Potential Titles: Draw/Drew

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Fluorescent critters drawing ribbons in the air - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"

How they draw us in their museums - Leena Aboutaleb "Art Exhibition: West Bank Girl on Fire"

To draw chill curtains - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

Drawing forth Earth's passionate fevers - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

Drawn up from the lonely abysses - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Drawing the sunlight from the stooping clouds - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Through the tightest drawn evenings - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"

Drew blood to fill our cups of dream-dark wine - Mike Allen "Ascending"

Bad luck drawn away like pilot fish following his wake - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

Drew vectors that would tear through fragile forms - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Whom the fiery horse drew - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

From the golden quivers drawn - Benjamin West Ball "Athens"

Arrow drawn from Phoebus' quiver - Benjamin West Ball "To W.P.R."

A line of hibiscus drawn in shade - Taneum Bambrick "After Picasso's 'The Rape'"

A knife draws a line between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Nothing Compares to Daphne in Green"

A drawing of an all-night sky - Mary Jo Bang "Speaking of the Future, Hamlet"

Drew gossip from mouths of a well - Lou Barrett "The Red Cord"

drew forth an hour's spark - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"

as though a silver magnet drew - Elizabeth Bartlett "mood on a string"

Drawing the sun out of my heart - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

Drawing all sunlight back to the hot deeps - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

As we draw near the gallows-tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

Drew hearts round the keyholes - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"

Draws a diagonal across my floor - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

That drew me like a silver string - Elizabeth Bishop "Behind Stowe"

Draws near to the witching time of night - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Drawing from ceremony sensation - Brian Blanchfield "Eclogue Onto an Idea"

Draw straws for mercy - Russell Brakefield "The Wraith in the Creek"

Drawn with both your arms - Sue Budin "Forgiveness Comes in Two Colors"

Draw the living water of your love - Gerald Bullett "Rest"

Drew from an alien fire - "By Proxy" [anonymous in Oxford Poetry, 1918]

Love will draw all wandering stars - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Drawn out of my eyes - Miguel Casado "The Arrival of March, IV"

Drawn out from the soup of your heart - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

Draw a line beyond your names - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"

Those impetuous claims that drew me forth - William Cory "Amavi"

The hooded snake that drew and watched - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"

How she draws me with her spell - Danske Dandridge "Lost at Sea"

Fancy's pencil draws a world unseen - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Fragment [With snow-clad top,, and far projecting height]"

When the dreaded day draws nigh - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Family lines drawn and redrawn into travelogues and diaries - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

Passion's fire alone that draws him - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

You drawn your own breath - Tim Dlugos "Great Art"

Water drawn from the cosmos's deepest well - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Holographic moth wings that shine like chalk drawings - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

And draw this tranquil breath - Edward Dowden "Watershed"

Drawn back to their lairs of light - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"

Milk we drew at the barrier of Time - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

And the day draws to its dark end - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"

Wildfire and smoky patches draw our rage - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

Draws me to its bellowing spiral - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen a"

Drawing your vessel to shore - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen C"

Draw my name in the sand and defy the rising tide - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Draw our hearts more distant - Jeannine Hall Gailey "As Venus and Jupiter Come Together, We Fall Apart"

Drew delightful Mammoths on the borders of his cave - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Similar Cases"

Draw out of memory all bitterness - Ivor Gurney "Song of Pain and Beauty"

Sinew and bone she drew them - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"

Who were maps drawn of blood - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"

The design drawn from nightmares - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"

A promise not to draw blood - francine j. harris "the road to jackson has orchids"

Drew the balsam from the rose - Robert Stephen Hawker "King Arthur's Waes-Hael"

Drew a jewel from the road - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Friendship"

And drawn to solitudes apart - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Worship"

That draw their fellows deep into impiety - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne

Dragonflies draw flame - Gerard Manley Hopkins "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"

The day draws out her shadows - Jean Ingelow "The Star's Monument"

Their blueprint drawn for reascending - K. Iver "The Gotham Hotel"

The dawn drawn out and hammered thin - Devin Johnston "Fixed Interval"

Drawn to the easy sound of sleep - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Drawing of chalk lines, pastel and charcoal - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Draw a door for possibilities - Linette Lao "Becoming"

Draws down the winter's frown - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Drawn blades never sheathed - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

Children draw about the empty hearth - Emma Lazarus "To R. W. E."

