Potential Titles: Swift

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The swift sun hunting rain - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Myself on a swiftly tilting planet - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

A chiller current swifter run - Albion Fellows Bacon "When Youth is Gone"

The swift wild cry of the scornful ember - Elizabeth Bartlett "Item: Body Found"

Leaping forth in swift and tireless flight - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Swift as the questing birds - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Becomes a herald swift beyond belief - Louise Morey Bowman "Grapes"

The swifter current that mines its root - William Cullen Bryant "Green River"

Harpies relentlessly swift - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"

Some healing angel swift - Susan Coolidge "Morning"

More swift compelled submission - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

To the swift express of years - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"

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

The subtle swift seeds of the Moon - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"

Weave upon the mind's swift loom - Coningsby Dawson "Hallowe'en"

Swift song keening against granite - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

When the swift stars pale - Edward Dowden "A Song"

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

Swift passage to the fire - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"

Swift as a shooting star - William Hodgson Ellis "Rhona Adair"

In swift and shifting pursuit - Mari Evans "Amtrak Suite II"

Swifter than the course of light - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"

The curlew swift as light - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous

Flashed a swift terror on the dark - John Freeman "Stone Trees"

Swift the waiting reeds unclose - Rose Fyleman "This Island"

Silent and swift as the flight of Time - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

A phalanx of swift song made - Louis Golding "Bird, Bird, Bird"

A swift mouth that sings - Louis Golding "Portrait of an Artist"

Swift with satire as with sally - Harry Graham "The Last Horsed 'Bus"

That marks the zenith of his swift career - C. L. Graves "'Bleak House'"

Heaven's swift sparkling fire lash - James Roane Gregory "Storm Lights"

Some strange, swift decree - Hermann Hagedorn "The Ghost"

In one swift sweep of vision - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

With swifter hands and surer feet - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Swift the tide of time is flowing - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

A great drum beaten with swift sticks - Langston Hughes "Sport"

Swift wafted by the gentle gale - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"

The swift ship's lurch on the lucent wave - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"

My spirit swift with passion - Archibald Lampman "Passion"

On the swift longing face of the river - Archibald Lampman "Spring on the River"

Cancelled in swift eclipse - Herve Noel le Breton "The Burden of Lost Souls" (translated by W.J. Robertson)

Swift Destiny shook out her purple wings - Amy Lowell "Francis II, King of Naples Written"

Makes golden moments swiftly glide - Arthur Macy "At Marliave's"

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

The gallant greyhounds swiftly ran - anonymous? "The More Modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase"

Sees darkness regain swift command - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"

One of time's swiftest sprinters - Lutpulla Mutellip "Answer to the Years" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

The glint and whirl of swift wild wings - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"

And hastens its swift wedding - Pablo Neruda "One Day Stands Out" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Hooves knit swift earth to swift - Pablo Neruda "Rider in the Rain" transl. by John Felstiner

Exact as a swift diamond - Pablo Neruda "Solar Ode to the Army of the People" translated by Richard Schaaf

Burns on the swiftly flowing river's breast - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

The swift uproar of avalanche - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Rival the flying wind's swiftness - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)

Descend swift as a murderer's hand - Caitriona O'Reilly "IV. The Curee (from A Quartet for the Falcon)"

Swift arrows like gadflies in flight - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson

Swift electric riddles - Walter S. Percy "Fireflies"

By silence swift devoured - Theodore H. Rand "'By the Love'"

Swift changed to storm - Theodore H. Rand "The Rain Cloud"

Swift as the rainbow's graceful flight - A.J. Requier "Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

By the first swift sun-ray slain - Edgell Rickword "Yegor"

The swift iron burning bee - Isaac Rosenberg "Dead Man's Dump"

Swift shadows on the wall - Margaret E. Sangster "From My Room"

No victory in going swift to ground - Ann K. Schwader "Gone to Ground"

In one swift Lenten smear of ash - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"

Who are swift to assail - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"

Swift as the panther in triumph - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"

By those swift messengers return'd - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"

Cut out by survival's swift knife - Brenda Shaughnessy "Our Family on the Run"

Shadows with swift wings - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Like falcon swift did flee - Taras Shevchenko "The Night of Taras" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Swift as the trackless wind - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"

In one swifter hour of flame - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"

Across the salt sea of swift currents - "Song of the Sea" transl. by Kuno Meyer

The swift fulfilment of all dreams - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"

Twisting bright swift thread on airy looms - Muriel Stuart "The Thief of Beauty"

Swift rapture and strong - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Swift to fasten and swift to sever - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

For a short swift eternity - Edward Thomas "Celandine"

All the swift persuasion of the Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

A swift dark wind that turns the maples pale - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

Something swift runs under the grass - Mark Van Doren "Wind in the Grass"

Ten swift years had flown - F.E. Weatherly "No Thank You, Tom"

Swift in the pathway of the sun - Edith Wharton "Les Salettes"

With a golden swift caress - Helen Hay Whitney "Bird Love--Rose Love"

The crested blue-jay flitting swift - John Greenleaf Whittier "Red Riding-Hood"

The pinnace needs a swifter sail - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"

Thin, cruelly swift, victorious Harlequin - Humbert Wolfe "The Dancers"

Swift darkness is spring's first hour - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"


Stars that shower swift-winged light - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"


Crack their wind-swift fingers - Harold Acton "Words"


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