Potential Titles: Climb

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Climb the dark tunnel of the chimney - Duana Ackerson "The Observatory"

For now I climb gray hills alone - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

The demons climbed from the blood-soaked soil - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Climb, slice through the harness of gravity - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Took all my careless curiosity to climb - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

In a fragrant shrine of climbing roses - Auguste Angellier "Eyes and Lips" transl. by Henry van Dyke

The broken stair with perilous step shall climb - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

height of climb and width of free - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

That climb up ancient roads - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

To force my heart to climb - Elizabeth Bartlett "Time Will Tell"

Climb the dark pass - Basho transl. by David Young

And climbed the ladder of swords that men call Life - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"

Smoke climbing the sky's cup - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

And climb the crags that tower in my brain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"

Climbed to the feet of God - Robert Hugh Benson "After a Retreat"

Climbed each available twig - Terry Blackhawk "Maumee, Maumee"

Never climb a rubber ladder - Calef Brown "Bossy Casey"

But cannot climb to clasp a star - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXIII. Flesh and Spirit" transl. by John Addington Symonds

From which the centuries climb - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Tree of Truth"

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

Dares to climb with wounded feet - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

The bell of climbing goat - Roger Casement "Verses (Sent from the Congo Free State in response to Mr. Harrison's appeal for the Restoration of the Elgin Marbles to Greece)"

Who climbed the rugged steep - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Our duty to keep on climbing - Jamie Harris Coleman "Difficulties in Life"

Climbs the trellis of the spine - James Crews "Awe"

Climb the ladders of delight - Olive Custance "A Morning Song"

Where climbs the grey winter - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"

To Fame's high temple climb - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Climbed the mountain of fear - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Mountain Man"

Too steep for memory to climb - Chris Dombrowski "Naive Melody"

Climb to Joy's high limit - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"

As one climbs from water up to land - John Freeman "Waking"

For yesterday's whereon to climb - John Freeman "Waking"

Climbed the track in single file - Wilfrid Gibson "Flannan Isle"

The immortal's ladder is hard to climb - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson

Climb the stairway of forgetfulness - Joy Harjo "Bird"

Climb the wild mountain's airy brow - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "Hymn of Nature"

Where weeds and ivy climb - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

Climbed a hill as light fell short - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

When the night climbs into my bed - Jackson Holbert "Poem with a Smoke Cloud Hanging in It"

Had been climbing the jaws of hell - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Climb, but heights are cold - Jean Ingelow "A Mother Showing the Portrait of Her Child"

Black, curdling fog climbing into their nostrils - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Climb the stalk of early winter - Donika Kelly "Winter Poem"

Climbs the tower of reincarnation - Mihee Kim "time travel"

Sunlight climbing a thread of spider's silk - Ted Kooser "A Glint"

Climbing the beanstalk down the gravity well - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"

An arpeggio climbing the ladder of sky - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"

Platters of fungus climbing like stepping stones - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"

To climb forbidden walls - Richard Le Gallienne "Cor Cordium"

Then climb into the golden saddle - Li Po "In Reply When Lesser Officials of Chung-tu Brought a Pot of Wine and Two Fish to My Inn as Gifts" transl. by Burton Watson

And the rocks cannot be climbed - Li Po "The Szechwan Road" transl. by Arthur Waley

Climbing bitterly the stranger's stairs - Vachel Lindsay "Dante"

Climbing up the starry way - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"

Climbing aloft on cedar branches - P.H.B. Lyon "The Deserted Garden"

Starry stairs that must be climbed - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

The vast and ever climbing shadow grow - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"

Climbing for stars and wanting the moon - Jeannette Marks "Little Miss Hilly"

Climb the sun gathering color - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"

The rungs by which men climb - John Masefield "Biography"

A ladder of fire for climbing - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"

Climbs the crimson-flooded air - James M'Carroll "Dawn"

Turn to dust on the steps we climbed to get here - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"

Climbing the glass mountain to save her brothers - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"

Climb and then fall back to me - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman

Your notched inches climbing - Charlotte Mew "On the Road to the Sea"

Had climbed beyond what I knew - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"

Don't go climbing up to blue clouds - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

Climbing to achievement's throne - T. Sturge Moore "Renaissance"

Climb on my old suffering like ivy - Pablo Neruda "So that You Will Hear Me" transl. by W.S. Merwin

Hoped the chains could not climb this high - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"

Our controlled hunger for climbing - Pablo Neruda "Suburbs" transl. by William O'Daly

On silver feet to climb the starry stairs - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

To climb the curve of arid sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Climb their rich ladder of choruses - Naomi Shihab Nye "Open House"

Climb into the sinking dark - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"

When spooks and goblins climb the stair - Edwin C. Ranck "Halloween"

Climb up to the borders of the sun - Dahlia Ravikovich "The Blue West" transl. by Chana Bloch

Climb the twisted chamber stair - Lizette Woodworth Reese "Lydia Is Gone This Many a Year"

Heights too steep for thought to climb - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Mind of the Mystic"

Weariness of climbing heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "To the Moon"

Climbed from the shallows to don your dragon-colors - Joyce Sidman "Fly, Dragonfly!"

Climb a hill where the sky is wide - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"

Mute, unsentried walls and turrets climb - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"

And the climber slips down gulfs of fear - Clark Ashton Smith "The Unrevealed"

Climb a seven-story mountain - Richard Solomon "Orpheus at Fifty"

when you climbed out from a garlic clove - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

Climbing the ages - Sara Teasdale "If I Must Go"

And strength to climb on a summer night - Sara Teasdale "Two Songs for Solitude"

Ambition climbed above the waves - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"

Too weak to climb a solid fence - Mark Van Doren "Waterfall Sound"

Not hope to climb above the level commonplace - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Climbing the wind - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

The heights of Parnassus climb - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"

Have climbed with you by secret ways - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Climbed to shake the ripe nuts down - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Over the lonely spire she climbs - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"

To climb into the lost domain - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

An echo climbing Eurydice's stair - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History III: The Gone World"


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