Potential Titles: Gift
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somethingdarkerFrom the blue gift of the sky - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"
A gift so like death - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"
The serpent who gifted her with feathers of every color - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
When did he first discover this gift for equilibrium? - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
A gift I never expected - Mouna Ammar "My All-American Car - A Story"
Galled by the gift of a clock - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"
Taking old gifts and granting new - Park Benjamin "Press On"
A gift of pain disguised - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"
A dwindling gift are you, laughter - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"
No gift nor denial - Louise Bogan "Words for Departure"
Brought me finer gifts than gold - Vera M. Brittain "To Monseigneur"
Grateful for the gift divine - Anne Bronte "A Word to the 'Elect'"
But careless gifts are seldom prized - Emily Bronte "Plead for Me"
In all his gifts forgot - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"
Where waves bring gifts of kelp - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"
A gift through curves lit only by aurorae - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
Magnificent gifts to a world-renowned king - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Equal gifts of anger, love, and power - Giosue Carducci "In Santa Croce" transl. by Frank Sewall
With my best gifts abounding - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall
Had no gift of abundance - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Put by these unreturning gifts - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Slow to part with her best gifts - Florence Earle Coates "Probation"
In the prison of the gifted - Leonard Cohen "Happens to the Heart"
Gifting the sea's new strange stones - Donte Collins "they need some of us to die"
A gifted black & white postcard - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"
Gifts I ask not of Apollo - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"
No gift within our hands - H.D. "Prayer"
Precious gifts of quietness - Ruben Dario "A Sonnet on Cervantes" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
The vain gifts and joys which she displays - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
A costlier gift than gold - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Not all my weeping might the gift obtain - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In all the world is none so happy here]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Language is a double edged gift - Dom "A WORD ON WORDS-revised 2002"
A gift from Madagascar - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"
All gifts of earth above - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Wife's Last Gift"
A hoard of never-given gifts - Edward Dowden "First Love"
Your gift of dews and light - Edward Dowden "Flowers from the South of France"
Returning the gift of song - Lord Dunsany "The Return of Song"
Gifts of companionship and solitude - Stephen Dunn "You'd Be Right"
The gift of warning - Katherine Edgren "The Gift of Warning"
Pink seafoam leaves odd gifts - Lupita Eyde-Tucker "Beachcomber Nocturne"
Hollow gifts to cold children - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"
A gift for her perpetual gaze - Annie Finch "Samhain"
The gift of two glass eyes - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
The gift that is my name - Angelo Geter "Praise"
Ambassadors exchanging costly gifts - Dana Gioia "Three Drunk Poets"
Bringing gifts we can't reciprocate - Dana Gioia "Tinsel, Frankincense, and Fir"
All the gifts that spring from ripest age - Herbert H. Gowen "What the Wise Men Saw"
And my wound will acquire the gift of sight - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
That Gift of Gold to him denied - Oliver Herford "To My Toy Canary"
The wheel of gifts and grief - Conrad Hilberry "Christmas Night"
When a gift arrives from the sea - Jane Hirshfield "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World"
Gifts for which I am not prepared - Tony Hoagland "Entangled"
Whose gift you do not yet know - Carlie Hoffman "Driving Through Maspeth, NY, After Teaching an Introduction to Creative Writing Class"
Gifted their children scraps of antique rockets - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Gift my rings as circlets of celestial flowers - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
These sweet and acid gifts - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
Carryout and unwrapped gifts - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Another Epitaph for Nino"
A night replete with gifts of June - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Gifted this planet with all of its lemon trees - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"
Like the little gifts shame gives us - Courtney Kampa "Confiteor"
The Power that lent such gifts - Fanny Kemble "To Mrs. --- [I never shall forget thee--'tis a word]"
Take God's gracious gift of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
The little gifts of loneliness come wrapped by nervous fingers - Ted Kooser "Pocket Poem"
Of equal gifts and deeds - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"
The sweet gift of light and air - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"
Passed the gift of power from palm to palm - Ruth Lechlitner "Only the Years"
Gift dreaming in the laboring mind - Ruth Lechlitner "Only the Years"
To receive the black gifts of a mountain road - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
Seize this intimate gift of silence - Amy Lowell "Dreams"
Hoping for a gift that stays ungiven - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
My reaching fingers glitter with their gift - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
Gifts hoisted to the vanishing point - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"
Follow some Helen for her gift of grief - John Masefield "Ships"
Strength to endure the gifts of the Muses - Edgar Lee Masters "Inexorable Deities"
Various gifts of flesh and spirit - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
To Midas lent the fatal gift of gold - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
One more gift I squandered to survive - Claire Millikin "Floyd Burroughs' Second Pack of Cigarette"
