Potential Titles: Fling/Flung

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Flinging luminous lances of rain - Daisy Aldan "Women at Windows"

And fling your cares behind - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"

and suddenly flings in a rain of gold - Elizabeth Bartlett "I would remember"

Fling to them mountains to overcome - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

The sun flings off the shadows - Edmund Blunden "The March Bee"

And flings their turmoil to the sky - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a River Steam-Boat"

People fling their powdered souls at you - Maxwell Bodenheim "To --" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Fling wide immortality's portal - C.S. Calverley "Flight"

Flings frail palaces at the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Toppling crests fling back the radiance - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Fling our notes to the sun - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"

Flings a crystal veil - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature L: The Snow"

Flings loose its shadows - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"

Flings its radiance over life's changing way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Each note the free birds fling - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"

Who flings her royal radiance round me - Grace Greenwood "A Lay" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Flinging its kisses to the budding trees - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

Fling these bitter drops to the wild swans - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall

What might come of flinging oneself into thirst - Tariq Luthun "Finding Myself in the Direct Messages of Someone I Do Not Know Is in Kuwait"

A tempest flinging fire - Edwin Markham "To High-born Poets"

Which Memory flings around the past - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Flinging yellow clay on dust - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

Fling down that map and measure - Joaquin Miller "Usland to the Boers"

Fling the hawk at her quarry - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Fling it to a whistling lad - Dorothy Parker "For an Unknown Lady"

Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil - Carl Sandburg "Chicago"

Fling a thousand banners out - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"

My arm could fling Time from His throne - Arthur Stringer "Life-Drunk"

And fling the ashes to the wind - "There's Someone I Think Of" transl. by Burton Watson

Flings her light despairing - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"

Fling us a handful of stars - Louis Untermeyer "Caliban in the Coal Mines"

And fling a very ecstasy of green - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"

Sweet is the music that Memory flings - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Fling ourselves round with dust lilies - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

A fling of crows disperses and is gone - Christian Wiman "Hard Night"

The oak flings largesse to the beggar breeze - William Henry Withrow "October"

Shower of fiery sparkles flinging - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]

O'er the torrents fling your bridges - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]

Authority flings a struck match in our direction - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

I had no stone of scorn to fling - Francis Brett Young "The Pavement"


A boomerang flung from your throat - Lauren K. Alleyne "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"

The tones from giants flung - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XI--Sunset"

Flung to us a spark, a thread of fire - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"

Casually flung among a cloud of pines - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

Flung across the intervals - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Suffer its broad flung shadow not - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"

The scornful earth-flung pence - W. Wilfred Campbell "Pan the Fallen"

Flowers around our banquet flung - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall

Flung a challenge in the teeth of life - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Flung her name against the dark - H.D. "Nossis"

Have flung my worship before your feet - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"

Flung a menace at the earth - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXXVII: A Thunder-storm"

The thunder-stone flung forth - Edward Dowden "A Day of Defection"

With God's gauntlet flung - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"

Smoke-beings flung in constellations - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"

Flung their troubles round my door - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Parting Rosary"

And flung the planets over his shoulder - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Who had flung their faces on the stones - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"

Mock the roses flung away - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Red knowledge of a window flung wide - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Flung out a magical wild melody - Theodore Maynard "There Was an Hour"

having flung d'artagnan clear to luna's tepid stone - Andy Miller "All Those Bleached Bones"

Flung out upon the freezing storm - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"

Flung toward heaven's toppling rage - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath III. Thanksgiving"

Her mantle she flung to the wind - "The Outlaw of Loch Lene" transl. by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan

Through the narrows flung - Walter S. Percy "Paupack"

The fiends in hell have flung the dice - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"

And flung into the falling sky - Roger Reeves "The Head of the Cottonmouth"

Feverish light flung hard upon their faces - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"

Flung such luminous notes - Lola Ridge "Cactus Seed"

As the vulture fell like a flung stone - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Flung from a broken star on its mad race - Amy Redpath Roddick "A Scientific Puzzle"

You that so flung your crimson to the sun - Carl Sandburg "Poems Done on a Late Night Car"

Across the darkness flung the ribbons of the Northern Light - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"

Bright chips of sunlight flung skyward - Joyce Sidman "Always Together"

Flung through the void's expanse - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"

Flung me the apple of eternal laughter - Iris Tree "[From the fathomless depth of my boredom]"

The darkness flung aside - Louis Untermeyer "In the Subway"

Leopard skin about her shoulders flung - Helen Hay Whitney "The Joy of Life"


Resume its far-flung harvests - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"

Far-flung blossoms of desire - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XII" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy


Granite and steel upflung became my fountains - William Rose Benét "The City"


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