Potential Titles: Watch

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Watch the way clouds salt over stars - Sheikha A. "Nesters"

An orphan watching by his father's bier - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]

Watched the loitering stars at play - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XVIII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Watches his little foragers go forth - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

Grey shadows of Night's Last Watch fly - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

While the bright eyed stars their long watch kept - Louisa May Alcott "The Flower's Lesson"

Having watched the old movies and read the old books - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"

Watch the memory assemble me - Zaina Alsous "Description de l'Egypte"

Watch the firelight change and flit - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]

Comes running to watch while a year plummets - Mary Jo Bang "Catastrophe Theory III"

Watching the night creep up on the noon - Mary Jo Bang "Don't"

A watch that kept adding up the hours - Mary Jo Bang "Hanging the Curtain"

Looking at a watch that says now - Mary Jo Bang "Masquerade: After Beckmann"

Watch the chiaroscuro movie of my mind - Mary Jo Bang "Our Evening Is Over Us"

The artichoke watches the train - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"

Eager eyes that watch for one alone - Charlotte F. Bates "Unsaid" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.31, Oct. 1873]

Watch the birth of stars in heaven - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

Through the lone watches of the silent night - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

As I have watched you through windows and keyholes - Josh Bell "One Shies at the Prospect of Raising Yet Another Defense of Cannibalism"

By an artful plan deceived our watchful eyes - Hilaire Belloc "More Beasts (For Worse Children): Introduction"

Watching the chariot moon trample the skies - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

With mysterious grave watchers in their wrath - John Berryman "The Possessed"

Watch the wind reborn - Richard Blanco "My Campo Santo"

Watch the seething millions swarm - Edmund Blunden "The Watermill"

Absorbed I watch their ceaseless dashing - Friederich Bodenstedt "Farewell | Aus dem Nachlasse Mirza-Schaffys" transl. by Auber Forestier [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]

Aware that the entire cosmos may be watching - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"

To relish the watchers' tears - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

For twenty years I have watched them bud - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"

Watch the stars on the horizon revolve around my ankles - Kurt Brown "Road Trip"

Watched the antic frogs - Sterling A. Brown "Return"

Monumental statue set in everlasting watch - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Grief"

Watching me stutter another apology - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"

Watch every minute lest danger arise - Isabel C. Byrum "The Troubles of Biddy"

Watching the waves eat back the blueblack dunes - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"

Watching each wavecrash reverberate - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"

Must watch the waves with ruin all bestrew - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"

To watch the year repeat its days - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

And watch from every star - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

The breeze watches it all with her Mona Lisa smile - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"

Old films you watched without sleep - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"

watching from the water - Lucille Clifton "california lessons. 1, geography"

only the solitary fox watching my window - Lucille Clifton "leaving fox"

And watch the ghosts dance - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"

That gold watch you dropped into hot coals - CAConrad "Home.3"

How caution watches at the lips of fraud - George Crabbe "The Library"

How we watched the sun set, and criticized the sky - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"

With fairies abroad for watch and warden - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Wonderful Apple-Tree"

Keep thou thy tearless watch - Adelaide Crapsey "Anguish"

Our ancestors watched it blossom - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Watched the shadow of a tree flicker on the wall - Waring Cuney "The Death Bed" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

To name and watch each flower - H.D. "Nossis"

The hooded snake that drew and watched - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"

Fated to watch Mercury and Venus engulfed - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]

Whose bloom has faded in the midnight watch - Lucretia Maria Davidson "To My Mother"

Touch the moon, and watch it shatter - Armen Davoudian "Hot Springs"

Raging Fortune watches to ensnare - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

The Pleiads seven stand watch - Walter de la Mare "The Flight"

Watching in the gathering twilight - Walter de la Mare "Voices"

Watching the strike zone get smaller and smaller - Oliver de la Paz "When Benny Agbayani Became a Met"

