Potential Titles: Part

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In a ship made of recycled parts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Advice on Love from an Astronaut with a Failing Memory"

Make me part of your nests - Francisco X. Alarcon "Prayer of the Fallen Tree"

But some part of me still flattered - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

That subterfuge is part of poetry - Julia Alvarez "Undercover Poet"

Part of this memory is a simulation - Leslie J. Anderson "I Understand Video Games Aren't Real"

Made rivers part and mountains cry - Elizabeth Bartlett "Reflected in Brass"

Could build the universe from one tiny part - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

One part of me would become a ghost - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"

Love me in the lightest part - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Man's Requirements"

Parted in silence and tears - Lord Byron "When we Two parted"

When storms prepare to part - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"

Their immortal part rebelled - C.P. Cavafy "The Horses of Achilles" (translated by John Marvrogordato)

And an eagle parted the sky - Tina Chang "Sugar"

By death or distance parted - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"

Slow to part with her best gifts - Florence Earle Coates "Probation"

And bear your parts in the battle - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"

Too well they act the prophet's fatal part - George Crabbe "The Library"

See but a part of the gloomy world - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Don't Be Afraid"

No flower ever parted silver - H.D. "Pear Tree"

So that every part will be of service - Toi Derricotte "Not Forgotten"

A part of yourself lost battling the shark - Alda do Espirito Santo "The Same Side of the Canoe" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver

Patched him together with spirit gum and spare parts - Denise Dumars "The Golem"

Part of us always stays back - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Heart Has Four Chambers"

One part honey, one part curse - Cornelius Eady "Miss Look's Dream (Miss Look)"

Know a small part of the invisible - Katherine Edgren "This Morning, My Father"

Part of a divine conversation - Elaine Equi "National Poetry Month"

Saved some part of a day I had rued - Robert Frost "Dust of Snow"

Parts into halls and ridges - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: I"

Parted by the stroke of a mighty rod - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"

Doomed long to part - Thomas Hardy "The Old Gown"

Part of this web of motion - Joy Harjo "Skeleton of Winter"

A part of thy remotest time - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Worship"

One part water and three parts smoke - Florence Hoatson "Jerry"

What parts them but a fleeting breath? - Edwin R. Johnson "Who Knows?" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

His but the herald's part - Lionel Johnson "Parnell"

The heavy part the music bears - Ben Jonson "Echo's Lament for Narcissus"

Each parts contains the pattern of the whole - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Where doors of sunset part - Emma Lazarus "1492"

A tone partly nervous and partly disdainful - Henry S. Leigh "Shabby-Genteel"

The table ripe with fruits and metal parts - Angela Liu "The Machine Family"

Nor for any outward part - "Love Not Me for Comely Grace"

From me what adamant can part - Anonymous "Loyalty Confined"

This place of nine parts death - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson

Bears his part in that conflict dire - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

This part replays itself - Thomas Lynch "A Dream of Death in the First-Person"

Part siren and part Socrates - Percy MacKaye "France"

From the deepest parts of night - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"

Light parted by shadow-dance - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"

Assume the changeable parts of fate - John McCarthy "At Six I Learned How to Cook"

Patience and pain on the part of the scientist - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"

A small part of the habitat's rapture - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"

Claims but the beggar's part - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"

We kill the parts of us, or at least bury the bones - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

Your thorns are the best part of you - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"

No part in restoring the fence - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"

How coldly bright the memory of their parted light - Morna "Ianthe"

As a wary duck parted from its mate - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Will bring you parts and pieces - Walter Dean Myers "Dana Greene, 18, Education Major, City College"

My scattered parts of seemings, stories, splinters - Shweta Narayan "Triumph XV: Vetala"

The song that parts everyone's trouble - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"

A pure part of the abyss - Pablo Neruda "Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid

Bids the leaves of silence part - E. Nesbit "Song"

A small part of the calamity - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"

Though the part obscured the whole - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Which part of the dream is me - Mary Oliver "Riprap"

A part of the untouchable clouds - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"

Part of the fabric of earth - January Gill O'Neil "In Praise of Okra"

Determined in part by water - Ladan Osman "The scalps of the women with the best prophecies are dry this season"

