Potential Titles: Crown

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Waiting for my lost crown - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

Night is crowned with dreams - Etel Adnan "Night"

My carrion crown finally slackening - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"

Crown him with gems and roses - Elizabeth Akers "Love's Flitting"

Rocks adorned with crowns of fallen branches - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Whose crown was points of flame - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

To crown the hills with bliss - Auguste Angellier "An Evocation" transl. by Henry van Dyke

A glorious crown adorns - "Antiphon" transl. by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Triumphant wear a crown of light - B. "Two Pictures: Love Celestial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Give me a crown that will never rust - Albion Fellows Bacon "At Last"

The demon's crown of woe - Benjamin West Ball "Lucifer Redux"

Gems of the East her mural crown adorn - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

To crown the brow of day - Cora C. Bass "Even-tide"

Crowned your hall with granite thorns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"

With riches enough to purchase a crown - Frank Chapman Bliss writing as Octavius "The Naughty Man; or, Sir Thomas Brown"

Crowned with leaf and bud - Thomas Boyd "To the Lianhaun Shee"

The far-famed Hospice crowns the heights - "The Brave Dog of St. Bernard" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

Steady strife for a deathless crown - Vera M. Brittain "That Which Remaineth"

A ransom parleyed against the crowned heads of this world - Paul Cameron Brown "The Treasure Ships"

My sorrow crowns me - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Crowned for vanquishing - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

The brow of art by fancy crowned - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Sonnet"

To crown the soldier's cup - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"

Spares not his crown in elemental storms - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Cast crowns for rosaries away - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"

We crowned her with rosebuds and evergreen - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

To the muse impart the laurel crown - Giosue Carducci "Carlo Goldoni" transl. by Frank Sewall

Crowned with her hundred castles - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Banquet" transl. by Frank Sewall

The crown and sword alike relentless - Giosue Carducci "Dante [O Dante, why is it that I adoring]" transl. by Frank Sewall

That crowns the upward track - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto VI. Dyscomfyture"

A naked people under a naked crown - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"

A crown of flinty spines about the rose - W.R. Childe "The Gothic Rose"

Crowns fit to deck Apollo's brows - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

So crowned with cunning - Aaron Coleman "South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills" [erasure poem]

Had made a crimson crown - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "A Moment"

I'll make you a crown of the pretty white daisies - "A Comforter" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

Celandines as heavenly crowns - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"

And saints miss their crown - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"

To win the crown of all the year - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

Trembling for a blood-bought crown - Francis Blake Crofton "The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ"

And a crown of honey-flowers - H.D. "Holy Satyr"

Crowned with bright berries of the bitter-sweet - Danske Dandridge "The Spirit of the Fall"

What glorious empire crown'd their toils - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

And moonbeams weave a crown - Walter de la Mare "The Flight"

Acid green on the crown of his head - Monica de la Torre "Intimacy in Discourse: A Comedy in Three Movements"

The blue-flowers crown of ecstasy - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets I"

little sisters belong beneath crowns - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"

Who wore the crown of Persia - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"

Whom angels crowned with grace - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

To crown you glorious - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "To the Negro Farmers of the United States"

On my brow be the crown of the wise - A.E. "Love"

Of all joys the flower and crown - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

The crown and flower of the world - William Hodgson Ellis "The Lyric League"

Fixed the sacred crown inside your sacred court - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle

City where the great crown lies - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle

A crown of glittering desire - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle

Upon her head a crown of gold - anonymous? "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men"

God's first dream as her crown - Michael Field "Virgo Potens"

One of the leaves in the crown is gold - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

A hundred horizons wearing a thousand crowns - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

A crown of prints in snow - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen K"

Wreathed with a crown of diamond frost - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

And I will wager my golden crown - "The Game of Dice" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Had learned to wear the crown of sorrow - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

Her crown is jeweled with seven sorrows - Dana Gioia "Psalm for Our Lady Queen of the Angels"

Still had hopes my later hours to crown - Oliver Goldsmith "Old Age"

To crown our devotion - "The Golfer's Garland"

A wreath or crown of mouths - torrin a. greathouse "Medusa with the Head of Perseus"

The power, the rapture, and the crown of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Luna, with her star-gemmed, glorious crown - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

Crown myself with the thorny wreath of inaction - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

The prime and crown of their fleeting years - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

Exalt and crown the hour - Thomas Hardy "A Young Man's Exhortation"

And saints were casting down their crowns - Frances E. Watkins Harper "Fishers of Men"

The saints all crowned with glory - Frances E.W. Harper "Jamie's Puzzle"

Wear a thornless crown - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LIII"