Waking the watchful ban-dog's bark - Delta "The Dark Waggon [sic]" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXI, v.LXVII, Jan. 1850]

Watching through warped glass - Chelsea B. DesAutels "A Dangerous Place"

To watch this alias of a race - Jay Deshpande "Wanting a Child"

Watch the individual colors as they surface - Tim Dlugos "Great Art"

Watched a doe chewing sage - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

Watching the pink bursts of the cyclamens - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

And watch the quiet furrows grow - John Drinkwater "Plough"

Could yawn like thunder watching - Carol Ann Duffy "Loud"

Watch with care the fatal enemy - Eliza "The Broken Heart" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Watched you become shadowless - Claudia Emerson "Pitching Horseshoes"

Some light that wants to watch me survive - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Autopainophile"

Watchful as window-light - Tarfia Faizullah "Acolyte"

Watched the dying falter - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"

watched a star burn through your wall-length windows - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

After watching the flight of cranes - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Watch you like a faraway tree - Megan Fernandes "Friends with No Benefits"

Watching the first rockets launch into the unknown - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

Let one Eye his watches keep - John Fletcher "Folding the Flocks"

Watched the Revolution live on TV - Mina Florea "Remember"

Watch for the rest of eternity as it blossoms - Sandy Florian "But This Is Ambiguous"

Watching the waves pull against time - Jennifer Elise Foerster "River"

Where daylong the sniper watches - Gilbert Frankau "Headquarters"

Watched the cataract's giant play - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

And wait to watch the water clear - Robert Frost "The Pasture"

The childhood that's watching me - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson

Includes her in the world it watches - Sarah Getty "Deer, 6:00 AM"

That movie we almost watched - Carmen Gimenez "Like an Auto-Tune of Authentic Love"

Watching neighbors become stars - Golden "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"

Watching history through the mouth of a shield - Golden "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"

Watching those we can't reach - Rae Gouirand "Fig Suite"

To watch their eclipse scatter - Rae Gouirand "Quince Suite"

And watch the cloud ships as they pass - Mona Gould "Nocturne"

And Love stands watching by the deep - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"

Watched a leaf disappear eight thousand times - Leah Naomi Green "Hashem"

Looking for what they watch - Leah Naomi Green "Week Ten: Plum"

Watch the ink fill in your body - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

Who watch the stars through broken walls - Ivor Gurney "From Omiecourt"

Have watched since first the world had birth - William Habington, born 1605, died 1654 "The Firmament" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 3, April 14, 1832]

And watched Magellan's white-winged ships - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"

Watch for the echoes of their scent - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

Sorrow's watch of sighs - F. Hartmann "Endlich bricht der heisse Tiegel" transl. by James W. Alexander

Watching the sky regret nothing - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

Call on the watchers of the land to rise - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Bring our prayers that hide and watch us - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

Watch the past blow by - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"

Watching for a six-winged thought - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"

Lose the path and watch Orion rise - Conrad Hilberry "Virginia Night"

This night again will watch its fireflies - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"

Watch the smooth airships of Zen - Tony Hoagland "Upward"

Watch the light forget the mountains - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"

Watch true brews slide down that mahogany bar - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

Watch an entire reel of gaslight unfold - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"

Watched God wandering the station in a business suit - T.R. Hummer "After"

Watches o'er the treasures of her next - "J--The Jay" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

Stands watching day return - Elizabeth Jennings "Old Woman"

The patient palm tree watching - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"

A feral squirrel watches the fall - Patricia Spears Jones "A pillow in the city"

Keep watch over the wayfarers - Richard Jones "Rest"

Watch him wrestle my shadow - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"

Watching the fire dance on the floor - James Joyce "Chamber Music: V"

Watch you snap back until you yawn - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Watch the old roots write - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"

My cats stand watch in the window - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"

When sleep and silence keep their watch - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"

And watched with sleepless care - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Thou poisonous laurel leaf, that in the soil]"

