Potential Titles: Within

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Within the frame we've chosen - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"

Lurk within the forests of the mind - Harold Acton "In the Train de Luxe"

Torn from within a cold glassy fire - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "The Mirrors" transl. by Allan Francovich

Within that divide - Simon Armitage "Prometheus"

questions within the black smoke - Jarid Arraes "Movement"

Crimson thoughts within me writhe and burn - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

Within the beak of a relentless vulture - Benjamin West Ball "Cymindis"

A void within voids - Rita Banerjee "Sleep"

Shaped within a static prayer - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"

What dream lies walled within - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"

What dream lies walled within - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"

within the mesh of failure - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"

be the blood within my bone - Elizabeth Bartlett "guadalajara"

Within that hallway of silence - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"

When poison writhes within - Stephen Vincent Benet "Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua"

Within whose heart no spark of ancient fire burns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

Within your body's bladed frame - Joshua Bennett "X"

Ebb and flow within my tender heart - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"

Hopes that lie within their grave - Maxwell Bodenheim "East-Side: New York"

Within a room of tortured angles - Maxwell Bodenheim "Feminine Talk"

Trapped within these months and years - Max Bodenheim "Poem to a Policeman"

Only finding it within herself - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"

Within my jealous sight - Otto Leland Bohanan "Go Give the World"

Rhythms of change within the heart begun - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

Within the system of blind planets - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"

Knitted up within my mind - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

All things within this fading world - Anne Bradstreet "Before the Birth of One of Her Children"

Within each hour the precious minutes lie - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"

Warmth within the mountain's breast - Stopford A. Brooks "The Spring of Love"

Teach the drum within that dark to drum again - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

Within the dash of withered bells - Paul Cameron Brown "The Bells"

Hope within thee deeper than thy truth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Within its field of lament - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"

Glowed within the wines we drank - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall

Deny your right within these walls - Roger Casement "Oliver Cromwell 1650-1659"

To feel the many plagues within - John Castillo "To a Withered Flower!"

Dream within the grape - Willa Cather "Autumn Melody"

Give faint visions of a paradise within - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

The wound is within you and not - Johnson Cheu "Wail"

Seeks friendship within a veiled temple - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"

All within the time frame of a melting clock - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

And left within his spirit hope - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"

Within the sceptic darkness deep - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"

Prayer to go unchanged within this water - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"

Within the confines of an hourglass - Billy Collins "On Reading in the Morning Paper that Dreams May Be Only Nonsense"

Within us a hardened astonishment - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Something has flowered within the discontent - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

As sheep within their folds - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"

Within myself is lodged the key - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"

Your doors barred from within - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"

No gift within our hands - H.D. "Prayer"

Within the tangles of my brain - H.D. "We Two"

Within the wind a core of sound - John Davidson "In Romney Marsh"

But never change the words that were within - Mary Carolyn Davies "A Casualty List"

Stand within Time's crumbling walls - Benjamin De Casseres "The-Circle-That-Looks-Like-A-Line"

New feet within my garden - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"

The bell within the steeple wild - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXVI: The Storm"

Left her within the jaws of death - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes"

Begins to disintegrate within my hand - Jasmeet Dosanjh "A Spirit Friend"

Instant within my shrine - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

Within rules freely accepted - Stephen Dunn "Lucky"

Within my spirit's dark stream - Helen Parry Eden "To E.A.P."

Seek the strange within the same - Katherine Edgren "Prospecting"

Witnessed too many crashing within - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"

Within the rib complex of some dissolved creature - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"

Within her Hand a vacant String - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

Within a realm of filtered light - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"

The morning mist within your grounds - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"

And heart of stone within - The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"

Nested like a doll within right now - J. Everett Feinberg "Renaissance"

Within a body of jewels - Camonghne Felix "Lost Poem: RX"

Through the blood trees within us - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"

Reveal an order within the curvature to chaos - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

Lit deep within the dark - Zona Gale "The Secret Way"

Deserves no space within your spirit - Nikita Gill "Anger"

The sword within the sun - Ellen Glasgow "England's Greatness"

Within compassion's genial realm - Mrs. L.S. Goodwin "The Unsepulchred Relics"

The slaughter carried within me - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"

Palmed within an arc of light - Lucy Griffith "Attention"

Within our spirit's garden - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

