Potential Titles: String

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An Ariadne string that leads you out - Julia Alvarez "Touching Bottom"

Hung from a string of silence - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"

Around our wrists one long, red string - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"

A tangled mess of silky string - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Let the string be knotted on its linear axis - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"

That drew me like a silver string - Elizabeth Bishop "Behind Stowe"

A key on a kite string - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

Strings flowing like music in your eyes - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

Though small the error at the string - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

A lyre with other strings - William Cowper "To Mary Unwin"

Taut violin strings singing - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"

More strings than she needed - Diane DeCillis "Physics for Dummies"

Tie the strings to my life - Emily Dickinson "Tie the Strings to my Life, My Lord"

An ivory lute with strings of gold - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

The string of my thoughts' parcel - Helen Parry Eden "To Wilfrid Meynell"

Within her Hand a vacant String - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

Two tin cans and infinite string - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Sometimes in a Moment of Déjà Vu"

Among the harp-like morning-glory strings - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"

String an instrument against the sky - Robert Frost "The Line-Gang"

And string up the tiniest stars I can find - Rose Fyleman "The Goblin to the Fairy Queen"

From each rattling string - Ieuan Glan Geirionydd "The Strand of Rhuddlan" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Take a string to a bittern's back - Katie Ford "The Throats of Guantanamo"

Fear that turns to strings - Nathalie Handal "The Violins"

A forest of vertical strings - Conrad Hilberry "Julia Elsas, 'untitled 2009,' fabric, thread"

Fire from every glowing string shall mingle - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

A lute with one string left unstrung - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"

Amalgams of pilfered string and whittled sticks - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"

From nets of sticks and strings - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"

Your string between tin cans - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

That cheerful string of heartburn - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"

Sun-ripe Nature's million strings - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

Some better strings in my weak heart - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

Fallen mute are the strings of Apollo - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Garlic string around my neck - Tony Medina "I've Got the Covid Blues"

String threads of grass and slender rye - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

The strings of the wind's violin - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Winds that sighed in Homer's strings - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"

Breeze blowing across its rusted strings - Patrick Phillips "Piano"

Weaving the universe out of milky strings of chaos - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"

Tie a red flannel string around your waist - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

And silence strings her lutes - Theodore Rand "The Whitethroat"

Without his esteem, untethered, the string snapped - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Five American Sentences"

Sinewed dreams string together bones of hope - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

My harp of broken strings - John Rollin Ridge "The Harp of Broken Strings"

Across the strings of magic fire - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"

Harp of infinite strings designed - Clinton Scollard "A Sailor Amid the Hills"

What the strings would say concerning my soul - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

Endless harping on strings of rain - Cedar Sigo "Verlaine Blues"

Choirs of taut tuned strings - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Shaped themselves into a strange string of eons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 188: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

To unravel the string of the world - Matthew Thorburn "Wouldn't Hold"

Strings him along in nightmare billboards - Russell Thorburn "The TV Guide as the Book of Job"

Tightening strings upon our spirit's fiddles - Iris Tree "Nerves"

Childhood among strings and puppets - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"

And like a murmuring string - John Hall Wheelock "Legend"

A silver string to pearls of sun - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ribbon"

Crying on the string of what was lost - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"

Pulled by invisible strings toward light - Charles Wright "Anniversary II"

Their strings over the desert sands - Charles Wright "Long Ago and Far Away"

Stringing together pretty objects - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton


Elms strung with sunlight - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"

Strung the cords of existence on the bars of time - Mike Allen "Pulse"

His blighted sinews nerved and strung - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

Pearls strung on Life's chain - Ardelia Maria Barton "To a Friend on Her Birthday"

Shoulder-strung rhythm of panic - Julia Bouwsma "Paddling the Storm"

By elf or angel strung - Benjamin Copeland "Little Ruth"

Strung ethereal harps - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"

With the stars strung for a rattle - Countee Cullen "Saturday's Child"

Strung with quicksilver sunlight - Chris Dombrowski "Elegy with Fall's Last Filaments"

strung their frosted hex-cells starwise - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

Strung beneath our star - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

Strung with threads of purple fire - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Only strung to suffering's power - Morna "Ianthe"

Strung across with golden wires - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"

Strung yarn trajectories across all the oceans - Danni Quintos "Five Hundred Years & Three Weeks Ago We Killed Magellan"

Hangs a rainbow strung with dew - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

Strung your soul to silence - Robert W. Service "The Call of the Wild"

Rotaries strung up to starlight & empire - Brandon Som "Resistors"

Strung my proud harp to the wave - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Chord Unsung"

Fireflies strung through sapphired air - Ocean Vuong "Into the Breach"


Sorrow clings to my apron-strings - Dorothy Parker "Anecdote"


Seven bead-strings and necklets seven - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"


Leave his name upon the harp-string - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"


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Dance on seaweed-strings for clapping hands - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"


Teases string theory and quantum mechanics - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"


Along the miles of tight-strung wire - Dana Gioia "The Argument"


Your many hearts unstrung - Kim Addonizio "Here"

Unstrung by her heart's first sorrow - R.S. Chilton "The Little Peasant"

Pleasure, with her harps unstrung - George Moses Horton "Memory"

A lute with one string left unstrung - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"


Stargrit. Heartlocked. Vowstrung - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"


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