Potential Titles: Rag

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Ragged reefs and salty caves - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861] (other versions of the poem use 'mossy reefs')

Heir to arson's fuel and rag - Mary Jo Bang "What Is Red"

Burns needle rags into the brain - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

With ragged tusks of anger - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The rags of roads and cities clawed to shreds - S. R. Compton "On the K-T Boundary"

Ragged bundles of thorns - Jim Daniels "Self-portrait with Cigarette"

Turn & twist myself like a rag - Toi Derricotte "Invisible Dreams"

His ragged anthem a wind - Chris Dombrowski "Hear them all"

Which are rags of time - John Donne "The Sun Rising"

With a blade of ragged edge - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

Give him beauty for rags - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"

Surveys on creation's ragged end - George Blackstone Field "The Rhyme of the Rolling Stone"

Like a ragged whirlwind settling - Conrad Hilberry "A Body Between"

Ragged cloak and tattered shoe - Joyce Kilmer "Imitation of Richepin's Ballade of the Beggars' King"

A rag that wipes the blade clean - Christopher Kondrich "Common Things"

The ragged fires of the sorrel's cresset - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"

A ragged orchestra chasing down time - Stephen Leggett "So Happy to Have a Coat with Pockets"

The power of earth called up into the ragged air - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

A cupboard stacked with ragged treasures - P.H.B. Lyon "The Secret Playroom"

Gray clouds tattered into rags - John Masefield "Cardigan Bay"

Translates from those rags of sound - W.S. Merwin "The Causeway"

Ragged children of the ruins - N. Scott Momaday "War Chronicle"

Lined with its rags of absence - Pablo Neruda "One Day Stands Out" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A hedge where ragged robins grew - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

Clothed with ragged weeds - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull

The other side of this ragged January - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"

Ragged holes through which a black wind blows - Gregory Orr "These Words"

Clothed in the rags of imagination - Linda Pastan "In an Unaddressed Envelope"

Slipped on the slick rag of the future - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"

The wet rags of the wind - Lola Ridge "Celia"

Carrying the ragged remnant of dream - Teresa J. Scollon "Words, Poems"

Let not winter's ragged hand deface - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VI"

Pity this ragged luck of mine - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

The ragged ferns and roughened moss - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "November"

A ragged ache of light sifts through - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Tore my purple into rags and knelt - Iris Tree "Flame"

For ragged fancies to pluck and taste - Iris Tree "[Lolling in snow, like kings in ermine coats]"

His glitter hidden in a ragged coat - Iris Tree "[London grows sad at evening]"

Sweeps up the rags of our shadows - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

In rags of old desires - Iris Tree "[Woods of brown gloom sombring with the hush of death]"

In the March-wind, ragged and forlorn - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

Some ragged aura hovering - Emily van Kley "Streak"

Rags that cling about the sullen sky - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: Rain" transl. by Alma Strettell

Suspended in rags of snow - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"

Castle of old rag and bone - Valerie Worth "Rat"

Too ragged to cover your bones - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"


Rag-edged as a contorted filbert - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"


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