Potential Titles: Fever

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Fever in cold weather - Etel Adnan "Night"

Drawing forth Earth's passionate fevers - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

To the fevered city's toil and grime - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

An elegy with silo and fever - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"

Stay away as fever rages - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Slow moving fever that clouds the minds - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Somewhere at the fevered edge of day - Lou Barrett "Forty and Eight: 1943"

Allay the fever's fire - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"

Mustered from the fevered sky - Edmund Blunden "Sheet Lightning"

Burrowed a fever under my skin - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, when I said all I ever wanted was land"

Last night in fever dreams - Geoffrey Brock "Forever Street"

You look to me through the glazed fever of forget - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
The fevered brain might slumber cool - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"

Came to me in a feverish vodka dream - Michael Chang "Plump Rat"

The fevered radiance fades from life's doomed tree - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Drowning the fever of her hands - Hart Crane "Garden Abstract"

And Assyrian wine to shatter her fever - H.D. "Acon"

Carrying her fever over the treeline - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"

The fevered breeze of a paper fan - Diane DeCillis "Nest"

A fever and a hunger that never leaves - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"

Allayed the fever of the bone - T.S. Eliot "Whispers of Immortality"

Breathe them both with every fevered breath - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Famine and fever crept in at the door - Ellen M.H. Gates "Rich and Poor" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Fevered blaze of backyard brush fires - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

Boat of potent fever - Joy Harjo "Granddaughters"

And fevers scorch my brain - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Yearnings for Home"

The fever spread from poet to poet - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

A low and stubborn fever - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"

Music from unremembered fever - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Selah"

How we fever the dark's bones - Willie Lee Kinard III "Aubade: Nocturne"

fever and the millennium - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen"

Fevered fancies round me throng - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

To steal some fever from your grief - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"

The dead leaves of their fevers fall - Maurice Maeterlinck "Temptations" transl. by Bernard Miall

And Desire, on Fever's arm - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)

Drained me like a fevered moon - Edgar Lee Masters "Fletcher McGee"

The old fever seizes me - Claude McKay "Futility"

My fevered face wrapped in grass - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman

Dissolving with a feverish glow of light - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

The fever of the banished - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Fever or forgotten wings - Pablo Neruda "Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid

On the preciptitous edge of fever - Pablo Neruda "The South" transl. by Alastair Reid

Where fevered lamps are set to stare - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"

A child of thy fevered unrest - E.J. Pratt "The Secret of the Sea"

Like fever chill in fever burning - John Presland "The Deluge"

Parching in its fever pain - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Feverish light flung hard upon their faces - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"

A modest life punctuated with fevers - Adrienne Rich "Plaza Street and Flatbush"

Against the troubled fever of the earth - Margaret E. Sangster "I Dreamed Your Face"

The close-mouthed tantrum of her fevers - Safiya Sinclair "A Bell, Still Unrung"

Of fevers unleashed - Patricia Smith "The World Won't Wait"

Medicine to cancel the fever - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 20: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Drained by fevered lips - Sir Thomas N. Talfourd "Sympathy"

Quell this consuming fever - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta III: The Peace to Be"

Dwells immortal in those fevered heresies - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XIII: The Voice of Love II"

That through the nerves like fever pass - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XLVI: The Inventory to Her Friend"

Beneath the fever of the light - Sara Teasdale "In a Restaurant"

Bent by the same wintry fever - Dylan Thomas "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower"

Moths to fever and regret - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"

The feverish offering of our cold water sacrifices - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"

The fever of doubtful news - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"

That strip of vowels and fever silhouettes - Jenny Xie "Le Temps Mort"

Starve a fever, shatter a glass house - Dean Young "Folklore"

Thin wings of fever singing - Francis Brett Young "104 Fahrenheit"

Mercury monogrammed with fever - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Through the fever-gulf that had me - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]


While the feverish branches chafe - Kiki Petrosino "Young"


Grown from scattered fever-seed - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"


Its blood dried up with treason's fever-taint - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]


When the scarlet fever delirium claimed him - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"


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