Potential Titles: Gather

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Let the shadows gather round me - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]

To protect the words gathered by light - Elmaz Abinader "Losing Words Fast"

Sparrows gather all the year - "Abroad"

His gathered hounds bay gloom - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

No will to gather what has left me - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Gather them into the baskets - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Apple-Gathering"

Chasing butterflies golden, gathering blossoms sweet - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Child on the Battle-field"

Gather wormwood into boiling water press its bitters - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXX: Youth and Age" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Neither grafted nor grown, neither gather'd nor blown - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCIII: Plucking a Flower" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

gathered the letters with constellated rebellions - Jarid Arraes "Movement"

Gathering up the twisted strands - Frank D. Ashburn "Sonnet"

We gather thorns enough - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"

While the squirrel gathers fast - Benjamin West Ball "L'Envoi"

A gather of knuckles and thread - Taneum Bambrick "After Picasso's 'The Rape'"

Whose filigrees gather soot as excess definition - Ari Banias "Curriculum"

Slow mists gather in shrouding tears - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"

The legions gathering to their goal - Maurice Baring "Beethoven"

Gathered wisdoms [sic] seed from fruits of joy and pain - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"

The slow gathering of waters - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"

Gathering sweetness for the future - Ardelia Maria Barton "Reverie"

Gather by the sacred dust - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Day"

Gather remorseful blossoms - Charles Baudelaire "Contemplation" transl. not credited

Gathered for processions yet to come - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

A gathering of shades - Malachi Black "Entering Saint Patrick's Cathedral"

Gathering atoms of humour and melancholy - Maxwell Bodenheim "Captain Simmons' Wife"

Your pennies are gathered - Maxwell Bodenheim "Portraits. VII: Old Actor"

A gathering mist precedes the storm - Friederich Bodenstedt "Farewell | Aus dem Nachlasse Mirza-Schaffys" transl. by Auber Forestier [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]

Gather the loveliest of the dream-rushes - Jenny Boully "The more Alice reaches out, the more her dream-rushes"

Go out and gather the oldest fires of the universe - Russell Brakefield "The Perseids"

To gather tomorrow's courage - William Brewer "There Is a Gold Light"

Gathered up the crystal manna - Robert Bridges "London Snow"

Soon to gather up its bitter fruits - J. Huntington Bright "The Dying Boy" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

The ice that gathers round my heart - Anne Bronte "Lines Written from Home"

Birds beneath its shelter gathered - Emily Bronte "Death"

Together we have gathered through the year - Caris Brooke "Before Parting"

Pluck them with the silence sweet to gather - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Gathering the nuts just fallen - William Cullen Bryant "A Winter Piece"

With troops of gathering fears - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LVIII. Love and Death" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Retreat from the gathering frost - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Joys of the Road"

10,000 yesterdays gathered on the shelves - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"

Or gather marigolds in winter rain - Willa Cather "Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep"

Who comes gathering my flowers? - Chang Chieh "Remember to Wear Them" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Salt gathered on their faces - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"

Gather and drink the sacrament of the sun - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Gathering mallows to be my mantle - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

For nothing but to gather gold - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

who gathered the five smooth stones - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"

Gathering each perfect ash - Lucille Clifton "the dead do dream"

Gather up the brokenness - Leonard Cohen "Come Healing"

In moonlight that gathered and glowed - Marion Couthouy "Three Watches" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]

While locusts gathered from the grass - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"

Gathered new strength for the conflict - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

Stoops to gather the golden flower of day - Olive Custance "The Storm"

Gathers the song in its boughs - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"

Gathering its forces like mad winds - Russell W. Davenport "Poems V"

A sweet needle that gathers the fraying threat - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Thank You Jesus"

Gathering the people's broken minds - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"

A dust devil gathering wind - Tyree Daye "The Death of Jimmy as the Dog He Always Was"

To gather your bones - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"

I promise to gather your bones - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"

Watching in the gathering twilight - Walter de la Mare "Voices"

I gathered the joys they left behind - "Dead!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

Captive sky gathering words that burn and rise - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"

Brown leaf shards gathering in the gutter - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"

Gather lifetimes on one small petal - Dante Di Stefano "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns"

A gathering of larch trees - Chris Dombrowski "The Turn"

Of twenty rivulets gathered in the hills - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Gather the silver streams out of the moon - John Drinkwater "Moonlit Apples"

Gathered like waters to the sun - Helen Parry Eden "Post-Communion"

