Potential Titles: Both

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Both of us desperate to quit - Helene Achanzar "The only poem I can write"

Reveal you both aloof and enthralled - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"

Alive in both worlds at once - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"

The falcon soars both far and high - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XVI: The Falcon" transl. by Sir John Bowring

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

Both sides of Apollo will look down on us - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"

The door swinging open both ways - Lou Barrett "Seachange"

Snared in tiny toils both frail and idle - William Rose Benét "The City"

And Eurydice has played the role of both - Rebecca Bennett "Eurydice Stands with Attitude"

Silence will pardon both of us - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Sword Converses with a Philosopher"

That's when they both became mirror - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"

While both our hearts rebel - Caris Brooke "Before Parting"

Both being flawed - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Believing for us both - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Year's Spinning"

Drawn with both your arms - Sue Budin "Forgiveness Comes in Two Colors"

Agent of energies both appalling and unobserved - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 2: A psalm of Isaak, accompanied by baying hounds"

Master both invisible and notoriously slow to act - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 3: A psalm of Isaak, whispered mid the Philistines, beneath the breath"

Both wild curses - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"

To play regardless both of time and space - Edward Carpenter "The Great Peepshow"

Both the weary and the ready - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"

Hold the past with both arms - Marianne Chan "Some Words of the Aforesaid Heathen Peoples"

Bearing both weapon and wound - Alba Cid "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or the Sacrifice of the Pfeilstorchen" (translated by Jacob Rogers)

The white cascade that's both a bird and star - W.H. Davies "The White Cascade"

A strange riddle both did share - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"

Grasp the vessel with both hands - JJJJJerome Ellis "Before Stuttering"

Striking dead both Bud and Bloom - John Fletcher "Folding the Flocks"

I pray with both hands - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"

From both camps a tornado of cheers - Arthur M. Forrester "An Old Irish Tune"

And burning on both of us - Christopher Gilbert "How the Stars Understand Us"

Comes toward us with both hands - Kimberly Grey "Heroic Sentences"

Our dreams annihilate both time and space - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Demands of both native and stranger - "The Harp of Old Erin and Banner of Stars" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Both contains and refuses the stain - Leslie Harrison "[I keep throwing words at the problem because words]"

When both of us remained unblessed - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XX"

A bowl held in both hands - Jane Hirshfield "Mosquito"

This dusk between both of me - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"

But both exist now to confuse me - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

Leave alike both grief and joy - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph

A scattering both of isolation and attachment - Joseph O. Legaspi "On an Island (New York City)"

Independent both of sin and of "sensation" - Henry S. Leigh "Un Pas Qui Coute"

Both brave and buried bones - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

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

A small greyhound run down both hart and hind - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

For both are sprung from clay - Fiona MacLeod "The Sorrow of Delight"

Though both burn - Maureen N. McLane "As I was saying, the sun"

The river down both our faces - Jenny Molberg "The Uncommon Mirror"

Let us both listen till we understand - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"

We must be a student of both - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

And both their shields were shattered there - "Oh, Seventy-Seven Twice-Told Were They" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Beauty can both shout and whisper - Mary Oliver "Leaves and Blossoms Along the Way"

To both sides of the knife - Mary Oliver "The Osprey"

One grief to both impart - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

That clasped both our hearts - Grace Paley [untitled]

Both ripening and root - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"

To understand hesitation both ways - Carl Phillips "Said the Horse to the Light"

Both acts betray silence - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"

Both living and dying require giving up - Khadijah Queen "Tower"

Horn and scale both less and more than dead - Paisley Rekdal "Philip Larkin's Koan"

Roses, too, both red and pink - James Whitcombe Riley "The Lovely Child"

With shouting and singing both - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"

Held the joker and both bowers - Robert W. Service "Quatrains"

Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXV"

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIV"

A bed both wide and hollow - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree"

And we both rode off together - "Sledburn Fair"

Wiser from traveling both roads - Gary Soto "The Road Not Taken... in Peru"

Renew both fruit and flower - Robert Southwell "Times Go by Turns"

Both in the inch and in the mile - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"

Wonder at both connections and aberrations - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

Both lips grew dry with dreams - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"

The bitterness both of Substance and Shadow - Tao Yuanming "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Arthur Waley

Both path and destination of freedom - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

Both here and of other waters - R.A. Villanueva "Annus Mirabilis"

The wondrous oracle in both ways read - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"

Both are bound in the orb of one outrageous star - Humbert Wolfe "Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton"

Both alike are wind-driven weeds - Yin Shih "Parting from the Courtier Sung" transl. by Burton Watson


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