Draw me looking like somebody else - Aimee Le "Analogies, or, Twinkie Is to Egg As"

Drawn in living fire and dew - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

Music drawn in living fire and dew - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

Drawing our hope from the past - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Drawn to the hazy sprout of light - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"

A satchel of notes drawn out of the tub - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Dark force that drew me across uncharted space - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

From the sobbing viols drew white tears - Stephane Mallarme "Apparition" translated by Wilfrid Thorley

Heard the wind draw out of the west - Jeannette Marks "Dragon"

The rooks in clamour drew - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

A slim lilac drew me down - Florence Ripley Mastin "Discovery"

And drew out of his heart Eternity - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"

Draw the breath of finer air - George Meredith "Internal Harmony"

Drew iron tears down Plato's cheek - John Milton "Il Penseroso"

The line drawn is always in the sand - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"

As though drawn by six dragons - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

The mind can draw exquisite prints - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

Drawn on by my destiny - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid

Drew the dictatorship of flies - Pablo Neruda "United Fruit Co." transl. by Jack Schmitt

The lines they draw seem never true - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"

Just draws the route out of doubt - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"

As I draw thunder from the sky at dusk - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Draw breath from brick - January Gill O'Neil "Old South Meeting House"

Draws a fine grid over the past - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"

Draw your wedding ring in mulch - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"

Drew your time in prudent proportions - Kiki Petrosino "Monticello House Tour"

Drawing him in to her bed of infinite recursion - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"

And forth my quivering heart he drew - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen

Our drawn over selves - Matt Rasmussen "Ekphrastifilia"

Had drawn his dream of spring - Grantland Rice "The Bug's View-Point"

Draws the trembling spirit like a seed - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

On the drawn knees of the mountain - Lola Ridge "The Edge"

Drew their sundered spirits close - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

The fiery point of the drawn star - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

The thrush will pipe at twilight to draw the blossoms out - Lloyd Roberts "One Morning when the Rain-Birds Call"

Drew the breath of battle - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Field of Glory"

False and florid and far drawn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"

Into all our dreaming drew the spirit of the stars - Rennell Rodd "A Star-Dream"

The shadows draw over in terrible lines - David Salisbury "On Mars"

Lucid and endless wrinkles draw in - Carl Sandburg "Sketch"

Drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"

And drew them by the left hand in - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Until a random shard drew scarlet - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"

The future draws its crimson thread - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"

The line that I had drawn with bleeding thumb - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Drawn by your own sweet skill - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"

Daily draw my sorrows longer - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"

The magic circle which the moon draws - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

Drawn outward by the vampire-lips of Sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"

Shades by nature's pencill drawn - William Somerville "The Chase"

Draws her favors to the lowest ebb - Robert Southwell "Times Go by Turns"

Drawn to the dangerous country - Elizabeth Spires "You Have Flown to the Dangerous Country"

Exertion draws the mind from hope - A.E. Stallings "Sisyphus"

The luck of all the draws is the weight of stone - A.E. Stallings "Sisyphus"

Drawing us with delicate tension upward - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

On the tides of peril drawn - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

Till drawn by some new sorrow - George Sterling "Duandon"

The arms of the Far-away have drawn us close - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"

A cobra drawn in charcoal - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 18: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

That draws breath so sad - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Drawn down through desperate ways - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Winter's moon will draw its line in naked truth - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"

And draw the wax of the world - Arthur Sze "Water Calligraphy"

Drew it back in with pen and pigment - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"

Where no star its breath can draw - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

While the relentless shade draws on its veil - Henry David Thoreau "To a Stray Fowl"

Drawn backward from the moon - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

In which he drew his soul's exalted cry - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

Drawing silence from my throat - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"

Fences draw their feet up out of the sod - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"

Draws the horizons in to him - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

The seas draw down the stars - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"

Draw you close with siren whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"

Our gallant army in line of battle drawn - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Ashamed to draw my pay - Wei Ying-wu "To Send to Li Tan and Yuan Hsi" transl. by Burton Watson

Dream flowers drawn by moving veils - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"

Emissaries drawn from near and far - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"

To draw the mounting waters - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"

Had drawn that anguish to my arms - John Hall Wheelock "Starless Morning"

You drew your visions on my forearm - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

In a jacket of gold leaves drawn tight - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

Drawn tight against the city wind - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

And Ruin draws the curtains - Oscar Wilde "My Voice"

Draws a charm that leads the heart - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

The motion of our drawing apart - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"

Sagittarius has an arrow drawn at the very heart of Scorpio - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

Landscapes drawn in pearly monotones - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

Drawn to a hidden goal - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Drawing water rings on the ceiling - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

In the picture the fog had drawn - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: The Fogbow"

Why so drawn to the wind? - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


The pain of the close-drawing darkness - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"


Ninety-three years of horse-drawn dreams - Andre F. Peltier "The Ebullient Signpost"


Your only script is the indrawn breath - Joseph Bruchac "Speaking"


In their long-drawn elliptical orbits - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"


White rage of desperate moon-drawn waters - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"


Family lines drawn and redrawn into travelogues and diaries - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

While her parents redrew her secretly into being - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"


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