Potential Titles: Temple

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Altars unfed and temples overturned - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"

Whose temple bright holds earth and sky - Grant Balfour "Where Union Dwelt"

Where Fame's proud temple shines - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Its temple of otherlight and salt - William Brewer "Halfway House Diary"

In this temple of green silence - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

Dwells in Temples never made by hands - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"

Ganymede fleeing on a temple frieze - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"

Seeks friendship within a veiled temple - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"

The destroyer of temples forgot the igniting formula - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan

Night has become a temple for my tears - Olive Custance "Grief"

While one temple pulses an arrhythmic lament - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"

To Fame's high temple climb - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

For the mart or for the temple - Edward Dowden "Michelangelesque"

The many Temples rising fair - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

Temples and altars sunkindled for me - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Worship in no temple but the weather - Dana Gioia "Autumn Inaugural"

Through golden temples, portals red - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XL"

In the temple of recording fame - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

The shatter'd temple of the soul - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

In Memory's temple shrined - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"

A temple on top of a hill at the bottom of the sky - Edward Hirsch "A Greek Island"

And erected temples like thunderheads - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"

Weighed us down as Samson in the temple - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"

The bell at the seaside temple - Kaneko Misuzu "Whale Memorial" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

Entrusted to the bodyguard of the temple - Manal Kara "[Country people enjoy dogs ...]"

Within the Temple caught - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Tiny temples where lizards worship - Angel Leal "Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father"

Wrought dice-cups in Pagan temples - Amy Lowell "Solitaire"

The temples that challenged the aeons - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

If temples must be built to crime - "The Martyrs' Monument" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

When he might build him a proud temple there - "Memorials [Who that surveys this span of earth we press]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

That burns in Fame's high temple - Robert Morris "The Student's Dream of Fame"

On the brutal temple stone - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

What keeps the temple of imagination burning - Idra Novey "Value City"

Construct temples to worship their Perfect Numbers - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"

That led to Salem's towers and temple high - J. Rheyn Piksohn "A Contrasted Picture: from 'Passion Ode,' an Unpublished Poem" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

A Fairy Temple with one niche empty - Po-Chu-i "Taoism and Buddhism" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Placed at the ancient heart of a temple - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"

Before the temple of the Night - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"

Twenty temples in a granite crown - George Santayana "Avila"

In each man's heart a secret temple - Frederick George Scott "Idols"

to strip sunlight from our temples - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"

Half its glowing temples fall to ash - George Sterling "A Visitor"

Set shining foot on temple roof - Robert Louis Stevenson "To Will. H. Low"

Sacred nymphs from temples near - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"

Mid Ether's columned temples - "Superior Nonsense Verses"

Away to other heights and other temples - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"

Kicking stones across the temple yard - Keith Taylor "Aegina: After School"

Ruined temples half-buried in sand - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

This temple is a house not made with hands - Edith Wharton "Segesta"

Guarding the temple gates of peace - Helen Hay Whitney "Malua"

Temples soothed by sun to ruin - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"


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