Potential Titles: Ring/Rang/Rung

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Rang through the bleak rafters - Joseph Auslander "Abandoned"

Calls from the future rang different - Connstynce Nduta Chege "To Get 2(54) You"

Of all bells that rang once in old London - Eleanor Farjeon "The Children's Bells"

Till echo rang a mile - Jean Glover "O'er the Muir amang the Heather"

Rang midnight within - Thomas Hardy "Before Marching, and After"

Each star rang with separate colored hue - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"

Rang like fire in the sun - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"

Around beleaguered walls rang - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Rang through me like a silver trumpet - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"

And rang their haunted song, lonely and lost - Andre F. Peltier "Ghosts of Ypsilanti"

Until the whole harmonious landscape rang - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"

A silent place that once rang loud - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"


Ring and rinse like lightning - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

With the earth ringing in my chest - Billy-Ray Belcourt "NDN Homopoetics"

And the kites drop down in a ring - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Slender, cloud-voiced rings of notes - Maxwell Bodenheim "While Hearing a Little Song (Solveigs Lied)"

How hollow rings that word - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"

The constellations ring his forehead - Joseph Campbell "The Shepherd"

Shall with jubilee ring - Thomas Campbell "Song of the Greeks"

And ring upon earth all evil's knell - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

Silver rings around both wrists - Samantha H. Chung "Time Traveler's Haibun: 2024"

The particles racing through the accelerator ring - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

Ringing fire songs in her ears - Tiana Clark "How to Find the Center of a Circle"

Gave the wind my wedding ring - Leonard Cohen "By the Rivers Dark"

The ringing of my own true blade - Mary E. Coleridge "A Huguenot"

Words which give the true metallic ring - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

You'll have to ring the bell for entrance - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"

Set our ringing discords against celestial song - Susan Coolidge "The Better Prayer"

The four square circle of a ring - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"

A quenchless laughter ringing- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"

Shedding white rings of tumult - Hart Crane "To Brooklyn Bridge"

Set the blue-bells ringing - Coningsby Dawson "The Once Sung Song"

Layered like the rings of Saturn - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"

A diamond ring to knock your eyes out - Toi Derricotte "Weekend Guests from Chicago, 1945"

So that the legend of your defiance can ring true - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

Ringing their own silent bells - Stephen Dunn "From the Tower at the Top of the Winding Stairs"

The monarch whose reft hand made discord ring - Elizabeth J. Eames "Pedro and Inez" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

That rings like chains - Dovid Edelshtot "My Last Will - Oh, My Good Friends" (translated by Bernart Bartleby? Maybe?)

Kiss the edge of Saturn's outermost ring - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"

Where the loon's loud laugh rings wild and clear - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

The blackbirds make the maples ring - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Stars weave eternal rings - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"

Round all the scarlet ring - "The First Hole at St. Andrews on a Crowded Day"

When thunderclouds ring the horizons - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Ringing toward the stars - Ralph Fletcher "A Writing Kind of Day"

Her mother's ring gilded in dust - Diamond Forde "Rememory"

Saturn's little ring of smoke - Denice Frohman "Shooting in the Dark"

Some buried witch-bell rings - Zona Gale "Ballade of Old Perfumes"

Robbers counting chains and rings - R.L. Gales "A Childermas Rhyme"

Scenes within her ring of power - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"

When the bell of time will ring - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"

Whose flickering grace faints on the outmost rings of space - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Pre-Existence"

Growth rings of iron, flint and bronze - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"

A ring to store the memories of love - Seamus Heaney "Punishment"

A ring of fairies upon the biggest plate - Florence Hoatson "Fairies in the Cupboard"

Tumbling in twenty rings - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"

Tumbling in twenty rings into the grass - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"

A fairy ring wrought of the silver light - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Rings with a numbered chime - William H.C. Hosmer "My Study"

Netted clasp of knots and rings - William D. Howells "Saint Christopher"

Gift my rings as circlets of celestial flowers - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Ring with the harmonies of Liberty - James Weldon Johnson "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

