Potential Titles: Vast

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Though the house of sorrow be vast - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

The hips of this vast & immovable grief - Hanif Abdurraqib "It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off"

I am nothing to the vast world - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

My vast terror at what I can't hear - Kaveh Akbar "My Father's Accent"

Pursues the vast alone - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

A steady lamp in a vast plain of shifting grey - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

Who are calling out of the dimness vague and vast - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"

What is grief but a love that is too vast for us? - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"

Visionary fabrics dim and vast - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"

Where all is high and vast - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"

Speak of capturing vastness - Rosebud Ben-Oni "So They Say-- They Finally Nailed-- the Proton's Size-- & Hope-- Dies--"

In one vast hunger of desire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

In vast infant sagacity brooding - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Recognizes vast motions elsewhere - Russ Bickerstaff "Why Norm Jones Never Feels Like He Gets Anything Done in a Day"

In the vast ballroom of the universe - Russ Bickerstaff "Why Norm Jones Never Feels Like He Gets Anything Done in a Day"

A vast and haunting refrain that echoes the depths of space - Bruce Boston "The Music of Deep Spacers"

A price so vast as is unknown - Anne Bradstreet "Verses upon the Burning of our House"

On the threshold of their vast designs - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn to Death"

The vast hall of fairy palace - William Cullen Bryant "A Winter Piece"

Like vast Caryatids upholding the age - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

Mirrored in the ocean vast - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"

To meet the vastness and the storm - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"

Vasts and verges of illusion - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Spring Song"

Find a vaster prison and a redder hell - Ralph Chaplin "Escaped!"

My vast invented country - Chen Chen "First Light"

The vast shipwreck of my life's esteems - John Clare "I Am!"

The vast event that propagated their sequel - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan

Lost and bewilder'd in the vast desire - George Crabbe "The Library"

Glimmering through the vast profound - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

Under the new vastness of this wreckage - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Rosemary"

And from the vast profound betwixt the two - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"

A kingdom vast with jasper light - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"

Out of earth's vast unknown - Walter de la Mare "The Titmouse"

Vast, in its fading ratio - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XII"

Archives so vast they fill mountainsides - Kinsale Drake "(Re)location"

Unto the vastness where forever glows - George William Russell aka A.E. "Night"

For nothing but so vast a dream - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

Into vast escaping sky - Katherine Edgren "This Morning, My Father"

Across the vast skin of me - Heid E. Erdich "Tick Check"

Vast mosaic walls full of the scenes of Olympus - Bernadine Evaristo "Amo Amas Amat"

Our vast psychic habitat shrunk - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"

A pale ideal lost in the vast grey sky - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

Reaching out to the vast sky - Jennifer Franklin "Preparing for Residential Placement for My Disabled Daughter"

While the dark vast earth shakes and rocks - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

when I claim that vastness - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer

A vaster heaven of unrevealed stars - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

In vast echoing rooms behind glass cases - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"

Clutched in the grip of those vast hands - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"

Darkening the vast expanse on high - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

Vast and trackless spaces - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"

Bent upon vast beginnings - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Who stands on the threshold of a vast night - Edward Hirsch "Lay Back the Darkness"

Let its vastness be undisguised - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

All form the trembling, vast procession - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

The vast horizons of the soul - Langston Hughes "To You"

A Pedigree withdrawn and vast - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part II."

A vast clearing on the cosmos - Jennifer Jean "Inspiration Point"

That wants the whole vast world - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

Whom the vast stars crown - Lionel Johnson "To a Traveller"

The vast and cloud-embroidered canopy - Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"

Becomes all one vast remembering - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

Make vast shelter together - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"

To admit the murdered into rooms of vast crushed comfort - Youna Kwak "After"

To kindlier ends and vaster - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"

In vast seething companies - Archibald Lampman "New Year's Eve"

With violet and vastness and gold - Archibald Lampman "The Sun Cup"

Vast halls and flowing wells - Walter Savage Landor "Gebir"

New glimpses of vast blue are seen - Lucy Larcom "November"

Curves in a rush to the heart of the vast flower - D.H. Lawrence "Bombardment"

Vast and mysterious brother - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

All things ancient, vast, towering - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"

Becomes a vast field of ice the color of indigo - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

The freedom of the earth's vast solitudes - Amy Lowell "A Japanese Wood-Carving"

Mountains and seas vast between us - Lu Yun "For Ku Yen-hsien, a Poem for Him to Give to His Wife" transl. by Burton Watson

Particles of some vast perception - Thomas Lynch "Lessons from Berkeley"

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

Vast as empires famed of old - Mrs Elizabeth A (MacQueen) MacLeod "Canada"

A vast and unexampled show of fireworks - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Its vast vitality of wrath - John Masefield "The 'Wanderer'"

