Potential Titles: Narrow

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Opened in the sky a narrow door - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Rebuffed by narrow market rows - L. Acadia "魔神仔 (Móshénzǐ)"

This narrow crevice deeper than death - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"

To hike on the narrow paths - J.M. Allen "The Narrow Paths"

Bones X-rayed, stacked in narrow rows - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"

Thick doorways which confronted narrow winding stairwells - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

Between sacred narrow canyons - Cristoso Apache "Gahe Dzil/Mountain Spirits"

Splendors trench on narrow lanes - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"

A narrow door between sky and ground - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

Forceful measures in a narrow place - Craven Langstroth Betts "Pope"

Narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea - Elizabeth Bishop "The Moose"

Narrowing the broad escape - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

Narrowed the span between the near and the far - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Venus Nell" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]

Their narrow voices widened - Geoffrey Brock "Orpheus Variations. 2 In Which He Turns Inward"

Whatever narrow miseries I make - Jericho Brown "Taken"

Given our so far narrow history - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"

The narrow scene of this our appointed tedium - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 3: A psalm of Isaak, whispered mid the Philistines, beneath the breath"

Narrowing its doors to thought - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

To scorn the narrow round - James H. Cousins "To Algernon Charles Swinburne"

Near that narrow field of bones - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

Make not the grave too narrow - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Till it argued him narrow - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXVIII: The Preacher"

Strike eastward on the narrow road - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull

The streams will narrow on your path - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Reflects a narrow, rocky room - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"

Took the narrow stair as wondering - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

A narrow room of mysteries - Heid E. Erdich "Quiet Cupboard"

Neither broad nor narrow - Catharine M. Fanshawe "An Imitation of Wordsworth"

Shadows cloaked the narrow place - John Freeman "Waiting"

Up the narrow stair of fall - Deborah Garrison "November on Her Way"

A narrow turmoil of troubled fire - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"

Within my narrow garden's greenery - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

In the narrowest nest in a corner - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Your World"

A narrow staircase leading upwards into nothing - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"

The narrow road I hoped to reach - Mary Karr "The Century's Worst Blizzard"

Too narrow is to calculate - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

That narrows us all into a shovel of dirt - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

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

With narrowing prison bind - James Russell Lowell "Prison of Cervantes"

The eye's sudden and narrow saltwater - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Narrowed to such stifling darkness - Naomi Long Madgett "Afterthought"

The cicada's larva reveals narrow secrets - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"

Penned in their narrow day - George Meredith "To J. M."

Glory narrowing to grace - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

A narrow silence in the park - Alice Meynell "A Dead Harvest"

Narrows its halo into a noose - Rusty Morrison "Measurement Fable"

At the narrow window of a song - Sharon Olds "The Task of Naming Me"

As if for the narrow path - Mary Oliver "Beans"

Pale and narrow and hidden in the roots - Mary Oliver "Daisies"

Because the heart narrows - Mary Oliver "Red Bird"

So narrow and light and possible - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

Through the narrows flung - Walter S. Percy "Paupack"

Narrow as daybreak - Kiki Petrosino "Monticello House Tour"

Within the narrow space of fifty years - Philo "The Tribute"

Separated by air and the narrowest of voids - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "It is a camp despite the name"

All roads narrow at the border - Barbara Ras "You Can't Have It All"

The lilies braced their narrow shoulders - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"

Shaped within no narrow limits - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Pouring sparks through a narrow place - Teresa J. Scollon "Summer Solstice in Black River Falls"

Narrow miracles and answers set to stone - Jake Skeets "Anthropocenic"

Gray highway veins narrow - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

Forever narrowing to that unknown sky - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

The narrow path of joy - George Sterling "Before Dawn"

I have threaded narrows, and I have passed through perils - Arthur Stringer "Protestations"

A cedar in this narrow cell is thrust - Muriel Stuart "The Seed Shop"

Thoughts through narrowing glooms of shade - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VIII. The Lery"

Walks all night upon a narrow rafter - Mark Van Doren "Midwife Cat"

Meaning in its narrow orb - Henry van Dyke "Dulciora"

Take for a change a narrower range - Arthur Waugh "An Explanation"

The path is narrowed to only a lane - A.D.T. Whitney "Along, Long, Long"

Not too narrow and not too deep - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"

The narrow range of its cheerful melancholy - Matthew Zapruder "Luna My Captive"


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