Potential Titles: Slow

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Blown slowly from the wounded grain - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Slowly and steadily defying the sinking destruction - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Drink it as slowly as you must - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"

Slow as black smoke - Tommy Archuleta "Remedio: Ocotillo (Candlewood)"

Slow moving fever that clouds the minds - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

By Time's slow finger written in the dust - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Slow mists gather in shrouding tears - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"

The bells are slow in steeple and tower - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"

The moon hums a slow psalm - Lou Barrett "Cradle Song"

There time drips slow and patient - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"

The slow gathering of waters - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"

A slow companion to the light - Elizabeth Bartlett "I Would Remember"

The same slow steps as our hide-and-seek sun - Samiya Bashir "Second Law"

Patient as the ants, and slow - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited

The slow wheels of the mind - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"

The slow, dark cattle call of cause and effect - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"

Time dragged his slow sickle - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Stealthy and slow as a hidden sin - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

Dragging slow chains the hours went by - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

Retire to the slow digesting of his lie - Maxwell Bodenheim "Portraits. VII: Old Actor"

Things beautiful and slow - Kay Boyle "Monody to the Sound of Zithers"

Count a tornado of slow concessions - Russell Brakefield "This Is America and We Are Boys"

My slow burdens - Anna Hempstead Branch "While Loveliness Goes By"

No comfort in the slow farewell - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

The slowest of my frosts - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Still smiling as she melted slow - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Slow plague shall bring the fatal hour - William Cullen Bryant "Sonnet to --"

Master both invisible and notoriously slow to act - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 3: A psalm of Isaak, whispered mid the Philistines, beneath the breath"

Rooted sure and slow - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"

Civilization's slow grenade - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"

From a slow continent - Ching-In Chen "Inside me, a family"

Wrought in the monk's slow manner - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Slow to part with her best gifts - Florence Earle Coates "Probation"

Row themselves slowly through eternity - Billy Collins "The Dead"

The slow avalanche alone replied - Arthur Colton "The Roman Way"

Move on to monotones, solemn and slow - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Without the sorrows of a slow decay - George Crabbe "The Village"

Slow tyranny of moonlight - Hart Crane "Voyages V"

In what slow pomp the Rogues advance - Rev. William Crowe "On the Funeral of --, in a Hearse and Six, Followed by a Mourning Coach and Four"

The slow sediment of forget - Cynthia Cruz "Riding"

opening in a rare Slowness of gloried air - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

Where the slow river meets the tide - H.D. "Leda"

Slowly tolling the vesper bell - John Davidson "Down-a-down"

Mute shadows creeping slow - Walter de la Mare "The Empty House"

The slow archangel's syllables - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity V"

The saints' slow diligence - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXV: The Goal"

Slow cows wandering home to their sunset - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

Slow like suspicion - Jordi Doce "Guest"

The yellow willows waving slow - Julia C.R. Dorr "Under the Palm-Trees"

A slow clock in a deep forest - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Time"

Slow sugar in the veins - Nicole Terez Dutton "Magnitude and Bond"

Too slow my rainbow fades - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"

Rises slow the noiseless Night - George Allan England "Morning, Noon and Night"

Slow rafts of ice - Elaine Equi "Trenton Local"

The slow patience of steel - Louise Erdrich "Mary Kroger"

The slow chug of the city's arteries - Maggie Farren "Palms"

our slow glissage into the tears of heaven - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

Cutting its pathway slow and red and deep - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

While Homer makes his slow way home - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

Moonlight booms from its slow axis - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen a"

The slow alchemy of a timeless day - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"

The slow crawling light - Santee Frazier "Hyperacusis"

The slow swirl of a dusty creek - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"

Rolled the slow thunders on the wind - John Freeman "Stone Trees"

Where the slow wheel pours the sand - Robert Frost "Into My Own"

With the slow smokeless burning of decay - Robert Frost "The Wood-pile"

The sun's slow exile - Jenny George "I Love You"

Slow constricting centuries of cold - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "How Would You?"

