Potential Titles: Spell

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The spell will only work if you don't choke - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

No spells or runes to bind her - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

Bioluminescence spells out in abstract typography - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

Secret spells of some kind sage - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Witchy trinities mixed spells in flower cups - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

The spell of sleep to break - Albion Fellows Bacon "Silent Keys"

Sheds the glory of its spell - Benjamin West Ball "The Indian Summer"

Cunningly reared and held as by a spell - William Rose Benét "The City"

Binding spells of silence and hope - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"

The first rain to break a dry spell - William Brewer "Dog Days"

A spell more adored and heartbreaking - Emily Bronte "III [Loud without the wind was roaring]"

With the old spell of its eyes - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A June Memory"

That spell upon the minds of men - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"

A spell and inward voice - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

To trace the hidden spell's dark origin - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

Nor winged spells incite the soul again - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"

And could words unseal the spell - John Clare "The Meeting"

So potent are the spells they know - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Silver Wedding"

Spells from buried mountain oracles - Arthur Colton "Verses from 'The Canticle of the Road'"

The fatal spell of the betrayer's art - Benjamin Copeland "Betrayed"

Those spells that lured me to the stately North - William Cory "Amavi"

The spell that lurks in twilight - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

With the spell of Fire and Dew - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Answer"

Night-wrought spells about me thrown - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

A strong though nameless spell - Rev. Thomas Dale "The Anniversary"

How she draws me with her spell - Danske Dandridge "Lost at Sea"

The spell and music of the moon - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva

Him they stole with spells and charms - Walter de la Mare "Peak and Puke"

Nothing ever breaks the ancient spell - Salomon de la Selva "Tropical Town"

Spells of women and smiths and wizards - "The Deer's Cry" transl. by Kuno Meyer

The spell of the sea's one scent - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

Our yellowed labels all spell doom - Boris Dralyuk "Emigre Library"

From the spell of childhood's dream - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

From the spell of abject longing - Elaine Equi "The Objects in Fairy Tales"

Of birds casting spells - Elaine Equi "Reset"

Unlock the witches' midnight spell - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Bends the flora to her spells - Megan Fernandes "In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife"

A spell for becoming untraceable - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen B"

We have to use a spell to make them balance - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"

Tried to spell his dream - Zona Gale "The Kilbourn Road"

With the cold spell of her enchantments - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Bear it with thee as a spell - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"

A spell to blast the weed - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

Commanding the spells of a Circe - C. L. Graves "On Re-Reading 'Barchester Towers'"

Such the spell that binds me now - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Where first you were bound by the magic spell - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

With magic spell had taught my untaught heart - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

O'ertaken as by some spell divine - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

The spell is on thine hand - Robert Stephen Hawker "Featherstone's Doom"

As balanced by a spell - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

All your spells around them cast - Felicia Hemans "Invocation"

To breathe some spell of holiness - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"

Some spell of undefined control - Felicia Hemans "To the Eye"

No spell her pleasure blighted - Oliver Herford "The Fairy Godmother-in-Law I: The Wedding"

A spell that forced him to obey - Oliver Herford "The Wakeful Princess"

With spells and ghouls more dread by far - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

With spells and ghouls more dread - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

May escape the spell of the South - Langston Hughes "The South"

Where mountains throw their silent spell - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"

That spells are made of words - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"

While the sand whispered spells of protection - Marcus Jackson "Evasive Me"

A nightly spell of sleep falls heavy - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

Chafe against the secret spell - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

No spell to waken sense - Fanny Kemble "To a Picture"

Barren days, stale loves and broken spells - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"

Your fierce and tyrannous spells - Archibald Lampman "Storm"

Entomb blind joy in its spell - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"

What store of unexhausted spells - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

The floor is littered with unfinished spells - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"

With dread fantastic spells - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

Baleful philters, withering spells - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"

Bears a melody laden with spells - Henry S. Leigh "Bow Bells"

A strong spell for reversal - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

For her completer spell - James Russell Lowell "Eleanor Makes Macaroons"

Toward dawn a cold spell - Mao Wen-hsi "[I mustn't ask about him]" transl. by Burton Watson

Three spells I have laid on the rising sun - Don Marquis "The Sailor's Wife Speaks"

Weave a spell of silence for my voice - Theodore Maynard "Silence"

Can yield to melody's sweet spell - J.C. McCabe "First Love"

Underneath a spell of heat and light - Claude McKay "To One Coming North"

How lunacy spells people - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

The spell that charms your sleep - Herman Melville "John Marr and Other Sailors"

To spell the letters of the sky - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Will know how green is spelled - W.S. Merwin "Tracing the Letters"

The spell of half-memories, the touch of half tears - William Moore "Dusk Song"

Murderous spells and dark enchantments - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Harvesting spells with their hands - Erika Murcia "Serpents I"

Under the spell of dazzling kaleidoscopic lights - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"

Before whose shrine the spells of Death are vain - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"

Fractured into maps and spells - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"

Her mantling spell of silver - Grace Nichols "The Shilling and the Princess"

Where I weave my strongest spell - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"

body charmed, spell bent, toward progressing - Porsha Olayiwola "Twerk Villanelle"

The spell of rushing stream - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Spelling ruination in the veins of your wrist - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"

Between spells of rain - Carl Phillips "Immaculate Each Leaf, And Every Flower"

As if silence were a kind of spell - Carl Phillips "A Little Closer Though, If You Can, For What Got Lost Here"

A spell against indifference - Carl Phillips "Sing a Darkness"

A witching spell about us throw - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"

Attend the spell of his voice - Edgar A. Poe "Israfel"

Beneath the spell of June - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Brother Filippo"

The struggle that spelled my bones - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Passe Blanc"

With the spell of broken dreams - William Carman Roberts "An Easter Memory"

What unearthly spell returns - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

Spells that writhe on the pulsing quartz walls - Lorraine Schein "Merlin"

Yield them to the spell - Clinton Scollard "Wild Geese"

Dry spells flooded with demand - Cedar Sigo "Like Stride"

That still survive their altars by their spells - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Spelling words with pills spilled - Aaron Smith "Still Life with Antidepressants"

The little spell of emptiness - Bruce Smith "Ferment"

As one whom spells restrain - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"

The spell of waves intense with night - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"

The bleak and bitter spell - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"

Casting smoke like a spell - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

Stars cast lingering spells - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"

Breaks the spell of the ancient, numbered hours - A.E. Stallings "First Miracle"

The spell of tree, wave, and dell - Alfred B. Street "Racket River"

The spell of the mage of music - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

On Dante's track by some funereal spell - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Cast her own spell of bloom and blood - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"

Village green and woodland spells - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"

Caught old Time with potent spells - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"

Whispered spells and shameful lore - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

The frozen spell of solitude supreme - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets: 1. The Glacier"

Under the spell of your guilt - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

The iron tomb dissolve its spell - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

Lyre, or lute, or subtle spell - Oscar Wilde "My Voice"

By talisman or spell coerce - Richard Wilbur "Trismegistus"

Sacred solace and enchanting spell - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Under the beneficence of a minor spell - Baron Wormser "Anecdotes"

Hooded cobra bound by hollow spells of sound - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

The cold spell that catches us - Kevin Young "Ditty"


Spell-bound vagabond of spurious birth - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Spellbound, listening to the voice of Time - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Spellbound, silent, down a shimmering track of light - Alan Sullivan "The Widower's Lullaby"

The spellbound horses walking warm - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"


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