Potential Titles: Again

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And give the earth her green again - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Went and will not travel back again - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Never unpack the rucksack of happiness again - Carl Adamshick "Loss"

And come to this chaos again - Conrad Aiken "1915: The Trenches"

Till the leafless limbs be clothed again - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"

How to find again that visionary state - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

Lapsed again into Nature's wide domain - William Allingham "The Ruined Chapel"

Be filled up again with just a spoonful of that light - Ryu Ando "Season of the Ginzakura" [Strange Horizons 13 July 2015]

Money is talking to itself again - Rae Armantrout "Money Talks"

Found ourselves infinite again - Atticus "Magic in Stars"

Returned to us and made precious again - W.H. Auden "In Memory of Sigmund Freud"

Down the road and back again - Derrick Austin. "The Birthday Interviews"

I do the wolfish work of god and make myself again - Ruth Awad "My Hair Burned Like Berenice" [Poetry Jan/Feb 2024]

To begin again at zero - Mary Jo Bang "In St. John's Hospital"

Repair the mountain again - Mary Jo Bang "The Oracle"

Who called again to say what's ugly? - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

That needs must be restored again - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: I. The Building"

the lonely dark comes again - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"

The universe demotes me, yet again - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"

Loosen your hair to the storm again - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Spilling its star-dust back to dust again - Stephen Vincent Benet "Nos Immortales"

Has heard again our steps returning - Stella Benson "Christmas, 1917"

We stand again in debt - John Berryman "Minnesota Thanksgiving"

Again the screech-owl shrieks - Robert Blair "The Grave"

And the cuckoo called again - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

And madness chooses out my voice again - Louise Bogan "Cassandra"

Twigs show again in the quick cleavage of season - Louise Bogan "Elders"

Investigating again the mystic - Russell Brakefield "Pardon, Trout Farm"

Where tears become tears again - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Insomniac Tankas"

To tread the untroubled road again - Vera M. Brittain "To My Ward-Sister"

Rose again, transformed and whole - Geoffrey Brock "Ovid Old"

Teach the drum within that dark to drum again - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

How long until the world is sea again? - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"

Again in dreams you burn to light - Bliss Carman "Carnations in Winter"

Turned again to beauty - Bliss Carman "The Deserted Pasture"

Who will not weep again - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

The gray stones beneath you feel young again - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"

Weeks again of patient blues - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"

Nor winged spells incite the soul again - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"

The words here inscribe shall again be approved - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

The stars of our country are ransomed again - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

To the place of starting again - Killarney Clary "[Into the land of youth]"

What the pestilence had touched ne'er rose to life again - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

When soft September brings again - Arthur Hugh Clough "Written on a Bridge"

Seek to link again our broken ties - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

The grieved god came not again - Susan Coolidge "The Legend of Kintu"

Last night's dream is entering my body again - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"

Dust, shall it stir again? - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The bitter-sweet red lees again - T.A. Daly "To a Thrush"

Again she woke with waiting in her eyes - Mary Carolyn Davies "A Casualty List"

A rainbow and a cuckoo's song may never come together again - W.H. Davies "A Great Time"

Uncap the pen again tomorrow - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"

to walk free again under the darkening sky - Deborah L. Davitt "Unbound" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]

Not a whisper comes again - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"

Who wants to go back to zero again? - Monica de la Torre "View from a Dodo Chair"

Rolled back their army to the dark again - Geoffrey Dearmer "Keats"

I am a child of wonder again - Marlanda Dekine "Memory Poem"

Looks like tomorrow happening over again - Kym Deyn "Wolpertinger at Thebes"

Eternity enables the endeavoring again - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXV: The Goal"

From the east unto the east again - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature L: The Snow"

Wanting to be lost again - Chelsea Dingman "Snow Fugue"

Must again retrieve from nothingness - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Untie or break that knot again - John Donne "Batter my heart, three person'd God (Holy Sonnet 14)"

In losing and finding each other again - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset and William Roscoe "The Fancy Fair; of, Grand Gala of the Zoological Gardens"

Shadows that I may not take into my hands again - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

Slipped and started up again - Rita Dove "The Spring Cricket Repudiates His Parable of Negritude"

