Potential Titles: Tower
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somethingdarkerAll the dreaming towers wrought by Love - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Forth from the vine-wreathed tower - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Towering anxiously over infinities of forest - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Hands afire with a vision of two great towers - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Interlocking puzzle towers of flesh - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"
The din of life from yonder towers - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"
With ruddy towers of pillared flame - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Twelve towers tall enough to pierce and hold - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"
Monday's tower of wooden blocks - Mary Jo Bang "The Perpetual Night She Went Into"
The bells are slow in steeple and tower - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"
The Prince of unremembered towers - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
From a fairyland of twinkling towers - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"
And climb the crags that tower in my brain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"
Sending love to distant towers - Sue Budin "False Borders"
To them a mighty lighthouse tower - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
Forsake the sunset for my tower - Willa Cather "Paradox"
Pride juggles with her toppling towers - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
To rob the iron-bolted tower - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"
Keep one red tower in sight - Arthur Shearly Cripps "Essex"
Rushed masterless, by tower and town and wood - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Massy walls of unhewn agate towered - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Built with towers of fretted stone - Julia C.R. Dorr "Heirship"
In a tower in the dark heart - Carol Ann Duffy "The Long Queen"
From the distant tower of my head - Stephen Dunn "The Muse"
In the tower of the winds - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Troy towers for my delight and crumbles stone by stone - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
Towering to the brassy vault of heaven - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Tottering upon Ambition's tower - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Felled to build my crumbling towers - William Griffith "Litany of Nations: Austria-Hungary"
Now I see the golden towers - Frances Ridley Havergal "The Welcome to the King"
No banner from the lonely tower - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"
The wing of towering thought - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"
The torch upon her beacon-tower - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"
The rocks with their eternal towers - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
Love is a tower, a trance, a medieval pit - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
Her towers of fear in wreck - A.E. Housman "Last Poems III"
The tower divides the shade and sun - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LXI: Hughley Steeple"
Where village towers in play-time ring out - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
When vivid lightning rends the towering rock - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Red towers on the slopes of snow - Robinson Jeffers "Contrast"
The flaming tower we all dared to jump from - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
Palaces and towers of amethyst - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
From the Tower of Darkness cries - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Climbs the tower of reincarnation - Mihee Kim "time travel"
Far off in hollow towers - Archibald Lampman "An Impression"
All things ancient, vast, towering - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
A tower in the tarnished game - J. Patrick Lewis "The Slugger"
Black clouds oppress the vermilion towers - Lu Chi "Two Poems Presented to the Gentleman in the Office of Palace Writers Ku Yen-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson
Life's surrender in the fairy towers - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"
Towers over its frail reflection - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"
Against the towers of stone and steel - Don Marquis "Lower New York--A Storm"
Building Babel's towers - Don Marquis "News from Babylon"
Gleam from one towering prison - John Masefield "The South-West Wind"
Granite towers that crumble into dust - Theodore Maynard "England"
Who towers above the reeling stars - Theodore Maynard "Laughter"
Hanging thick round empty tower and broken minaret - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Towering bellows of babbling businessmen - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
Towers of empty mirrors - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"
The rusted towers haunting one hill - M.S. Merwin "Letters"
Logic to the shape of tower and tenement - Michael Mesic "Gaudi"
Roots a towering flourish of coral reef - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"
How the sun was always on the towers - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"
All my soul became a tower - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"
Towering like vanquished cathedrals - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Crashed down like a broken tower - Pablo Neruda "The First Sea" transl. by Alastair Reid
My faith lay in a buried tower - Pablo Neruda "First Travelings" transl. by Alastair Reid
Lineage of tower and turquoise - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
In the tower of an ethereal lighthouse - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Against the black tower of silence - Pablo Neruda "A Small Animal" transl. by William O'Daly
Cold tower of the world - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly
Tower of the secret icehouses - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly
Towers of the full moon - Pablo Neruda "Swan Lake" transl. by Alastair Reid
His creed a wreck of hollow towers - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"
