Potential Titles: Whole

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To drown indeed the whole seraphic choir - H.J.A. "To a Lyre-Bird" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

Scatter his whole mind across a field - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"

A whole crossword puzzle of ladder and corridor - Joan Aiken "Down Below"

Germ of that which makes our circle whole - John Albee "Evolution"

Whole lemons sliced like cathedral windows of sun - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"

Heavy with a whole collection of fresh fruits - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Not whole but lovely in their brokenness - Nina Bagley "Gathering"

grief wakes the nucleus of the whole atom - Lee Ballentine "The Whole Atom"

Blended into an incendiary whole - Mary Jo Bang "N as in Nevermore"

Incredible conquests till the whole world reels - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

An innate impulse toward wholeness - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Consciousness Self-Learns"

Seeds with a whole galaxy inside - Tamiko Beyer "February"

Whole childhoods of green - Terry Blackhawk "Meditation in Green"

Forgotten forms tremble into wholeness - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"

The labour of whole ages tumbles down - Robert Blair "The Grave"

That I might find a passion wholly of the mind - Louise Bogan "The Alchemist"

Woven from cloth whole and tattered - Bruce Boston "All the Starry Audience"

Rose again, transformed and whole - Geoffrey Brock "Ovid Old"

A whole tin bucket of despairs - Lucie Brock-Broido "Self-Portrait as a Herd of One"

Would trash the whole shift with the rattle of pocket change - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"

Straining the whole horizon - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Let me taste it whole - Sue Budin "Mouth"

Fragments made whole in my seeing - Sue Budin "On Beauty"

One whole eclipse not knowing any fire - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"

There clung a whole bevy of parasite barnacles - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

Your whole body is composed of nesting places - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"

The whole creation will be altered just for you - Phoebe Cary "Suppose!" [Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories (ed. by Hamilton Wright Mabie, William Byron Forbush, and Edward Everett Hale). 1927]

Spoke a whole year without vowels - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

I was silent the whole way - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"

Angry enough to o'erwhelm a whole Rookery - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Blackbird and the Rooks"

I'm determined to keep my whole crop - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Wonderful Apple-Tree"

Where the whole shadow lies deep - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"

This whole citrus universe - Denise Duhamel "Ego"

Bright enough to burn the whole sky - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"

How it is that the whole universe moves - Roger Dutcher "More Than Distance"

Whole salt water galaxies - Nicole Terez Dutton "Magnitude and Bond"

Hoping it would take you whole - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

Before it could devour me whole - Rudy Francisco "Water"

Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"

Offered whole in one gesture - Forrest Gander "Pastoral"

As I swallow you whole - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Cage"

My whole trajectory's toward you - Marilyn Hacker "On Marriage"

Haunted their whole lives by trees - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"

Enough to fill the whole sky - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"

Worth whole encampments in fool's dust and deed - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Survive a whole century of hunt - Faylita Hicks "Photo of a Girl, 1988: Cyborg"

Punctuating the whole of my life - Sean Hill "Hello"

Through dreams made whole - Langston Hughes "To You"

That wants the whole vast world - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

How I waited a whole year for September - Rindon Johnson "There Is a Black Fly in Your Chardonnay"

Weave a whole roof to the mountain - Kakuhaku "Sennin Poem" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)

Dip me whole into the sweet blood - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Bearing the weight of a whole self - Mary Karr "County Fair"

I shake the whole world dark again - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

Each parts contains the pattern of the whole - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

A whole life of waiting - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"

Would give you whole fields of wild perfume - Ted Kooser "The Bluet"

The whole dark butchery without a soul - Richard Le Gallienne "The Illusion of War"

Making what was lost whole - Keegan Lester "Huntington Beach"

The whole weight of the rain - Philip Levine "Clouds Above the Sea"

As the whole world holds its breath - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

A whole sandbar full of herons - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson

Spin a whole road map of a world - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

The viper that swallows us living and whole - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

Whole volumes of rapture - Trebor Mai "Baby" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

An infinite whole revealed by the breaks - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"

The whole grammar of waiting - W.S. Merwin "A Codex"

The heart of a whole horizon - W.S. Merwin "The Old Year"

The whole of the devoted sun - Alice Meynell "A General Communion"

Whole lifetimes flooding by me - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"

Haunted by wholeness - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Exploded Stars"

Unable to wholly comprehend - Marilyn Nelson "To Miss Jackson"

The whole sky drop by drop - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Though the part obscured the whole - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Give me the whole horizon - Naomi Shihab Nye "Better Vision"

Whole acres in their eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"

As wind claims the whole sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "Wind and the Sleeping Breath of Men"

The whole artillery of hell is brought to bear - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Poured the whole sorrow of years - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"

Which binds the whole to heaven - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Thoughts"

The whole alphabet of silence - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"

A fetish for being eaten alive and whole - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"

Just one slip in the whole of forever - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Plate Spinning"

Where the whole body becomes a drum - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"

To swallow whole every holy thing - Jason Reynolds "Match"

Until the whole harmonious landscape rang - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"

And the whole red tragedy over again - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

Over the whole world's sea-board the shadow of Odin passed - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

Nothing whole to take away - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

I am whole in the moonlight - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"

And face the whole gray sky - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"

Not wholly fed by fear - Mary Jo Salter "The Upper Story"

And hell has traversed with whole hide - Friedrich Schiller "The Simple Peasant"

Let the static swallow me whole - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"

The wholeness of our original bloom - Maurya Simon "Angels"

Where the partial precedes the whole - Maggie Smith "Voting-Machine"

Projecting the whole night sky of constellations - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"

Plastered the whole world with their playbills - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

The whole vocabulary of the South - Wallace Stevens "Prologues to What Is Possible"

A whole dead month in the dark - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Gave my whole heart to my lute - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson

Not wholly careless now - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

Fur holding the light of a whole moon - Kristen Tracy "Taming the Dog"

And the whole is less than the half - "Turvey Top"

Wise by whole epochs of evolution - Michael Van Walleghen "Happiness"

Through a whole green thunderstorm - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"

The riches of the whole world's rhyme - William Watson "To Lord Tennyson"

The air, the light, the whole enormous chance - John Moncure Wettarau "Morning, Maine Honolulu"

The whole world became my garden - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

The whole frame of the celestial firmament - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"

with their whole selves blown open - Maria Zoccola "Dry Land"


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