The victors' tents with ivy crown'd - Felicia Hemans "The Wife of Asdrubal"

And kept thenceforth the crown conferred - Oliver Herford "How the Lion Became King"

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

Where hidden stars crown a miraculous dome - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"

And he is crowned with the red, red gold - "Holger Danske and Stout Didrik" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Crowned queen above the lilies - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Make the savage Czar in terror clutch his crown - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

With golden death was crowned - William Dean Howells "Pleasure-Pain"

Take the neon lights and make a crown - Langston Hughes "Juke Box Love Song"

And a god died at the crown - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Dianthus crowned with hint of cinnamon - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"

Wearing a steadfast floral crown - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"

The blossoms of the New Year's crown - Helen Hunt Jackson "New Year's Morning"

With her cannon as crown - Emily Pauline Johnson "Guard of the Eastern Gate"

A rose crowned song - Fenton Johnson "Your Soul and Mine"

To whom all crowns of song - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"

A crown of roses and of bay - Lionel Johnson "Men of Assisi"

Whom the vast stars crown - Lionel Johnson "To a Traveller"

With spires and turrets crowned - Sir William Jones "An Ode: in Imitation of Alcaeus"

The rampart's glowing crown - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Sixth: Uma's Espousals" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Crowned with the halo of liberty - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."

Believe a crown of kingfishers - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

A crown, a wound, a consequence of birds - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

Wearing a crown of overtowering rage - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"

Cherries falling from the crown of sky - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"

Crowned and swathed with weed - Archibald Lampman "September"

Crown of spiked green metal - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"

With crowns and silken spoils - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"

As the carousel twirled its crown of lights - Keith Leonard "Museum"

In many an Old World palace, uneasy sits the crown - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Behead each hollyhock crown - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"

By presence of viper and crown - Chip Livingston "San Benito"

Dim shone the golden crown - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

Crowned Apollo enters in - John MacFarlane "A Midsummer Madrigal"

Crowned on the twilight battlefield - Percy MacKaye "Kruppism"

Hanging branches crowned her head with bays - Charles Mair "Innocence"

Aims to smash tradition's crown - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

A crown of lead upon my brain - John Masefield "King Cole"

Crowned to the full her proud magnificence - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

And crown the spring with fire - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"

A lily crowned with powdered gold - Edgar Lee Masters "Victor Rafolski on Art"

Below blackened crowns - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"

An origami frog in a vellum crown - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"

Weave you crowns of living laurel - Theodore Maynard "L'Envoi"

To build a crown of flames - Shara McCallum "Dear Hours"

Transfixes joy's brief crown - Arch Alfred McKillen "Lone Cello"

A crown of glory from the skies - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

Black rock by sunbeams crowned - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"

Readings of the crown and sword - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

As Earth to the crown of Gods - George Meredith "Melampus"

Jewels bled from weeping crowns - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

With its crown of histories - Alice Meynell "To Antiquity"

Crowns thee lord of an unpurchasable word - Alice Meynell "Why Wilt Thou Chide"

Gems that drop from off a Calif's crown - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Day" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Bees are dreaming in a blossom's crown - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Day" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

The crown the years have brought you - Adam Mickiewicz "On Juda's Cliff" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Stolen gems that decked the Crown - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Crowned with vocal reeds - John Milton "Lycidas"

Studded with stars in belt and crown - Marianne Moore "Baseball and Writing"

Yellow harvest seldom crowned his head - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Don a flower crown for the sacrifice - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Shine as your beloved crown - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"

A shipwrecked horse crowned with slow trees - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A violet with its crown of thorns - Pablo Neruda "Morning" transl. by Stephan Tapscott

A languid crown of the sea's flowers - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Under the crown of lethargy - Pablo Neruda "Opium in the East" transl. by Alastair Reid

A savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

Distilled blood from its crown - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Confirmed the morning glory's crown - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

The crown of the wind - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

With summer's thickest garlands crowned - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"

With the growth of awful ages crowned - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

A glittering jewel in virtue's crown - Dorothy Parker "Biographies"

And wear their house as a crown - Kailee Pedersen "Aviary"

Came ashore crowned with salt and sea glass - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"

If she'll crown me with thunder - Kiki Petrosino "Sermon"

Bubbles reflecting an inverse crown - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

Inscribed in bubbles reflecting an inverse crown - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"

Every blossom wears a silver crown - Miriam Clark Potter "The March of the Shadows"

Crowned with stars for flowers - John Presland "The Deluge"

Crowned and throned by lightning-legions - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Virtue weaves for it a deathless crown - Quince "Ambition" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Scraped from dust to crown our bruises - Noel Quiñones "Orange"