Need never stir to gather in its dividends - T.S. Eliot "The Hippopotamus"

Gathering fuel in vacant lots - T.S. Eliot "Preludes"

This sorcerer gathers clouds - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 11. Gabura, the Temple of Ningublaga in Kiabrig" transl. by Sophus Helle

Then I ran and gathered stars - Beulah Field "Pierrot"

Burned gowns gathered in the shade - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 12"

Gathered for an infinite descent - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen G"

The gathered shades of many years - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Nature will gather like sleeping poppies - Carol Frost "Circus City"

Unnoticed, steadfast, she gathers all this jumble - Sarah Getty "That Woman"

Gather my courage as my armor - Nikita Gill "A Conversation with My Mental Illness"

Shattered the rainbow in fresh gathered cloud - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

Gathered in their separate brotherhoods - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Gathering the shadows to their roots - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Unpeopled Eden"

Men gathered together to curse her - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Gathering the storm-clouds together - Maxim Gorky "The Song of the Storm-Finch" [Mother Earth v.1 no.1, March 1906] transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

Among which the bees were gathering nectar - Theodora Goss "Girl, Wolf, Woods"

Do not stop to gather hawthorn flowers - Theodora Goss "What Her Mother Said"

Gather here in silent meeting - Robert Graves "Cherry-Time"

Gathered ghosts, wise and foolish - "The Graveyard" transl. by Burton Watson

Gather and hoard a goodly store of truth - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [O be my first, my darling child]"

Learn to gather sighs - Kimberly Grey "Epithalamium ABC"

Swim out to wait until the right waves gather - Thom Gunn "From the Wave"

And gather the bruised grain - Frances E.W. Harper "Go Work in My Vineyard"

To gather a rose by the light of stars - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"

Has gathered these trophies of glory - Robert M. Hart "The Birth of Our Banner" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Gather true wisdom from war's desolation - Robert M. Hart "The Patriot's Wish" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

While round them shadows gathered faster - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Gathered stores of unproved bliss - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"

And thick oblivion gathering round his head - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]

And chase the gathering phantoms - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

A sound of gathering tumult - Felicia Hemans "The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra"

Deep in my gathering garden - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender X"

Gather the warm affections round - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"

Let midnight gather up the wind - Conrad Hilberry "Christmas Night"

Gather up the poor, pale shreds - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"

Gathers milk from the dragon's nest - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"

Gathered mushrooms from the moist sky - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"

Gather the fine amber dust in the air - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"

Corners where small hilarities gathered, teasing - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"

Six daughters gather space and time - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"

Gathered from a lost retreat - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As in a Rose-Jar"

When Life around us gathers Night - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VII" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]

The heavy clouds came gathering - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

Gather up whatever is glittering - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

Made gathers of light inside itself - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

Put on the shelf to gather regret - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"

Gathered and used again - Galway Kinnell "Fire in Luna Park"

A pause to gather lost thoughts - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"

Gathering crops whose worth no man might tell - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

Gathers all historic pride of ancient records - Latienne "'76" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

Gathered all that grey and moony light - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"

Gathers the ends of joy and pain - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Before the glaciers were gathered up - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"

Rooms where the time-imprisoned gather - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

Where brown leaves gather shadow - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

Crushed her gathered flowers - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"

This field where none will gather sheaves - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

Gathered testimony of terror - Denise Levertov "El Salvador: Requiem and Invocation"

Two angels gather at the empty chest - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"

Gathering up the remnants of this year's garden - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

As they gathered the long day's remnants - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Who's gathered too many addresses, too many goodbyes - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"

Fill my lap with roses gathered in the milky way - Amy Lowell "The Crescent Moon"

The anarchies gather and thunder - Edwin Markham "The Toilers"

Climb the sun gathering color - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"

A gathering of pollen, a dance of honey - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Time for Bees"

Lead and gather those consumed with wrath and greed - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The glory gather crumb by crumb - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Gathers a storm of questions - Jamaal May "As the Saying Goes"

To gather shame and gold - Theodore Maynard "The Tramp"

My centripetal life, gathering within - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"

Gathering within to become smaller, more defined - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"

The hill-folds gather their deep dark - Mêng Hai jan "Waiting for You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Gathering red fibers in a squashed hell - Tyler Mills "ectopic"

Let sunlight gather in their hollow hands - N. Scott Momaday "War Chronicle"