Shut away within the night - Angelina Weld Grimké "To Joseph Lee"

Scenes within her ring of power - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"

Within its earthbound depths did lie - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

Rang midnight within - Thomas Hardy "Before Marching, and After"

Within a true circle of motion - Joy Harjo "Eagle Poem"

Within a crescendo of abalone light - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"

Within a sunless spring - Avis Harley "Catching a Butterfly (2)"

Within the fair pavilion of thy presence - Frances Ridley Havergal "Coming to the King"

Wakes to behold the void within - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

Within the circle of his breath - George Herbert "Mortification"

Strengthen the hope within my soul - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"

Vacated a region within himself - Edward Hirsch "Idea of the Holy"

Matching the oblivion within - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"

Safe within the jasper gates - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"

Buried deep within my heart - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

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

Wrought within the tombs of Egypt's kings - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Within my bosom are a hundred dawns - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Within the four chambers of a sparrow's heart - Mark Irwin "And"

Within the many courtyards of the body - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"

Lived within a mighty age - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

Lived within a lattice of time - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

Within the breath of autumn woods - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"

Within the shade of freshly chill - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"

Within the unvoyaged sea - Lionel Johnson "Upon a Drawing"

Within the Convent of the Past - Annie Fellows Johnston "Retrospection"

Language conquers from within - Fred L. Joiner "Sovereignty"

Scarce stirred within their azure caves - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Deep within the vase of memory - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As in a Rose-Jar"

Sweet rosemary within the lane - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Remembrance"

Within the space of a swallow's nest-door - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Mists of memory locked within - Fanny Kemble "Absence"

Within a summer sun cloud furled - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Within the Temple caught - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Within the Potter's house alone - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Within touching distance of the doorknob - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"

Folded within my hemisphere - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Iron Within - Rudyard Kipling

How desire vibrates within us - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"

Within the first order of wonders - Ted Kooser "Gyroscope"

Within a sullen glow of apocalypse - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"

Your singleness within the universe - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"

Within the hollow arch of night - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"

Joy within the gates of duty - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"

Round pools within a wood to catch the stars - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

Within the sacred bowl of life - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"

Within the boundless realm of Horror - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sister Mary of the Plague"

Pulsed within the fingers of the world - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"

Crooked from growing old within a shell - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"

Carry yesteryears within our wallets - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"

Singing out within the crash of passing sun - Audre Lorde "Coal"

Drifted back within the bounds of space - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"

Within the water where the willows sleep - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"

Sit within a golden field - Jeannette Marks "Stars"

Within these forty centuries - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"

Within a world of rank decay - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of a Ferocious Catholic"

Here the sword within the soul - Theodore Maynard "In Domo Johannis"

For the promise within the wreckage - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

Within the fallen fortress of my will - Arch Alfred McKillen "Sonnet"

Densities of opal within sleep's portico - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill

Within the shadow of a leaping sea - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

Within that curtain of Charybdis - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

Within the whirlpool presence of a flood - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

An ancient bell within their throats - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Jets of a dreadful fire within - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Sign within him of deep sky and sounded sea - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"

One flame within those mutual eyes - Alice Meynell "Reflections"

Within this brother's solitary day - Alice Meynell "The Unknown God"

Plunge within the silence, sans thought, breath - Adam Mickiewicz "Baydary" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Over all within their vortex - "The Misanthrope"

Within whose glowing sphere is mirrored half a world - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"

Within whose soul the fire of the eternal lived - George L. Moore "Keats"

Slander's snakes within the verdure lurk - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

To seek within the jaws of death - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"

Engulfed within the grave of Time - George Murray "The Thistle"

That has slept long years within the bells - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Returns" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Death's brilliance within the emerald - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Within a sleep of sulfur - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

Asleep within the deadest hour of night - Robert Nichols "To ---"

Within the garden lands of love - Meredith Nicholson "Twas Never Night in Love's Domain"

From within come tones of fear - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: V. The Hell Hole"

Showed a sun within its heart - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"

The drums and the darkness within - Achy Obejas "Recountal"

Except within my secret ears - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

Whose floating glory melts within the sky - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Within the dark circle of his demons - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"

Shut within earth's jaws - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Within those snake-bright grottoes - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Confined within cells of bark & wood - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"

Within view of a rough sea - Carl Phillips "The Last of Fanfare"

