Potential Titles: Heavy

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Heavy as honeyed pulses beat - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Fearless among heavier materials - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"

My goosebumps heavy as a sandbag - Mouna Ammar "Finding Me"

Pulls its heavy cloak over anxious waters - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"

Heavy with a whole collection of fresh fruits - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Locked doors & heavy whispers - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"
Heavy with his reckless ghost - Maxwell Bodenheim "Country Girl"

Heavy with promise of snow - Djuna Barnes "Call of the Night"

Heavy bees slow rounding the wet plum - Djuna Barnes "I'd Have You Think of Me"

All heavy and alone - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"

And creaked beneath their heavy load - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"

Under the heavy weather of the years - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Light heavy with drowning stars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

Heavier than these chains - Ariana Benson "Love Poem in the Black Field"

And heavy with gray crochet - Elizabeth Bishop "Filling Station"

Can lift full, heavy sorrow - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee"

Up where the heavy thunders rolled - George W. Bungay "The Autograph of God" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Too heavily bent by burden of the snow - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

The heavy garment of the stream - Charles Causley "The Swan"

With aching bones and heavy head - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

The heavy flavors of their final selves - Kai Coggin "Essence"

Heavy with proverb and correction - Leonard Cohen "Queen Victoria and Me"

Heavy with portents of snowfall - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"

Though they must drag a net of heavy hours - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"

In handwriting made heavy - Dante Di Stefano "Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)"

Heavy with the woe of all the world - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Half so heavy as a cobweb's weight - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

Until her cup is too heavy - Camille T. Dungy "Arthritis is one thing, the hurting another"

The heavy dress of history - Heid E. Erdich "She Dances"

With the heavy oars of October - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"

Your bones are as heavy as the past - Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi "Letter from a Hot Air Balloon"

Heavy rains choking in the roof-drains - John Freeman "The Chair"

With all those heavy waves flowing over me - John Freeman "Waking"

Walked so light on air in heavy shoes - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"

Life's heavy tasks and fair rewards - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]

Their heaviest burdens are invisible - Dana Gioia "The Underworld: VI. Baggage"

Toward a heavier blue - Kimberly Grey "The First Marriage"

In heavy years she would remember - Thomas Hardy "The Marble Tablet"

On the wings of the heavy gales - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant

Heavy with padlocks, bolts, and cording - Oliver Herford "Rudyard Kipling"

Company their grief with heavy tears - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

The heavy sky that could not weep - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

Tremble at the heavy thunder-shocks - Richard Hughes "Storm: to the Theme of Polyphemus"

The presence of this heavy weight - Emily Igwike "my mother prepares ofe egusi"

Heavy as prayers - Allison Eir Jenks "Letters from Our Fathers"

A nightly spell of sleep falls heavy - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

The heavy part the music bears - Ben Jonson "Echo's Lament for Narcissus"

With the trellis heavied by wind chimes - Janine Joseph "The Persistence of Symptoms"

A bus breathing heavily at the station - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

With heavy hearts and tearful eyes - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

The heavy clouds came gathering - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

Loathing the heavy chains that bind - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

Hauling the heavy bucket of dawn - Ted Kooser "The Early Bird"

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

And Time with heaviest hand - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"

Heavy with a rancid cargo - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"

Cold night heavy with medicine fumes - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson

The heavy dragoons of the mind - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

A fog heavy with wings - Khaled Mattawa "Constance Song"

The key that locks your heavy heart - Charlotte Mew "The Pedlar"

Pushing his heavy music through the waves - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"

A worse relapse and heavier fall - John Milton "Paradise Lost"

Solitude walks one heavy step more near - Harold Monro "Solitude"

Shedding desire's heavy robes - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Disbelief"

a statue in a heavy coat - Valzhyna Mort "Guest"

Heavy with the rain of all eyes - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

And dreary dreams from heavy eyes - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "Dream" transl. by John Pollen

Heavy father of the world's silence - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A heavy rose in silver and leather - Pablo Neruda "Saddlery" transl by Jack Schmitt

Through heavy menace and mystery - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

In a book too heavy to close - D. Nurkse "Overseas Accounts"

Their heaviness and their endless number - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

Who makes his heavy burden weigh more light - Philo "The Tribute"

By the heat of the heavy air - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Teufel-Haus"

The smoke was too heavy to rise - John Prine

The heavy hanging air of dusk - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On the Potomac River, U.S.A."

Eyes heavy with tethered salt - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"

Gossamer shrouds grow heavy - M. Regan "The Hollow"

Tangled in the heavy purple veil - Edgell Rickword "Yegor"

The silence shuffles heavy dice - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"

The heavy sum of silence - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

The vast, heavy burden of all things - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Neighbour" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Chaos lifts the heavy sea and bends the hollow sky - Lloyd Roberts "The Madness of Winds"

With those heavy folds of black - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"

The heavy heritage of Adam - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

A thunder heavy in its cloud - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited

How heavy do I journey on - William Shakespeare "Sonnet L"

Heavy ignorance aloft to fly - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVIII"

Heavy and slow in the streets of ruined cities - Gilbert Sheldon "St. Anthony's Township"

Fell, heavy with sky - Evie Shockley "color bleeding"

A moon heavy as loss - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Is Slow to Love"

Fox smell lying heavy on the wind - Tom Sleigh "The Fox"

Pierced suddenly by pillars of heavy light - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"

Grain that goes heavy to harvesting - Muriel Stuart "In Memory of Douglas Vernon Cow"

On a holy and a heavy day - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

That roll so heavily from off the heart - Carmen Sylva "A Debtor"

When heavy rains and sleet prolong the dreary day - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]

Do the stars feel heavier now? - Michael Torres "Writing Prompt"

Their walls are compacted of heavy stones - Henry van Dyke "The Great Cities"

Overhead in heavy stillness sail - Jones Very "The Clouded Morning"

As bobbing buoys in a heavy sea - Judy Patterson Wenzel "My Father Taught Me to See Ghosts"

Where fainting incense clouds the heavy air - Edith Wharton "Sonnets: II. Vespers"

Beyond the dull world's heavy air - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."

Too still and heavy stays - Margaret Widdemer "Old Wine"

Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Heavy sweetness proves its own caretaker - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

The heavy torture of sorrows unbrightened - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"

Will have a heavier rain - William Carlos Williams "Tract"

Half our heavy task was undone - Charles Wolfe "The Burial of Sir John Moore"

Hooked by a heavy dream - Jenny Xie "Zuihitsu"

Love's heavy open door - Wendy Xu "Pledge"

The heavy jackfruit bent with the weight of gravity - James F. Yockey "What If"


Such heavily-haunted harmony - Thomas Hardy "A Duettist to Her Pianoforte: Song of Silence"

Silent as her heavy-petalled rose - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"

These heavy-winged thieves - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"


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