Potential Titles: Follow

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The wrong words followed by the wrong deeds - Duane Ackerson "Giving Back the Moon"

Who regularly follow their appointed time - Etel Adnan "Surge"

Followed by a few more days of winter - Etel Adnan "Surge"

Following the stellar signposts - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

The first time he followed her beyond the grey lands - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

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

Marks the reddened feet of the Followers of Lot - Nada Almosa "Queer Arab Dictionary"

A darkness I couldn't follow - Alise Alousi "Patterns of Departure"

A shadow that follows you like a dog - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Then follow him with faith - Maya Angelou "On Working White Liberals"

Whom the wan clouds fondly follow - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCV: A Serbian Beauty" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

I follow you like constellations - Fatimah Asghar "If They Come for Us"

The cottage lights a hundred starlights follow - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Nantucket Windows"

Follow Apollo's sinking wain - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

freely as the stars that follow - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

I follow the star that's sinking - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Who crossed waters to follow midnights - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"

Follow the flower that evades capture - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

Murder followed in the track of zeal - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

Following the track of blowing leaves and cool white rain - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

Follow till the dusk of my day - Thomas Boyd "Love on the Mountain"

To the East or the West I will follow - Thomas Boyd "Love on the Mountain"

Follow him to Canaan's shore - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"

Images of what we refuse to follow - Paul Cameron Brown "Seagulls"

So Memory follows Hope - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Followed the dark effigies - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

none have followed me here - May Chong "Bunian Laundry"

Clever carpenters who follow the times - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

followed her off into vixen country - Lucille Clifton "one year later"

Though they follow so wild and so fast - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Follow the track of the rude spade through - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Nor swifter greyhound follow - William Cowper "Epitaph on a Hare"

Nonsense proclamations followed by primal screams - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"

Follow a sequin thread of dead things - Cynthia Cruz "Final Performance"

A wind that follows fast - Allan Cunningham "At Sea"

Can follow Leonardo's rapid brush - Russell W. Davenport "Poems IX"

Made a star he couldn't follow - Tyree Daye "To: All Poets From: Northeastern North Carolina"

Love bade me follow in his chosen train - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In all the world is none so happy here]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Ill that follows after foolish play - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Follow the long scent home - Diane DeCillis "Room Full of Children Staring at Me"

The daisy follows soft - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXXIV"

Fate following behind us - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XLIX"

And followed wherever the sturgeon led - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Veer off to follow some feral distraction - Stephen Dunn "Always Something More Beautiful"

The fates that follow Adam's deed - Max Eastman "To the Flowers at Church"

That follow like a tedious argument - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Followed the river until I forgot my name - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"

Following a pillar of smoke - Nava EtShalom "Charisma"

That follows on our track - an anonymous Cherokee "[Faster and fiercer rolls the tide]" published in the Cherokee Advocate in 1871 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

Follow us through squares of light - Annie Finch "Frozen In"

Follow their echo's loop and chase - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"

Follow the tide's wet-black eyes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"

Followed a path of winding white grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen A"

Deer flies followed us back - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"

Burdened by the footprints I follow - Angel Garcia "Vestiges"

And follow no one's map - Jin Ha "The Long-Distance Traveler" (translated by the author)

The toll that follows from the lagging bell - Thomas Hardy "Drawing Details in an Old Church"

Following the vine to its root - Mary Hickman "If the Heart Does Not Restart"

Whatever follows the wild fires - Conrad Hilberry "Danse Macabre"

The feet of the new sufferings followed - Jane Hirshfield "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me"

Followed the chart of her soaring heart - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Or the echoes that follow after - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

Follows ear and echo - Erica Hunt "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"

And any of the footsteps following us - Jean Ingelow "Brothers, and a Sermon"

Where no dreams follow - Lionel Johnson "Lines to a Lady upon Her Third Birthday"

Just because one thing follows another - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"

The dregs of days that follow - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

Madly follow that bright path of light - John Keats "Specimen of an Induction to a Poem"

When sleep and darkness follow - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"

Followed a star through the darkness - Henry Kendall "Achan"

Following with sorefooted pain - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"

Follow where his Juliet calls - Richard Le Gallienne "Cor Cordium"

Observe the squires who follow them - Henry S. Leigh "The Lord Mayor's Apotheosis"

The dawn that follows the gin - Hailey Leithauser "From the Grandiloquent Dictionary"

Follow their trail of burnished arrows - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Through bitterest toil you follow me - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson

