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Adopted to some Neighbouring Star - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
To adopt some more expedient counsels - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Ancestor.
Aunt:
Letters sent by island aunts - Julia Alvarez "Aficionados"
My aunts danced the mambo - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman
All the aunts in my father's house - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Called upon our ancient great aunts and their long slow eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"
Baby.
Bastard.
Betroth:
By memory, by rote, by benign betrothal - Elizabeth Powell "Pledge"
Betrothed to dreams - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"
Was first betrothed to death - "The Source of Poetic Inspiration" transl. by Whitley Stokes
Blood Brother:
Blood brother to the snow angels - Bob Hicok "Grooming"
Blood brother to silence - Linda Pastan "The moon"
Brethren:
Resolves to go and revel with his brethren - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Neither Candle, Bell nor Book to curse my brethren by - Rudyard Kipling "Jobson's Amen"
The fickle crowd rejoicing o'er their brethren slain - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Victory"
Bride.
Bridegroom.
Bridesmaid:
Stood with the other bridesmaids in champagne - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"
Brother.
Child/Children.
Civil Union:
to explain civil unions to an iguana - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
Clan:
And clans engaged for trifles - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
A clan fish whispers the language of waves - Margaret Noodin "Red Sky over Superior" transl. by the author
Of castle moats and pixie clans - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
Consort.
Couple.
Cousin.
Daughter.
Descendant:
Injected with the cryogenic descendants of myth - Holly Easton "In the Age of Dreams" [Strange Horizons 21 July 2025]
Descendants of inventors of alphabets - Lawrence Joseph "The Imagination Completes Its Grand Circuit"
I am a descendent of stillness and sailors - Rolando Kattan "Two-Blooded" transl. by Katherine M. Hedeen & Victor Rodriguez Núñez
descendant of pistons & drive trains - Jose Olivarez "now i'm bologna"
The last descendant of the stone dynasty - Ekhmetjan Osman "Uyghur Impressions 6: Thousand Buddha Caves" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
A descendant of Sisyphus on his father's side - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Two"
Descendant from the starry throng - George Sterling "The Evanescent"
Divorce.
Dynasty.
Elope:
The way your eyes elope - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"
Every departure's an elopement - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Engagement.
Estrange.
Ex-Husband:
Sees her ex-husband in my excuses - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"
Family.
Family Tree:
To flutter about her family tree - Will Carleton "Wealth"
Under the shelter of the family tree - Robert Frost "The Generations of Men"
Crashing against the family tree - jessica Care moore "She Was"
write a family tree in chalk - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Father.
Filial:
A host of filial fair designs - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"
The extreme logic of filial trash - Claire Millikin "Shoe-Box Doll House"
Firstborn:
Ushers the firstborn of the radiant year - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"
Firstborn into a hurricane - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"
Asking for cuts from your first-born heart - Cassandra Khaw "We Aren't Their Fairytales, Baby"
Forebear:
I am forebearer and undercurrent - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
Your forebear was the sack of winds - A.E. Stallings "The Mother's Loathing of Balloons"
Forefather:
Whose forefathers made miracles - Gulten Akin "Ellas and the Statues" translated by Nermin Menemencioglu
The forefathers of stone - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Forerunner:
His hand extended to grasp the forerunner's - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"
His forerunners who were not regarded - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"
Chequers the shade with her forerunning light - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"
Foster.
Foster-child:
Foster-child of Silence and slow Time - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Sin is the foster-child of Doubt - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"
Fosterling:
Sons of the gods, fosterlings of Zeus - Vita Sackville-West "Irruption"
Foundling:
Keep this foundling self - Lou Barrett "Fanny"
Fraternity:
Closed the heart's fraternal gate - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Scorned the fraternity of war - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
In deeds fraternal saw some monster crime - Henry J. Horn "Byron: To His Accusers"
A fraternity ghost waiting to stay home - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"
Fratricide:
And children born for fratricidal war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
Genealogy:
Soft genealogy of birch bark and fiddleheads - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Whose features are a timeless genealogy - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Beneath the Southern Cross"
Generation.
