Potential Titles: Granite

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Granite with blood in its veins - Mary Jo Bang "The Mirror"

Against the granite of her skin - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited

Crowned your hall with granite thorns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"

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

Dissembling music in the granite hill - Louise Bogan "Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom"

Grows tall as a granite house - Julia Bouwsma "Feeble-Minded"

Water wears its way through granite walls - Evelyn Gage Browne "Faith"

In a house of earth's own granite - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"

The feathery train of granite Night - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Second Voice"

Swift song keening against granite - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

Down to the granite of patience - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Long as her granite hills remain - "Freedom's Beacon" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Nor from those chill gray granite trees was music wrought - John Freeman "Stone Trees"

Granite to me is potter's clay - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Sea"

Against the bare bleak brows of granite - Louis Golding "Courage the Dreamers"

The stout granite of my soul - Louis Golding "Fires of Change"

With anvils of black granite - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"

Cascading down the glacial spills of granite - Robert Hass "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"

Flattens his heart on granite - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "Night on a Mountain"

Turn west toward granite - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"

Where grass borders granite - Mark Irwin "Memory"

In shimmering rivulets across pure granite - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"

The blur of the blast in granite - Janet Kauffman "The Blur of"

The wall is an Iliad of granite - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

From stony rifts of granite gray - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"

This land is littered with granite - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Hiding inside the black granite - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"

Where the pale sun bobbed in the sump of the granite - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

Grind granite to sand - Denise Levertov "The Blind Man's House at the Edge of the Cliff"

The long steady drone of granite holding - Philip Levine "Breath"

To make your lives of sand or granite - James Russell Lowell "For a Bell at Cornell University"

Run my tongue along the granite sky - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

And granite roadways to infinity - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Had beheld the granite's white-hot weeping - Harry Martinson "Aniara 28" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Upon his last moon's granites die - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Granite towers that crumble into dust - Theodore Maynard "England"

Her jewelled robes, her granite draperies - Samuel McCoy "A Sweetheart: Thompson Street"

The massive map of the granite - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XV" transl. by James Nolan

Thought grown firm as granite - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"

The torpor of earth's granite veins - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"

An act of granite will - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [The self is a thousand localities]"

Those who scraped the granite hill - Lynn Riggs "Vandals"

Guarded by the granite names of dead parishioners - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"

Twenty temples in a granite crown - George Santayana "Avila"

Poured out on thy granite shore - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

Nests in the crooks of their granite limbs - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

A cloud of granite and marble light - Tom Sleigh "The Parallel Cathedral"

Granite beneath the glare of hostile spaces - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

A ghost of blood and granite - Arthur Stringer "Dreamers"

Thoughts enclosed in words of granite - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Your throat of granite - Edwin Torres "Ellabyrinth"

And make the granite hum beneath - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"

The monument's honed granite perpendiculars - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"


Shadowing walls of stone-and-granite gloom - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "April in Fourth Avenue"


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