somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Flight

Bones of song tracing lines of flight - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

Help the imagination to also take flight - Duane Ackerson "The Painting Speaks"

Disbelieving finery spun from flight - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"

To mock black flights of years - Conrad Aiken "Discordants [Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket]"

Stone touched by her fingertips took flight - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

To yearn for flight is to fall into forever - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Walk backward up a flight of stairs - Alise Alousi "Skip"

The flight of a glancing swallow - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Veterans"

Poised on a cannon ball's flight - "The Angels of War" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

Ask you to emulate the flight path of an ostrich - dee(dee) c. ardan "freedom terrors"

Passing with the flight of time - B. "Two Pictures: Love Celestial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

With the flowers in their flight - Libbie C. Baer "When My Soul Findeth Wings"

In her lonely retrospective flight - Benjamin West Ball "Ionia"

only the stormbird's flight is wild - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"

A rainbow plumed for flight - Cora C. Bass "Sea and Cliff"

Leaping forth in swift and tireless flight - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Time who speeds with never tiring flight - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

The path homeward left by your furious flight - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "A Tale of Collaboration"

The last bird's belated flight - Charlotte Bronte "Stanzas"

Through the flight of ages - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

By the utmost flight of thought conceive - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVII. No Escape from Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds

The swallows wove and rewove their crooked flight - Giosue Carducci "On a Saint Peter's Eve" transl. by Frank Sewall

The flight of the fox-foot hours - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Vagabondia"

Swallows check their winding flight - John Clare "Summer Evening"

The birds of passage take their flight - C. Cole "The Robin"

Wrists which hint at flight - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"

Will save you from the arrow-flight - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"

And to that distant hope directs her flight - Danske Dandridge "A Question"

As though they felt the earth in flight - W.H. Davies "In May"

The portico hung o'er a flight of alabaster - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Somewhere in the flightless trees - Claudia Emerson "The Audubon Collection"

After watching the flight of cranes - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

A thousand threaded images of flight - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"

The cloud-host, vanquished, took to flight - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

The sunbeam in its trackless flight - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)

Silent and swift as the flight of Time - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

Golden light to make a flight of dreams - Mona Gould "Sherry"

That puts all sober thoughts to flight - Mona Gould "Sorcery"

Where the beetle wheels his droning flight - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

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

Dim flights of measured air - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"

A feather's weight that shapes the arrow's flight - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

The flight patterns of its dreams - Stephanie Heit "Throw a Pill at It"

The free spirit of its eagle flight - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

The wingless flight of streetlights headed south - Conrad Hilberry "Midnight"

The flight of griefs and exaltations - Conrad Hilberry "Talk on the Porch"

Take their flight on the rifting clouds - Jennie Earngey Hill "Thot"

To freeze them in their flight - Zinaida Hippius (Gippius) "L'Imprevisibilite" transl. by Temira Pachmuss

Its noblest forms and boldest flights - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

A missile's flight away - Jess Hyslop "After"

In rapid flight as in a whirling dance - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus

and flight is an act of fleeing - Kara Jackson "fleeing"

A flight of scarlet locusts fallen - Elinor Jenkins "Poppyfields"

The days dreamed in their flight - James Weldon Johnson "Vashti"

That humble birds to silent flight - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

The rustling flight of the evening breeze - Fanny Kemble"Eastern Sunset"

All the flights to paradise had been cancelled - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

Revolving in perpetual flight - Archibald Lampman "Snowbirds"

Taking flight from dismal now - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Geese in flight become the Wild Hunt - Stephen Leggett "So Happy to Have a Coat with Pockets"

Kingly eagles wheeled alone their flights - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Feathers for a long study of flight - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

To the deeps of ether takes its flight - James Russell Lowell "The Eye's Treasury"

Not all creatures with wings know flight - Tariq Luthun "I Sing This Elegy for the Nameless"

Every song a flight home to you - Jeannette Marks "Cross Roads"

Sweet-peas with wings for flight - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"

Beauty emerge from debris in a flight of butterflies - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

Take the same flight as a bluebird - Herbert Woodward Martin "Blue"

A seed that fell from a bird's flight - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

The roof took flight long ago - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"

Only the silent logic of our flight - Michael Mesic "Swallows"

The flap of the bat's low flight - Charlotte Mew "On the Road to the Sea"

A flock of bells take flight - Alice Meynell "Chimes"

To hear the lark begin his flight - John Milton "L'Allegro"

The steep flight of dark angels - N. Scott Momaday "War Chronicle"

Beyond the flight of Time - James Montgomery "Friends"

Against future flight - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Angel"

Burst into ravenous flight - Vi Khi Nao "Bird Poem"

Who halts the flight of the lark - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner

Distant as a dream's flight - John G. Neihardt "Morning Glories"

Wakeful night in its slow flight - Francis Neilson "Fortune, You Have Naught I Need"

The hawk hammered its flight - Pablo Neruda "American Kestrel" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The celestial geometry of flight - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The wide sky guards their flight - E. Nesbit "The Poet to His Love"

I see the shadow of his flight - Mari Ness "Tongueless"

Drop straight into a very electric flight - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Ode to Sitting in a Booth"

A flight into the vastness - Yone Noguchi "How Near to Fairyland"

The loftiest flights of their philosophy - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The crisp flight and the buzzing bliss - Mary Oliver "Three Songs: 3"

Stalk the hunter in his flight - Ekhmetjan Osman "My Love" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Though great Urania guide her flight - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"

Swift arrows like gadflies in flight - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson

The soul can take no lower flight - J.G. Percival "The Soul"

One daughter of light be indulged in her flight - John Pierpont "E Pluribus Unum" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Flights of autumn geese clearing the clouds - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

A dark pillar of flight - Sina Queyras "The Jailer"

A flight of hurried stars - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Dawn"

Swift as the rainbow's graceful flight - A.J. Requier "Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Morning is a bird set for flight - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 3: Lullaby"

An octave in its flight - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Along the steady flight of seraphim - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"

Scattered into flight the Vows of Lent - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Their bold and sacrilegious flight - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

An extinguished memory of flight - Adam Scheffler "Florence, Kentucky"

Their galaxies in panicked flight - Ann K. Schwader "On Any Given Midnight"

In unexpected grooves of flight - Clinton Scollard "On Caragh Lake"

The barn swallows' sharp flight and cry - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Shattered in glancing flight - Clara Shanafelt "Fantastic"

Flights of sparrows and hooded crows - Bruce Smith "Ferment"

Its wings a flight of lullabies - Eileen Spinelli "Nighty-Night"

Though my flights be wild - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Singer"

Her poppies dropped in flight - George Sterling "Hesperian"

Above the reach of vulgar flight - Benjamin Stillingfleet "Sonnet"

Disdaining to arrest his flight - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Who caught and sang the sun in flight - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"

Nor did I allow my witness a true flight - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"

Let your fugue pursue its scornful flight - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

The geometry of her flight - Natasha Trethewey "Carpenter Bee"

Thither now I take my flight - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"

Downs of gold beflecked with shadows' flight - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Silence" transl. by Alma Strettell

Flights of origami swans - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"

You a bird in oblique flight - Rosemarie Waldrop "A Valentine That Can't Be Sent"

Such a flight as archangels might envy - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"

Drive wild gods in their flight - Helen Hay Whitney "In Tonga"

Committed ourselves to flood and flight - Tanaya Winder "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It's the Quickest Way Through"

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