Godmother:
Gift of a forgotten godmother - Josephine Yu "An Unfinished Fairytale from the Palm-Leaf Manuscript"
Grandfather.
Grandmother.
Grandparent:
My orphan grandparents and theirs - Irene Inatty "Ours"
Great Aunt:
Called upon our ancient great aunts and their long slow eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"
Guardian.
Heir/Heiress.
Heritage.
Household.
Harem:
While the ghosts of old affections fill the harem of my mind - Justin H. McCarthy "Memory"
Housewife:
And frugal housewives, strictly pennywise - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"
Replaced by housewife robots, vacant-eyed and acquiesent - Gwynne Garfinkle "Misogyny" [Strange Horizons 13 April 2015]
Husband.
Illegitimate: See Legitimate/Illegitimate.
Infant.
Jilt:
By jilting Fortune whirled - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Bohemia: a Pilgrimage"
Kin/Akin/Kindred/Kinship.
Kith:
Gold raised the sword midst kith and kin - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Legacy.
Legitimate/Illegitimate.
Lineage.
Marriage/Marry.
Matchmaker:
Dispatched the falcon to be my matchmaker - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Mate:
Refusing to abandon its captured mate - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
As a wary duck parted from its mate - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Ice and snow, dead weeds and unmated birds - Robert Frost "Wind and Window Flower"
Has found a mate in the powder's smoke - Kostes Palamas "To the Poet L. Maviles" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Mirthfullest mate of all my moral games - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Maternal:
The maternal bird who wails her callow brood - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The most exquisite and maternal Brigid - Joyce Kilmer "A Blue Valentine"
Maternal source of words - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
In Nature's maternal keeping - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Spring Hopes: Song"
Mistress.
Mother.
Nephew:
Have known myself a nephew to confusions - Hart Crane "The Fernery"
A nephew to confusions - Hart Crane "The Fernery"
Newborn.
Next of Kin:
I am next of kin to Time, the historian of her dreams - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"
Nuptial.
Offspring.
Orphan.
Parent.
Paternal.
Patriarch:
Patriarchs of the infant world - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"
A patriarch that strolls through the tents of his children - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Factory of the patriarchal flames - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly
Giant Pine of patriarchal years - Lydia Jane Pierson "To the Pine on the Mountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]
Pedigree:
Blood birds poaching pedigrees - T.J. Anderson III "Devonte Travels the Sorry Route"
A Pedigree withdrawn and vast - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part II."
The long pedigree of the rivers - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"
Posterity:
Ought she therefore to deprive us of our posterity? - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Earn no more than posterity's jeers - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Progenitor:
Without progenitor nor end of years - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Shakspeare" [sic]
Progeny.
Potential Titles: Rank/Titles - Hereditary (ish) and Adjacent [category].
Relate/Relation/Relationship/Relative.
Scion:
Being scion to Homer - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
Scion of thunder and frost - W. Wilfred Campbell "To the Ottawa"
Sibling:
Here the perfect poem eats its siblings - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"
Stay and say are two siblings walking home - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
His demon siblings by the score - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"
The music of her distant siblings dying - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"
Whether voyeur, bigot, or sibling in change - Izzy Wasserstein "Come Back Wrong" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]
Sister.
Son.
Spinster:
A knot of spinster Katydids - Oliver Wendell Holmes "To an Insect"
Step-sister:
Step-sister of To-morrow's marmalade - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"
Suitor:
Fear, the most thwarted of the suitors - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"
And Suitors more than she could count - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
Sweetheart.
Tribe.
Twin.
Uncle:
Thy uncle caught love's baleful fire - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
My uncle in grief - Claire Meuschke "Caught Sight"
Wed.
Widow.
