Potential Titles: Upward

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Siphon the blood that rushes upward - Elmaz Abinader "In the Throat III: Mind to Gut"

Drag me upward in horrible mercy - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Looking upward for more certainty - Julia Alvarez "Looking Up"

Holding fractaled branches upward and outward - Ryu Ando "Season of the Ginzakura" [Strange Horizons 13 July 2015]

Where the lofty pine mounts upward - B.B. "Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Upward tips of their muted spray - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"

Through the upward roads of Hell - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"

Only see a garden growing upwards - Mahogany L. Browne "If Love is For the Fishes"

Knowing the same wild upward stir - Bliss Carman "The Pensioners"

That crowns the upward track - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto VI. Dyscomfyture"

Ever upward flying toward the chimney's crown - Mrs. W.N. Clarke "Winter Fire-Flies" [St. Nicholas v.V no.3, Jan. 1878]

Who unifies the upward heart - Leonard Cohen "It Is to You I Turn"

Its pale arms reach upward and relapse - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"

Opens upward to admit the sunlight's gleam - Emanuel Geibel "[Schöne Lilie]" transl. by Edith Wharton

Proud of our conscious upward swing - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Now"

Announce the upward chariot of the Sun - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Strains on upwards through the wind and sleet - Aldous Huxley "The Defeat of Youth: VIII. Mountains"

An upward agony of undefined desires - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Fell upward into the sky - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"

A narrow staircase leading upwards into nothing - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"

Augur somehow upwards from the gravel bed - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

The London glare climbs upward to make the sad skies glow - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Willow's Forge"

And upward with the like desire - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"

Writhing upward like a trodden snake - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Abraham Carew"

The golden age when still the cycle ran on upward curve - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: VIII. Ode for New Year's Day"

Moved upward with the morning star - Edwin Markham "The Poet"

Or upward roll as sacrificial smoke - Claude McKay "Enslaved"

A cataract thrown upward from a desert place - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 29"

Upward in a winding spiral - Pablo Neruda "To Don Asterio Alacaron, Clocksmith of Valparaiso" transl. by Alastair Reid

Upward swept by tongues of fire - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Tossed the white moon upward - Mary Oliver "Nature"

As they fell continually upwards - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Working upward across bone - Linda Pastan "I Am Learning to Abandon the World: for M"

Dark forms yearning upward - Linda Pastan "Vertical"

The road wound upward, to the hill of sleep - Miriam Clark Potter "Little Sister of the Moon"

The upward path so steep and long - Matthew Russell, S.J. "A Thought from Cardinal Newman"

Fronds of fern still untwist and upward turn - Edmund Beale Sargant "The Cuckoo Wood" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]

Had I wings to lift me upward - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"

Drawing us with delicate tension upward - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

When the sparks are upward gone - John B. Tabb "Chimney Stacks"

As sparks tend ever upward in their flight - "The Times" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

Shall singing swans bear upward to the stars - Virgil "Eclogues IX" (transl. not identified)

Falling upward from the body - Claire Wahmanholm "Poem with No Children in It"

Icarus, drowning upwards through the sky - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"


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