Parted indeed by more than makes the Sea - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

That could embrace a tenth part - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

All parts of you surfacing for air - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"

The better part of conquest - Carl Phillips "The Wedding"

Who made a broken man from parts of broken men - Meghan Phillips "The Bride of Frankenstein Considers Her Options"

Could part the earth with our voices - Sasha Pimentel "Lament of Submerged Persons"

Part vulture, part wolf - E.J. Pratt "The Shark"

Severed the angriest part of me - Khadijah Queen "Synesthesia"

Renounce some part of politics and faith - Paisley Rekdal "Wild Horses"

Who parted waters with a glistening tusk - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"

a part of them dwindling into oblivion - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"

A part of some vague yesterday - Margaret E. Sangster "Five Sonnets: V. Moon-Glow"

Bequeathing their immortal part to us - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

In equal parts infernal & divine - Ann K. Schwader "The Winds of Sesqua Valley"

Part of the road's story - Diane Seuss "Toad"

Hands that meet to part - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Vale"

Who acting soon a reckless part - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"

Our lives part of the elemental clock - Marge Simon "The Astronaut's Return"

Part of a storm that changes everything - Kim Stafford "Advice from a Raindrop"

A small part only of my grief - James Stephens "Skim Milk"

A small part of the pantomime - Wallace Stevens "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"

The pearls in the part of her hair - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 85: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Parts of my heart are missing - Joyce Sutphen "The Temptation to Invent"

Resistance has no part in it - Mary Szybist "Again, the Body as Temple"

Brier and bramble act the parts - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"

Venice and Naples learned their part - Henry David Thoreau "A River Scene"

Clay and spirit must now part - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut

Thorns in the part of memory you cannot reach - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"

My hands part from the unriveted faith - Iris Tree "[Be perfect--for I love thee more in thought]"

The dark itself parted to let us pass - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Latent"

The future moves from one part to another - Chase Twichell "Inland"

Each minstrel weaves his part - Henry van Dyke "The Echo in the Heart"

Plays his part to no applause - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Colorful Actor"

From this harvest part of our lives - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"

In this new symmetry you have no part - Helen Hay Whitney "Ave atque Vale"

Tricked for a part of woe - Charlotte Wilson "The Heart Knoweth"

Ten parts bark and no parts bite - Allan Wolf "Mars: A Martian Sonnet"

A part of greater beauties than inform your heart - Humbert Wolfe "Cambridge"

equal parts atom and emptiness - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"


The cobras are partial to grass - Barry Pain "Martin Luther at Potsdam"

Where the partial precedes the whole - Maggie Smith "Voting-Machine"


Corrupt by over-partial looks - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVII"


To death's dark door of parting - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Bitter partings at its gate - Charlotte Bronte "The Teacher's Monologue"

Softly from their parting buds uncoil - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Of partings and of tears - D.A. Casey "The Spouse of Christ"

Were strays of parting grief - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

One parting, ten thousand regrets - Ch'in Chia [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)

Twice parting by your tears - Annie Rothwell Christie "The Woman's Part"

One parting dream of summer - Christopher Pearce Cranch "December"

Enamoured of the parting west - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXXIV"

The clouds of the future parting - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

The last track of parting light - "Flora: a Vision"

The knell of parting day - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Some parting of the beaten sky - Linda Gregerson "The Turning"

The meteor-bearer of our parting breath - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"

At the last of all our partings - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

The tender dread of parting - Alfred Hayes "My Study"

Mystic questions of the parting mind - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Now parting into scattered companies - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"

Crossed the deserts of parting - Ahmet Igamberdi "My Star" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

To soothe our parting hour - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

And in her train the hour of parting - Fanny Kemble "To Miss ---"

Blake's angel parting willow leaves - Stephen Kuusisto "Only Bread, Only Light"

Whose heart is torn with parting - D.H. Lawrence "Going Back"

The fibres of the heart parting - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"

Taste the spurn of parting Fortune's heel - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

The pale pewter path of the trees' parting - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"

A glimpse of brightness, parting and pain - Edith Wharton "Nothing More"

Remains to catch the parting ray - Anna Williams "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"


Joy that seems the counterpart of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"


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