Potential Titles: Stay
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somethingdarkerIn love with the idea of staying - Hanif Abdurraqib "It's Not Like Nikola Tesla Knew All of Those People Were Going to Die"
Telling the light to stay outside - Etel Adnan "Night"
staying alive should be easier than it is - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"
Saunters into the world daring us to stay - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"
Could stay their fiery steeds upon the way - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Winged hopes that no longer stay - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
The hard work of staying alive - Julia Alvarez "Keeping Watch"
Let all the Graces stay their flight - Anacreon "Her Portrait" transl. by Rennell Rodd
Stay away as fever rages - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
My hands stay empty - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"
Stay suspended in ether's abiding - Mary Jo Bang "The Harbor"
The grief of staying apart - Rachel Barenblat "Fix"
Sweet desire would have me always stay - Charles H. Barstow "On the Coast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.34-v.I, 23 Aug. 1884]
A week or more they stayed away - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Unburied though we stay pursued - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"
To stay and sing their sad sweet requiem - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Stay young in a bubble of speed - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
Wrenched of every stay but Heaven - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"
A curious kinship made us choose to stay - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
Its salt stays on the tongue - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
Darkling bitter waters seemed to stay the prow - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Stay alive to witness tomorrow - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"
A charm to stay the morning star - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
To flee because home wouldn't let us stay - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Will never stay in the mansions of despair - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Thou, O Love, the traitor art]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Until Time's pulse is stayed - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"
What's dead might not stay dead - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
Part of us always stays back - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Heart Has Four Chambers"
Another sight that stayed the torrent of her grief - "The Early Taken" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXVI, v.LXI, Feb. 1847]
Because they know they cannot stay - Julie Fogliano "Fall, October 15"
Last in the field of night, which fain would stay to see - Edward Edwin Foot "The Death, Burial, and Destruction of Bacchus"
Nothing gold can stay - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
The mechanics of staying afloat - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"
The dawn stayed till the last had gone - Theodosia Garrison "The Neighbors"
Staying is a kind of writing - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Stay and say are two siblings walking home - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Staying drapes itself over everything you're scared of - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Perhaps my heart will stay uncertain - Nathalie Handal "The City"
Who stay here to care for memory - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Cannot stay so dull and grey - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLVIII"
Metal of what stays behind - Jane Hirshfield "Dog Tag"
And the stale snow stays all season - Jackson Holbert "Fragment [As if to begin some process]"
In the steady rush of your exhale we began dreaming - David Hornibrook "Psalm"
Stay lost in confusions of mist - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 12" transl. by David Hinton
Let me stay and taste undying Youth - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Two swans stayed faithful and fierce - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Tired of staying at home in the clouds - Marie L. Johnson "The Wind's Frolic" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
The sidewalks stay empty of my steps - Camisha L. Jones "No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain"
Stayed aloft until the waters dried - Zilka Joseph "What Ravens Do"
Fail his ruthless hand to stay - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
And stayed his awful penance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
My wandering heart returned to stay - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"
With a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel - John Keats "Hyperion"
Stay their crystal fretting - John Keats "In drear nighted December"
Who will stay to sing the songs I've made? - Henry Kendall "Bells Beyond the Forest"
Stayed on the threshold of memory - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Even the peacocks refuse to stay - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"
Who stays silent for seven years - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
The membrane between us stayed transparent - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"
Who wouldn't stay for his mother's madness - Susan Landgraf "Flower"
No charm to stay Time's unrelenting arm - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"
Stay till dawn in these isolate depths of quiet - Liu Tsung-yuan "Getting Up Past Midnight and Gazing Across the West Garden, I Encounter the Rising Moon" transl. by David Hinton
The hottest coals 'neath the ashes stay - J. Wm. Lloyd "The Fountain of Youth"
Hoping for a gift that stays ungiven - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
While the bridge between us stayed an empty place - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
With Persian roses crowned my stay - Justin H. McCarthy "Dedication [Hafiz in London 1886]"
Ready to either go or stay - Annie Willis McCullough "Velocipede" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Stay here at the precipice - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"
Does wind stay trapped in a room - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"
Will stay to watch you drift apart and pass away - Harold Monro "Journey"
Thought to stay blameless - Rusty Morrison "in the flood"
A fraternity ghost waiting to stay home - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"
