Potential Titles: Serve/Servant

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The servants of an unborn year - Arthur Colton "The Shepherd and the Knight"

Despair is still servant to the violet - Katie Ford "Song After Sadness"

Made servant only to salt - Katie Ford "Song After Sadness"

The servants You have inherited - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

His servants are the wind and rain - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"


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

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

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

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"

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

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"

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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