Grasped again his crimson sword - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

When by spectral ancestries I pass again to Eden - John Drinkwater "Burning Bush"

That bastard son rises again - Cheryl Dumesnil "Good Morning Heartache"

Those immortal dead who live again - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

The tyrant's smile may come again - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

The moment's bloom is sunk again in cold - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

Listening for sounds that will never be made again - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

And the dusk is again holy - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Again in the waters apart - Katie Ford "[I Failed Him and He Failed Me]"

Travelled among common thoughts again - John Freeman "Waking"

Comes not back again for tears and rue - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"

any savage tongue consumed again and again - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"

Mad to shake the kaleidoscope again - Deborah Garrison "A Friendship Enters Phase II"

Time to craft sacred again - Nikita Gill "The Erinyes: Vengeance-skinned Fury"

O'er crimson Potomac the sound rose again - "Give Us Room" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

You must give it all again - "Go In and Win" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

And comes again like the breaking day - "Grandmother's Chair" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

Again the bloom, the northward flight - Louise Imogen Guiney "Spring"

Before immediately slipping into the nightmare once again - Thom Gunn "Lament"

And breathe its vows again to idols - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

When friendly summer calls again - Thomas Hardy "Summer Schemes"

Till you learn again to breathe underwater - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

Stand again in rose and purple - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Trimmin's on the Rosary"

As long as orchards bloom again - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXVIII"

Perception a note not played again - K.A. Hays "Artificial neurons can be trained to kill humans without humans overseeing"

Lifted again in violence and epiphany - Seamus Heaney "North"

Arrives again no less familiar - S*an D. Henry-Smith "us girls"

For hopes that will never be born again - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Sea-Song"

Must to the giver come again - Oliver Herford "William Dean Howells"

When the birds go north again - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"

Comply with nothing again - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"

This night again will watch its fireflies - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"

Put on again the vest of many pockets - Jane Hirshfield "Vest"

But the birds aren't ready to be oxen again - Carlie Hoffman "Panorama After Foreclosure"

Scarce a tithe of all that host that won back home again - "Holger Danske and Stout Didrik" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

That tap will never run again - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

That comes not e'en in dreams again - Thomas Hood "To Hope"

To feel again the ills I once have borne - Henry J. Horn "Byron: To His Accusers"

You've come to conjure the same dream again - David Hornibrook "Evening Comes"

The house is fallen that none can build again - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XVIII"

Hearts that loved me not again - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXIII"

For lovers should be loved again - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad X: March"

Whatever will not flower again - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLVI"

To draw me into darkness once again - Robert E. Howard "Voices of the Night" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]

I'll never sail on thousand-mile oars again - Hsieh Ling-Yun "In Hsin-an, Setting Out from the River's Mouth at T'ung-lu" transl. by David Hinton

Bind again these scattered leaves - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

Journeyed forth again from nothingness - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

For you are playing favorites again - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Will always bring you home again - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"

Leaving again for points north and east - Mark Jarman "The Supremes"

The same sun wheels around again - Devin Johnston "Fixed Interval"

After the wind an earthquake, after that again a fire - H.G.K. "The Aged Disciple Comforting" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCLV, v.LXXIV, Sept. 1853]

Then said he would never steal apples again - M.K. "Johnny and the Apples" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

Holding your hand through the static again - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"

I shake the whole world dark again - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

Ripped open again his sack of grain - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Court the Muse to call him back again - W. Kenrick "Love in the Suds"

And again the last time my name is said - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

Gathered and used again - Galway Kinnell "Fire in Luna Park"

Weather and rain have undone it again - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"

The treasures are squandered again - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

A touch of dawn was again nightfall - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

Returning again and again to the steady heart - Ted Kooser " In a Light Late-Winter Wind"

And then lead on again the universe - Alfred Kreymborg "Crocus"

The stars again with their echolalia, their vanishing - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

Will Truth's long blade ne'er gleam again? - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]

Once again with everything - Dorothea Lasky "The Miscarriage"

And tells to none the lore again - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"

Will again be stone - Dorianne Laux "Third Rock from the Sun"

That my love can dawn in warmth again, unafraid - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"

Now the chart of memory unrolls again - D.H. Lawrence "The End"

The silence waiting to take them all up again - D.H. Lawrence "Silence"

Dreams again until the rising moon - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Fate grant us again such a meeting - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."

