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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-04-12 05:09 pm

Potential Titles: Put

Put my arms around a tall oak - Zeina Azzam "Hugging the Tree"

To put a death-mask on tragedy - Mary Jo Bang "The Role of Elegy"

The stricken lily puts the rose to shame - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

Put to shame the white rose and the red - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"

I'd rather put my trust in stones - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sower"

Every immortal must put on dust - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

Morning is a gown put on at midnight - Emily Berry "Allegiances"

Put those shadows in your painting - Terry Blackhawk "In Duple Time"

Put on a shawl of smoke and haze - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"

Puts all Heaven in a rage - William Blake "Three Things to Remember"

Put lengthier bondage on them all - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"

An old sorrow that has put out the sun - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: The Dance"

In your impulse put your trust - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Put by these unreturning gifts - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Where you put your bullet - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org

Put our ears to the earth to hear the rumblings - Oliver de la Paz "When Benny Agbayani Became a Met"

Put out all other Fire - E.E. (might be by Edmund Elys per speculation by the editor of the book in which I found it) "On the Death of The Truly Virtuous Mrs. Anne Killigrew who was Related to my (Deceased) Wife"

Put a whisper into a jar - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"

Put forth thy shining sickle - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""

Put forth no more for glory or for gain - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Eternal thought in me puts on the dress of time - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

Our hope put into questions - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

Putting banned words in bottles to bury - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"

Putting away in the mind's pocket - Mona Gould "Communion"

That puts all sober thoughts to flight - Mona Gould "Sorcery"

Put on youth in her look and air - Thomas Hardy "A Wife Comes Back"

Put down its roots below the phyla - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

Put on again the vest of many pockets - Jane Hirshfield "Vest"

The welcome parade put on by ghosts - Darrel Alejandro Holnes "Black Parade"

Put peppermint in my hair - Jordan Jace "I Want"

Put on the shelf to gather regret - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"

Putting off thy ashy shroud - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Sword that no man will put to rout - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"

And Bacchus was put to bed snoring - Henry S. Leigh "The Olympic Ball"

Hell's blackest tricks were put in play - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

Who put prayer in motion - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"

No pocket to put you in - Ada Limon "Fin"

Put our wealth in trust - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"

Put blood of roses in his veins - Don Marquis "A Dream Child"

Putting a tune to the shout - John Masefield "A Consecration"

Put a roaring halt to our empty rabid existence - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

And, as a garment, put on rage - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Putting the day's credits on yesterday's debts - Joanne Merriam "Improving on Nature"

Puts teeth in any nightmare - Harryette Mullen "Page 72/mister arty martyr"

Put by the mirror of her bridal days - Sarojini Naidu "Dirge"

Put flags where my life ventured once - J. Alan Nelson "Flags and Maps"

Who put you between the fury's teeth - Pablo Neruda "Brother Bartolome de Las Casas" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Without putting an end to truth - Pablo Neruda "To Search" transl. by William O'Daly

Puts a stone inside your heart - Naomi Shihab Nye "Breaking the Fast"

Put on your charm of gold - "Old May Song"

Putting the market place behind - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson

Like a phantom put to rout - Walter S. Percy "Sweet 'Steen"

To put my palm against that mirror - Paige Quinones "Bipolar and its Related Disorders"

Put into the hands of nature - Rowan Ricardo Phillips "Who Is Less Than a Vapor?"

Has put a torch to your heart - Sappho (transl. by Mary Barnard)

And moons never stay put - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Puts apparel on my tatter'd loving - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVI"

Put on black and loving mourners be - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXII"

Put in his place a changeling - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Fairy Changeling"

Who put himself delightedly among the best of company - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"

We might put a song on your head - Danez Smith "Two Deer in a Southside Cemetery"

Put my riddle to the flying breeze - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Riddle of Life"

Puts the doubloons over my eyes - Frank Stanford "The Mind Reader"

Like a wind some hidden world put forth - George Sterling "A Character"

With tinsel crowns put by - George Sterling "The Faun"

Put mantles on our words - Wallace Stevens "Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly"

Put up no umbrellas to the rain - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson

As the world had put new glory on - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

As rain puts out a star - Sara Teasdale "The Kiss"

The heart puts love above it all - Derek Walcott "Summer Elegies II"

That puts its magic blossom forth and dies - Edith Wharton "Nothing More"

That can put the salt upon their tails - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"

Putting off the night's usual end - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"

The landscape puts on its black mask - Charles Wright "Sentences II"

Put my thoughts astray - W.B. Yeats “Tom the Lunatic”

To put a leash on a hummingbird - Matthew Zapruder "Letter to a Lover"

The spindle puts the moon to bed - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"

Put up with the devastation of wind - Zheng Min "Poverty" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


To insure that the output is defective - Duane Ackerson "The Dream Factory: Two Tours"


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