Potential Titles: Father
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somethingdarkerAn orphan watching by his father's bier - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
Father sings in the threshing ground - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
I bring my father his dream - Lauren K. Alleyne "Gift"
The scowl my father wore in exile - Julia Alvarez "Museo del Hombre"
Evil to her shall be her husband's father - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XIV: The Maiden and the Sun" transl. by Sir John Bowring
my father was rafted over waters - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
Apostate to my father's creed - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"
My mother's blood and my father's name - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
This is my father's chosen country - Frank Bidart "California Plush"
Retained from those lost nights our fathers slept - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
I reenact the duty of my father - F. Douglas Brown "Epistemology of Laundry"
In the backlot of my father's skull - Wo Chan "Such As"
Your fathers gained a crust of bread - Ralph Chaplin "The West Is Dead"
The slice of the world my father gazed at - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
Your shadow will outlive my father - Eduardo C. Corral "To a Blossoming Saguaro"
The street of our fathers - r. erica doyle "Where Is She ::: Kote Li Ye"
By the bones of our stolen fathers, by the tears of our dead mothers - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The ghost of Hamlet's father wandering through - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
Who father havoc through absence - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"
What gravity gives birth to a father? - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"
Father and son and the open sky - Edgar A. Guest "A Boy and His Dad"
And they pay their father's debt - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Students of our fathers' disciplines - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"
Father of worlds and lord of storms and calms - Charles L. Hildreth "Mithra" [Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1885]
Brooding about our fathers always on the make - Edward Hirsch "Liberty Brass"
Suddenly regretting the tree my father planted - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
Passionflowers lit my father's garden - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"
Cursed with your father's mind - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"
By every ancient mark our fathers used - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"
And stand beside my father's door - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]
Over three kingdoms my father was King - "The Knavish Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
A linguist more learned than Father Wisdom - Alfred Kreymborg "Old Manuscript"
when my father reprograms my mother - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"
Fathering desire of fire to reach fire - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
The million living fathers of the War - Alice Meynell "A Father of Women"
Sell my father's feather bed - "Milking Pails"
All the aunts in my father's house - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Milk teeth sharpening a father's heart - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
Heavy father of the world's silence - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The father of grief or the guest of eternal anguish - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
The Fathers are in dust - John Henry Newman "Relics of Saints"
My father's least favorite prophecy - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"
My father takes a different angle - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"
For the erring Absalom his father wept aloud - C.L.P. "Tidings of Victory" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
My father never needed a compass - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"
The tree my father planted - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "Song of the Choctaw Girl"
Father Neptune's only daughter - Josephine Pollard "A Very Handsome Mermaid"
The evidence of the Fathers - E.J. Pratt "Overheard in a Cove"
Killed my father to steal the name - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"
My father's tools quarrying bread - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
Who pay their father's debts - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Long Live" transl. by Nicholas Kontovas and edited by Gulnisa Nazarova
To prick the vein of a father - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
A descendant of Sisyphus on his father's side - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Two"
Did he blame Daedalus, his father? - Wendy A. Shaffer "Icarus"
The many failings of fathers and feathers - Wendy A. Shaffer "Icarus"
There is fire in our father's ashes - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
The blood of my father the oak - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Feudal father had been her Law - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Famish the cravings they are fathered by - Leah Umansky "I Want to be Stark[like]" [Poetry Jan. 2014]
The ocean sang in my father's hands - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"
Old stories etched on the lifeline of my father's palm - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"
The youthful world's grey fathers - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"
A father to my loneliness - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "To Hide a Goddess"
From the ghost-hills of your fathers - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Mojave Lullaby"
Seeded me with a rock your father caught - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"
Fathers of the ancient day - Thomas Walsh "Coelo et in Terra"
Who miss their harsh fathers - Abe Louise Young "Who"
Cowered under the shadow of my father - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"
The forefathers of stone - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A foster-father to your memory - Thomas James "Epitaph on Companions Left Behind in the Northern Seas"