Knows not the meaning of a broken crown - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"

Crowned in the aureole of dawn - M. Regan "The Hollow"

In the crowns like resurrection show - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Crowned me with such pretty poppies - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Or his crown and kingdom, for ever resign - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

To crown your honoured name - Christina Rossetti "[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]"

Sunbeam for a crown, loam for a throne - R.S. Saha "Kin"

A crown made of this visible sky - Sanai "Energetic Work" transl. by Coleman Barks

Wears a rainbow for a crown - George Santayana "Athletic Ode"

Twenty temples in a granite crown - George Santayana "Avila"

Iron crowns of Ruin and Death be mine - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Let us crown him where he sits apart - Robert W. Service "The Man Who Knew"

And crowns of starry ice - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Upon his brow a threefold crown - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Crown the pale year weak and new - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"

Cities under crowns of snow - Richard Siken "Seaside Improvisation"

Fulfilment's crown to visions - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

Brows that starry Grief had crowned - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

And taught King Lear how to wear a crown of straw - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Solemnly, crowned as Nero was - Marin Sorescu "Solemnly" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

That wears this hour like a crown - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

And crowns utility with rose - A.E. Stallings "The Rosehead Nail"

Crowned with trailing plumes of sable - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

The crown of all our hopes - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Crowning their victory by loose despair - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"

With tinsel crowns put by - George Sterling "The Faun"

That crown his labor done - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"

Crown the skull with flower or thorn - George Sterling "Strange Waters"

Crowned upon the ashen sun - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

Crown of the moon - Wallace Stevens "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle"

On my brow the iron crown of sorrow - Arthur Stringer "Black Hours"

Stood bathed in a wonder crowned with pain - Arthur Stringer "Spring Floods"

A passion that Time has crowned - Muriel Stuart "A Song for Old Love"

Crowned with all their moons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 106: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Other blazing objects out around its crown - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"

From the crowning star of the seven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

That crown the north world's head - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Of days without crown - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

The haloes of a holy fool to crown you - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"

Crown you double-tongued and quicksilver - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"

A bloodied clutch of crowns - Sonya Taaffe "Radio Banquo"

The vine's bright blood shall crown the bowl - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Blinded by a leafy crown - Sara Teasdale "Leaves"

The crown affection weaves and wears - Sidney R. Thompson "At Waking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.108-v.III, 23 Jan. 1886]

How their Glory me did crown - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"

Yet wear a crown of hazy dream - Iris Tree "[The caravans of spring are in the town]"

A crown of curious stones - Iris Tree "Flame"

Still wrangled for a crown that lay amid the dust - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"

A crown of shining endurance - Iris Tree "[I feel in me a manifold desire]"

With crowning brilliancy and rich rewards untaxed - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

With crowns of kelp and frantic purple flowers - Genya Turovskaya "Wisterical"

Eat a crown of lead - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Malinche"

Of roseless thorns to crown and bind - Charles William Wallace "False Womankind!"

Thy banks with alders crowned - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"

Crowns his defeat with light - John Hall Wheelock "Disdainful Beauty"

Which royally did wear her crown of weeds - William Wordsworth "Mutability"

Their crowns in a straight blaze to nowhere - Charles Wright "Fortune Cookie"

New generations get crowned and walk away - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"

Changed from the spur to the crown - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]

The unfading crown of sacrifice - Francis Brett Young "Sonnet [Not only for remembered loveliness]"

Crown us like flowers - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

The thorny crowns of buried trees - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"


A crownless king laid low - Ardelia Maria Barton "Man Defying the Dying Sun"

All the crownless, ruined years - Clark Ashton Smith "Recompense"

A pale and crownless rose - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"


The sad ones discrowned in the night - A.E. "Love"

Such hopes as time discrowns - Algernon Swinburne "Past Days"


A Halo-crown of vapoured Vortex Rings - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."


The uncrowned king of thought - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Uncrowned, disrobed, bereft - Winifred Welles "Exile"


Silver-limbed and crescent-crowned - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

In a crown-fire forest blaze - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"

Crown-jewel of our fame - Benjamin Copeland "Hail to the Chief!"

And ascends flower-crowned to her vernal throne - Mrs. E.C. Stedman "Flight of the Birds" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Bounty of the grape-crowned year - Caroline D. Swan "Stars of Cheer"

To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore - John Milton "L'Allegro"

If you'll share there my ivy-crowned cot - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Of all the rose-crowned year - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"

Rose-crown for the dancing hours - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

Where the sun-crowned souls sit peerless - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]


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