Potential Titles: Planet
Apr. 7th, 2011 10:55 pmThe planet's blood is on our hands - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Myself on a swiftly tilting planet - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"
Cast them beyond the planet's sphere - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
His breathing is that of planets - Daisy Aldan "He Has Entered Midnight"
In a raindrop's compass lie a planet's elements - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
So many attempts at pacifying this planet - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"
Other planets dark as earth - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"
Among the cool planets, all uninhabitable - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
And the planet-chorded Lyre - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
Behold a silver planet rise - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"
Shakes the whirling planets with a kiss - Maurice Baring "Wagner"
The planets between their fingers - Elizabeth Bartlett "City Game: Marbles"
And the planets were lost in her blaze - James Beattie "The Hermit"
Every fiery orb and planet sung - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
When your braggarts of planets fade - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"
All planet years in yours mind's embrace - William Rose Benét "Imagination"
Relatives on other planets - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"
Too dense for any dark planet - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Planets in their astonishing alignment - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych ii. Singing You Up"
The flat planet of the mirror - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"
Within the system of blind planets - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
The miniature moon of some perfect little planet - Russell Brakefield "After the Labor Day Procession"
Under the white awe of planets - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
To turn the soul-shaking planet - Cyrus Cassells "The World That the Shooter Left Us"
Behind the rose the planet - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Planets pale in violet skies - Willa Cather "Song"
Today the planet travels on another orbit - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
their name fierce on the planet - Lucille Clifton "amazons"
no planet stranger - Lucille Clifton "note, passed to superman"
My handhold on the planet is no longer tiny - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Between the planets' pewter light - Chris Dombrowski "Boreal"
The Milder Planets did combine - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
Shake off this planet's weight - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy for the Eleven: 4. The Mud Room"
Waking up every morning on a different planet - Elaine Equi "Earth, You Have Returned to Me" [Poetry Dec. 2016]
A planet forgotten in the infinite - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Blood Moon Triptych"
How the moon makes the planets pale - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
From the blood of incalculable planets - Nikita Gill "Your Heart Is Not a Hospital"
A million silver planets spun - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"
Sun was our planet - Mónica Gomery "Ghazal for a First Lover"
Luminous with planets to light the rain - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
Branches reaching the planet heart - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"
Reaching the planet heart by the billions - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"
Two big planets of unpainted silence - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"
As the planet Mercury would allow - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"
The ascendant of a giant gaseous planet - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
A flat frozen pond suspended between the planets - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"
Gifted this planet with all of its lemon trees - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"
And flung the planets over his shoulder - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
A bride burning like her own planet - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"
That ache and echo of planets - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
Weighing the planet in his palm - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"
Fomenting revolutions on alien planets - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Jumping into the System"
Under the crust of the next planet - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Supersonic Rocketeers"
Who occupied every planet worth having - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"
Named great planets in their orbits race - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
War's red and lurid planet - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"
Last night's planets and stars - Li Shang-yin "[Last night's planets and stars]" transl. by Burton Watson
In an anguish of dark planets - Federico Garcia Lorca "Gacela of the Terrible Presence" (translated by W.S. Merwin)
In longing for shadowy planets - Federico Garcia Lorca "Ghazal of the Terrible Presence" (translated by Catherine Brown)
Hold still the planetary language - Canisia Lubrin "In the Vault of Morning"
With a planet's lonely burden - Percy MacKaye "To William Watson in England"
The absence of a planet's borrowed light - Naomi Long Madgett "Without"
And orphaned planets lose the joy of motion - George Martin "Laleet"
No longer offering the planet violence - Harry Martinson "Aniara 25" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The day that the planet circles the night we began - Cate Marvin "Why I Am Afraid of Turning the Page"
And the planets circle to eclipse - John Masefield "The Haunted"
Eater of sun murdered planets - Louise Mathias "What If the Invader Is Beautiful"
A woman with planets in her hair - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"
By this dark-winged planet - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
The petals of dead planets eaten - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
This comet could scour the planet - Harryette Mullen "Black Nikes"
In the heights of the newly scarred planet - Pablo Neruda "Chile's Voices" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Black fire of an exiled planet - Pablo Neruda "Leviathan" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Adds itself to the weight of the planet - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid
