Potential Titles: Height
Aug. 3rd, 2010 09:47 pmEach height on which the stars are clustering - William Anderson "The Alpine Horn"
height of climb and width of free - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"
to mountain height of sky - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
to heights out of time and measure - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"
Many times on blissful heights - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
To worship on that height - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
Ascend in tempest to this height - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Hollow nor height his going bars - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"
The far-famed Hospice crowns the heights - "The Brave Dog of St. Bernard" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
The dizziness of height and breeze and vultures wheeling - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
That marked our heights - Geoffrey Brock "The Family Manse"
Stood on supreme heights - Rupert Brooke "Sonnet Reversed"
At the height of hopeless touching - Jericho Brown "Psalm 150"
Props to heighten necessary lies - Paul Cameron Brown "Investiture"
Shall scale the heights of Paradise - Evelyn Gage Browne "Faith"
Ideals twain, on battle height flaming - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Would soar the solar height - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
To mount the heights of toil - Ethna Carbery "Mea Culpa"
Darkness toppling from the height - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Second Voice"
Bend down from starry heights above - Hugh Conway "The Mother's Vigil" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.110-v.III, 6 Feb. 1886]
On Time's utmost purple height - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Gods and Heroes of the Gael"
Cast down from heights to languish - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Above the heights of immemorial hills - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"
The height of a great mountain forested with night - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
Makes scarlet this eternal height - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Where heights eternal reign unstunned - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Seared to the distant heights of blue - Jean de Esque "[To those that felt the wand of Muse]"
Of desire attain at last the height - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Blazing from the zenith's height - Delta "Stanzas for the Burns' Festival" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVII, v.LVI, Sept. 1844]
Robes of angels touch these heights - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"
Firm to hover in that empty height - William Drummond "This Life"
In that hushed dream upon the height - George William Russell aka A.E. "Parting"
These heights of stony solitude - Helen Parry Eden "The Ascent"
Lonely Gods on shrouded heights - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
Heights like reptilian skyscrapers - Megan Fernandes "Amsterdam"
The splintered heights call me - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
With the proud monarchs of our eastern heights - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"
Those old rocks break the hill that we the heights should win - James Elroy Flecker "Areiya"
And he must leave the heights that shine - Sam Walter Foss "The Wail of the Hack Writer" [The Fly Leaf, v.1 no.2, Jan. 1896]
Soars to the heights of foreign vices - John Gay "Fable XIV: The Monkey Who Had Seen the World" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Let someone else ascend the heights of Machu Picchu - Dana Gioia "Travel"
They who walk upon the heights - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
Heightens the gloss of each bitter scene - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
Hell's depth and sky's height - Louis Golding "Wind of Black Night"
The fount freed at its silver height - Louise Imogen Guiney "Spring"
By those haunted heights the Atlantic smites - Thomas Hardy "I Found Her Out There"
Torches on each minaret's height - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
From his watchman's height he saw - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender VII"
With wavering gulfs and antic heights - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
Who often soared to heights sublime - Oliver Herford "Pegasus"
Those silent heights that lose themselves in sky - Kate Hillard "After a Year" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]
Our longing for height - Edward Hirsch "Bertolt Brecht"
Height now is treasure - Jane Hirshfield "Ledger"
I have climbed the heights of white disaster - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Deep dread but heightened your mirth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
The sun in her height - Douglas Hyde "The Breedyeen"
Climb, but heights are cold - Jean Ingelow "A Mother Showing the Portrait of Her Child"
Giant strength and peerless height - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"
Fallen from their blossoming height - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
From a height I had no business reaching - Fady Joudah "Libra"
Scale the height, and strive to sound the deep - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VI" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
On the orange grove's waving height - Fanny Kemble "Eastern Sunset"
All its weary height of walls - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"
To conduct us to the heights above - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes I: The Awaited Leader"
Securely throned on heights of contemplation - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
Hears the humming of rocks at great height - Philip Levine "Breath"
Praise him from the heights of peace - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Rising in a benediction of heights - Naomi Long Madgett "Without"
Shaped an Era's golden height - George Martin "Shelley"
Grow sick of heaven's height - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"
Listening for wind-songs in the tree heights - William Moore "Dusk Song"
In the heights of the newly scarred planet - Pablo Neruda "Chile's Voices" transl. by Jack Schmitt
In the customs house of the heights - Pablo Neruda "Standard Oil Co." transl. by Jack Schmitt
The Seraph in his height of place - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Saw everything through a heightened tear - Alice Notley "Poem [Why do I want to tell it]"
