Potential Titles: Steep

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She walked on the edge of the steep - "Agnes and the Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Of henbane steeped in chaff - Maya Angelou "To a Freedom Fighter"

Rolls headlong down the steep - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Isolation, quite steep and slanting - Emily Berry "Freud's War"

My steep track of anguish and tears - Vera M. Brittain "A Parting Word"

Steeped in memories most fair - Richard Burton "The Two Raptures"

Morning mounting up the saffron steep - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

Who climbed the rugged steep - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Steeped in sodium and stir-fry - Wo Chan "[What makes you possible?]"

And drink twice-steeped tea - Ching-In Chen "Inside me, a family"

Up the inhuman steeps of space - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

In steep fields - Hilda Conkling "The Brook and its Children"

lead us into the serious steep darkness - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"

Steeped in burning flowers - ee cummings "Crepuscule"

from steep hills by darkness softly brought - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

And steep our hearts in stillness - Danske Dandridge "Silence"

The quiet steeps of dreamland - Walter de la Mare "Nod"

Too steep for memory to climb - Chris Dombrowski "Naive Melody"

Betwixt the gates of steepest heaven - Edward Dowden "The Morning Star"

Faltering that the road is steep - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Slow through the Dark"

The steep pitch of the water's ceilings - Chiyuma Elliott "Dear Little Song"

Where the hazel bank is steepest - Ettrick Shepherd "A Boy's Song"

The steep water of your making - Conrad Hilberry "For Katharine, 1952-1961"

With that steep or deep - Gerard Manley Hopkins "41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]"

Like a steep shower of snakes - Richard Hughes "Storm: to the Theme of Polyphemus"

The magical misrule of the steep world - Robinson Jeffers "Ocean"

Trespassing among the steep stars - Robinson Jeffers "October Evening"

All steeped in starry dew - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"

In the steep twilight descending - Keetje Kuipers "Emesis"

Their soft dyes had steeped my soul - Dorothea Mackellar "Colour"

The stars precipitously steep - Naomi Long Madgett "Star Journey"

In steep sky granaries - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"

The steep flight of dark angels - N. Scott Momaday "War Chronicle"

The steepness of my soul - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Catskills Retreat"

The golden steep straight sunbeam-stair - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

A point more steep in rot - Carl Phillips "Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm"

Gone steep with twilight - Carl Phillips "Sky Coming Forward"

Steep his song in sunlit splendor - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

The Earth has steeped in longing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"

Heights too steep for thought to climb - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Mind of the Mystic"

The upward path so steep and long - Matthew Russell, S.J. "A Thought from Cardinal Newman"

Steeper than a traveller's story - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

A silky frenzy steeps the wetlands - Philip Schultz "Welcome to the Springs"

The steep sky's commotion - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

Beech trees steeped in silence - Jean M. Snyder "Remembering (Locheven)"

August crickets steeped in silence - Richard Solomon "Storm (for TYD)"

From the hidden, jagged steeps - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"

Steep crags with thunders rimmed - Alfred B. Street "The Upper Saranac"

Tears to steep the wind with - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Through darkness naked and steep - Algernon Swinburne "Sleep"

To steep in hues of beauty - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"

Five times as steep and wild - Edward van de Vendel "Grandma Knitting"

To steep their drowsy bloom in the tide - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

Across the steeps and stairs - Thomas Walsh "Egidio of Coimbra--1597 A.D."

Steep my senses in oblivion's balm - Thomas Warton Jr. "Ode to Sleep"

Vineyards steeped in ardent hours - William Watson "A Child's Hair"

Where high walls shade the steep old streets - Mary Webb "Market Day"

Though steep her secret dwelling clings - Edith Wharton "Dieu d'Amour [a Castle in Cyprus]"

Converse with the steeps of starry heaven - Helen Hay Whitney "The Dead Night"

Of wine with bitter hemlock steep'd - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


The unclouded glow of sun-steeped skies - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

The sound of sun-steeped weather - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"


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