Behind a planet of swords - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Have the seeds of planets - Pablo Neruda "To the Traveler" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Far from the planet's shivering - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The horse of her will like a planet - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
Moons of a faraway planet - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You"
The evening's first radiance of planets - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Naming the Heartbeats"
Though blazing suns and planets rolled between - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]
The wisdom of a planet as it burns - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"
Traveling the planet under racks of final sales - Idra Novey "Value City"
A justification for the planet's continuance - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"
The full, harmonious display of stars and planets - Robert Pack "Big Bang" [Poetry, January 1988]
Like planets to her sun - Linda Pastan "Elizabethan"
Some of my ghosts are planets - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
Each minor Planet which around him twines - Philo "The Tribute"
The moons of unknown planets - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"
That move as planets beckon in the night - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [Fantasy Fan v.1, no.11, July 1934]
Larger planets swim the liquid zone - George Santayana "Mont Brevent"
The dead, blundering planets raining past - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Night"
Such the gifts our planet proffers - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
The golden queens of planets long forgot - Clark Ashton Smith "Requiescat in Pace"
Of worlds unborn and planets that have been - Alan Sullivan "A Question"
Between planets and parabolas - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"
Pierced through by far-off singing planets - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
Tired of planets and suns - Katherine Tynan "The Making of Birds"
Each great nocturnal planet steadfast - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Pulls even at hanging planets - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "A Field of Onions: Brown Onions"
Great planets slip their arcs as the small pale stars multiply - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Such undreamed distances as the last planets see - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
The color of their planet's birthright - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
From the planet's hard side - Valerie Worth "Bull"
Reddest, softest island of my last planet, last aureola - Dean Young "Colophon"
And the dead planets race unlighted - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
The blue gauze of planetary motion - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen i"
Irradiate as the astral glow of planetary lustre - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The light of the mind, cold and planetary - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
A maenad in the planetary dance - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Lost within hibernation and missing mother-planet - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]
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Myself on a swiftly tilting planet - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"
Cast them beyond the planet's sphere - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
His breathing is that of planets - Daisy Aldan "He Has Entered Midnight"
In a raindrop's compass lie a planet's elements - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
So many attempts at pacifying this planet - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"
Other planets dark as earth - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"
Among the cool planets, all uninhabitable - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
And the planet-chorded Lyre - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
Behold a silver planet rise - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"
Shakes the whirling planets with a kiss - Maurice Baring "Wagner"
The planets between their fingers - Elizabeth Bartlett "City Game: Marbles"
And the planets were lost in her blaze - James Beattie "The Hermit"
Every fiery orb and planet sung - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
When your braggarts of planets fade - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"
All planet years in yours mind's embrace - William Rose Benét "Imagination"
Relatives on other planets - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"
Too dense for any dark planet - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Planets in their astonishing alignment - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych ii. Singing You Up"
The flat planet of the mirror - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"
Within the system of blind planets - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
The miniature moon of some perfect little planet - Russell Brakefield "After the Labor Day Procession"
Under the white awe of planets - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
To turn the soul-shaking planet - Cyrus Cassells "The World That the Shooter Left Us"
Behind the rose the planet - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Planets pale in violet skies - Willa Cather "Song"
Today the planet travels on another orbit - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
their name fierce on the planet - Lucille Clifton "amazons"
no planet stranger - Lucille Clifton "note, passed to superman"
My handhold on the planet is no longer tiny - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Between the planets' pewter light - Chris Dombrowski "Boreal"
The Milder Planets did combine - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
Shake off this planet's weight - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy for the Eleven: 4. The Mud Room"
Waking up every morning on a different planet - Elaine Equi "Earth, You Have Returned to Me" [Poetry Dec. 2016]
A planet forgotten in the infinite - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Blood Moon Triptych"
How the moon makes the planets pale - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
From the blood of incalculable planets - Nikita Gill "Your Heart Is Not a Hospital"
A million silver planets spun - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"
Sun was our planet - Mónica Gomery "Ghazal for a First Lover"