All heights and depths of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
And strive with Fear upon the heights - Herbert E. Palmer "Courage"
Lifts to heights of breathless exaltation - Margaret J. Preston "Nocturne" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
To the same height both great and small - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Lavater's Warning" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
On the unfenced height - Charles G.D. Roberts "Hill Top Songs"
Heights too steep for thought to climb - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Mind of the Mystic"
Heighten every dazzling charm - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Strange stars that lit the heights - George William Russell "Krishna"
Hand in hand upon the heights - V. Sackville-West "Song: Let Us Go Back"
The silence of the height - "Sacrifice"
Dizzied by ascension to this height - Ann K. Schwader "In This Brief Interval"
Darkness slides from their heights - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
Hindered your seeing the heights - Laura Redden Searing "Corinna Confesses"
Exceeded by the height of happier men - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXII"
Tempted the sheep to scramble up their height - "The Shepherd Boy" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 23, 11 Aug. 1832]
the soaring of voices to untouchable heights - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]
From that height a voice shall whisper - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Mellowed to a heightened dignity - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
From heights where the soul would be - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
Away to other heights and other temples - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"
An echo wakened from the western height - John B. Tabb "Dawn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Nov. 1889]
Your dream of miracles and heights? - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta IX: The Medieval Mirror-Cases I"
There on the sad height - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"
The outer heights of darkness tumble - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
Ascend stairwise to expectation's height - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: The Gardens" transl. by Alma Strettell
Unloose their dead to battle on the height - O.I. Victor "The Phantom Field"
Wander uneasy on tower heights - Wang An-Shih "On Tower Heights" transl. by David Hinton
The heights of Parnassus climb - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"
To the height of honor and fame - Kate Louise Wheeler "Mother"
From deep to height above - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
Tossed to their height by endless avatars - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"
Come tread with me this dizzy height - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
Daring the heights of dread infinity - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
A height that would dizzy the coolest of heads - "The Young Author's Dream" [The Continental Monthly, v.5 no.4, April 1864]
Saw black trees on the battle-height - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
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height of climb and width of free - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"
to mountain height of sky - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
to heights out of time and measure - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"
Many times on blissful heights - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
To worship on that height - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
Ascend in tempest to this height - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Hollow nor height his going bars - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"
The far-famed Hospice crowns the heights - "The Brave Dog of St. Bernard" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
The dizziness of height and breeze and vultures wheeling - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
That marked our heights - Geoffrey Brock "The Family Manse"
Stood on supreme heights - Rupert Brooke "Sonnet Reversed"
At the height of hopeless touching - Jericho Brown "Psalm 150"
Props to heighten necessary lies - Paul Cameron Brown "Investiture"
Shall scale the heights of Paradise - Evelyn Gage Browne "Faith"
Ideals twain, on battle height flaming - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Would soar the solar height - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
To mount the heights of toil - Ethna Carbery "Mea Culpa"
Darkness toppling from the height - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Second Voice"
Bend down from starry heights above - Hugh Conway "The Mother's Vigil" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.110-v.III, 6 Feb. 1886]
On Time's utmost purple height - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Gods and Heroes of the Gael"
Cast down from heights to languish - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Above the heights of immemorial hills - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"
The height of a great mountain forested with night - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
Makes scarlet this eternal height - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Where heights eternal reign unstunned - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Seared to the distant heights of blue - Jean de Esque "[To those that felt the wand of Muse]"
Of desire attain at last the height - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Blazing from the zenith's height - Delta "Stanzas for the Burns' Festival" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVII, v.LVI, Sept. 1844]
Robes of angels touch these heights - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"
Firm to hover in that empty height - William Drummond "This Life"
In that hushed dream upon the height - George William Russell aka A.E. "Parting"
These heights of stony solitude - Helen Parry Eden "The Ascent"
Lonely Gods on shrouded heights - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
Heights like reptilian skyscrapers - Megan Fernandes "Amsterdam"
The splintered heights call me - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
With the proud monarchs of our eastern heights - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"