Within the circle of his wide domain - Philo "The Tribute"

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

Within the terrors of eclipse - E.J. Pratt "Ode to December, 1917"

That questions are inherent within the answers - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Foreigners"

Within the larches trembling glade - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Brother Filippo"

Each within a golden shroud - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Mountain Path"

Poured within the brimming cup - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"

Within the shadow of the sail - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"

Contain and conduct the sorrow within - Ariana Reines "The Economy"

This earth and the bones within it - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Within the deep of wilderness and night - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"

Within each eye the naked blade - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Left within it graft of alien fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Within the circle of its radiance - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

That sleeps within a harp - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Within his soul a shrine of memories - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Hermit"

Grew dead without and small within - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"

Within the happy silence of my heart - Alice Wellington Rollins "Absent-Minded"

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

Held sparks within their darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"

Fission-green flaw deep within - Richard Scott "Peridot"

A little beat within the heart of Time - Robert W. Service "Just Think!"

Within his bending sickle's compass come - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"

Synthesized within an inch of its life - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"

An ocean raging within a stone - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

Cold within your clenching hand - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"

Crouched within my cup - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Love"

The death watch ticks within the walls - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Skeleton in the Cupboard"

Within which everything is mine - Joyce Sidman "Diving Beetle's Food-Sharing Rules"

No such shock knit within terror - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

Our cherished histories endure within the sea - Marge Simon "The Astronaut's Return"

Within the rain's grey monotone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Dream-Bridge"

Grasped within the hollow hand of Night - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"

All suns are grasped within the hollow hand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"

Loveliness find root within decay - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"

Jonah wept within the whale - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"

Gone somewhat within the veil - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

The rendezvous within its vital boundary - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"

Within the ancient circles of shapes - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"

Within the thought of the wind - Wallace Stevens "Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It"

The dregs within its crystal hours - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

Felt my soul within me reel and sway - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"

Every nuance hidden deep within - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 219: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The secrets we stopper within our own mouths - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

Sit'st alone within her void, cold halls - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Within the borders of the page - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "The Dream of the Anit-Ekphrasis"

The language of survival cold within my teeth - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "The Dream of the Anit-Ekphrasis"

Wild winds bound within their cell - Tennyson "Mariana"

Are found within its precincts vast - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Winter is lurking within my moods - Henry David Thoreau "Nature's Child"

Enthroned within a more ethereal blue - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XII. Sunday.--The Hill-Top"

Light is dead within my heart - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut

Pestilence and rot within thy bowers - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"

Drowned within the lurid dregs - Iris Tree "[How often, when the thought of suicide]"

Tasting within the bitter dregs of spleen - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"

Revenge of Time that waits within the clock - Iris Tree "[Old woman forever sitting]"

As within a guilty citadel - Richard Chenevix Trench "Vesuvius, as Seen from Capri"

Lit you from within - David Trinidad "Ode to Dusty Springfield"

Lie within the shadow of the sword - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson

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

The restless stars growing within her - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"

an island of seashells within the rings of Saturn - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

Within the still-point of the song - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"

Echoing the well of mystery within me - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Lamplight"

The stars move calm within the brow of night - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

From suffering worlds within, hidden from sight - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Within the chains that language wrought - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IX" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

All the ghosts within your breast - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin

Hope within its circling hours to see - Hans Von Spiegel "Sonnet: to the Old Year" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

Awhile to sit within its gilded cage - H.J.W. "An Evening Hymn" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)

Within the secret caves of Mind - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

Within this net-work of the wood - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "The First American Alliance"

Stood within a dreadful court - F.E. Weatherly "Bell's Dream"

Within a single pulsing of the quick heart - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"

Caged within my breast - John Hall Wheelock "The Black Panther"

Serene within the shadow - Helen Hay Whitney "Lyric Love"

Within the breast of brooding Earth - Helen Hay Whitney "The Supreme Sacrifice"

Will bloom within those trackless lands - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"

The House of Ghosts was bright within - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"

No matter what grows within - John Wieners "Private Estate"

Within the theatre of the mighty dead - Joseph R. Wilson "An Actor's Epitaph"

Within the mansion of my memory - Adolf Wolff "In Memoriam"

As one within a moated tower - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"

Washed within a wave of golden - Francis Brett Young "Testament"

Locked within yourself and asking - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"


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