Gathers us up and scatters us again - Harold Monro "Journey"

Fallen leaf and gathered sheaf - Harriet Monroe "Shadows"

Long waves that gather and build - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Abundant the waters that gather - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Gathered in a tempest of segments - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Gathered the flags of shattered love - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti

And gather it up in a perpetual cup - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid

The shells that silence gathers - Pablo Neruda "There Is No Oblivion (Sonata)" translated by Donald D. Walsh

When sorrow gathers memories in a sheaf - E. Nesbit "A Prayer for the King's Majesty"

Gathering in avid compulsion - Grace Nichols "Blackberrying Black Woman"

New gathered at the price of pain - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"

Gathering everywhere armies of fact - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

To gather what we lose - Naomi Shihab Nye "Someone Is Standing on the Roof of the World"

gathering round our hunger - Angela Peñaredondo "harvest"

To the workhouse let them gather - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Gather the riches of thine enemies - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)

The shadows gathered, and dancing lessons gave - Miriam Clark Potter "Little Sister of the Moon"

Dust gathers in my mouth - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"

Gathered great heaps of fraying asbestos - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"

Whose thoughts dead poets gathered - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"

Shadows gathered from the noon - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"

Gathered about her a skirt of brittle leaves - Wendy Rathbone "Gravemaid"

Gather round the angry clouds - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"

Gathering weeds by the stars - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"

That grim and gathering beat - Charles G.D. Roberts "To Shakespeare, in 1916"

Where western glooms are gathering - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Luke Havergal"

How much could be gathered out of air - Catherine Rockwood "In Memoriam Maureen K. Speller"

To gather the days misspent - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Poor harvest gathered in - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"

But love can gather the sweetest honey - Charles Sangster "Love's Renewal"

Gather a store of sweet delight - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)

In my own custom of gathering breath - Teresa J. Scollon "Summer Solstice in Black River Falls"

Till their plumes have gathered strength to lift them - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]

From the treasures he gathers so diligently - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Smell of Dog"

We are gathering clouds instead - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"

A pinwheel gathering glitter - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Snowflake Wakes"

Waning rose by ungathered rose - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"

The Titans gathered round their king - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Gather the chin hairs of a man-eating goat - A.E. Stallings "Fairy-tale Logic"

Shades of grief have darkly gathered - E. Clementine Stedman "Lines: To the Author of the Requiem, 'I See Thee Still'"

Shall gather rubies from the air - James Stephens "Beresford Place"

Had gathered the night's last tear - George Sterling "Hesperian"

As dust that gathered to a rose - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"

Gather forest litter into cloaks - Alison Swan "After Reading The Late, Great Lakes"

Gather wild irises out of the air - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"

The fogs which night gathers upon the earth - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

Outside the window spring is gathering force - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"

Gathers it jealously within the gates - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XX: The Hidden Reverie"s

Gather myself into myself - Sara Teasdale "The Crystal Gazer"

The gathered pangs of years - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"

Gathering Myself from a Dream - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Big Bang as Seen on a Chrysanthemum Stone"

Gathered by feral tomorrows - Edwin Torres "Bit by Bite"

Gathers harmonies of color - Edwin Torres "The Vase of the Universe"

Gathering the cold grey lilies of the stars - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

To summon hope even in the gathered dark - Ali Trotta "Of Water, Always Seeking" [Strange Horizons 13 Jan. 2025]

stand tiptoe to gather stars that capsize - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

Late harvests gather good fruit - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson

Gathering acorns in the wake of monkey pack - Tu Fu "Seven Songs Written During the Ch'ien-yuan Era While Staying at T'ung-ku-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson

A gathering of golden quail waiting - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Summer 1945"

Gathers a new world under it and growls - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

As waves gather from chaos - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Time, Two-Headed: Corpus Christi, 1984"

Gathering the memory of rust & iron - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"

Pattern and line gather quiet - Valerie Wallace "House of McQueen"

Cast off the gathering mists of age - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]

Where the eagles gather in bands of sixties - "XII: Xopancuicatl Nenonotzalcuicatl Ipampa in Aquique Amo on Mixtilia in Yaoc | A Spring Song, a Song of Exhortation, Because Certain Ones Did Not Go to the War" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

The smoking stars gather together - "XXV" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

And gathered there like an intention - Wendy Xu "Writing Home"

The stung beekeeper gathering honey - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

Because we must gather voice - Felicia Zamora "America, Let Us Pause"


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