To their dark home of hunger again - Chas. G. Leland "The Wolf Hunt" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

And still returned again with hope undone - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XV. Dungeon Grates"

How we all learned to walk properly again - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

And never again be sober - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley

Wild geese go south again - Liu Ch'e, Emperor Wu of the Han (157-87 B.C.E.) "Song of the Autumn Wind" transl. by Burton Watson

The ringing steel again we'll bind - George Lunt "Skating" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.2, Feb. 1841]

Aligned again with certain kindly stars - Thomas Lynch "Michael's Reply to the White Man"

As the sun surrenders again - Jamaal May "History as Road Trip from Detroit to Mississippi"

Your planet once again in heaven burns - Justin H. McCarthy "Consolation"

These haunting phantoms conjure up my youth again - Justin H. McCarthy "Memory"

Learn again to begin - Maureen N. McLane "OK Let’s Go"

Sharp pangs that never come again - Herman Melville "America"

At Memory's touch returns again - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Again in disorderly words - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

And the light is old again - W.S. Merwin "The Nomad Flute"

Again to grow in twilight - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Ode to Silence"

Dawn will find them still again - Edna St Vincent Millay "Sorrow"

And renew again my hated tasks - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Suicide"

Best leave a constellation out again tomorrow - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"

By running up the staircase once again - Harold Monro "Journey"

Gathers us up and scatters us again - Harold Monro "Journey"

Then one by one subside again and pass - Harold Monro "Solitude"

To be a good thing again - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"

Not to dream but to seek the light again - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

Ours to bind its cords again - "Mustering-Chorus" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Again the wondrous power to snare - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

To be again fury and perfume - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh

And slept again in their abyss - Pablo Neruda "I Recall the Sea" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Will count again the ancient stars - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Once again the heart distills them - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Dictionary" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

To start infinity again - Pablo Neruda "XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you"

Swim again in a sea of doubt - E. Nesbit "The Island"

Wrought once again the Miracle of Eden - Robert Winkworth Norwood "His Lady of the Sonnets"

Begin again with the smallest numbers - Naomi Shihab Nye "Burning the Old Year"

Bruise renewed again and again - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

And again a thousand opportunities - Mary Oliver "Riprap"

Promises never to mend it again - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Rise forth from the abyss and sink in it again - Kostes Palamas "The Answer" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

Feed from this sadness and grow tall again - Stephanos Papadopoulos "The Station"

Teaching me how to love the world again - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"

Rose again to seek a newer world - Andre F. Peltier "A Long Walk"

When again the linnets sing - Ambrose Philips "To the Honourable Miss Carteret"

When again the lambkins play - Ambrose Philips "To the Honourable Miss Carteret"

Dreamed we were young again - Carl Phillips "Archery"

Early in its slow unwinding to never again - Carl Phillips "Scattered Snows, to the North"

Which life again shall animate and warm - Charles Constantine Pise "Summer Evening"

Strange designs that shine and recede again - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

Two and one, and three, and two again - Miriam Clark Potter "The Flock of Dreams"

Come back to the primroses again - John Presland "To J.F.W."

Fronting again those long laid fears - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]

Allowing laughter to wake again - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Perfumes"

And occupy those distant worlds again - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

An agony of longing to dream again - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Then the dark came down again between us - Paisley Rekdal "Driving to Santa Fe"

Shall never again turn backward the flow - W.H. Rhodes "The Avitor" [sic]

And dead Justinian rules again the world - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"

A trampled fire begins again to glow - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Till the lopped staff blooms again - Lola Ridge "Red Flag"

Into the flame and out again - Lola Ridge "Sun-Up"

The birds are back in the reeds again - Lloyd Roberts " On the Marshes"

And the whole red tragedy over again - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

Who can say that it will not burn again? - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

Becoming again an opaque stone - Rumi "New Moon, Hilal" transl. by Coleman Barks

Sink to the clasp of siren foes again - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"

The hermit thrush begins again - Duncan Campbell Scott "The End of the Day"

Had with the Gods again acceptance found - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