Shadowy towers crimsoned with sunset - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"
Our voices race to the towers - Sharon Olds "Voices"
That led to Salem's towers and temple high - J. Rheyn Piksohn "A Contrasted Picture: from 'Passion Ode,' an Unpublished Poem" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Nor the red tear nor the reflect tower abides - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"
The poet's tower facing the western ocean - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
When the winter flood-tides wrench the tower from the rock - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
Towers squatting graven and cold - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
That reared for him their towers - Ameen Rihani "Gone with the Swallows"
The devil's in the tower right now - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Who tower beside this goddess of twilight air - George William Russell "Aphrodite"
To break their towers of wantonness and mirth - George William Russell "Three Counsellors"
Towers half hung in the sun - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Some tower tumbles, lightning-struck - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"
The insolent towers that sprawl to the sky - Robert W. Service "I'm Scared of it All"
The fallen towers of Babylon - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Saw in sleep old palaces and towers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
A towering sphinx roams the garden - Safiya Sinclair "Center of the World"
Giggles like towers of glass - Edith Sitwell "Switchback"
Towers of night and fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Cupped by the towering city skyscrapers - Jean M. Snyder "Buffalo Harbor"
The towers of Jason's sea-girt city - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
While far away towers fall and ancient cities crumble - Keith Taylor "Responsibilities"
Four grey walls, and four grey towers - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
The foe that first beheld thy towers - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Towers filled with murder - Leah Tieger "I-30, I-20, Farm to Market Road"
In that tower built of skulls - Perhat Tursun "Elegy" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Wear a diadem of Wisdom's towers - Henry van Dyke "Urbs Coronata"
Each tower to search, each nook to scan - Susan E. Wallace "The Mistletoe Bough"
First of a long line of towering ships - Edith Wharton "With the Tide"
Orion in his arctic tower - Henry Kirk White "Time"
The fortress needs a tower - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"
A house, high its tower in the clouds - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Drop like the tower sublime of yesterday - William Wordsworth "Mutability"
As one within a moated tower - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"
Vast as towered Babylon - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Crimson kings on battle-towers - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Wearing a crown of overtowering rage - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"
Watchtower.
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Forth from the vine-wreathed tower - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Towering anxiously over infinities of forest - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Hands afire with a vision of two great towers - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Interlocking puzzle towers of flesh - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"
The din of life from yonder towers - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"
With ruddy towers of pillared flame - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Twelve towers tall enough to pierce and hold - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"
Monday's tower of wooden blocks - Mary Jo Bang "The Perpetual Night She Went Into"
The bells are slow in steeple and tower - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"
The Prince of unremembered towers - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
From a fairyland of twinkling towers - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"
And climb the crags that tower in my brain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"
Sending love to distant towers - Sue Budin "False Borders"
To them a mighty lighthouse tower - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
Forsake the sunset for my tower - Willa Cather "Paradox"
Pride juggles with her toppling towers - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
To rob the iron-bolted tower - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"
Keep one red tower in sight - Arthur Shearly Cripps "Essex"
Rushed masterless, by tower and town and wood - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Massy walls of unhewn agate towered - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Built with towers of fretted stone - Julia C.R. Dorr "Heirship"
In a tower in the dark heart - Carol Ann Duffy "The Long Queen"
From the distant tower of my head - Stephen Dunn "The Muse"
In the tower of the winds - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Troy towers for my delight and crumbles stone by stone - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
Towering to the brassy vault of heaven - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Tottering upon Ambition's tower - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Felled to build my crumbling towers - William Griffith "Litany of Nations: Austria-Hungary"
Now I see the golden towers - Frances Ridley Havergal "The Welcome to the King"
No banner from the lonely tower - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"
The wing of towering thought - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"
The torch upon her beacon-tower - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"
The rocks with their eternal towers - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
Love is a tower, a trance, a medieval pit - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
Her towers of fear in wreck - A.E. Housman "Last Poems III"
The tower divides the shade and sun - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LXI: Hughley Steeple"