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Father sings in the threshing ground - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
I bring my father his dream - Lauren K. Alleyne "Gift"
The scowl my father wore in exile - Julia Alvarez "Museo del Hombre"
Evil to her shall be her husband's father - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XIV: The Maiden and the Sun" transl. by Sir John Bowring
my father was rafted over waters - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
Apostate to my father's creed - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"
My mother's blood and my father's name - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
This is my father's chosen country - Frank Bidart "California Plush"
Retained from those lost nights our fathers slept - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
I reenact the duty of my father - F. Douglas Brown "Epistemology of Laundry"
In the backlot of my father's skull - Wo Chan "Such As"
Your fathers gained a crust of bread - Ralph Chaplin "The West Is Dead"
The slice of the world my father gazed at - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
Your shadow will outlive my father - Eduardo C. Corral "To a Blossoming Saguaro"
The street of our fathers - r. erica doyle "Where Is She ::: Kote Li Ye"
By the bones of our stolen fathers, by the tears of our dead mothers - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The ghost of Hamlet's father wandering through - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
Who father havoc through absence - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"
What gravity gives birth to a father? - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"
Father and son and the open sky - Edgar A. Guest "A Boy and His Dad"
And they pay their father's debt - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Students of our fathers' disciplines - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"
Father of worlds and lord of storms and calms - Charles L. Hildreth "Mithra" [Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1885]
Brooding about our fathers always on the make - Edward Hirsch "Liberty Brass"
Suddenly regretting the tree my father planted - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
Passionflowers lit my father's garden - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"
Cursed with your father's mind - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"
By every ancient mark our fathers used - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"
And stand beside my father's door - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]
Over three kingdoms my father was King - "The Knavish Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
A linguist more learned than Father Wisdom - Alfred Kreymborg "Old Manuscript"
when my father reprograms my mother - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"
Fathering desire of fire to reach fire - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
The million living fathers of the War - Alice Meynell "A Father of Women"
Sell my father's feather bed - "Milking Pails"
All the aunts in my father's house - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Milk teeth sharpening a father's heart - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
Heavy father of the world's silence - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The father of grief or the guest of eternal anguish - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
The Fathers are in dust - John Henry Newman "Relics of Saints"
My father's least favorite prophecy - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"
My father takes a different angle - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"
For the erring Absalom his father wept aloud - C.L.P. "Tidings of Victory" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
My father never needed a compass - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"
The tree my father planted - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "Song of the Choctaw Girl"
Father Neptune's only daughter - Josephine Pollard "A Very Handsome Mermaid"
The evidence of the Fathers - E.J. Pratt "Overheard in a Cove"
Killed my father to steal the name - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"
My father's tools quarrying bread - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
Who pay their father's debts - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Long Live" transl. by Nicholas Kontovas and edited by Gulnisa Nazarova
To prick the vein of a father - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
A descendant of Sisyphus on his father's side - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Two"
Did he blame Daedalus, his father? - Wendy A. Shaffer "Icarus"
The many failings of fathers and feathers - Wendy A. Shaffer "Icarus"
There is fire in our father's ashes - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
The blood of my father the oak - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Feudal father had been her Law - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Famish the cravings they are fathered by - Leah Umansky "I Want to be Stark[like]" [Poetry Jan. 2014]
The ocean sang in my father's hands - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"
Old stories etched on the lifeline of my father's palm - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"
The youthful world's grey fathers - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"
A father to my loneliness - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "To Hide a Goddess"
From the ghost-hills of your fathers - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Mojave Lullaby"
Seeded me with a rock your father caught - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"
Fathers of the ancient day - Thomas Walsh "Coelo et in Terra"
Who miss their harsh fathers - Abe Louise Young "Who"
Cowered under the shadow of my father - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"
The forefathers of stone - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A foster-father to your memory - Thomas James "Epitaph on Companions Left Behind in the Northern Seas"
Navigation Links:
Go to F word index.
Go to Potential Titles: Family Relationships [category].
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
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