Wife.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
Adopted to some Neighbouring Star - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
To adopt some more expedient counsels - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Ancestor.
Aunt:
Letters sent by island aunts - Julia Alvarez "Aficionados"
My aunts danced the mambo - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman
All the aunts in my father's house - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Called upon our ancient great aunts and their long slow eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"
Baby.
Bastard.
Betroth:
By memory, by rote, by benign betrothal - Elizabeth Powell "Pledge"
Betrothed to dreams - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"
Was first betrothed to death - "The Source of Poetic Inspiration" transl. by Whitley Stokes
Blood Brother:
Blood brother to the snow angels - Bob Hicok "Grooming"
Blood brother to silence - Linda Pastan "The moon"
Brethren:
Resolves to go and revel with his brethren - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Neither Candle, Bell nor Book to curse my brethren by - Rudyard Kipling "Jobson's Amen"
The fickle crowd rejoicing o'er their brethren slain - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Victory"
Bride.
Bridegroom.
Bridesmaid:
Stood with the other bridesmaids in champagne - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"
Brother.
Child/Children.
Civil Union:
to explain civil unions to an iguana - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
Clan:
And clans engaged for trifles - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
A clan fish whispers the language of waves - Margaret Noodin "Red Sky over Superior" transl. by the author
Of castle moats and pixie clans - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
Consort.
Couple.
Cousin.
Daughter.
Descendant:
Injected with the cryogenic descendants of myth - Holly Easton "In the Age of Dreams" [Strange Horizons 21 July 2025]
Descendants of inventors of alphabets - Lawrence Joseph "The Imagination Completes Its Grand Circuit"
I am a descendent of stillness and sailors - Rolando Kattan "Two-Blooded" transl. by Katherine M. Hedeen & Victor Rodriguez Núñez
descendant of pistons & drive trains - Jose Olivarez "now i'm bologna"
The last descendant of the stone dynasty - Ekhmetjan Osman "Uyghur Impressions 6: Thousand Buddha Caves" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
A descendant of Sisyphus on his father's side - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Two"
Descendant from the starry throng - George Sterling "The Evanescent"
Divorce.
Dynasty.
Elope:
The way your eyes elope - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"
Every departure's an elopement - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Engagement.
Estrange.
Ex-Husband:
Sees her ex-husband in my excuses - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"
Family.
Family Tree:
To flutter about her family tree - Will Carleton "Wealth"
Under the shelter of the family tree - Robert Frost "The Generations of Men"
Crashing against the family tree - jessica Care moore "She Was"
write a family tree in chalk - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Father.
Filial:
A host of filial fair designs - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"
The extreme logic of filial trash - Claire Millikin "Shoe-Box Doll House"
Firstborn:
Ushers the firstborn of the radiant year - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"
Firstborn into a hurricane - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"
Asking for cuts from your first-born heart - Cassandra Khaw "We Aren't Their Fairytales, Baby"
Forebear:
I am forebearer and undercurrent - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
Your forebear was the sack of winds - A.E. Stallings "The Mother's Loathing of Balloons"
Forefather:
Whose forefathers made miracles - Gulten Akin "Ellas and the Statues" translated by Nermin Menemencioglu
The forefathers of stone - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Forerunner:
His hand extended to grasp the forerunner's - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"
His forerunners who were not regarded - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"
Chequers the shade with her forerunning light - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"
Foster.
Foster-child:
Foster-child of Silence and slow Time - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Sin is the foster-child of Doubt - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"
Fosterling:
Sons of the gods, fosterlings of Zeus - Vita Sackville-West "Irruption"
Foundling:
Keep this foundling self - Lou Barrett "Fanny"
Fraternity:
Closed the heart's fraternal gate - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Scorned the fraternity of war - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
In deeds fraternal saw some monster crime - Henry J. Horn "Byron: To His Accusers"
A fraternity ghost waiting to stay home - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"
Fratricide:
And children born for fratricidal war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
Genealogy:
Soft genealogy of birch bark and fiddleheads - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Whose features are a timeless genealogy - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Beneath the Southern Cross"
Generation.
