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Potential Titles: Sight

To avoid the sight of needy eyes - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"

No common stretch of sight - "Another Peep at the Links"

Candle-smoke curls around my sight - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

The relationship of experience to sight - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

The tailor's eye which knows by sight - Mary Jo Bang "Still Life with Glasses"

A wanderer from the sense of sight - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Clear eyes aware of sight - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Trap"

Art bursting from forces in sight - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien

Wonder exchanges for sight - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

Within my jealous sight - Otto Leland Bohanan "Go Give the World"

With the color taken from their sight - Lucie Brock-Broido "Physicism"

Still my spirit's inward sight beholds - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"

A labyrinth of sound and sight - Anthony Butts "Intercession to Saint Brigid"

Of all good sights and sounds bereft - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Through color may send greetings to the sight - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Keep one red tower in sight - Arthur Shearly Cripps "Essex"

Lend its virtue to my feeble sight - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

All love of other sights controls - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"

Whose sight is sunshine to my soul - Edward Dowden "A Dream"

Collide at the edge of sight - Heid E. Erdich "Translation"

Like the motion of sound or sight - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"

Blizzards that robbed us of sight - George Blackstone Field "The Price of the Line"

Shapeshifting sleeper agents hiding in plain sight - Adam Ford "Arrival!"

To a target viewed clear on the sight - Gilbert Frankau "A Song of the Guns"

Cannot rub the strangeness from my sight - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"

The covenant of a clearer sight - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"

Break on my distorted sight - L. Gielgud "Summer Delivery"

Sentried with all my Sight - Aracelis Girmay "Ceremony for Remembering the Doorless World"

No sight may wound our worn-out eyes - Angelina Weld Grimké "Surrender"

Losing sight of barren rewards - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

And my wound will acquire the gift of sight - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

No useful conclusion in sight - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal (Ya Lateef!)"

A rainbow sight of promise made - Thomas Hardy "A Procession of Dead Days"

Some first sight of home - Mary Hickman "Helen"

Witness the wondrous sights in heaven - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Many things hid from thy mind's dazzled sight - Imogene "Mother and Child" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

The sea of eternity brought into sight - Islwyn "The Vision and the Faculty Divine" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

The soul held secret from all sight - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Some good fortune just beyond our sight - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"

Filled with phantoms flitting furtively from sight - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]

Pangs at the sight of conquering crime - Henry Lushington "To the Memory of Pietro d'Alessandro"

Scorn loses sight of its prey - Tariq Luthun "Harb"

Slipped among sedges out of sight - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Bridged with speech and sight - Don Marquis "Across the Night"

Charged by the sight of an owl - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

Evolved of sound into sight - George Meredith "Melampus"

Capture in that second sight - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

While I tasted the sights of the barren country - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"

That stretch high beyond sight - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"

Lost to sight among the eternal ages - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard V: The Return"

With only sight connecting - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"

Love beyond created sight - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"

The confinement of plain sight - Gregory Pardlo "Copyright"

Riding music out of sight - Linda Pastan "Listening to Bob Dylan, 2005"

Till sight and hearing ache - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"

Mists of passion dimmed my sight - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "One Night"

The punishment for sight - Dean Rader "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"

A distant murmuration swallowed from sight - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"

Commandeering sight like caravans - Lola Ridge "Chinese Print (To E.A.K.)"

And no ladder in sight - Valencia Robin "After Graduate School"

Lie becalmed in sight of strand - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

That murders sight in canyon shadows - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"

Chaos ravening past sight - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"

May sustain itself by shadows at the edge of sight - Ann K. Schwader "Giving Up the Ghost"

An infection of crumbling sights - Salik Shah "Field Notes"

And destroy your sight with a new Gorgon - Shakespeare "Macbeth"

Homage to his new-appearing sight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VII"

Full with feasting on your sight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXV"

Which have no correspondence with true sight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLVIII"

Shadowy vessels floating out of sight - Edward Shanks "Boats at Night"

Fades from our charmed sight - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

A secret, silent, sparkling sight - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"

Last breath, last sight of light - Joyce Sidman "Into the Mud"

As sunset storms the sight - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"

Where Memory, with tireless sight - George Sterling "To Katherine"

Once sighted over seas of blood - George Sterling "To the Goddess Liberty"

Fallen beads of sight - May Swenson "The Blindman"

A month without sight of the sun - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Though sight be changed for memory - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Glowing forth to young imagination's quickened sight - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Touch comes before sight - Arthur Sze "Sleepers"

The ghosts of sense and sound and sight - Genevieve Taggard "The Vast Hour"

Have dropped before thy sight - Eloise Bibb Thompson "Ode to the Sun"

Travels the same wild paths though out of sight - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Like harps the wind plays out of sight - Katherine Tynan "The Old House"

By what raw sight absorbs - John Updike "Ocular Hypertension"

From suffering worlds within, hidden from sight - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Creation rushing on my sight - Phillis Wheatley "To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works"

Enchanting visions sooth my sight - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

See the frugal sight of another sun - Jay Wright "Boli"

Twirling out of sight like promises - Yvonne Zipter "Seeds"


Call the far-sighted foxes - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"


Foresee/Foresight.


Powered by perpetual hindsight - Josephine Yu "Narcissist Revises Tidal Theory"


In their time-stained insight expelled - D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie "Miracles Welcome"


By this moonlight's near-sighted courtesy - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"

Indistinguishable from nearsightedness - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

the blinding mirror image of near-sighted dreams - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"


Witch and troll and second sight - John Greenleaf Whittier "Abram Morrison"


And dropped its sightless heaven - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"

Weary vigil with sightless eyes - John Masefield "A Song at Parting"

Threat of sightless anarchs vast - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"


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