Thought that success always followed desire - Amy Lowell "The Fool Errant"

The secret clue we followed - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The World's End"

Follow the footprints of the fog - Joyce Mansour "Auditory Hallucination" transl. by Carol Cosman

Time's step is slow to follow - Jeannette Marks "The Broke Door"

Follow the moon down the sidewalk - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"

A path a harp once followed - J. Michael Martinez "Death to Paint Us"

Follows as the pipe flits away - John Masefield "Right Royal"

Follow some Helen for her gift of grief - John Masefield "Ships"

For my soul will follow seaward - John Masefield "The Turn of the Tide"

As if following a maddened gull - Khaled Mattawa "Malouk's Ode"

Following the river to its source - Campbell McGrath "Charlie Parker (1980)"

The phantom we followed - Louis J. McQuilland "The Lost Land"

We follow seductions of light - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

Following mirages of ideals - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

Condemned to follow words into a book - Michael Mesic "Night Letter"

Follow the light to nowhere - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"

One ant following another - Harryette Mullen "Conversation in Isolation"

The betrayal of the following crusade - Pablo Neruda "Brother Bartolome de Las Casas" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Followed upon the pale jaguars - Pablo Neruda "Guatemala" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Followers of the wrong star - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly

Like followers in the summer's slow retreat - Meredith Nicholson "October"

Follow her in the knowledge of ice - dg nanouk okpik "Inupiaq Women"

Only darkness follows darkness - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"

The wind-winged clouds following - Mary Oliver "I don't want to live a small life"

Followed our long shadows back - Mary Oliver "November"

Ghosts of friends follow us here - Paul Park "Ragnarok"

To follow a thread of song - Dorothy Parker "A Well-Worn Story"

Follow me through storm or shine - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

Whom unmerciful Disaster followed fast and followed faster - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"

Follow the track of the crimson day - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Rest"

Following the turns a frozen creek - Charles Rafferty "Snowfall After Hearing Hard News"

Affection follows Fortune's wheels - Sir Walter Raleigh "A Poesy to Prove Affection Is Not Love"

Followed three shadows against the moon - Ernest Rhys "Ballad of the Buried Sword"

Following you up stairwells of scarred oak - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"

Follow each other in shimmering confusion - Lola Ridge "Saint's Bridge"

To follow the path of the sun - Carroll Ryan "Malta"

Follows the pricked revolving sky - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

A few surprising turns follow us everywhere - Ira Sadoff "A Few Surprising Turns"

Where waking eyes may follow - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"

Follow the sound of thawing snow - Erika L. Sanchez "A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring"

As kites a pigeon follow, they attacked - Friedrich Schiller "The Muses' Revenge"

Following the pleasure of the storm - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #59"

Follows in the wake of change - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

For still temptation follows - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLI"

Those unborn hours that surely follow after - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

Followed the close-heard beat of love's wide wings - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"

As the shadow follows its substance - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

To follow out and trace its labyrinths - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

And follow through the maze of Fate - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"

Must follow as footprints follow me - Elizabeth Spires "Badger Disguised as a Monk"

Following the wrong god home - William Stafford "A Ritual to Read to Each Other"

Follow with the sound of gold - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"

So I followed where thought should lead - Arthur Stringer "My Heart Stood Empty"

Final credits that follow an uncertain ending - Keith Taylor "Schumann, While Driving"

The porous weight that follows echo - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"

what is the water like when followed unwillingly - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"

Follow the bleached stones home - Kristen Tracy "Contemplating Light"

By following a trail of rhymes - Kristen Tracy "Tell"

Three musketeers of faithful following - Iris Tree "[Give me, O God, the power of laughter still]"

Wild roses followed us - Louis Untermeyer "At Kennebunkport"

Unfasten your mind, and follow it hence - Mark Van Doren "Wind in the Grass"

Followed the angler's winding path - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower"

Following the path of ants from your palm - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"

Follows a different star - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

Follow in the otter's track - William Walker, Jr. "[Oh, give me back my bended bow]"

And lies keep you turning to follow - Jo Walton "Nemi"

No carriage goes that does not follow the rut - Wang Seng-Ta "To Match the Prince of Lang-yeh's Poem in the Old Style" transl. by Burton Watson

With two small shadows following after - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"

Have always followed your word - Joshua Weiner "Psalm"

Years of anger following - William Carlos Williams "Blizzard"

Follow whatever instructs them - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"


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