Potential Titles: Oak

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Down by the oaks tonight - Seth Abramson "The Woods in Concord"

An oak more bountiful with time - Francisco X. Alarcon "A Tree for Cesar Chavez"

Easy as inventing an oak tree - Hala Alyan "Step Two: Higher Power"

Creeping around the huge oak with its blossoms of gold - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Put my arms around a tall oak - Zeina Azzam "Hugging the Tree"

Twines with oak the laurel leaves - James Beattie "Ode on Lord Hay's Birth-Day. 13th May, 1767"

Starved and wind-bitten oak - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"

Strikes the stones with his oaken stick - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

The oak trees are entirely emptiness - Jaswinder Bolina "Stump Speech"

Thick oaks grow on the mountain - "The Book of Odes: No.132. Swift Is That Falcon" transl. by Burton Watson

From out the thickleaved oaken shade - Sterling A. Brown "Return"

Who of old would rend the oak - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"

With thunders from her native oak - Thomas Campbell "Ye Mariners of England"

In purple ash and crimson oak - Bliss Carman "The Deserted Pasture"

Pry dirt from the roots of an ancient oak - Dorsey Craft "The Wife's Lament: A Retelling"

by oaks and roses deliberated - E. E. Cummings "Songs (II)"

The hollow oak our palace - Allan Cunningham "At Sea"

Oak, earth and waves - "The Dance of the Sword"

Upon the old roots of an oak - Danske Dandridge "The Night Watch"

The oaks lean into the wind - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"

Out of lilac, out of oak - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"

Listen to the rustling of mutant oak leaves - Kendall Evans "Oracle"

The mourner lays his head on the cold oak - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"

Rules every power in oak and olive-trunk - Michael Field "In Monte Fanno"

The dying vine can hold the strongest oak - John Gould Fletcher "The Old Love and the New"

The fort over against the oak-wood - "The Fort of Rathangan"

As measured against maple, birch, and oak - Robert Frost "The Onset"

Outside my door under the ancient oak - Elizabeth W. Garber "Feasting"

Like oak twigs twisted - Winnie Lewis Gravitt "Sippokni Sia"

Fallen beneath a foreign oak - Louise Imogen Guiney "Chaluz Castle"

From the martyr-oak's charred breast - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

Where English oak and holly and laurel wreaths entwine - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Singing among young oak leaves - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "April Will Come"

Hung on a bare-branched oak - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"

The fractaled branches of three oaks - Conrad Hilberry "A Body Between"

Above the crown of oak and elm - Conrad Hilberry "March Birthday"

Deep in the oak's chill core - William D. Howells "In Earliest Spring"

Live oak spirits in dancer's pose - fahima ife "porous aftermath"

The branches of the soldier oak - Emily Pauline Johnson "Autumn's Orchestra"

The sturdy oaks and the stately pines - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"

Many a giant oak is sleeping - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"

Like rooted oak and pine - William J. Kershaw "The Indian's Salute to His Country"

The large green of an oak fronting the storm - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer

That breed huge oaks and old - Rudyard Kipling "Sussex"

Respectfully opening oak by oak - Ted Kooser "A Fox"

The oak trees are scattering valentines over the snow - Ted Kooser " In a Light Late-Winter Wind"

Winds that strain the oak - Archibald Lampman "Voices of Earth"

The cool of an oak's unchequred shade - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"

Uprooted is our mountain oak - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Filtered through the beech and oak - James Russell Lowell "The Optimist"

Ancient Oak hears with ancient ears - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "oak"

Where the stalwart oak grew - Charles Mair "Untamed"

Heard a story from an oak - Theodore Maynard "Of an Improbable Story"

With yellow oaks deliriously blooming - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"

Tangled in twists of pine and oak - N. Scott Momaday "The Death of Sitting Bear"

The oaks of their deserts - Dugald Moore "The Forgotten Brave"

With the rectitude of an oak tree - Pablo Neruda "In Memory of Manuel and Benjamin" transl. by William O'Daly

Born with a surname of old oaks - Pablo Neruda "My Name Was Reyes" transl. by William O'Daly

Dryads from the leafless oak or budded elder - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Danced with oak-tree in his belt - "Oh, Seventy-Seven Twice-Told Were They" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Oak trees with their own history of migration - Jose Olivarez "You Must Be Present"

The wind roused up in the oak trees - Mary Oliver "Stars"

At the oak's black ankle - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"

For what the oak left unexpressed - John Presland "Wisdom and Youth"

In a bath of oak ash lye and alum - Melissa Range "Kermes Red"

As the ever-green ivy encircles the oak - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Your hands of oak and silk - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Following you up stairwells of scarred oak - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"

Whose skin resembles the bark of an ancient oak - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"

Groves of yellow beech and crimson oak - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet III"

Oak leaves sitting on elm branches - Alison Rumfitt "Romance of Possible Contrasts"

A mighty oak here ruined lies - Friedrich Schiller "Spinosa"

And the oak's brown side - Sir Walter Scott "Alice Brand"

The reed is as the oak - William Shakespeare "Dirge"

Oak flesh that fades on iron bone - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

In the shade of fluttering oaks - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Autumn"

The strong arm of the oak - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

The blood of my father the oak - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

Silent in her home oak - Alison Swan "The Old Days"

Sixteen clumps of sticks woven high into the oaks - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"

The old oaks tossing in their mortal glory - Keith Taylor "Under Their Mortal Glory"

Bounded by oak and thorn - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

Serves but to root thy native oak - James Thomson "Rule Britannia"

The oak groves flushed with spring delight - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

Sandhill cranes poised between the tall grass and oaks - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"

Each branch and limb of oak was a prayer - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"

Does a growing oak keep lists? - Edward van de Vendel "Tree Sports"

Over woods of snow-hung oak - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

A vine among oaks - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Under oak trees and watchful eyes of wizards - Michelle Wirth "Campus"

The oak flings largesse to the beggar breeze - William Henry Withrow "October"

A lithe gnarl of live oak - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Cleanse with the burning log of oak - "Yule-Tide Fires"

The ghost of a dead oak - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"


Singing among the oak-leaves - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"


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