Watching the unreturning ships go forth - T.M. Kettle "Reason in Rhyme"

They watched thro' time and tide - "The King-Slaying in Finderup, 1285" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

The hour of watching and envy - Rudyard Kipling "The Centaurs"

How long has that bird been watching you? - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"

Watches from an uncertain vantage point - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

A new watcher opens a hyperdimensional eye - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

How odd the way a watch keeps going - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"

Watching the fierce fire flare - Archibald Lampman "The King's Sabbath"

In the watches of his sleepless care - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"

Watches with his antique eyes - Archibald Lampman "Winter"

Watch the display of him confronted with a new demand - D.H. Lawrence "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is"

Watch my dead days fusing together in dross - D.H. Lawrence "Monologue of a Mother"

To watch the world that lingers behind - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"

And watch with dilettante eyes - Richard Le Gallienne "Saint Charles

Has watched your tragic shore - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"

Watch me rise in the essence of indigo - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"

Undeceived and watching there - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

Watch the same wall turn fifty reds - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Watch the light turning the room every color - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Watch gray clouds torn by winds - Li Po "Autumn of All Good Things" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

The peach-blossom watches the river running - Li Po "Contentment [When you ask why I dwell here]" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Watch down the highway - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Summer"

Lookout soldiers who watch the sea - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"

Watch over a century of nights - Amy Lowell "A Little Song"

Watch with grieved eyes - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"

Watchers of the civilized wastes - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"

Watched a pigeon disappear inside a hawk - Ruth Madievsky "Ficus"

Watchers that wait upon heaven - George Martin "Street Waif"

Watch morning jump through a flaming hoop - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"

Watching Ariadne ungold time - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Little bright stars watch us too - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Kiss Refused" transl. by John Pollen

The stars which watch Gethsemane - Theodore Maynard "In Domo Johannis"

Watching lightning open up the sky - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"

Watching silence rising from the dust - John McCarthy "Silence Rising, Dust Rising"

And watch with wonder-eyes - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"

The wakeful watch of envy and desire - Arch Alfred McKillen "Sailor Boy"

Some tireless Watch to keep - Clara A. Merrill "All Things Speak of God"

Watching black shadows on green lawns - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

When night gives pause to the long watch I keep - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"

That watched with a world-sweeping eye - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "The Wedding at Panama"

Watching from the far side of this darkening valley - Wayne Miller "Mind-Body Problem"

May oft out-watch the Bear - John Milton "Il Penseroso"

Watched the swans drop from the dark air - Anis Mojgani "Leda"

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

And watch the darkness come - Jim Moore "The Need Is So Great"

Watching the swallowtails feed on the aster - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"

A flock of nightjars watching over me - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"

Can neither watch nor measure you - Pablo Neruda "Amazon" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Watched the vegetable gods grow - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Watches the new spirits arriving in the belly of the sturgeon - Margaret Noodin "Sometimes" transl. by the author

His the voice in the night-watches - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Watching a strange car circle the streets - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Words Under the Words"

The watchful hawk on high - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"

To count milliseconds by watching a brook run - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Keeping watch until we rise - Mary Oliver "I will try"

Children who can share the thrill of watching - Robert Pack "Big Bang" [Poetry, January 1988]

Watched the book of day unfold - Dorothy Parker "Testament"

The first to realize will be those who watch over the air - Mara Pastor "Entonces Mi Hija/Then My Daughter" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong

Wake and watch while others sleep - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"

Keep the watch for stars and sun - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"

Watches the progress of the tomatoes and herbs - Andre F. Peltier "Let the Rigatoni Be My Reeds"

As if watching the song itself - Carl Phillips "Riding Westward"

To watch bees map a garden - Carl Phillips "Soft Western Light"

Watch the escalator's endless crawl - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"

Watched them fall like dull pennies - Rachel Pittman "The Quickening"

With the stern moon to watch them - Miriam Clark Potter "Fire-flies"