Slow our heartbeat to a cricket's call - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"

Who slowed the jagged hours with absinthe - Dana Gioia "Tedium"

A slow moan of silver - Louise Gluck "Lamentations"

Like a slow tree moving - Louis Golding "Shepherd Singing Ragtime"

The lowing herds wind slowly - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Slow shadow, sailing far on high - G.H. "The Blue Bird" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

That open slowly as eternity - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"

Ice in long slow nights - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"

That slow, rhythmic flickering of wings - Robert Hass "Exit, Pursued by a Sierra Meadow"

The slow movement of a hunting bird - Robert Hass "...White of Forgetfulness, White of Safety"

No slow dance in the undertow - Conrad Hilberry "Scramble Competition Polygyny"

The slow traffic of a gull - Conrad Hilberry "Sonnet Declining to Write Confessional Poems"

Moving slowly through the dismal atmosphere - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"

Light slowed to the pace of material transfer - John James "Forget the Song"

The slowing stream of morning - John James "Lullaby"

Blue whales undulate their slow song - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

Came slowly down the dismal shore - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]

Trinkets from slow compromise - June Jordan "Ghaflah"

Dew sifting in slow motion - Zilka Joseph "Man hu? Man Hu?"

Morning twilight slowly raised its lids - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Mix media on slow water - Janet Kauffman "Keratella Offshore"

Built to kill by slow degrees - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Victory"

Foster-child of Silence and slow Time - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Bubbles in a bathtub slowly swelling - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"

Until what hastens went slower - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"

With dusk's slow bleed - Nate Klug "Jasmine"

Fists slow to open in forgiveness - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

The slow river of fear - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"

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

Tests our worth through slow disintegration - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"

With a motion soft and slow - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"

Die slowly from the olive sky - Archibald Lampman "Sunset"

Grief with its footsteps slow - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

The slow dignity of your eternal pause - D.H. Lawrence "Baby Turtle"

The elephant bells striking slow - D.H. Lawrence "Elephant"

Where the slow toads sat brooding - D.H. Lawrence "Sicilian Cyclamens"

Go slowly blue in chemical loops - Aimee Le "My Winter of Acid"

Never hears their slow grey feet - Francis Ledwidge "The Shadow People"

As slowly fades the day - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

The long, slow words of its rule - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"

Until the forest wilted with slow poison - R.B. Lemberg "The Rivers, the Birchgroves, All the Receding Earth"

Slow fish speaking the language of silence - Philip Levine "Making It Work"

Slow to shed my ornaments - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Night comes and, drowsy with drink]" transl. by Burton Watson

The slow plan of the flowering grass - Sandra Lim "Certainty"

Cancerous overgrowth to slow crumbling - Marissa Lingen "The Plural of Apocalypse"

The slow pulse which beats eternity - Amy Lowell "Venetian Glass"

Set our slow old sap aflow - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

Laughed the slow sad sound of broken things - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"

Time's step is slow to follow - Jeannette Marks "The Broke Door"

As roses slowly blush a deeper color - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)

Where shaken sunlight slowly filters down - John Masefield "Cardigan Bay"

Slow dancing on the cooling pavement - John McCarthy "County Fair"

Our years of slow unknowing - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Slow-danced with the ice - M.S. Merwin "Oak Time"

The spool of destiny turned slowly - Arthur Milliken "To--"

So fast it feels like slow motion - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Still Life as Rocket: 42"

Slowed down for civilian conversation - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"

Slide the lipstick on slow - Angel Nafis "King of Kreations"

Wakeful night in its slow flight - Francis Neilson "Fortune, You Have Naught I Need"

And hardens its slow liquid light - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The hands of a slow cyclone - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A slow iron army - Pablo Neruda "Guayaquil (1822)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A shipwrecked horse crowned with slow trees - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Corrodes with the slow seep of acid - Pablo Neruda "What We Accept Without Wanting To" transl. by Alastair Reid

The swing of the sickle, restless and slow - E. Nesbit "[What o'clock is it, children dear]"

Like followers in the summer's slow retreat - Meredith Nicholson "October"

Read the slow text of grasses - Naomi Shihab Nye "In That Time"

Beneath the slow moving asphalt - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"

And heart of slower beat - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"

Setting slowly over the cusp of the "new world" - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"

