Potential Titles: Pine [tree]

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In the veins and sinews of a pine on a lone isle - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Splintered the pine and split the iron rock - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Where the lofty pine mounts upward - B.B. "Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Casually flung among a cloud of pines - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

Thread the scented paths of pine - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

Rolling neat into pine drawers - Ching-In Chen "American Syntax"

Overshadowed by cypress and pine - "The Ch'u Tz'u: The Mountain Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson

The frankly haunted pines - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"

The silent chapel of a pine forest in winter - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"

Fragrant beds beneath the healing Pines - Danske Dandridge "Beneath the Pines"

Lost in the survival of pine and ash - Tyree Daye "To: All Poets From: Northeastern North Carolina"

Amulets of pine - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature IX: The Grass"

Ghosts that once were firs and pines - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"

Clean as pine root boiled in fire - Carolyn Forche "Alfansa"

Down dark converging paths between the pines - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"

Pines sigh but it isn't the wind - Han-Shan "[I climb the road to Cold Mountain]" transl. by Burton Watson

Pines and bamboo sing in the wind - Han-Shan "[I look far off at T'ien-t'ai's summit]" transl. by Burton Watson

Why should pine and cypress alone be prized? - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

From clustering pine and cedar a silence - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Needles shaken from out the gusty pine - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

On a floor of pine silt and spring mud - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"

The old harp in the pine trees - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Tree Sounds"

Walked past pines to their hearts' desire - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Married to the asylum of pine and bark - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

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

A peristyle of pines sings requiem - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

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

Dragged through dirt and honey and pine - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 3"

The pine tree lay down its needles - Danusha Lameris "Let Rain Be Rain"

Pungent with the breath of pines - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"

To the farthest fringe of pine - Archibald Lampman "Sunset"

Born like the pines to sing - James E. McGirt "Born Like the Pines"

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

Drunk with pines and long kisses - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin

In the gritty limbo of scrub pine - Gregory Pardlo "Antebellum"

The whip-poor-will above the pines - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"

The daybeams creep along the serried pines - Edward S. Rend, Jr. "Promise" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

The bleak, barbarian pines - Robert W. Service "The Pines"

Between the sapphire and the pines - George Sterling "Hesperian"

The sullen emerald of the pines - George Sterling "Spring in Monterey"

Bend the lances of the mirrored pines - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

The pine-tree's soft melody - Alfred B. Street "My Canoe"

From the knotted feet of the pine-trees - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

The bridge of the spanning pine-tree - Alfred B. Street "The Waterfall"

A young birch-tree in a forest of pines - Marian Thanhouser "Young Witches"

Pine roots wound down into the black, black mud - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Balsam, hemlock, spruce and pine - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"

Camped in the whispering forest of pines - Henry van Dyke "Salute to the Trees"

Whispers peace to each pensive pine - Kate Louise Wheeler "Under the Pines"

As budding pines in Spring - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"

Amber does not remember the pine - Charles Wright "We Hope That Love Calls Us, but Sometimes We're Not So Sure"

Darker than a pine forest in the new moon - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

Sulfur on the pines' crooked limbs - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"


Pine [longing].


Heard a pinecone fall - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Invitation"


Filled me with pine needles & pecan halves - Tyree Daye "Dream Book"

Buried whispers in pine needles - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"

Fallen pine needles under fallen snow - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"


Further down pinewoods' blood horizon - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"


Treasure spilled near the shrub-pines - H.D. "Sea Poppies"


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