Potential Titles: Ground
Jul. 9th, 2010 09:32 pmA storied purple destiny of ships run aground - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"
The sleepy seals aground - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
Father sings in the threshing ground - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Above the ground for another cluster of hours - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"
Snow pitying the frozen ground - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"
Unseen trains shake the ground every day at 5 - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Your ancient ground and your somber river waters - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
Bones breaking down to the ground - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
Until the ground groaned with war - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
The dark swelling of the open ground - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"
Of protest on the grounds of the quarrel - Mary Jo Bang "S Is for Strategies for Making Sense of Spectacles"
With doubtful caution treads the echoing ground - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
In a place where there is no ground - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"
Bloodrust fire, fleshtorn ground - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Through mazes to higher ground - Clive Bell "To A.V.S. with a Book"
Redeem me from accursed ground - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"
That weaves stars with the ground - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Jaguar"
A narrow door between sky and ground - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Giant feet grounded deep in bedrock - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
Treasured rain falling on dark ground - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
And weeds usurp the ground - Anne Bronte "Home"
From the dark edges of the sensual ground - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Soul's Expression"
That guard the enchanted ground - William Cullen Bryant "Autumn Woods"
Throw thin shadows on the ground - William Cullen Bryant "The Planting of the Apple Tree"
We know we will not touch ground - Stephanie Burt "White Lobelias"
Set the sky on blue fire and shook the ground - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"
You have little grounds to complain - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Fell onto the ground that wasn't there - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Frontal Lobe]"
Stand to-day on higher ground - Joseph Horatio Chant "Aspiration"
Learning not to clutch the ground so fierce - Ty Chapman "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"
Close to the whistling ground - Ching-In Chen "South in Hundreds"
Lights dancing to the beat of the ground - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Gripped the ground and grasped the air - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Bury your troubles in the ground - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson
Trampled the tendrils of love in the ground - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Deep waters where no ground is - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Frantic spaces from the ground - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
The ruined grounds of the first prayer - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Repeal the beating ground - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXV"
And whisper to the ground - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
The morning mist within your grounds - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"
The walk of hard grounds & lost days - Eve L. Ewing "testify"
Yellow fall roars over the ground - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"
The unrivall'd Falstaff of the ground - "The First Hole at St. Andrews on a Crowded Day"
Wind swallowing the ground - Carolyn Forche "The Place That Is Feared I Inhabit"
And the kings asleep in the ground - "The Fort of Rathangan"
My long scythe whispering to the ground - Robert Frost "Mowing"
Your arrogant faces on the ground - Antonio Funches "Coup"
That brittle berries strew the ground - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"
The myth of solid ground - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"
And echo replies in the ground - James Harris Guy "Old Boggy Bottom"
See the ground starve and crack - francine j. harris "Wetland"
Derive a forked root from that ground - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"
Never looked at the unbroken ground - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
Sweet-smelling melons swelling on the ground - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
Spiraling up from the ground - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
In the desolate ground of antique palaces - Thomas Hood "Silence"
Crawl on hissing ground - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"
Unconsecrated ground cannot hold them - Jay Hulme "Seeking Trans Ancestors in Provincial Graveyards"
Unnecessary metallic grounds of existence - fahima ife "anamnesis, amanuensis"
My heart against the ground - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Calling Dreams"
Over the red corn grounds - Lionel Johnson "Hill and Vale"
More cloud than ground - Fady Joudah "Sirius"
Would await them at the duelling ground - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Vengeance"
Fifty fathom they sank to ground - "The Knavish Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
The cricket from the droughty ground - Archibald Lampman "Heat"
Abysmal ground of all things - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"
Seed of beauty in a ground of truth - Amy Lowell "The Promise of the Morning Star"
Ground by the wheel of toil - Edwin Markham "Little Brothers of the Ground"
Fancies cover splendid ground - Furnley Maurice "Little Boys"
To add a new layer to the ground - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"
Returns the angels to the ground - Medbh McGuckian "Garden Homage"
Under the shaken ground - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
In ghost across a ground - George Meredith "King Harald's Trance"
Ground down and thrown on the metallic topiary - Joanne Merriam "Improving on Nature"
Pentacles to guard the ground - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
To hear the ground's singing - Jenny Molberg "Sound of the Spinning Wheel"
And press your heart against the ground - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"
Had almost lost my faith in the ground - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"
The ground charged with secrets - Pablo Neruda "Gold" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Fertile ground for everything to come - Robbi Nester "Rot"
The ground speaks green - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"
Their feet never leaving the ground - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"
Of spring in the flaming ground - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
In constant fear of losing ground to walrus - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Hard ground and hard sky - Sharon Olds "Take the I Out"
The ground of all my bliss - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
The penumbra of a redwood across frozen ground - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"
Where sandy ground gives way to water - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"