Remembered slowly - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"

Treading slow with muffled drums - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"

As time slowly propels us closer - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"

That pool of slow gold scraped down - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Slow pulp of arithmetic - Kiki Petrosino "Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770-1863"

Those slower, too-complicated numbers - Carl Phillips "Brothers in Arms"

Early in its slow unwinding to never again - Carl Phillips "Scattered Snows, to the North"

That buffets back slow time - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

The moon's slow tapers burning - E.J. Pratt "The Dead Calm"

The bells' slow ocean tones - E.J. Pratt "The Toll of the Bells"

Slow poison in the marrow of bones - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"

Where the nightshade trumpets cry slow - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"

Slow to relinquish cold - Khadijah Queen "The Rule of Opulence"

Slow journeying toward your destined goal - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Ages" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Must tread slow - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open"

Slow tread of barley in loam - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Silvery, low, slow-sliding - James Whitcombe Riley "Through Sleepy-Land"

The slow, eternal drift of stars - Charles G.D. Roberts "Eastward Bound"

The slow clog of the hours - Charles G.D. Roberts "Wayfarer of Earth"

By the slow guile of their vindictiveness - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The New Tenants"

For when the slow dark hours begin - Christina Rossetti "Up-Hill"

The sudden rise and slow relapse - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"

Slow from deep lungs - Carl Sandburg "Threes"

Window panes breaking in slow motion - Janice Lobo Sapigao "HomeGoods"

Slowing to the pace of the newt - Maxine Scates "Look"

And their slow cocoons in Autumn - Holly J. Schaeffer-Raymond "Excerpts from Sign & Grudge"

With clouds traveling slower than minnows - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #95"

Slow through the cave of my veins - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"

Eroded by slowly dreaming centuries - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Heavy and slow in the streets of ruined cities - Gilbert Sheldon "St. Anthony's Township"

From which memory slowly seeps - Iryna Shuvalova "a moving grove" transl. by Uilleam Blacker

Slows to its winter rhythm - Joyce Sidman "Into the Mud"

The poet's slow remembering hands - Patricia Smith "Sacrifice"

The slow chromatics of a bruise - A.E. Stallings "Olives"

The slow, sad murmur of far distant seas - James Stephens "The Shell"

Whose slow, annuling tide creeps nearer - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"

Where the feet of Time are slow - George Sterling "Yosemite"

Sun and moon refuse to slow - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Poem without a Category, No.7" transl. by Burton Watson

Darken slowly with a far desire - Sara Teasdale "To E"

By slow prudence - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"

The winds blow fast as the stars are slow - Edward Thomas "Out in the Dark"

Making slow acquaintance with the day - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke in Winter"

Stern oracles the while spoke ever deep and slow - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Because the Spring was slow - Charles Hanson Towne "Waiting"

In the cerulean depths of slow oblivion - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

The slow whirlpool I conceal within myself - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

A slow dance moving to some silent blues - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"

The slow and steady drip of water from a reed - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Buried each slow light - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Slow bewildered bone - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oracular"

From a slowly surrendering sun - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament II"

With slow scriptures of sand - Derek Walcott "Pentecost"

So slow it's more like gravitational condensation - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"

They move in a slow wheel of devastation - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"

Prey to the slow vengeance of the wizard Time - Thomas Warton Jr. "On King Arthur's Round Table at Winchester"

Impede the slow steps of the pompous ages - William Watson "History"

Slow breaking into green completeness - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"

As the slow dusk advances - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

Slow rounding into calm - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Slow tracing down the thickening sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

A slow hand lifted a tide - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Healing slowly in its shadow - Michelle Wirth "Campus"

In their slow drift toward received form - Charles Wright "The Gospel According to Somebody Else"

The deep, slow currents of evening - Charles Wright "The Great Blue Heron and the Tree of Night"

Leaving the ancient, the angry and the slow - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"

Peace comes dropping slow - W.B. Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

Slow as a shadow in my steps - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"


The dusk of slow-accomplished Time - Emily Lawless "Afterword"

Lit with one slow-burning flame - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Slow-rising from the deep caves of his heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

Slow-withering stick and stone - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"


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