - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

Blown to you from between the stars - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"

Blown buds of barren flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "At the End of All Desire"

Full of blown sand and foam - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"

With clarions blowing three times twice - Algernon Swinburne "A Ninth Birthday. February 4, 1883"

Not knowing if again the storm will blow - Carmen Sylva "The Gnat"

We stand amid blown cypresses - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"

The horns of Elfland faintly blowing - Alfred Tennyson "The Splendor Falls"

Lifts its head to the blows of the rain - Dylan Thomas "And death shall have no dominion"

The winds blow fast as the stars are slow - Edward Thomas "Out in the Dark"

Keenly blows the northern blast - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]

Because someone blew out the candle - Matthew Thorburn "Forgotten Until You Find It"

Bid Hope his thrilling clarion blow - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"

Rise in formless ruin blown - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"

The ripples blown by pain - Jean Toomer "Face"

Where the ghosts blow by - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

And dealt seven murderous blows - "The Tryst After Death" transl. by Kuno Meyer

The clouds wild trumpets blew - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

Keenly, coldly, the north winds blow - Florence Tylee "Bird Notes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.125-v.III, 22 May 1886]

blowing kisses to clouds of heather - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

But our worst blows dangled in the air - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

Blasts of understanding blown - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

With the wind of heaven blowing - D.A.E. Wallace "The Beggar-Maiden"

Where honeysuckle horns blow clear - Mary Webb "Market Day"

Invisible pollen blown on the wild southern gale - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"

A blown leaf across the face of Time - Helen Hay Whitney "Ave atque Vale"

Blow through the autumn morn - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Blow the thin streams aslant - William Carlos Williams "The Dark Day"

That ever on the lost seas of song were blown - Humbert Wolfe "Medusa"

The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"

Hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn - William Wordsworth "The World Is Too Much With Us"

Bubbles blown from the opal stone - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

Blowing through my blood - W.B. Yeats "Maid Quiet"

Whose blown dust throttles the hot air - Francis Brett Young "The
Pavement"

Blown under a wind that grieves - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Gardenias blown about - Kevin Young "Ditty"

Blow breath into your open mouth - Kevin Young "Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]"

with their whole selves blown open - Maria Zoccola "Dry Land"


Tomorrows brighter than candle-blown - P. H. Low "Ode"

The death-blow of Oppression in a better time and way - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

A far-blown breath of snows - Albion Fellows Bacon "Lost"

Full-blown and full of birds - Julia Alvarez "What Was It That I Wanted?"

The sky a full-blown rose - Diana Marie Delgado "Songs of Escape"

Glassblowing and fishing nets and the tide - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"

Its half-blown crimson to eclipse - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Three Roses"

By bitter winds o'erblown - Meredith Nicholson "Where Love Was Not"

Walking alone through the storm-blown - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"

War's trumpet sleeps unblown - Edward Blackadder "Annapolis Royal"

Eternity an unblown saxophone - Langston Hughes "Sport"


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