To cope with waves so vast - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Inland Waves"

Vast dragon-gulps of steam - Harriet Monroe "In the Yellowstone"

The vastness of forgotten life - T. Sturge Moore "The Sea is Kind"

The betrayal of a vast forgetting - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

On the vast wings of the albatross - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Absence is such a vast house - Pablo Neruda "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XCIV" transl. by Rafael Campo

A flight into the vastness - Yone Noguchi "How Near to Fairyland"

In that vast hollow of violet air - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

Like a vast chameleon changed - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Cuvier: The Vera Causa"

Owning all their vastness - Naomi Shihab Nye "For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh"

Through vast chthonic reservoirs - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Filling up the vast storehouses of his mind - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Silence as vast as it is particular - Carl Phillips "Reasonable Doubt"

The sky's edgeless statement about vastness - Carl Phillips "Searchlights"

Of memory as a mansion of vast halls - Carl Phillips "Wherefore Less Lonely"

Whose vastness could only give space to despair - Annie Porter "Selim" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Dec. 1877]

Sent vast leagues of silver fire - E.J. Pratt "Sea Variations"

Eyes vast as the hearts of galaxies - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

Sighs of vast surrender - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Ardour"

The vast webs woven of tumult - Theodore H. Rand "Sea Music"

Through all their chambers dim and vast - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

One in the vast coil of silence - Lola Ridge "Circuit"

A vast April moving on the void - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

In the vast equations of the night - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

That feed on the vast fig of evening - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

A tentacle of the vast dawn - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"

With a silence vast in weight - James Whitcombe Riley "Eros"

The vast black solitude around - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont

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

By some vast magic undivined - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Sheaves"

Clothing the vast with a familiar face - George William Russell "Symbolism"

The soul unto the vast has wings - George William Russell "Symbolism"

Vast cohorts and constellations of living stars - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Cast adrift by proxy on a vast black sea - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"

On the edge of night's vast labyrinth - Clinton Scollard "Autumn by the Sea"

Out of the void and the vast - Clinton Scollard "The Mist and the Sea"

Through vasts of calm - Clinton Scollard "Wild Geese"

The vast pool of heaven star-spawned - Robert W. Service "The Land of Beyond"

Aspirations too vast to be held in the hand - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"

One vast mass of mingling shade - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Wields the sceptre of a vast dominion - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

My siren's call to the vast and aching wild - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"

Our light in our vast, brilliant constellations - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

The vast, breathing darkness of your realm - Joyce Sidman "Dark Emperor"

A vast swirling sea of lava - Joyce Sidman "Long Memory"

From vast pale networks underground - Joyce Sidman "The Mushrooms Come"

Its vastness having overpowered him - Steven David Justin Sills "Post Annulment 2"

Vast displays of critic wit - Alexander Smith "[There have been vast displays of critic wit]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

Winds that wrangle through the vast - Clark Ashton Smith "The Balance"

Soul of the sea's vast emerald - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"

Threat of sightless anarchs vast - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

In vaster silence rendered mute - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"

Some vast cacophony of dragons - Clark Ashton Smith "Satan Unrepentant"

From kingdoms of the sapphire vast - George Sterling "Duandon"

Seeks the silence of a vaster night - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

Too strange for fear, too vast for hope - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

Of vast endeavour and the dust of strife - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"

Weaving vast traceries out on the fringes of Night - Arthur Stringer "Life-Drunk"

Wear thin with vast summer - Mary Szybist "Taiment"

Lir's vast host of shouting water - "Tempest on the Sea" transl. by Robin Flower

A hollow land as vast as heaven - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

Are found within its precincts vast - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Carrying vast burdens over the crags of chaos - Iris Tree "Moods IV"

Waiting like a vast arch of quietness - Iris Tree "Moods IV"

Vaster galaxy primordial and without memories - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"

Vast, profound, primeval hiding-place - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"

Clank and clamour of the vast machine - Henry van Dyke "Sea-Gulls of Manhattan"

Swells vast across windblown waters - Wang An-Shih "Above the River" transl. by David Hinton

The vast veil over heaven - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

The weird palimpsest old and vast - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Subject to vast power structures - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

So vast, so deep, so full of mysteries - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "How Like the Sea"

The hollow vastness of the sky - William Carlos Williams "Dawn"

Whose days are vast and gray - William Carlos Williams "The Desolate Field"

Drown the vaster voice of rapture or of Hell - Humbert Wolfe "Heine's Last Song"

Leading to one vast ultimate stop - Charles Wright "Walking Beside the Diversion Ditch Lake"

Vast as towered Babylon - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Under the vast dominion of night - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

In the vast horizon of water - Felicia Zamora "Acts After Addiction"


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