Potential Titles: Crumble

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Why must crumbling doctrines stop us? - Anne Carly Abad "Rehearsal for When He Wakes"

Now crumbling cities of our fading Empire - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"

Some crumbling turret, mined by time - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

At this cusp of crumbling - Ellen Bass "Sometimes, when she is buried deep"

Deep in the crumbling bridge's shade - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"

That crumbles in these hands - John Philip Bourke "The Leaden Hoof"

Against my hand a little crumbling dust - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"

Crumbled at thy dread command - H.C. "Lines to Death" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

Across worn pavements crumbling to decay - Frank Oliver Call "Through a Long Cloister"

Crumbled in one red crucible - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"

Haunting each crumbling stair - Madison Cawein "Ghosts"

Everything of reverie starts to crumble - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"

Stand within Time's crumbling walls - Benjamin De Casseres "The-Circle-That-Looks-Like-A-Line"

That ocher sun's crumble upon the tongue - Rebecca Dunham "In Which She Opens the Box"

Crumbles to its complete oblivion - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

Troy towers for my delight and crumbles stone by stone - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

Born to crumble under salt and tears - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

The red altars of a crumbling world - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

every dead-ash sun a crumbled cipher - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

Dusty wings that crumble as they pass - Lydia Gibson "Lost Treasure"

All kindred gods have crumbled - Philip Becker Goetz "Eumenides" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]

Our moments shared shall crumble down to dust - Mona Gould "Some Quiet Day ... Perhaps"

Felled to build my crumbling towers - William Griffith "Litany of Nations: Austria-Hungary"

Of my decisions finally crumbling - Allison Eir Jenks "The Squirrel"

A people's history crumbling - Fred L. Joiner "Sovereignty"

with good reason to crumble - Camisha L. Jones "Wrecking Ball"

Crumbling pain on the cabinets that never closed - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

Runs down in crumbling cadence - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

With his name crumbling hungry in your mouth - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

And still defy the crumbling touch of Time - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

In a cynic age of crumbling faiths - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Could have crumbled proud belief - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

Cancerous overgrowth to slow crumbling - Marissa Lingen "The Plural of Apocalypse"

Circle through a crumbling hour - Edwin Markham "The Goblin Laugh"

Granite towers that crumble into dust - Theodore Maynard "England"

Vines and creepers circle the crumbling frame - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"

Like clouds that crumble - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

To crumble and form sepulchres for woes - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

Her strong foundations crumbling - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

The feet of crumbling clay - John Oxenham "Hearts in Exile"

All a crumbled dust beneath the feet - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

Crumble to dust in its arms - Patrick Phillips "The Guitar"

An infection of crumbling sights - Salik Shah "Field Notes"

The crumbling coasts of Matter - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

A rain of pearl from crumbling moons - George Sterling "White Magic"

Great Achilles crumbling on his pyre - Phillips Stewart "De Profundis"

To crumble a dream, and fashion the pebbles of fancy - Arthur Stringer "The Surrender"

While far away towers fall and ancient cities crumble - Keith Taylor "Responsibilities"

Bathed in a crumbling dew - "'Tis Sweet to Roam"

Among the crumbling arches of decay - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"

And clutch the crumbling walls - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"

Did you hear the edge of winter crumble? - Mark Van Doren "Spring Thunder"

Beside long crumbled architraves - Sherard Vines "Permission"

Crumbling into their infernal chasm - Derek Walcott "A Propertius Quartet III"

The dream crumbles inside its glass case - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"

Mosaics which have crumbled out of place - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"

And faded in the crumbling light - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"

'Tis not the soul that crumbles - Joseph R. Wilson "Avaunt! Ye Tears"

As We heard your walls crumbling - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

The crumbling signs of material wealth - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

Crumble away into quicksilver dust - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

The crumbling of the moon - William Butler Yeats "The Phases of the Moon"

Plaster crumbles on the lonely walls - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"


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