Where laws stay on one bank of the river - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Joy stayed with me a night - Dorothy Parker "Light of Love"
Those who survive will stay away from machines - Mara Pastor "Entonces Mi Hija/Then My Daughter" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
Camelot will not stay - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
The staying chant the recitation of everything - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
Not a minute stopped or stayed he - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
Who stayed behind to count the void that is - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Nor stay'd the dance in Priam's hall - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Chant Royal of High Virtue"
The version of him that stayed - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"
Theirs is bitterness who stay behind - "The Railway Station" [Household Words no.6, 4 May 1850]
To stay the tides that speak - A.J. Requier "A Charm"
All that stayed stuffed in my lungs like smog - Adrienne Rich "Peeling Onions"
From hearts that stay unmended - Margaret E. Sangster "From Paris to Chateau Thierry"
How the sun stays lit during an eclipse - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
Can't stay anchored - May Sarton "Coming Into Eighty"
To have a sky that stays there - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"
And moons never stay put - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
The conceit of this inconstant stay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XV"
When home won't let you stay - Warsan Shire "Home"
Ever in motion to stay alive - Marge Simon "The Native Finds Her in the Wreckage"
If you let those sleepy eyes stay closed - Mrs. L.L. Sloanaker "The Birds' Concert" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
My bones begging to stay - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"
The sun that still rises and the dead that stay dead - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
Half seems wishing it had stayed - "Sympathy" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Stay home to fight invading aphids - Keith Taylor "The 8:35 Bus"
Too late to stay the same - Chris Tonelli "from "A Test of Company""
Thought it not safe near such Justice to stay - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"
Stay there sitting until the Judgment Day - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "The Rodenstein Ballads: The Page" transl. by Charles Leland
To stay Art's toppling Ark - Eugene R. White "Reward"
Too still and heavy stays - Margaret Widdemer "Old Wine"
The word that sways, and stirs, and stays - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"
Stayed to keep the ghost watch - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Slack"
Let the polished plows stay idle - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"
Endymion, whose thirst with that cold star was stayed - Humbert Wolfe "Polly Put the Kettle On: VII. Coda"
And stays when all her witcheries have gone - Humbert Wolfe "Polly Put the Kettle On: VII. Coda"
Weave a net your soul to stay - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]
Tell the waves stay back - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"
Overstayed our party in the heavenly city - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"
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Telling the light to stay outside - Etel Adnan "Night"
staying alive should be easier than it is - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"
Saunters into the world daring us to stay - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"
Could stay their fiery steeds upon the way - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Winged hopes that no longer stay - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
The hard work of staying alive - Julia Alvarez "Keeping Watch"
Let all the Graces stay their flight - Anacreon "Her Portrait" transl. by Rennell Rodd
Stay away as fever rages - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
My hands stay empty - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"
Stay suspended in ether's abiding - Mary Jo Bang "The Harbor"
The grief of staying apart - Rachel Barenblat "Fix"
Sweet desire would have me always stay - Charles H. Barstow "On the Coast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.34-v.I, 23 Aug. 1884]
A week or more they stayed away - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Unburied though we stay pursued - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"
To stay and sing their sad sweet requiem - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Stay young in a bubble of speed - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
Wrenched of every stay but Heaven - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"
A curious kinship made us choose to stay - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
Its salt stays on the tongue - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
Darkling bitter waters seemed to stay the prow - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Stay alive to witness tomorrow - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"
A charm to stay the morning star - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
To flee because home wouldn't let us stay - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Will never stay in the mansions of despair - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Thou, O Love, the traitor art]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Until Time's pulse is stayed - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"
What's dead might not stay dead - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
Part of us always stays back - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Heart Has Four Chambers"
Another sight that stayed the torrent of her grief - "The Early Taken" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXVI, v.LXI, Feb. 1847]
Because they know they cannot stay - Julie Fogliano "Fall, October 15"
Last in the field of night, which fain would stay to see - Edward Edwin Foot "The Death, Burial, and Destruction of Bacchus"
Nothing gold can stay - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
The mechanics of staying afloat - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"
The dawn stayed till the last had gone - Theodosia Garrison "The Neighbors"
Staying is a kind of writing - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Stay and say are two siblings walking home - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Staying drapes itself over everything you're scared of - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Perhaps my heart will stay uncertain - Nathalie Handal "The City"