To hold such gifts in scorn - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
Gifted with the frequent fate of dusk-lit hope - William Moore "Expectancy"
Handed over gifts and debts - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Refuse the capricious gift of Fate - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
Buried each gift in small boxes along the beach - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"
The gift of colour's mystic form - Grace Nichols "Rivers"
With their gifts of replenishment - Mary Oliver "Of Goodness"
Our bodies small gifts of innocence - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"
The gift of minted treasure - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
Gifts delivered without a sense of etiquette - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"
The bundles of nothing that are our gift - Kay Ryan "The Material"
Her fatal gifts relinquish or resign - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
At the gates of tombs silence is a gift - Carl Sandburg "At the Gates of Tombs"
Gifted nature with divinity to lift and link - Friedrich Schiller "The Gods of Greece" transl. not credited
Who has the fairest gifts of all the earth to give - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Such the gifts our planet proffers - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
And the gift of the periphery - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"
Hath the Edens in her gift - George Sterling "White Magic"
Soaking in the final gift of sun - Jacqueline Suskin "Sunrise, Sunset"
Time, with a gift of tears - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"
The gifts of his grace recover - Algernon Swinburne "Sleep"
Hexes, unwanted gifts, and othersuch hexes - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart" [sic]
Among our fragile, vanishing gifts - Keith Taylor "Acolytes in the Bird-While"
A gift of quicksand kisses, a ruin of howling - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
A garnet stone to match my gift - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Gifted keepsakes by their kings - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
The bright awe of his gift - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954
A gift for our unboxing - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"
Left inwardly such grand and gracious gifts - Edith Wharton "Sonnets: III. Bettine to Goethe"
A charge transmitted and gift occult - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
And leave no gifts but bitterness - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"
Gifts well used and duty done - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"
The innocent gift of strangers - Jay Wright "Boli"
A gift of faithful forgetting - Jay Wright "Boli"
Tenaciously counting its gifts - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
Small gifts laden with love's intentions - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Gift of a forgotten godmother - Josephine Yu "An Unfinished Fairytale from the Palm-Leaf Manuscript"
Do not disdain its brimming gift - Yu Wu-ling "Offering Wine" transl. by Burton Watson
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A gift so like death - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"
The serpent who gifted her with feathers of every color - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
When did he first discover this gift for equilibrium? - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
A gift I never expected - Mouna Ammar "My All-American Car - A Story"
Galled by the gift of a clock - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"
Taking old gifts and granting new - Park Benjamin "Press On"
A gift of pain disguised - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"
A dwindling gift are you, laughter - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"
No gift nor denial - Louise Bogan "Words for Departure"
Brought me finer gifts than gold - Vera M. Brittain "To Monseigneur"
Grateful for the gift divine - Anne Bronte "A Word to the 'Elect'"
But careless gifts are seldom prized - Emily Bronte "Plead for Me"
In all his gifts forgot - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"
Where waves bring gifts of kelp - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"
A gift through curves lit only by aurorae - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
Magnificent gifts to a world-renowned king - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Equal gifts of anger, love, and power - Giosue Carducci "In Santa Croce" transl. by Frank Sewall
With my best gifts abounding - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall
Had no gift of abundance - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Put by these unreturning gifts - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Slow to part with her best gifts - Florence Earle Coates "Probation"
In the prison of the gifted - Leonard Cohen "Happens to the Heart"
Gifting the sea's new strange stones - Donte Collins "they need some of us to die"
A gifted black & white postcard - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"
Gifts I ask not of Apollo - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"
No gift within our hands - H.D. "Prayer"
Precious gifts of quietness - Ruben Dario "A Sonnet on Cervantes" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
The vain gifts and joys which she displays - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
A costlier gift than gold - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Not all my weeping might the gift obtain - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In all the world is none so happy here]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Language is a double edged gift - Dom "A WORD ON WORDS-revised 2002"
A gift from Madagascar - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"
All gifts of earth above - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Wife's Last Gift"
A hoard of never-given gifts - Edward Dowden "First Love"
Your gift of dews and light - Edward Dowden "Flowers from the South of France"
Returning the gift of song - Lord Dunsany "The Return of Song"
Gifts of companionship and solitude - Stephen Dunn "You'd Be Right"
The gift of warning - Katherine Edgren "The Gift of Warning"
Pink seafoam leaves odd gifts - Lupita Eyde-Tucker "Beachcomber Nocturne"