Where village towers in play-time ring out - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
When vivid lightning rends the towering rock - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Red towers on the slopes of snow - Robinson Jeffers "Contrast"
The flaming tower we all dared to jump from - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
Palaces and towers of amethyst - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
From the Tower of Darkness cries - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Climbs the tower of reincarnation - Mihee Kim "time travel"
Far off in hollow towers - Archibald Lampman "An Impression"
All things ancient, vast, towering - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
A tower in the tarnished game - J. Patrick Lewis "The Slugger"
Black clouds oppress the vermilion towers - Lu Chi "Two Poems Presented to the Gentleman in the Office of Palace Writers Ku Yen-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson
Life's surrender in the fairy towers - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"
Towers over its frail reflection - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"
Against the towers of stone and steel - Don Marquis "Lower New York--A Storm"
Building Babel's towers - Don Marquis "News from Babylon"
Gleam from one towering prison - John Masefield "The South-West Wind"
Granite towers that crumble into dust - Theodore Maynard "England"
Who towers above the reeling stars - Theodore Maynard "Laughter"
Hanging thick round empty tower and broken minaret - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Towering bellows of babbling businessmen - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
Towers of empty mirrors - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"
The rusted towers haunting one hill - M.S. Merwin "Letters"
Logic to the shape of tower and tenement - Michael Mesic "Gaudi"
Roots a towering flourish of coral reef - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"
How the sun was always on the towers - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"
All my soul became a tower - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"
Towering like vanquished cathedrals - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Crashed down like a broken tower - Pablo Neruda "The First Sea" transl. by Alastair Reid
My faith lay in a buried tower - Pablo Neruda "First Travelings" transl. by Alastair Reid
Lineage of tower and turquoise - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
In the tower of an ethereal lighthouse - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Against the black tower of silence - Pablo Neruda "A Small Animal" transl. by William O'Daly
Cold tower of the world - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly
Tower of the secret icehouses - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly
Towers of the full moon - Pablo Neruda "Swan Lake" transl. by Alastair Reid
His creed a wreck of hollow towers - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"
Shadowy towers crimsoned with sunset - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"
Our voices race to the towers - Sharon Olds "Voices"
That led to Salem's towers and temple high - J. Rheyn Piksohn "A Contrasted Picture: from 'Passion Ode,' an Unpublished Poem" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Nor the red tear nor the reflect tower abides - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"
The poet's tower facing the western ocean - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
When the winter flood-tides wrench the tower from the rock - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
Towers squatting graven and cold - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
That reared for him their towers - Ameen Rihani "Gone with the Swallows"
The devil's in the tower right now - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Who tower beside this goddess of twilight air - George William Russell "Aphrodite"
To break their towers of wantonness and mirth - George William Russell "Three Counsellors"
Towers half hung in the sun - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Some tower tumbles, lightning-struck - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"
The insolent towers that sprawl to the sky - Robert W. Service "I'm Scared of it All"
The fallen towers of Babylon - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Saw in sleep old palaces and towers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
A towering sphinx roams the garden - Safiya Sinclair "Center of the World"
Giggles like towers of glass - Edith Sitwell "Switchback"
Towers of night and fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Cupped by the towering city skyscrapers - Jean M. Snyder "Buffalo Harbor"
The towers of Jason's sea-girt city - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
While far away towers fall and ancient cities crumble - Keith Taylor "Responsibilities"
Four grey walls, and four grey towers - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
The foe that first beheld thy towers - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Towers filled with murder - Leah Tieger "I-30, I-20, Farm to Market Road"
In that tower built of skulls - Perhat Tursun "Elegy" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Wear a diadem of Wisdom's towers - Henry van Dyke "Urbs Coronata"
Each tower to search, each nook to scan - Susan E. Wallace "The Mistletoe Bough"
First of a long line of towering ships - Edith Wharton "With the Tide"
Orion in his arctic tower - Henry Kirk White "Time"
The fortress needs a tower - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"
A house, high its tower in the clouds - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Drop like the tower sublime of yesterday - William Wordsworth "Mutability"
As one within a moated tower - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"
Vast as towered Babylon - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Crimson kings on battle-towers - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Wearing a crown of overtowering rage - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"
Watchtower.
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