Watch a sparrow circle the glass ceiling - Paige Quinones "At the Museum"

A skulk of white foxes stands watch - Paige Quinones "Canopy"

The watcher at the window - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Song of the Watcher"

Watched in their vanishing wake - Theodore H. Rand "The Dragonfly"

Watching out for the camouflaged stone fish - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"

Watch his comrades close down the sky - Roger Reeves "The Head of the Cottonmouth"

As he watches from behind the wire diamonds of chain-link - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Cachiporrista"

Watch the stretch of burning sand - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"

Watching the miraculous migration of sunshafts - Adrienne Rich "Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot"

Watching all roads at one time - Lola Ridge "Jude"

Weary watchers, guard the solemn scene - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

The subtle storm-fiend watches for his prey - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Nothing but waiting and watching the dust fall - David Salisbury "On Mars"

Met to watch the lights and shadows quiver - Arthur L. Salmon "By the River" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.127-v.III, 5 June 1886]

Watch me grow younger every year - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

Vexed with watching and with tears - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLVIII"

O'er ancient tombs keep watch - Taras Shevchenko "To Jacques de Balmont" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Watch him steal, guilt-lighted, to his pillow - B. Simmons "Stanzas to the Memory of Thomas Hood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]

The star we watch'd in vanish'd vesper hours - B. Simmons "Vanities in Verse: Letters of the Dead: To Livia" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]

Like a terrier watching a rat - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"

Watched the dream unroll - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Watch it rise through our fallen - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"

Watch your heart like a jukebox - Frank Stanford "The Visitors of Night"

To watch with compensating eyes - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

Too sad to watch the sky - George Sterling "The Faun"

Watched the golden reefs of sunset fade - George Sterling "Hesperian"

And watch our isolated sun decline - George Sterling "Kindred"

With his grim eyes watching the course - Arthur Stringer "The Pilot"

Eyes that keep eternal watch, unshaken, strong, and true - Alan Sullivan "A Question"

Barracudas hang in the water and watch - Alison Swan "Sand Key"

Watching the slippery elm made new - Alison Swan "Some Things I Needed to Know"

Watched over by a murder of crows - Alison Swan "There Is Always This"

Tolling kelp-clappered watches of brash ice - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

Watch the snow fall in layers - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"

Watching electrical arcs illuminating the yard - Keith Taylor "The Day After an Ice Storm"

Watch time fall - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

Watch the formation of geological layers - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"

'Mid hollow charnel let me watch the flame - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

Sit and watch the silent rain - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"

To watch the earth paint the moon gray - Amie Whittemore "Lunar Eclipse"

And watch the far wings fly - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"

Watched from widow's walks worn thin - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"

Stayed to keep the ghost watch - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Slack"

And watch a lark in heaven stand - Iolo Aneurin Williams "From a Flemish Graveyard"

Under oak trees and watchful eyes of wizards - Michelle Wirth "Campus"

Hinges of small capture in its apex of watch - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"

Watching the menial clouds of conquered day - Humbert Wolfe "Caesar and Anthony"

No one watched the years go by - Humbert Wolfe "Envoi [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"

What's watched now does the watching - Kevin Young "Mantle"


Surmounts the Bear-watched Pole - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]


To rail at the dawn-watch wind - Wang Chien "Palace Song" transl. by Burton Watson


The stars, their death-watch keeping - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]


And the ever-watchful sniper - Robert Graves "Limbo"


O'er which they had kept night-watch - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]


The dim reaches of a watchdog's yawn - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

The chained watchdog Will no longer springs - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]


A watchfire that smoulders and dwindles - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

Kept vigil with the watchfires of the sky - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

His watchfires cores of menace in the gloom - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

In the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps - Julia Ward Howe "Battle-Hymn of the Republic"


Watchman.

Watchtower.


Will be a watchword and a battle hymn - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"

The deep watchword of the rushing storm - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

To solve the doubt, watchword and countersign - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]


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