Potential Titles: Bound

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Reason bound in chains - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

What praise can we give with bound hands - Afua Ansong "what we did while waiting for the rain"

Bound to each other in earliest vow - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry II: Farewell" transl. by Sir John Bowring

A golden spindle with the flax of Egypt bound around it - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XIX: Nightingales" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Bound to its own annihilation - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Awkward/Black/Object"

On new strange roadways bound - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Bouncing Bet"

Bound with Stygian asphodel - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"

Bound in advance by the story line - Mary Jo Bang "The Earthquake in this Case Was"

Bound in frenzied orbits - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"

Our soul wings have been bound - Ardelia Maria Barton "All Life Hath Soul"

Bound by trials of silence - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"

Bound by our breathing - Robert Bly "To My Mother"

Ropes of sand that bound us - John Philip Bourke "The Pilgrimage"

Bound up with frosts - Anne Bradstreet "Winter"

Bound by time-forged fetters - F. O. Call "Acanthus"

When icy chains the streams have bound - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

And bound themselves, by kisses twelve - "Come Lasses and Lads"

A mighty Empire's bounds to trace - "Cor Unum, Via Una: God Bless Our Native Land!" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

From those in promise bound - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

The wall which bounds the universe - Rev. William Crowe "Written When Buonaparte Was Altering the Governments of Germany"

Bound by a dream's control - Danske Dandridge "Telepathy"

In sleep's soft fetters bound - Sir William Davenant "The Dream"

Whose measureless horizon knew no bounds - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Weighted and bound in its mask - Toi Derricotte "Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing"

Bound to opposing lands - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XIII: Renunciation"

Bound for webs orbiting each other - Chris Dombrowski "Elegy with Fall's Last Filaments"

Render freedom to things bound - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Bound in a cobweb dungeon dim - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

To tread the bounds of nature's stormy verge - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"

Gulfs of sweetness without bound - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"

Words that knew no bounds - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Again it is September"

Where first you were bound by the magic spell - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Bound my mind to counted bars - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"

Have bound the winds and stars - Katherine Hale "Miracles"

Death on his charger in battle is bounding - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

In the riot of our bounding hearts - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "St. Patrick's Day"

Triumphant o'er the bounds of time - Felicia Hemans "To the Eye"

Bound to a stranger's groans - Kimberly Johnson "Farrow"

The bounds of death and birth - Lionel Johnson "Our Lady of the Snows"

The moment I bound with your blood - Fady Joudah "Oxygen"

Lie bound with thongs of fire - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"

Where the sun's shafts lie bound - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"

Bound with the laurel of victory - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."

Bound by her emerald zone - Fanny Kemble "Venice"

To Reason bound - Anne Killigrew "A Farewell to Worldly Joyes"

Malice in these bounds restrain - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

And their hearts in love were bound - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

With yew-trees bound - John Langdon-Davies "Quits!"

Your bounds of isolation - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"

The shadowy house below is out of bounds - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"

With vows that bound the leaf and stone - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"

By courtesies more bound - Amy Levy "Christopher Found"

Bound in sinuous seaweed strands - Amy Lowell "Convalescence"

Sheltering bounds of landmarks old - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Drifted back within the bounds of space - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"

Iron ice bound all the bitter seas - Don Marquis "Dickens"

Bound with twelve shining clasps - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

Exceeds the bound of laws - Claude McKay "One Year After"

Breath of thought beyond our bounds - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

Bound its foaming whirlpools - Viola Meynell "The Frozen Ocean"

Ere slumber's chain has bound me - Thomas Moore "Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)"

On our hard-bound soil - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To Miss R. B."

Bound by a fast symmetry - Mahealani Perez-Wendt "Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu"

A few paternal acres bound - Alexander Pope "Ode on Solitude"

Any friend that's been turned down is bound to be a friend of mine - John Prine

Bound my soul with chains of earth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Confidence"

On a ship bound from nowhere - Marcie R. Rendon "Of This Turtle Island"

Transparent and bound to disappear - Adrienne Rich "Octobrish"

Lofty thought scarce held by earthly bound - Amy Redpath Roddick "My Lake"

Not bound here by blood or bone - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #93"

Our merchandise with tansy bound - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

The mind like a jackrabbit bounding - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

An honest mind will not be bound - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

By such a chain was bound - Shelley "The Recollections"

With tendrils of woodbine is bound - William Shenstone "The Shepherd's Home"

Bound down with fetters fast - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Bound me with the cords of love - Mary Dana Shindler "Chastening, a Proof of Love"

Bound with final frost - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"

Souls bound by a single longing - "Southeast the Peacock Flies" transl. by Burton Watson

Bound in new gilt bindings - Marion Strobel "Collectors"

Day in twilight's hair bound safe - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

Bound as I was in the snare of Time - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 209: The Poet's Petition and Praise 209" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Wild winds bound within their cell - Tennyson "Mariana"

Bounded by oak and thorn - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

As with a chain indissoluble bound - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

The night that bounds my knowledge - Eunice Tietjens "To S"

Bound in their unceasing disappointment - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"

Ships bound for nonexistent promised lands - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

To the farthest bound off song - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

Bound for distant duty - Tu Fu "On the Border, First Series" transl. by Burton Watson

Chess-boards neatly bound - "Turvey Top"

Dear scenes which bound me like chains - William Walker, Jr. "The Wyandot's Farewell"

Bound you with pomegranates - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"

The charm that bound my wild heart here - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"

Of bounding pulses that stand still and ache - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

And bursts the system's distant bound - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

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

Stretching of strength beyond its bounds - "Wooing of Etain: What Is Love?" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Life in stone bound fast - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]

Hooded cobra bound by hollow spells of sound - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Fast in chains of horror bound - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Acres of cloud bound - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"


Boundless.


Beyond the heavy brass-bound door - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"

Beneath the iron bell close-bound - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Slag"

A haughty old copper-bound albatross - John Masefield "Sea-Change"

Earthbound.

Many a homebound ship - Walter S. Percy "I'll Be Watching on the Shore"

Icicle tears from the ice-bound years - Louise Morey Bowman "The Dead Violin"

The sky with an icebound sun - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "History" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Makes a nest of inbound hulls and masts - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

The outbound keels of all my fleet - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"

To explore the sky-bound marches - Clive Bell "To A.V.S. with a Book"


Spell-bound vagabond of spurious birth - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Spellbound, listening to the voice of Time - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Spellbound by the color of the grasses - Po Chu'i "Spring River" transl. by Burton Watson

The spellbound horses walking warm - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"


Embroideries of starbound silver - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

On earth's time-bounded shore - Oliver Optic "Lizzie"


Unbound.


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