Those old rocks break the hill that we the heights should win - James Elroy Flecker "Areiya"
And he must leave the heights that shine - Sam Walter Foss "The Wail of the Hack Writer" [The Fly Leaf, v.1 no.2, Jan. 1896]
Soars to the heights of foreign vices - John Gay "Fable XIV: The Monkey Who Had Seen the World" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Let someone else ascend the heights of Machu Picchu - Dana Gioia "Travel"
They who walk upon the heights - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
Heightens the gloss of each bitter scene - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
Hell's depth and sky's height - Louis Golding "Wind of Black Night"
The fount freed at its silver height - Louise Imogen Guiney "Spring"
By those haunted heights the Atlantic smites - Thomas Hardy "I Found Her Out There"
Torches on each minaret's height - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
From his watchman's height he saw - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender VII"
With wavering gulfs and antic heights - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
Who often soared to heights sublime - Oliver Herford "Pegasus"
Those silent heights that lose themselves in sky - Kate Hillard "After a Year" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]
Our longing for height - Edward Hirsch "Bertolt Brecht"
Height now is treasure - Jane Hirshfield "Ledger"
I have climbed the heights of white disaster - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Deep dread but heightened your mirth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
The sun in her height - Douglas Hyde "The Breedyeen"
Climb, but heights are cold - Jean Ingelow "A Mother Showing the Portrait of Her Child"
Giant strength and peerless height - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"
Fallen from their blossoming height - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
From a height I had no business reaching - Fady Joudah "Libra"
Scale the height, and strive to sound the deep - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VI" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
On the orange grove's waving height - Fanny Kemble "Eastern Sunset"
All its weary height of walls - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"
To conduct us to the heights above - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes I: The Awaited Leader"
Securely throned on heights of contemplation - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
Hears the humming of rocks at great height - Philip Levine "Breath"
Praise him from the heights of peace - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Rising in a benediction of heights - Naomi Long Madgett "Without"
Shaped an Era's golden height - George Martin "Shelley"
Grow sick of heaven's height - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"
Listening for wind-songs in the tree heights - William Moore "Dusk Song"
In the heights of the newly scarred planet - Pablo Neruda "Chile's Voices" transl. by Jack Schmitt
In the customs house of the heights - Pablo Neruda "Standard Oil Co." transl. by Jack Schmitt
The Seraph in his height of place - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Saw everything through a heightened tear - Alice Notley "Poem [Why do I want to tell it]"
All heights and depths of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
And strive with Fear upon the heights - Herbert E. Palmer "Courage"
Lifts to heights of breathless exaltation - Margaret J. Preston "Nocturne" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
To the same height both great and small - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Lavater's Warning" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
On the unfenced height - Charles G.D. Roberts "Hill Top Songs"
Heights too steep for thought to climb - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Mind of the Mystic"
Heighten every dazzling charm - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Strange stars that lit the heights - George William Russell "Krishna"
Hand in hand upon the heights - V. Sackville-West "Song: Let Us Go Back"
The silence of the height - "Sacrifice"
Dizzied by ascension to this height - Ann K. Schwader "In This Brief Interval"
Darkness slides from their heights - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
Hindered your seeing the heights - Laura Redden Searing "Corinna Confesses"
Exceeded by the height of happier men - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXII"
Tempted the sheep to scramble up their height - "The Shepherd Boy" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 23, 11 Aug. 1832]
the soaring of voices to untouchable heights - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]
From that height a voice shall whisper - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Mellowed to a heightened dignity - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
From heights where the soul would be - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
Away to other heights and other temples - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"
An echo wakened from the western height - John B. Tabb "Dawn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Nov. 1889]
Your dream of miracles and heights? - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta IX: The Medieval Mirror-Cases I"
There on the sad height - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"
The outer heights of darkness tumble - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
Ascend stairwise to expectation's height - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: The Gardens" transl. by Alma Strettell
Unloose their dead to battle on the height - O.I. Victor "The Phantom Field"
Wander uneasy on tower heights - Wang An-Shih "On Tower Heights" transl. by David Hinton
The heights of Parnassus climb - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"
To the height of honor and fame - Kate Louise Wheeler "Mother"
From deep to height above - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
Tossed to their height by endless avatars - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"
Come tread with me this dizzy height - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
Daring the heights of dread infinity - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
A height that would dizzy the coolest of heads - "The Young Author's Dream" [The Continental Monthly, v.5 no.4, April 1864]
Saw black trees on the battle-height - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
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