Potential Titles: Spend/Spent

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To spend the coin of our lives - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

To spend it on a half-finished freedom - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"

A thirst to spend our fire - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"

Spending a week in Forever - Mark Bibbins "At the End of the Endless Decade"

And spend pieces of your heart - Max Bodenheim "Girl"

Unable to spin or spend even a nickel's worth of lies - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"

Spends his whole life fishing in himself - Kurt Brown "Fisherman"

That burning heart of blood to spend - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"

Spend all of their time dying and coming back - Michael Dickman "From the Lives of My Friends"

The hour that we spend complacent - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"

Make the most of what we still may spend - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"

To spend a while in sleep - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Slow through the Dark"

The spending of the steam through years - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Two Rivers"

Would you spend money on this journey - Hannah Ensor "Agnes, a sleep"

Whenever I spend the day crying - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"

Spend years painting your soul - Nikita Gill "Your Heart Is Not a Hospital"

To spend all morning dreaming - Jalynn Harris "The Life of a Writer"

To brood, to hoard, to spend as rain - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"

Spend a night or two among the dead - John James "Le Moribond"

That spangle of Existence spend - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

The wind is spending all the roses - D.H. Lawrence "Love Storm"

In civic duty spend your heat - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

And spends three days washing out his ears - Lu Yu "Sending Tsu-lung Off to a Post in Chi-chou" transl. by Burton Watson

Where the Sun spends his fires - Fiona MacLeod "The Sorrow of Delight"

On the level plain its fury spends - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

Spending faster than it comes - "The Rakes of Mallow" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Make the most of what you still may spend - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Spend revenge upon myself - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLIX"

Spend my time rehearsing everything - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 171: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Talked to spend desire - John Wieners "In Public"

Spend all night fighting off the morning - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"

Betelgeuse is a hell of a way to spend a night - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers - William Wordsworth "The World Is Too Much With Us"

My frugal mouth spends the only foreign words it owns - Jenny Xie "Rootless"


Spendthrift.


All spent at Belial's shrine - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Seeds of spent summer - Mary Jo Bang "Interrupted Briefly by a Borrowed Phrase, the Scene Proceeds"

Hot hands ablaze with spent matches - Samiya Bashir "Second Law"

The spent sun passes out beneath an arch - Charles Baudelaire "Meditation" transl. by David Yezzi

Dense with the spent breath - Malachi Black "Entering Saint Patrick's Cathedral"

Used and spent, and then abandoned and passed by - Gordon Bottomley "New Year's Eve, 1913"

Raking the white spent embers - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

Spent what light Saturday sent - Jericho Brown "Odd Jobs"

Purpled evenings spent in pleasing toil - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"

Spent your love on the white cytisus ridges - [Annie Winifred Ellerman] Bryher "In Exile"

Spent their rich inheritance of years - H.I. Burt "From Their Dust"

The spent radiance of the winter sun - Joseph Campbell "The Old Woman"

Till nerve and force are spent - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto VI. Dyscomfyture"

Golden hours we freely spent - Arthur Colton "Twenty Years Hence"

Till life's poor transient night is spent - Cowper "Nightingale and Glow-worm" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 11, June 2, 1832]

The substance drilled and spent beyond repair - Hart Crane "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen"

A flickering light near spent - Adelaide Crapsey "Angelique"

About to fall shattered with flame spent - H.D. "Fragment Forty"

Across the spent fires of the night - Russell W. Davenport "Poems III"

Spent centuries cradled in mist - Natalia del Pilar "The Women of Matinino"

Peppered with a million spent moths - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Stranded with spent wing - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: V. Portrait of the Incomparable John Cowper Powys, Esq."

The casual slanting of a half-spent sun - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "Afterwards"

Spent casks of wind - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XVI"

Sunlight in the outer spaces spent - Nora May French "In Empty Courts"

Unveiled before the light was spent - Zona Gale "By My Side All Day Another Went"

Childhoods spent chasing the sun - Nikita Gill "Hekate: Tales from Across the World"

Four years I spent beneath his rule - C. L. Graves "The House-Master"

A week spent under raining skies - Robert Graves "Limbo"

As a spent eagle's voice is - Louise Imogen Guiney "Youth"

Squeeze sticky juice from the spent rind - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"

Spirit spent to coalesce - Marwa Helal "the days is numbered"

When the sands of life are spent - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"

That spent their strength against the unheeding shore - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Soothing"

Lie spent in star-defeated sighs - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XV"

Better than Years with Ibsen spent - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth - Rudyard Kipling "A Centurion of the Thirtieth"

All you bought with that spent year - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"

Spent in slumber just nine hundred years - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

At duty's summons spent - James Russell Lowell "Proposed for a Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Boston"

His strength was spent in the watery solitude - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]

Has spent a few lifetimes as snow - Anthony Madrid "Kiskindhakanda"

Of precious powers spent - Claude McKay "Futility"

Her siren voices spent - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Dead Favourites"

Consider how my light is spent - John Milton "Service"

The long hours spent sweating - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"

Finger those smooth substances spent - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly

Spent our childhood counting stones - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Spent my love on worthless toys - E. Nesbit "The Temptation"

Spirit spent by sterile tears - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons III. The Reckoning"

An invitation to freedom in each spent leaf - Margaret Noodin "Crooked Trees" transl. by the author

Spent with the storm of an aeon of tears - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Dives in Torment"

As spent pilgrims returning - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Thousands of miles spent in solitude - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"

The hope that's almost spent - Walter S. Percy "The Old Moon in the Arms of the New"

Stand uncovered, torn and battle-spent - Walter S. Percy "When I Survey"

More spent than stranded - Carl Phillips "The Raft"

Spent decades learning how best to melt - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

Rubble of the hours spent - Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes "pitter/patter"

While the last torch spent its flame - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"

Tell our stories of solitude spent in multitude - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Out of spent particles stirring - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

sacrifice to some stoned possession for blood spent - Ed Roberson "once the magnolia has blossomed"

Worn with spent emotion - Alice Wellington Rollins "Confession"

In the republic of the winking stars and spent cataclysms - Carl Sandburg "The Answer"

The spent wraith of tempests raging - Clinton Scollard "Sea Lyrics"

The spent stars from their orbits reel - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

In this change is my invention spent - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CV"

The last echoes of a thunder spent - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

Their storms and thunders spent - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

My day is spent too far toward night - Anne Spencer "Questing" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Force in name of justice spent - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"

Stood in the cool of spent emotions - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

At night when her gold-light is spent - Charles Swain "The Ship 'Extravagance'" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

When all the clouds have spent their fire - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"

spent my days staring into the eye of the Baltic - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"

The passion of heaven spent - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Has spent this snow out of envy - William Carlos Williams "M. B."

A moment spent with love - Humbert Wolfe "The Trembling Brim"

The spent shallow seas - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"

Who's spent his life trying to photograph ghosts - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

The space of the spent atom's race - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"


To gather the days misspent - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

From out the tomb of my young misspent years - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

To make up for time misspent - Mrs. Turner "The Truant"


Weary with million miles, the sore-spent star-beams come - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"


For the rapture of storm-spent eyes - Algernon Swinburne "Insularum Ocelle"


Unspent.


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