Potential Titles: Away

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First, we sent away the trees - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"

Let the blue light wash away the blood - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

My shadow walking away from your house - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"

Solemnly bearing my dead loves away - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

And into golden aeons far away - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

A temporal embezzlement siphoning away my time - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

Slipping away carried off in the stream - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

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

Some flashed away in ships of light - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

And refused to back away from the boundaries - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

I thought I'd tossed all my hope away - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"

Will drive the goblin-horde away - Auguste Angellier "The Ivory Cradle" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Stay away as fever rages - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Wearing away a hole in my heart - Abduweli Ayup "Mihray" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

To melt his troubled soul away - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Steal silver away from the moon - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Far away the solemn belfries toll - Maurice Baring "Beethoven"

To lean away from what I intend - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"

Away from all vanishing - Lou Barrett "A Wait in the Garden"

Everything has to spin away - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

And blow away the smoke of fear - Elizabeth Bartlett "Insomnia in the City"

Hours away from starvation - Robin Becker "Hummingbird"

Until they kissed their souls away - Clive Bell "December"

Give myself away in shards - Joshua Bennett "First Date"

A thistle will do away with your hunger - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

Wicked & away - John Berryman "Dream Song 1"

True music, just a threshold away - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

Till the body rusts away from the light - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

Of dancing away from chains - Rebecca G. Biber "The Children's Firebird"

Raining away my sorrows - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"

And early stars wasting away - Richard Blanco "Papa's Bridge"

A season away from you - Richard Blanco "Return from El Cerrado"

Backing away in a trapped circle - Bruce Boston "Alien Quarry"

Away it danced with shimmering glee - Richard Bowen "Genius" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

And fly away from me like dragons - Shannon Bramer "My Cars Never Sleep"

To snatch the untasted cup away - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"

The alien firelight died away - Emily Bronte "I [A little while, a little while]"

The long train of ages glide away - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"

Falling away in a hive of liquid gold - Sue Budin "Japanese Baskets"

A ribbon of gas twist away in the dark - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

One side boils and the other blows away - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

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

Swept away in one great gulf of flame - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Lifted away all the question marks - Victoria Chang "The Trees Witness Everything"

Gone away to nothingness and night - John Clare "The Old Year"

walking away from the damage he has done - Lucille Clifton "album"

Away down the sky - Hilda Conkling "Adventure"

And passed in dust away - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"

Roll away, leaving black terror, limitless night - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

When the pomp is passed away - Adelaide Crapsey "Warning to the Mighty"

And chase the trembling shades away - Richard Crashaw "Verses from the Shepherd's Hymn"

and were you very sorry to come away? - E. E. Cummings "[little tree]"

To drive night's dreams away - Olive Custance "A Morning Song"

Drifting forever away from me - Jim Daniels "The Dark Miracle"

Paint away the faults of yesterday - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

And wait patient treacherous time away - Walter de la Mare "The Quiet Enemy"

Spinning the guileless hours away - Walter de la Mare "Voices"

Turns away from the whispering shore - Walter de la Mare "The World of Dream"

Alive and cooled with a song that slides away - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

Born unfathomable light-years away - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"

Away from haunting temptation - Diane DeCillis "What Would Hitchcock Do?"

Threshing away time - Nicole Cecilia Delgado "From Barrio Obrero to La Quince" (translated by Urayodan Noel)

And always they will slip away - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Poem [Ah, I know what happiness is....]"

The gold in using wore away - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVII: The Wife"

Sunshine threw his hat away - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XI: Summer Shower"

Scares muslin souls away - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXIV"

And mists are carved away - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love I: Choice"

And the night that didn't fall away - Chelsea Dingman "And What If I Spoke of the Hours"

the golden age of gone traditions swept away - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"

And frightened the music away - Mary Mapes Dodge "Rhymes and Jingles" (p.109)

And swift winds bore my songs away - Edward Dowden "Song and Silence"

The prowling gnat fled fast away - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Wither away beneath the false one's power - Eliza "The Broken Heart" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Directed away from history - Elaine Equi "Enter Here"

forward is not so far away - Tarfia Faizullah "Surah"

And the vanishing that carries it away - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"

A wind had blown away the sun - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 20"

The night stretching away thousands long behind - Annie Finch "Samhain"

And drive away the rose to leave a shell - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"

And drive away the hell-set dreams - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

When the storm shall pass away - "For the Hour of Triumph" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]

As the great abstractions come to take you away - Carrie Fountain "[You Belong to the World]"

Camels carted away the broken Colossus of Rhodes - Katie Ford "Koi"

Swallowed up in leaves that blew away - Robert Frost "A Dream Pang"

Stretched away unto the edge of doom - Robert Frost "Into My Own"