Used up on hard ground - Khadijah Queen "Anodyne"
The high ground of resurrection - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
High heaped above the hunting grounds - "The Red Man's Plea: Almost Literally the Reply of 'Red Iron to Governor Ramsey" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Bare trees and barren ground - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
From battle grounds of memory - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
The dust of a world forgotten lay under the barren ground - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
Hovers above the ground as the world turns - Nicky Russell "The World Is a Curio"
On the snow-locked ground - May Sarton "December Moon"
No victory in going swift to ground - Ann K. Schwader "Gone to Ground"
A seed's commitment to its place on the ground - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"
Grounded in depths of eternity - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
To raise ambition from the ground - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Grounded inward in my heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXII"
Tattered music trailing on the ground - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"
Melodious thunders shake the ground - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Apollo"
Grounds my belief in humanity as mystery - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Where skyscrapers are just inches away from the ground - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Seeping from each step of our high ground - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
Camouflaged bombers on the ground floor of truth - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"
Deep enough in the ground to be called roots - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [I wish you]"
A texture of moving ground - Edwin Torres "Moth"
When the ground won't stop - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"
Love which thus hallows the ground - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Certain of its ancient ground - John Updike "Reality"
Whose somersault never got off the ground - Edward van de Vendel "Here's the Idea"
Early seeds lay cold in the ground - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
Burn these walls to the ground - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"
My way was all through fairy ground - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"
Strong only on his native ground - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Her body carves out rivers in the ground - "Wildlife Encounter"
Not grounded in suffering - C. K. Williams "My Sadness"
The grey of frozen ground - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
Expect the ground to be always solid - William Carlos Williams "K. McB."
A hound running over rough ground - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"
Built my life up from very shaky ground - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"
Ground of hidden grace - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
Hallucinations that unite ancestral backgrounds - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
Arrived in flux and the background radiation - James F. Yockey "What If"
Foregrounding first in the fey realms - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
The switchgrass pale and starved for groundwater - Molly McCully Brown "Virginia, Autumn"
Ground zero for crowds of absence - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"
A playground for your dreams - Shara McCallum "Penelope"
The playground of youth and of ghostly tradition - Morris Tyler "Under the Arch I Passed"
Underground.
my foundation ungrounded from laughter - Porsha Olayiwola "The Electric Slide is Not a Dance, Man!"
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The sleepy seals aground - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
Father sings in the threshing ground - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Above the ground for another cluster of hours - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"
Snow pitying the frozen ground - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"
Unseen trains shake the ground every day at 5 - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Your ancient ground and your somber river waters - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
Bones breaking down to the ground - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
Until the ground groaned with war - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
The dark swelling of the open ground - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"
Of protest on the grounds of the quarrel - Mary Jo Bang "S Is for Strategies for Making Sense of Spectacles"
With doubtful caution treads the echoing ground - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
In a place where there is no ground - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"
Bloodrust fire, fleshtorn ground - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Through mazes to higher ground - Clive Bell "To A.V.S. with a Book"
Redeem me from accursed ground - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"
That weaves stars with the ground - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Jaguar"
A narrow door between sky and ground - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Giant feet grounded deep in bedrock - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
Treasured rain falling on dark ground - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
And weeds usurp the ground - Anne Bronte "Home"
From the dark edges of the sensual ground - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Soul's Expression"
That guard the enchanted ground - William Cullen Bryant "Autumn Woods"
Throw thin shadows on the ground - William Cullen Bryant "The Planting of the Apple Tree"
We know we will not touch ground - Stephanie Burt "White Lobelias"
Set the sky on blue fire and shook the ground - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"
You have little grounds to complain - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Fell onto the ground that wasn't there - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Frontal Lobe]"
Stand to-day on higher ground - Joseph Horatio Chant "Aspiration"
Learning not to clutch the ground so fierce - Ty Chapman "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"
Close to the whistling ground - Ching-In Chen "South in Hundreds"
Lights dancing to the beat of the ground - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Gripped the ground and grasped the air - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Bury your troubles in the ground - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson
Trampled the tendrils of love in the ground - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Deep waters where no ground is - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Frantic spaces from the ground - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
The ruined grounds of the first prayer - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Repeal the beating ground - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXV"
And whisper to the ground - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
The morning mist within your grounds - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"
The walk of hard grounds & lost days - Eve L. Ewing "testify"
Yellow fall roars over the ground - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"