Hollow gifts to cold children - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"
A gift for her perpetual gaze - Annie Finch "Samhain"
The gift of two glass eyes - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
The gift that is my name - Angelo Geter "Praise"
Ambassadors exchanging costly gifts - Dana Gioia "Three Drunk Poets"
Bringing gifts we can't reciprocate - Dana Gioia "Tinsel, Frankincense, and Fir"
All the gifts that spring from ripest age - Herbert H. Gowen "What the Wise Men Saw"
And my wound will acquire the gift of sight - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
That Gift of Gold to him denied - Oliver Herford "To My Toy Canary"
The wheel of gifts and grief - Conrad Hilberry "Christmas Night"
When a gift arrives from the sea - Jane Hirshfield "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World"
Gifts for which I am not prepared - Tony Hoagland "Entangled"
Whose gift you do not yet know - Carlie Hoffman "Driving Through Maspeth, NY, After Teaching an Introduction to Creative Writing Class"
Gifted their children scraps of antique rockets - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Gift my rings as circlets of celestial flowers - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
These sweet and acid gifts - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
Carryout and unwrapped gifts - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Another Epitaph for Nino"
A night replete with gifts of June - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Gifted this planet with all of its lemon trees - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"
Like the little gifts shame gives us - Courtney Kampa "Confiteor"
The Power that lent such gifts - Fanny Kemble "To Mrs. --- [I never shall forget thee--'tis a word]"
Take God's gracious gift of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
The little gifts of loneliness come wrapped by nervous fingers - Ted Kooser "Pocket Poem"
Of equal gifts and deeds - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"
The sweet gift of light and air - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"
Passed the gift of power from palm to palm - Ruth Lechlitner "Only the Years"
Gift dreaming in the laboring mind - Ruth Lechlitner "Only the Years"
To receive the black gifts of a mountain road - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
Seize this intimate gift of silence - Amy Lowell "Dreams"
Hoping for a gift that stays ungiven - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
My reaching fingers glitter with their gift - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
Gifts hoisted to the vanishing point - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"
Follow some Helen for her gift of grief - John Masefield "Ships"
Strength to endure the gifts of the Muses - Edgar Lee Masters "Inexorable Deities"
Various gifts of flesh and spirit - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
To Midas lent the fatal gift of gold - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
One more gift I squandered to survive - Claire Millikin "Floyd Burroughs' Second Pack of Cigarette"
To hold such gifts in scorn - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
Gifted with the frequent fate of dusk-lit hope - William Moore "Expectancy"
Handed over gifts and debts - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Refuse the capricious gift of Fate - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
Buried each gift in small boxes along the beach - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"
The gift of colour's mystic form - Grace Nichols "Rivers"
With their gifts of replenishment - Mary Oliver "Of Goodness"
Our bodies small gifts of innocence - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"
The gift of minted treasure - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
Gifts delivered without a sense of etiquette - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"
The bundles of nothing that are our gift - Kay Ryan "The Material"
Her fatal gifts relinquish or resign - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
At the gates of tombs silence is a gift - Carl Sandburg "At the Gates of Tombs"
Gifted nature with divinity to lift and link - Friedrich Schiller "The Gods of Greece" transl. not credited
Who has the fairest gifts of all the earth to give - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Such the gifts our planet proffers - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
And the gift of the periphery - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"
Hath the Edens in her gift - George Sterling "White Magic"
Soaking in the final gift of sun - Jacqueline Suskin "Sunrise, Sunset"
Time, with a gift of tears - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"
The gifts of his grace recover - Algernon Swinburne "Sleep"
Hexes, unwanted gifts, and othersuch hexes - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart" [sic]
Among our fragile, vanishing gifts - Keith Taylor "Acolytes in the Bird-While"
A gift of quicksand kisses, a ruin of howling - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
A garnet stone to match my gift - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Gifted keepsakes by their kings - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
The bright awe of his gift - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954
A gift for our unboxing - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"
Left inwardly such grand and gracious gifts - Edith Wharton "Sonnets: III. Bettine to Goethe"
A charge transmitted and gift occult - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
And leave no gifts but bitterness - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"
Gifts well used and duty done - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"
The innocent gift of strangers - Jay Wright "Boli"
A gift of faithful forgetting - Jay Wright "Boli"
Tenaciously counting its gifts - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
Small gifts laden with love's intentions - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Gift of a forgotten godmother - Josephine Yu "An Unfinished Fairytale from the Palm-Leaf Manuscript"
Do not disdain its brimming gift - Yu Wu-ling "Offering Wine" transl. by Burton Watson
Navigation Links:
Go to G word index.
Go to Potential Titles: Money - Inheritance/Gifts [category].
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
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