All who hide too well away must speak - Robert Frost "Revelation"

And morning found the breeze a hundred miles away - Robert Frost "Wind and Window Flower"

On quiet wing away - Zona Gale "Ballade of Listening"

To dream winter away - Tess Gallagher "Ring"

Will make men cast all care away - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"

To never look away - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"

Putting away in the mind's pocket - Mona Gould "Communion"

Every flower faces away - Leah Naomi Green "Week Ten: Plum"

Away from people and the curse of interaction - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

Crimson or gold dropping away - Angelina Weld Grimke "The Eyes of My Regret"

Shut away within the night - Angelina Weld Grimké "To Joseph Lee"

Giving away to night - Joy Harjo "Remember"

Surviving empires pass'd away - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

My stars are seeping away - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed (Hendan) "Returning to the Fire" transl. by author and edited by Darren Byler

An immersion in going away - Gordon Henry "It Was Snowing on the Monuments"

And frightening the army of Xerxes away - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"

Wipe away the blood and the betadine - Mary Hickman "If the Heart Does Not Restart"

My promises have cracked and dropped away - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"

Through voids that roll away - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"

Burn away the night - Edward Hirsch "Blue Hydrangea"

Taking away its names - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"

And lure the foals away - Florence Hoatson "The Pixies on the Moor"

Away from this year's cubicle to night class - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

Every color backed away into the past - Jackson Holbert "Unsent Letter to Jakob"

When beauty's trace is worn away - George Moses Horton "Memory"

The hour you slipped away - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Recall"

Smoothing away with silence - Helen Hoyt "Rooming"

Take away your veil of stars - Ping Hsin "Multitudinous Stars" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

Frightened a thousand miles away - Langston Hughes "Migrant"

But dream ships sail away - Langston Hughes "Water-Front Streets"

That smiled away their loving breath - Leigh Hunt "Death" [International Weekly Miscellany v. 1 no.2, July 1850]

That sweetly dreams itself away - Aldous Huxley "Philoclea in the Forest"

A missile's flight away - Jess Hyslop "After"

Tore away its ancient root - "In Hebrid Seas" (Translation by Thomas Pattison)

Washed away sleep from the eye of the narcissus - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Away from the cornerless dark - K. Iver "The Gotham Hotel"

the days shrink and fold away - Didi Jackson "Fall"

Anything that washes away easily - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"

And the trees lean away - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Other Women's Children"

cut away from the bone of debt - Fred L. Joiner "Austerity"

Squinting away the cigarette smoke - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"

The verbs fell away - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"

Carried away the small shadows - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"

Water rolls the stone away - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"

Burns me away without control - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

All fair things had passed away - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

The last sunset of hope pass away - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"

One lightning storm away from igniting - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"

And the witch flew away on her broom - Rachel Kolar "Hey, Diddle, Diddle, Black Cat with a Fiddle"

Slows and snows itself away - Ted Kooser "In Early April"

Taken away by the stars - Ted Kooser "Screech Owl"

Tips from the breeze and skims away - Ted Kooser "This Paper Boat"

Where cacti withered and blew away - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Monoculture"

A star the dawning drives away - Andrew Lang "A Star in the Night"

Black narrow lists no tears can wash away - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

To blot the sins of dawn away - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

Packed up his traps and stole away - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

The sound shall echo ever when we shall have passed away - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Drive away the sorrows of a thousand years - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley

Without bearing away my sorrow - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall

Curving them away from the moon - Li T'ai-Po "Songs of the Marches" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Cannot be filled but only altered or cut away - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Spun away by the churning silence - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

Wood and clay will wash away - "London Bridge"

Flew away to line the nests of birds - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"

Turning away inside the apostrophe - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

Turn away and leave it crying on the doorstep - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

Swept away the human wall - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"

Mock the roses flung away - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

But fled in baffled rage away - George Martin "Marguerite"

Weep away the fears of shadows - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"

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

Away to where the musics grow - Furnley Maurice "The Soldier Band"

Speed away westward on swift wide wings - Theodore Maynard "Dawn"

Then on a sunbeam fly away - William P. M'Kenzie "The Mother's Song"

As Hope's sweet visions fade away - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Had fallen away from the road underneath - W.S. Merwin "The Crust"

Must doff my will as raiment laid away - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"

Away from avenging angels - Dante Micheaux "Striking the Tents"

Too long away from water - Edna St Vincent Millay "Exiled"

Until the sea drives them away - Gabriela Mistral "The Teller of Tales" (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)

Rutted roads run away to nowhere - N. Scott Momaday "A Darkness Comes"

Will stay to watch you drift apart and pass away - Harold Monro "Journey"

Weep themselves away in rain - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Expect us to walk away & wonder - Kamilah Aisha Moon "The Emperor's Deer"