The unrivall'd Falstaff of the ground - "The First Hole at St. Andrews on a Crowded Day"
Wind swallowing the ground - Carolyn Forche "The Place That Is Feared I Inhabit"
And the kings asleep in the ground - "The Fort of Rathangan"
My long scythe whispering to the ground - Robert Frost "Mowing"
Your arrogant faces on the ground - Antonio Funches "Coup"
That brittle berries strew the ground - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"
The myth of solid ground - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"
And echo replies in the ground - James Harris Guy "Old Boggy Bottom"
See the ground starve and crack - francine j. harris "Wetland"
Derive a forked root from that ground - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"
Never looked at the unbroken ground - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
Sweet-smelling melons swelling on the ground - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
Spiraling up from the ground - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
In the desolate ground of antique palaces - Thomas Hood "Silence"
Crawl on hissing ground - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"
Unconsecrated ground cannot hold them - Jay Hulme "Seeking Trans Ancestors in Provincial Graveyards"
Unnecessary metallic grounds of existence - fahima ife "anamnesis, amanuensis"
My heart against the ground - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Calling Dreams"
Over the red corn grounds - Lionel Johnson "Hill and Vale"
More cloud than ground - Fady Joudah "Sirius"
Would await them at the duelling ground - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Vengeance"
Fifty fathom they sank to ground - "The Knavish Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
The cricket from the droughty ground - Archibald Lampman "Heat"
Abysmal ground of all things - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"
Seed of beauty in a ground of truth - Amy Lowell "The Promise of the Morning Star"
Ground by the wheel of toil - Edwin Markham "Little Brothers of the Ground"
Fancies cover splendid ground - Furnley Maurice "Little Boys"
To add a new layer to the ground - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"
Returns the angels to the ground - Medbh McGuckian "Garden Homage"
Under the shaken ground - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
In ghost across a ground - George Meredith "King Harald's Trance"
Ground down and thrown on the metallic topiary - Joanne Merriam "Improving on Nature"
Pentacles to guard the ground - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
To hear the ground's singing - Jenny Molberg "Sound of the Spinning Wheel"
And press your heart against the ground - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"
Had almost lost my faith in the ground - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"
The ground charged with secrets - Pablo Neruda "Gold" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Fertile ground for everything to come - Robbi Nester "Rot"
The ground speaks green - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"
Their feet never leaving the ground - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"
Of spring in the flaming ground - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
In constant fear of losing ground to walrus - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Hard ground and hard sky - Sharon Olds "Take the I Out"
The ground of all my bliss - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
The penumbra of a redwood across frozen ground - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"
Where sandy ground gives way to water - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"
Used up on hard ground - Khadijah Queen "Anodyne"
The high ground of resurrection - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
High heaped above the hunting grounds - "The Red Man's Plea: Almost Literally the Reply of 'Red Iron to Governor Ramsey" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Bare trees and barren ground - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
From battle grounds of memory - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
The dust of a world forgotten lay under the barren ground - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
Hovers above the ground as the world turns - Nicky Russell "The World Is a Curio"
On the snow-locked ground - May Sarton "December Moon"
No victory in going swift to ground - Ann K. Schwader "Gone to Ground"
A seed's commitment to its place on the ground - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"
Grounded in depths of eternity - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
To raise ambition from the ground - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Grounded inward in my heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXII"
Tattered music trailing on the ground - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"
Melodious thunders shake the ground - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Apollo"
Grounds my belief in humanity as mystery - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Where skyscrapers are just inches away from the ground - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Seeping from each step of our high ground - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
Camouflaged bombers on the ground floor of truth - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"
Deep enough in the ground to be called roots - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [I wish you]"
A texture of moving ground - Edwin Torres "Moth"
When the ground won't stop - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"
Love which thus hallows the ground - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Certain of its ancient ground - John Updike "Reality"
Whose somersault never got off the ground - Edward van de Vendel "Here's the Idea"
Early seeds lay cold in the ground - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
Burn these walls to the ground - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"
My way was all through fairy ground - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"
Strong only on his native ground - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Her body carves out rivers in the ground - "Wildlife Encounter"
Not grounded in suffering - C. K. Williams "My Sadness"
The grey of frozen ground - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
Expect the ground to be always solid - William Carlos Williams "K. McB."
A hound running over rough ground - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"
Built my life up from very shaky ground - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"
Ground of hidden grace - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
Hallucinations that unite ancestral backgrounds - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
Arrived in flux and the background radiation - James F. Yockey "What If"
Foregrounding first in the fey realms - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
The switchgrass pale and starved for groundwater - Molly McCully Brown "Virginia, Autumn"
Ground zero for crowds of absence - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"
A playground for your dreams - Shara McCallum "Penelope"
The playground of youth and of ghostly tradition - Morris Tyler "Under the Arch I Passed"
Underground.
my foundation ungrounded from laughter - Porsha Olayiwola "The Electric Slide is Not a Dance, Man!"
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