Godmother:
Gift of a forgotten godmother - Josephine Yu "An Unfinished Fairytale from the Palm-Leaf Manuscript"
Grandfather.
Grandmother.
Grandparent:
My orphan grandparents and theirs - Irene Inatty "Ours"
Great Aunt:
Called upon our ancient great aunts and their long slow eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"
Guardian.
Heir/Heiress.
Heritage.
Household.
Harem:
While the ghosts of old affections fill the harem of my mind - Justin H. McCarthy "Memory"
Housewife:
And frugal housewives, strictly pennywise - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"
Replaced by housewife robots, vacant-eyed and acquiesent - Gwynne Garfinkle "Misogyny" [Strange Horizons 13 April 2015]
Husband.
Illegitimate: See Legitimate/Illegitimate.
Infant.
Jilt:
By jilting Fortune whirled - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Bohemia: a Pilgrimage"
Kin/Akin/Kindred/Kinship.
Kith:
Gold raised the sword midst kith and kin - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Legacy.
Legitimate/Illegitimate.
Lineage.
Marriage/Marry.
Matchmaker:
Dispatched the falcon to be my matchmaker - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Mate:
Refusing to abandon its captured mate - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
As a wary duck parted from its mate - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Ice and snow, dead weeds and unmated birds - Robert Frost "Wind and Window Flower"
Has found a mate in the powder's smoke - Kostes Palamas "To the Poet L. Maviles" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Mirthfullest mate of all my moral games - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Maternal:
The maternal bird who wails her callow brood - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The most exquisite and maternal Brigid - Joyce Kilmer "A Blue Valentine"
Maternal source of words - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
In Nature's maternal keeping - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Spring Hopes: Song"
Mistress.
Mother.
Nephew:
Have known myself a nephew to confusions - Hart Crane "The Fernery"
A nephew to confusions - Hart Crane "The Fernery"
Newborn.
Next of Kin:
I am next of kin to Time, the historian of her dreams - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"
Nuptial.
Offspring.
Orphan.
Parent.
Paternal.
Patriarch:
Patriarchs of the infant world - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"
A patriarch that strolls through the tents of his children - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Factory of the patriarchal flames - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly
Giant Pine of patriarchal years - Lydia Jane Pierson "To the Pine on the Mountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]
Pedigree:
Blood birds poaching pedigrees - T.J. Anderson III "Devonte Travels the Sorry Route"
A Pedigree withdrawn and vast - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part II."
The long pedigree of the rivers - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"
Posterity:
Ought she therefore to deprive us of our posterity? - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Earn no more than posterity's jeers - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Progenitor:
Without progenitor nor end of years - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Shakspeare" [sic]
Progeny.
Potential Titles: Rank/Titles - Hereditary (ish) and Adjacent [category].
Relate/Relation/Relationship/Relative.
Scion:
Being scion to Homer - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
Scion of thunder and frost - W. Wilfred Campbell "To the Ottawa"
Sibling:
Here the perfect poem eats its siblings - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"
Stay and say are two siblings walking home - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
His demon siblings by the score - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"
The music of her distant siblings dying - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"
Whether voyeur, bigot, or sibling in change - Izzy Wasserstein "Come Back Wrong" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]
Sister.
Son.
Spinster:
A knot of spinster Katydids - Oliver Wendell Holmes "To an Insect"
Step-sister:
Step-sister of To-morrow's marmalade - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"
Suitor:
Fear, the most thwarted of the suitors - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"
And Suitors more than she could count - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
Sweetheart.
Tribe.
Twin.
Uncle:
Thy uncle caught love's baleful fire - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
My uncle in grief - Claire Meuschke "Caught Sight"
Wed.
Widow.
Wife.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