Melting away as it's moving along - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

Locked away from the jewels of the city - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Carries us away from all that is hidden - Mark Nepo "Stopped Again by the Sea"

Fade away twinkling, flickering in the air of the times - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"

That are made to fade and fall away - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

Action on far away roads - Naomi Shihab Nye "Morning Song"

Take away from this haunted space - Brandon O'Brien "Cento for Lagahoos"

Veil away your tender eyes - Dorothy Parker "For an Unknown Lady"

To fetch the wool away - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Travelling Post Office"

Lizards nodded away the world's secrets - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"

At least one dream away - Angela Penaredondo "Central Visayan Mountain Range, Philippines 1945"

Twists away from its neat trellises - Kiki Petrosino "The Question"

How to turn away from what's familiar - Carl Phillips "That It Might Save, or Drown Them"

A place for running away from fame - Po Chu'i "Writing Again on the Same Theme" transl. by Burton Watson

Sweeps away toward morning - Alexander Posey "Tulledega"

And trembled away into silence - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: A Lost Chord"

Wrinkled memories tucked away - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"

By the ransomed spirit cast away - K.R. (H.I.H. Grand Prince Constantine Constantinovich) "[No! I can ne'er believe, no recollection]" transl. by John Pollen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Konstantinovich_of_Russia

Creeps away to dream and rest - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"

Imagine clouded demons pushed away - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Despojo"

Clouds an arm's reach away - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Stored away in his mind's lavender - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Nothing buried or thrown away - Lola Ridge "Mother"

What rust peels away - Jack Ridl "It Was Last Night, I Think"

Then throw everything you know away - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"

The harrow and sickle are laid away - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"

One edge away from disappearing - Mg Roberts "Cylanders II"

What falls away is always - Theodore Roethke "The Waking"

Nothing whole to take away - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

Until you throw your sword away - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton

The two that fade away together - Carl Sandburg "A Coin"

When each immortal turned his face away - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

Time falls away with twilight - Ann K. Schwader "Last Light, Frijoles Canyon"

To be shattered even when blown away - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"

Stealing away the treasure of his spring - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIII"

Deep in the dust let all such pass away - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Whispers away the dying - Jacob Shores-Arguello "Workshop"

Finally ready to give that old life away - Joyce Sidman "Lament for My Old Life"

While stars float away - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Never Learns to Cook or Sew"

Remember the things spirited away - Bruce Smith "Ferment"

An accident away from being bitter - Richard Solomon "By Subtraction -- I Tego Arcana Dei"

That perpetually slides away from me - Marin Sorescu "Carbon Paper" transl. by Michael Hamburger

My words keep slithering away from me - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

Leaps away like luck, over rapid water - A.E. Stallings "Epic Simile"

Stowed away on the ship of death - Frank Stanford "The Forgotten Madmen of Menilmontant"

Fallen brightly away - Wallace Stevens "No Possum, No Sop, No Taters"

Much time is wasted now away - "Stool-Ball"

Nor turn your lips away from Phryne's silver limbs - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

Where skyscrapers are just inches away from the ground - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"

Burns away the trials of the true - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 204: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

My way of turning away from the past - Joyce Sutphen "The Temptation to Invent"

Has burnt a mark no rivers wash away - Carmen Sylva "Lethe"

Away to other heights and other temples - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"

Where the vapours dream the sunlit hours away - John B. Tabb "Jack-o'-Lantern"

Cast away the masquing garb of hollow Day - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Rise away with the celluloid spirits - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"

With a burning rose hidden away - Sara Teasdale "Thoughts"

The owls were bearing the farm away - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

Far away the avalanches wake - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets: 1. The Glacier"

Away from every careful sorrow - Henry van Dyke "Wings of a Dove"

And only bitter land was washed away - Margaret Walker "Childhood"

Went away in the twilight gray - F.E. Weatherly "A Bunch of Flowers"

The loon's weird laughter far away - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

How history does not wash away - L. Ash Williams "Red Wine Spills"

Time takes almost everything away - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"

Crumble away into quicksilver dust - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

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

I've slept away the sun - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"

Bring away a patch of cloud - Xu Zhimo "Second Farewell to Cambridge" (translated by Kai-yu Hsu)

To scrub away the silk threads of pain - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

Skitter away from certainties - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Fly away, sprout and grow again in another place - Shuyi Yin "Growing Chair"

In ghostly gardens a hundred miles away - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"

The wind won't go away so easily - Kevin Young "Dog Star"

Let the gods look away as always - Kevin Young "Hive"

Turning away in search of another likeness - Matthew Zapruder "Frankenstein Love"

Spinning and twisting a hundred miles away - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"

Wear away with silent beat - Zitkála-Šá "Iris of Life"


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