Potential Titles: Stay
Jul. 15th, 2011 06:08 pmIn 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"
The hard work of staying alive - Julia Alvarez "Keeping Watch"
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"
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"
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"
Because they know they cannot stay - Julie Fogliano "Fall, October 15"
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"
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]"
Two swans stayed faithful and fierce - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
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"
Stayed on the threshold of memory - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Even the peacocks refuse to stay - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"
The membrane between us stayed transparent - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"
Who wouldn't stay for his mother's madness - Susan Landgraf "Flower"
Hoping for a gift that stays ungiven - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
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"
Camelot will not stay - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
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"
The version of him that stayed - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"
To stay the tides that speak - A.J. Requier "A Charm"
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"
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"
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"
To stay Art's toppling Ark - Eugene R. White "Reward"
Too still and heavy stays - Margaret Widdemer "Old Wine"
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"
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"
The hard work of staying alive - Julia Alvarez "Keeping Watch"
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"
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"
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"
Because they know they cannot stay - Julie Fogliano "Fall, October 15"
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"
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]"
Two swans stayed faithful and fierce - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
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"
Stayed on the threshold of memory - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Even the peacocks refuse to stay - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"
The membrane between us stayed transparent - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"
Who wouldn't stay for his mother's madness - Susan Landgraf "Flower"
Hoping for a gift that stays ungiven - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
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"
Camelot will not stay - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
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"
The version of him that stayed - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"
To stay the tides that speak - A.J. Requier "A Charm"
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"
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"
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"
To stay Art's toppling Ark - Eugene R. White "Reward"
Too still and heavy stays - Margaret Widdemer "Old Wine"
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"
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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