Rings with Hope's unuttered songs -Sir Nizamat Jung "VI: Love's Silence"

A ring of keys that can open any door - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

The ring of their victorious axes - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Ringed about by tracks of furnace - Henry Kendall "Christmas Creek"

While our skates are ringing - Charles Kingsley "Ode to the Northeast Wind"

Measured roar and iron ring - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

Ringing with a thousand spears - Archibald Lampman "Indian Summer"

The pure, upright ringing of a silent trajectory - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"

The yellow dust that rings the knells - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"

In her ears were rings of dead men's bone - Charles G. Leland "Bone Ornaments" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]

Plundering deep in the moon's ring - Ada Limon "Sting"

My steps fall ringed with light - Amy Lowell "Apology"

And gold rings for my hand - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

The merry ring of whetted scythes - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Fairy rings on floors of moss - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"

In the ring of dawn - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"

A ring of the gold so bright - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"

Ringing and romantic trumpets blew - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"

The voices of wolves ring into the void - N. Scott Momaday "The Listener"

The low tone bells of changing song ring clear - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"

Must conquer the rings of Saturn - Pablo Neruda "Night XCVII" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Joined the lightning flash and the ring - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Criticism" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Jewel set in a ring of earth - Pablo Neruda "Swan Lake" transl. by Alastair Reid

Will outlive the rings of Saturn - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"

Hibiscuses ringing me through - Grace Nichols "Georgetown"

Ringing like welcome music through the air - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

A circuit of white orchids ringing - Achy Obejas "Volver"

Faint rings the parrot's cry - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"

Ringed in the foam of the Silver Sea - John Oxenham "Sark"

Ring sweet as a chime of gold - Dorothy Parker "Love Song"

Yearning to ring around a ventriloquist's echo - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"

Draw your wedding ring in mulch - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"

The ring of aspens that surround my fortress - Carl Phillips "Refrain"

The stroke of hammers ring all day - Alexander Posey "Coyote"

With a blood-red ring on either hand - "Presence" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

But once the sacred summons rings - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen

Their voices ring through the echoing thunder-regions - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Ringing in his fairy note - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "By the River"

Harmonize with bronze bells ringing - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Despojo"

Patrol the outer ring of hell's topography - Jacques J. Rancourt "Mt. Diablo"

Long paths where no footfalls ring - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens. II" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Ringing with unseen larks - Isaac Rosenberg "Returning, We Hear Larks"

Hearts where no echo rings - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems VII: Merely Suburban"

Orbs that move in many rings - George Santayana "Avila"

Hid in the hazel ring - Duncan Campbell Scott "Home Song"

That rings like rain before it falls - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

Bodies like bells ringing through nothing - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

When wizard clocks ring out - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"

In dizzy rings of clouds and sky - Joyce Sidman "Lake's Promise"

Dollar bills for his index and ring fingers - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

Ringed round with cliffs and moors - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

The wild bells of lilies ringing - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Ringing of threadwork and carpet - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"

As the ringing scythe meets scythe - Louis Untermeyer "Isadora Duncan Dancing"

an island of seashells within the rings of Saturn - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

The sun descending the ceremonial ring - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Fox Paw and Coyote Blessing"

With myrtle blooming and music ringing - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist

Praise to the king of the wildwood ring - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Leaden saints all in a ring - J.L. Wing "Louis Onze"

A finite number of concentric rings - Wendy Xu "Praxis"

a steel ring cast over what I know - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

Drawing water rings on the ceiling - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Dead ringer in the wind, but worst - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"


The tragic ring-barked forests - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"


Rung through the arches of Eternity - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Tower of Babel"

By fairy hands their knell is rung - William Collins "How Sleep the Brave"

As the harp of the sky had rung - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"

Let there be bells rung backward - John Masefield "King Cole"

Had rung in the morning of centuries - Joseph R. Wilson "The Lilacs of Shawmont"

To bring you back a ring from Saturn - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"


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