That some leave to behold stars once again - M. Bartley Seigel "Hell and Gone is a Passing Notion"

Yield all to be with you again undone - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

To stand again on these stolen hills - Taras Shevchenko "A Dream" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Comes not back again - Taras Shevchenko "The Night of Taras" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Faith may blossom green again - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A New Year"

Fate's storms again have swept the scene - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]

Aware of the weight again - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

Bewaring that gate again - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

Call me up to the attic again - Richard Solomon "Spring Cleaning"

Again the trumpet blast of war is blown - "Sonnet.--To Denmark" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]

The sun that will not go down again - Marin Sorescu "Seneca" transl. by Michael Hamburger

This wind is troubling me again - Marin Sorescu "To the Sea" transl. by Michael Hamburger

April now walks the fields again - Leonora Speyer "April on the Battlefields"

I will start again tomorrow - Nathan Spoon "The Genie Speaks"

Descend again in molten drops - Gertrude Stein "Golden Bough"

Kind folks of old, you come again no more - Robert Louis Stevenson "Home No More Home to Me"

But strips me bare again - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

Who shake off our fates to grasp again at life - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"

Caught in the dust of this world, I'll never find it again - Su Tung-p'o "Inscribed on a Painting in Wang Ting-kuo's Collection Entitled Misty River and Crowded Peaks" transl. by David Hinton

To stare again at the undulations of the stream - Su Tong po "Like a Cormorant" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

And thunders into hell, to rise again - Carmen Sylva "Down the Stream"

Not knowing if again the storm will blow - Carmen Sylva "The Gnat"

When again we two should offer greeting - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]

If all this will ever come true again - T'ao Chien "Wandering at Oblique Creek" transl. by David Hinton

Alive again under fragile light - Keith Taylor "In the Presence of Large Predators"

Again today our patron star - Tess Taylor "Solstice"

If I should see your eyes again - Sara Teasdale "Jewels"

Fleeing again to the stars - Sara Teasdale "New Year's Dawn-- Broadway"

Swung into its azure roads again - Francis Thompson "To My Godchild--Francis M. W. M."

Perchance may tune its strings again - Sidney R. Thompson "At Waking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.108-v.III, 23 Jan. 1886]

Again the stranger's echoing tread - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

To throw us neck and heels again in trouble - "The Times" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

And learn the same lesson again and again - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"

nothing waiting to start again - Edwin Torres "In Each Look Our Years"

Flower petals fall in the storm, and blossom again - Lillian Tsay "The Resolution of N" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]

I return again to shrieking crows - Tu Fu "Leaving the City" transl. by David Hinton

But again the sky is spared - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"

Tomorrow they can be heroes again - Edward van de Vendel "Here's the Idea"

Appears, crosses the hollow place, and goes again - Mark Van Doren "River Snow"

Me not yet forevered again to anyone - Katrina Vandenberg "Tomatoes"

And tread again that ancient track - Henry Vaughan "The Retreat"

And wake the echoes back again - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]

The scimitar of thy beauty gleams again - Wali "[O Lovely One, when to the ravished sight]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

My soul reclaimed again - Margaret Walker "Southern Song"

World-dust fills my eyes again - Wang An-Shih "Chants" transl. by David Hinton

The dead are beginning to walk again - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

Scatter my petals so that I will never grow again - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"

If I must live again these weary years - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "An Autumn Reverie"

Speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"

Will meet and love again - Emma Lowrey Williams "Life"

Will mount again into rose-leaves - William Carlos Williams "History"

A wish achieved and half lost again - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"

Made arbitrary again - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"

Know again the tune of dawn - Humbert Wolfe "At Noontide Seeking"

Before the red star strikes again - Humbert Wolfe "Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton"

Which he forbears again to look upon - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"

The dirt path opening again in a dream - Wendy Xu "Writing Home"

Offer the beauties of spring again - Yang Wan-li "Breakfast at Noonday-Ascension Mountain" transl. by David Hinton

Fly away, sprout and grow again in another place - Shuyi Yin "Growing Chair"

The remnants of music played and played again - James F. Yockey "What If"

Two more versions of never hearing from someone again - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]


A ghost in born-again tatters - Amy King "The Marble Faun"


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