Who stay here to care for memory - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Cannot stay so dull and grey - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLVIII"
Metal of what stays behind - Jane Hirshfield "Dog Tag"
And the stale snow stays all season - Jackson Holbert "Fragment [As if to begin some process]"
In the steady rush of your exhale we began dreaming - David Hornibrook "Psalm"
Stay lost in confusions of mist - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 12" transl. by David Hinton
Let me stay and taste undying Youth - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Two swans stayed faithful and fierce - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Tired of staying at home in the clouds - Marie L. Johnson "The Wind's Frolic" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
The sidewalks stay empty of my steps - Camisha L. Jones "No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain"
Stayed aloft until the waters dried - Zilka Joseph "What Ravens Do"
Fail his ruthless hand to stay - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
And stayed his awful penance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
My wandering heart returned to stay - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"
With a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel - John Keats "Hyperion"
Stay their crystal fretting - John Keats "In drear nighted December"
Who will stay to sing the songs I've made? - Henry Kendall "Bells Beyond the Forest"
Stayed on the threshold of memory - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Even the peacocks refuse to stay - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"
Who stays silent for seven years - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
The membrane between us stayed transparent - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"
Who wouldn't stay for his mother's madness - Susan Landgraf "Flower"
No charm to stay Time's unrelenting arm - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"
Stay till dawn in these isolate depths of quiet - Liu Tsung-yuan "Getting Up Past Midnight and Gazing Across the West Garden, I Encounter the Rising Moon" transl. by David Hinton
The hottest coals 'neath the ashes stay - J. Wm. Lloyd "The Fountain of Youth"
Hoping for a gift that stays ungiven - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
While the bridge between us stayed an empty place - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
With Persian roses crowned my stay - Justin H. McCarthy "Dedication [Hafiz in London 1886]"
Ready to either go or stay - Annie Willis McCullough "Velocipede" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Stay here at the precipice - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"
Does wind stay trapped in a room - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"
Will stay to watch you drift apart and pass away - Harold Monro "Journey"
Thought to stay blameless - Rusty Morrison "in the flood"
A fraternity ghost waiting to stay home - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"
Where laws stay on one bank of the river - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Joy stayed with me a night - Dorothy Parker "Light of Love"
Those who survive will stay away from machines - Mara Pastor "Entonces Mi Hija/Then My Daughter" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
Camelot will not stay - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
The staying chant the recitation of everything - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
Not a minute stopped or stayed he - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
Who stayed behind to count the void that is - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Nor stay'd the dance in Priam's hall - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Chant Royal of High Virtue"
The version of him that stayed - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"
Theirs is bitterness who stay behind - "The Railway Station" [Household Words no.6, 4 May 1850]
To stay the tides that speak - A.J. Requier "A Charm"
All that stayed stuffed in my lungs like smog - Adrienne Rich "Peeling Onions"
From hearts that stay unmended - Margaret E. Sangster "From Paris to Chateau Thierry"
How the sun stays lit during an eclipse - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
Can't stay anchored - May Sarton "Coming Into Eighty"
To have a sky that stays there - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"
And moons never stay put - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
The conceit of this inconstant stay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XV"
When home won't let you stay - Warsan Shire "Home"
Ever in motion to stay alive - Marge Simon "The Native Finds Her in the Wreckage"
If you let those sleepy eyes stay closed - Mrs. L.L. Sloanaker "The Birds' Concert" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
My bones begging to stay - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"
The sun that still rises and the dead that stay dead - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
Half seems wishing it had stayed - "Sympathy" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Stay home to fight invading aphids - Keith Taylor "The 8:35 Bus"
Too late to stay the same - Chris Tonelli "from "A Test of Company""
Thought it not safe near such Justice to stay - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"
Stay there sitting until the Judgment Day - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "The Rodenstein Ballads: The Page" transl. by Charles Leland
To stay Art's toppling Ark - Eugene R. White "Reward"
Too still and heavy stays - Margaret Widdemer "Old Wine"
The word that sways, and stirs, and stays - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"
Stayed to keep the ghost watch - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Slack"
Let the polished plows stay idle - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"
Endymion, whose thirst with that cold star was stayed - Humbert Wolfe "Polly Put the Kettle On: VII. Coda"
And stays when all her witcheries have gone - Humbert Wolfe "Polly Put the Kettle On: VII. Coda"
Weave a net your soul to stay - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]
Tell the waves stay back - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"
Overstayed our party in the heavenly city - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"
Navigation Links:
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Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