Luminous with planets to light the rain - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
Branches reaching the planet heart - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"
Reaching the planet heart by the billions - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"
Two big planets of unpainted silence - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"
As the planet Mercury would allow - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"
The ascendant of a giant gaseous planet - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
A flat frozen pond suspended between the planets - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"
Gifted this planet with all of its lemon trees - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"
And flung the planets over his shoulder - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
A bride burning like her own planet - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"
That ache and echo of planets - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
Weighing the planet in his palm - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"
Fomenting revolutions on alien planets - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Jumping into the System"
Under the crust of the next planet - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Supersonic Rocketeers"
Who occupied every planet worth having - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"
Named great planets in their orbits race - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
War's red and lurid planet - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"
Last night's planets and stars - Li Shang-yin "[Last night's planets and stars]" transl. by Burton Watson
In an anguish of dark planets - Federico Garcia Lorca "Gacela of the Terrible Presence" (translated by W.S. Merwin)
In longing for shadowy planets - Federico Garcia Lorca "Ghazal of the Terrible Presence" (translated by Catherine Brown)
Hold still the planetary language - Canisia Lubrin "In the Vault of Morning"
With a planet's lonely burden - Percy MacKaye "To William Watson in England"
The absence of a planet's borrowed light - Naomi Long Madgett "Without"
And orphaned planets lose the joy of motion - George Martin "Laleet"
No longer offering the planet violence - Harry Martinson "Aniara 25" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The day that the planet circles the night we began - Cate Marvin "Why I Am Afraid of Turning the Page"
And the planets circle to eclipse - John Masefield "The Haunted"
Eater of sun murdered planets - Louise Mathias "What If the Invader Is Beautiful"
A woman with planets in her hair - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"
By this dark-winged planet - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
The petals of dead planets eaten - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
This comet could scour the planet - Harryette Mullen "Black Nikes"
In the heights of the newly scarred planet - Pablo Neruda "Chile's Voices" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Black fire of an exiled planet - Pablo Neruda "Leviathan" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Adds itself to the weight of the planet - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid
Behind a planet of swords - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Have the seeds of planets - Pablo Neruda "To the Traveler" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Far from the planet's shivering - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The horse of her will like a planet - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
Moons of a faraway planet - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You"
The evening's first radiance of planets - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Naming the Heartbeats"
Though blazing suns and planets rolled between - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]
The wisdom of a planet as it burns - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"
Traveling the planet under racks of final sales - Idra Novey "Value City"
A justification for the planet's continuance - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"
The full, harmonious display of stars and planets - Robert Pack "Big Bang" [Poetry, January 1988]
Like planets to her sun - Linda Pastan "Elizabethan"
Some of my ghosts are planets - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
Each minor Planet which around him twines - Philo "The Tribute"
The moons of unknown planets - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"
That move as planets beckon in the night - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [Fantasy Fan v.1, no.11, July 1934]
Larger planets swim the liquid zone - George Santayana "Mont Brevent"
The dead, blundering planets raining past - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Night"
Such the gifts our planet proffers - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
The golden queens of planets long forgot - Clark Ashton Smith "Requiescat in Pace"
Of worlds unborn and planets that have been - Alan Sullivan "A Question"
Between planets and parabolas - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"
Pierced through by far-off singing planets - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
Tired of planets and suns - Katherine Tynan "The Making of Birds"
Each great nocturnal planet steadfast - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Pulls even at hanging planets - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "A Field of Onions: Brown Onions"
Great planets slip their arcs as the small pale stars multiply - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Such undreamed distances as the last planets see - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
The color of their planet's birthright - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
From the planet's hard side - Valerie Worth "Bull"
Reddest, softest island of my last planet, last aureola - Dean Young "Colophon"
And the dead planets race unlighted - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
The blue gauze of planetary motion - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen i"
Irradiate as the astral glow of planetary lustre - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The light of the mind, cold and planetary - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
A maenad in the planetary dance - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Lost within hibernation and missing mother-planet - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]
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