Potential Titles: Serve

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Servant.


Wait sadly for the order to serve the feast - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"

The quality of my self served stigmatas - Gia Anansi-Shakur "The Owl"

All that I serve will die - Wendell Berry "The Wish to be Generous"

A feast fit to serve in the bowers of a dream - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]

Here to serve a high occasion - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

A branch of carnelian to serve as food - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Which serves to make the silence audible - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"

A king whom valour served - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Floods are served to us in bowls - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love IV: Satisfied"

Serve to remind me of castles I used to build in air - Robert Frost "The Kitchen Chimney"

And serve Minerva's colder law - Charles Gibson "Sonnets IV"

And served the same memorial fire - Edmund Gosse "Alere Flammam"

Serve and soothe and pamper - Robert Hayden "[American Journal]"

But only served a reminder of famine - Hawa Haji-Hassan "Carrying Anticipation"

To serve one master in the night, another in the day - Ernest Hemingway "Chapter Heading"

Serves in a whirlwind - Gerard Manley Hopkins "41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]"

Which serve to guard the ashes of the dead - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

With laws that serve as wire and root - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

Serves cocaine in cornucopia - Mina Loy "Lunar Baedeker"

Traveling the sun to serve our ends - Jane Miller "Tilt"

To serve the family's splintering hull - Rajiv Mohabir "Water-Owl, Cuvier's Beaked Whale"

Candles may serve, if there should be no day - E. Nesbit "Retro Sathanas"

Serve to bring the burdened heart - John Oxenham "Burden-Bearers"

What serves treasure but for tears - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Serving cups of broken light - Ken Poyner "Ineffective"

And serves to light our solemn way - A.J. Requier "Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Served with harp and sword - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"

And honey served on thorns - Lola Ridge "To the American People"

Whose body serves ants - Alberto Rios "Nani"

Will served to feed new wonders, more delights - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"

Serves local purposes - Kay Ryan "Double Floor"

We serve with mind who served with hand - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

Serves the nectar out to all - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"

And strong to serve the Star - George Sterling "The Fleet"

A shrine where the sunlight serves - Algernon Swinburne "Insularum Ocelle"

Served memory for breakfast - Fargo Tbaki "Palestine Is a Futurism: The Dream"

Served one master ill - Edward Thomas "An Old Song"

Serves but to root thy native oak - James Thomson "Rule Britannia"

Serving the strong suggestions of my blood - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: IX"

Mountain fruits served for rations - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson

Serve from bleak necessity - John Updike "Endpoint"

From those who serve different gods - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"


Stark against the light box of servitude - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"

Freedom from servitude so infinite - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVII. Perhaps to Vittoria Colonna. Love's Servitude" transl. by John Addington Symonds

in the servitude of strangers - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"


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