Potential Titles: Drown

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To drown indeed the whole seraphic choir - H.J.A. "To a Lyre-Bird" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

While someone tolls a bell in a drowned cathedral - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

In the midst of pretending to drown - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

Murmurs drowned in sea-weed - Harold Acton "On the Theme of Ophelia's Madness"

Drown whatever it holds in its throat - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Lonely as a sailor left to drown - Mike Allen "Ascending"

A mouse drowned in the rice pot - Diannely Antigua "Anniversary"

Drown our love in that confusion - Atticus "Magic in Love"

to disappear into a song wide enough to drown - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

Drown with open eyes in light - Ingeborg Bachmann "The Great Freight" transl. by Bill Crisman

Like the drowned Ophelia fair - Benjamin West Ball "L'Envoi"

Drowned by floods of sun - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

forget their wings and drown - Elizabeth Bartlett "I would remember"

can't forget water while i drown - Samiya Bashir "Some days of wine and pastry"

Up from some drowned city - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"

Light heavy with drowning stars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

The drowning shadow of a fading land - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Drowning in a teardrop - Paul Bernstein "Worlds Apart"

Days that drown our lives - MacKnight Black "Corliss Engine"

This forest of drowned roller coasters - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"

Where in silence all is drowned - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

Wonder prowling through old drowned barges - Edmund Blunden "Perch-Fishing"

archipelagos drowned by the melting of ice - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]

Drink & deeply drown - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 25"

As if to know you was to drown - Tina Chang "Color"

Spread and drown as lilies do - Leonard Cohen "The Lucky Night!!!!! Sunday March 7, 2004"

Only drowning men could see him - Leonard Cohen "Suzanne"

The dice of drowned men's bones - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"

Drowning the fever of her hands - Hart Crane "Garden Abstract"

And drown in his own reflection - Laura Da' "Bad Wolf"

As if they would be drowning forever - Deborah L. Davitt "Drowning in this Sunken City"

Drowning with words sublime the dreaded thunder - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Silence, like a billow, drowned - Walter de la Mare "Cumberland"

At the instant of drowning - Rosemary Dobson "The Three Fates"

Letting go without drowning - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Happiness when it Comes"

The vale in which souls can drown - Chris Dombrowski "Poem with Several Keatsian References, Poem Burning Up in the Fire I Lit to Warm My Son, or Do as I Say Not as I Do"

Where we drown to the sound of lullabies - Heid E. Erdich "Sisters Stay on the Other Side"

Fossil of the drowned town's scroll - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 1"

Drowning the sound of your retreat - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VI"

On a drowning boat - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"

And the smell of fire drowned in rain - Robert Frost "The Kitchen Chimney"

The fossils that drowned trying to reach us - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"

All the drowning fathoms of the sea - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Drowning inside your own bones - Nikita Gill "A Secret from Me to You"

Mute memorial to the drowned - Dana Gioia "Seaward"

Enough to drown the seeds - Louise Gluck "Before the Storm"

Pain drowned in joy, and laughter from the heart - Mona Gould "Litany for the Lonely"

Colour in which to drown - Rosaleen Graves "Colour"

Drown our wills in its excess - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"

Her head is empty of the drowned - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"

A moon drowned flower - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Evermore"

Candles drowning in gold - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"

Drained from endless drownings - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "pastoral w/well water kool-aid"

Could drown standing up - Parneshia Jones "My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea"

Who waits for the moon to drown - Saeed Jones "Last Call"

Drowning the persimmon tree - Janine Joseph "The Persistence of Symptoms"

Who drowned in salt who breathed the sand - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

All those who've drowned in oceans - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

Drown the wakeful anguish of the soul - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

Drown'd my Honour in a shallow Cup - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Trying to drown - Galway Kinnell "Break of Day"

Drowns the Sirens' song - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

A kiss can resuscitate the drowned Ophelia - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"

Until the qualm was drowned - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

Where the river sky drowns - Li Po "The White River at Nan-Yang" transl. by Arthur Waley

But we could drown in a glass of water - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

And drown in music - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

The ocean that drowns the liars - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"

I will drown when it snows - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Washington's elite that vowed to drown them - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

No buoy for those giddy and drowning - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

The music drowned his doubt - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "He Went for a Soldier"

Wind drowned in clouds - Jenny Molberg "Atropos"

Without the possibility of drowning - Edgar Morales "Swim"

To drown in order to avoid drowning - Rusty Morrison "in the decision of a beginning [3]"

Perhaps our dreams have not drowned - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

To step on what wants me drowned - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"

because the waters drowned our history - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

Practiced to resist the jerk of drowning - Caroline Harper New "The Women of Weeki Wachee"

To expect the drowning see - Hoa Nguyen "Revenge Poem"

Drown in a fountain of myriads - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"

Stronger for having drowned - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "The Room Weeps"

A whirlpool of exiles drowning him - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Though long years drown Earth's sounds - M.P. "The Mountain" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]

The way that the sea fails to drown itself - Emilia Phillips "I Tried to Write a Poem Called "Imposter Syndrome" and Failed"

Drowning Orion in blush - Xan Forest Phillips "Splay My Country"

The anxious ghosts of all the drowned - Alexander Posey "The Arkansas River"

Trees lean out to save the drowning - Alexander Posey "My Fancy"

Until they drown in our songs - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist with the Inventor of the Barometer"

I don't want to drown in ocean math - Khadijah Queen "Tower"

In its ardor, drowning brain and tongue - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Through the half drowned stars - Kenneth Rexroth "A Singing Voice"

Let the spring of life well up and drown the empty quest - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"

I struggle not to drown in the air above you - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"

To drown the memory of such insolence - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Runs deep enough to drown this certainty - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"

To drown our tattered lives - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"

Drowned in electric lights - Marjorie Seiffert "The Picnic"

Drowns the piping cries of light - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"

Drowned in wells of bliss - Nathaniel G. Shepherd "A Summer Reminiscence"

When the poison arrow photons have drowned - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"

Phantom suns in self-irradiance drowned - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"

All the drowned and desolate world - "Snow" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

Yet deep enough to drown - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Drowning in dreams as bitter and as deep - Leonora Speyer "This City Wind"

Fetched up from the weeds of the drowned - A.E. Stallings "The Catch"

Drown Orion in a silver swoon - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"

Saw wilder sunsets drown - George Sterling "Lost Sunsets"

Drowned in the pool of grief - M. Letitia Stockett "The Pool"

And drown the cargoed apples - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

Has drowned the Future and the Past - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"

Drowned by the voice of my dead - Edward Thomas "The Cuckoo"

Drowning in facts and relics - Matthew Thorburn "Like Hours of Rain on Piles of Brown Leaves"

I who drown the sun in time - Edwin Torres "Air Is Sham for Light"

Drowned within the lurid dregs - Iris Tree "[How often, when the thought of suicide]"

Drowned voyagers from their beds - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"

Drowned in multitudinous shouts of rain - W.J. Turner "Death"

Until the world was drowned - Louis Untermeyer "Voices"

Without speech to drown our words - Cecilia Vicuna "The Disappeared" (translated by Rosa Alcala)

Taught drowns and booms and vowels- Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be]"

Enough light to drown in - Ocean Vuong "Deto(nation)"

Drowned from too much thirst - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"

The faithful work of drowning - Ocean Vuong "Telemachus"

Her drowned face glances - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"

In their awful gloom were drowned - Arthur Weir "The Secret of the Saguenay"

Has drowned the hopes that Fortune held - Helen Hay Whitney "Aspiration I"

This was Icarus drowning - William Carlos Williams "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"

The first time we drowned in history - Tanaya Winder "Becoming a Ghost"

Seconds from this drowned quantum - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"

Icarus, drowning upwards through the sky - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"

Drown the vaster voice of rapture or of Hell - Humbert Wolfe "Heine's Last Song"

Drowning in the tresses of a darker Lorelei - Humbert Wolfe "Heine's Last Song"

Only a sound of drowning in the dark - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"

Swim in milk and honey till we drown - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

Drowning love’s lonely hour - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"


Footprints on some night-drowned beach - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"


Undrown from the incivility of this world - Niki Herd "The Stuff of Hollywood"


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