Potential Titles: City

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The event horizon of a city - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"

The city held its breath - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"

Dreamed a city open to the sea - Francisco X. Alarcon "City of Bridges"

Now crumbling cities of our fading Empire - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"

To the fevered city's toil and grime - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Cities clawing at each other's bruised throats - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"

A ghost ride down the corridor of the city - Alise Alousi "Skip"

Look back to the city of change - Aldo Amparan "Aubade at the City of Change"

Descend into the murk of the city - Charles Ashleigh "A Miracle"

Sees the sunken city glimmer - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

A city polluted by the past - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

A city dressed for evening or earthquake - Mary Jo Bang "The Year Chases its Tail"

The sunrise on the city of the Grail - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

The frightened eyes of the city glow - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"

in the city of the mind - Elizabeth Bartlett "the now and here"

Cities of enchanted sleep - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Up from some drowned city - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"

I went forth to sing the city - William Rose Benét "The City"

At every shut door in the stirring city - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

Logicians of city and state - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"

Steal pity from city streets - Maxwell Bodenheim "More About Captain Simmons"

For I have loved the cities of the sea - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"

A saga of cities ancient and buried - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

Into the city of tired eyes - D.G. Carter "Offering"

With his foot on a waste of cities - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"

the city with a jagged quiet - May Chong "Bunian Laundry"

The rags of roads and cities clawed to shreds - S. R. Compton "On the K-T Boundary"

In the stony deserts of the city - Helen Gray Cone "Soldiers of the Light"

Thirty times in the fallen city - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Serf of the monstrous city - George Cronyn "Song in Winter"

With the fire of cities burnt - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"

the holy city which is your face - E. E. Cummings "Amores (II)"

the currency of faint cities eternal - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

City of sorrow and desire - Olive Custance "Primrose Hill"

Cities that stir in a dream - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"

Light in all the city tarried - John Davidson "London"

This cardboard city collapses around us - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

My cities rose in every land - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"

No choice but to read the city walls - Tongo Eisen-Martin "I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money"

Wandering along a waste where once a city stood - "The End of All" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]

City where the great crown lies - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle

The slow chug of the city's arteries - Maggie Farren "Palms"

Twin cities of fantasy and chance - Farnaz Fatemi "Farnaz"

The mythologies of a city - Megan Fernandes "Amsterdam"

Hammering the many-gated city - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

Strange mad old cities brooding - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

The siren cities chant of home - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Could turn cities hollow - Nikita Gill "The Sun God"

Wandered the silent ruins of my city - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"

Outwalked the furthest city light - Dana Gioia "Three Drunk Poets"

The city is where I disappear - Louise Gluck "Aboriginal Landscape"

Some chance on the midnight cities - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"

Your absence is a bisected city - Stefania Gomez "At the New York City AIDS Memorial"

The city not yet fallen - Linda Gregerson "De Magnete"

Beyond the cities and its affectations of brightness - John Grey "Skywatching"

The city of gems and pearls of light - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"

Touches a thousand open cities - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

The brain as abandoned city - Stephanie Heit "Procedure Details"

A city of swamps and celery - Conrad Hilberry "Causation"

A wide city under a bronze sky - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"

The borrowed city around me - Jane Hirshfield "I wanted to be surprised."

Cities that glittered like rubies - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"

Crammed up in cities grim and grey - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

The copper beeches of her childhood city - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

As you place your question in the stone of the city's gate - Carlie Hoffman "Point of View Where Orpheus Makes a Pit Stop at a Fortune Teller in St Germain"

In the broken heart of the city - William Dean Howells "Louis Lebeau's Conversion"

A city catatonic in its sickness - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"

In a city made of rain - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

We built this city out of magic, sand, and dust - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

From warehouses at the edge of the city - Edgar Kunz "Doors"

A city of bells and gardens - Stephen Kuusisto "Letter to Borges from London"

Should find that city unaware - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

Of kings, fools, blood, and broken cities - Michael Lauchlan "Reading Herodotus"

fire floods the cities - Joseph Lease "Falling"

Abandoned cities where no seasons turn - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

The wreck of perished cities - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

Enameled cities their walls anointed in myrrh - R.B. Lemberg "In the Third Cycle"

Could orchestrate the building of cities - Amari Low "Themself"

A city whose windows flame gold - Amy Lowell "The Way"

Prayed to the veins of a trembling city - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

A city wrought of shadows - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]

From forest edge to city scarp - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"

A city framed of rose and gold - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Gatekeeper"

A city of fetid promise - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"

The city is a cage of dead doves and avid hunters - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen

Wandering in the city of loneliness - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (10)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Hiding in burrows of fate amid great cities - Edgar Lee Masters "Theodore the Poet"

A crooked city built of laughter - Jamaal May "Ask Where I've Been"

The streets of a forgetting city - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

When the world's last cities fall - Theodore Maynard "Processional"

Through a Gethsemane of city streets - Bernard M'Evoy "A Photograph in a Shop Window"

Bale-fires burn and cities wrapped in flame - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

A mayhem that torments a city - Mark McMorris "Dear Michael (2)"

A city that bleeds its saline soil - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"

A city of starlings and dogwood - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"

Locked away from the jewels of the city - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

The city burns to the short - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

In the throat of the evening city - Pablo Neruda "Oh, My Lost City" transl. by Alastair Reid

And constructed a dead city - Pablo Neruda "Theater of the Gods" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Germinated in cities of sacred pods - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Ancient cities stacked one atop another - Robbi Nester "Rot"

Against the stars and scars of a city - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"

In some suburb of the infinite city - D. Nurkse "Looking and Finding"

That a wandering man may seek her cities - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull

This bard from an old and distant city - Romeo Oriogun "Griot of Strange Places"

Nine gates to the vermilion city - Pao Chao "In Imitation of 'The King of Huai-nan'" transl. by Burton Watson

In a city's smoke and steam - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "The Geebung Polo Club"

Weary of the city's sorrow - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To the Earth"

Time's singular city stretched below - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

We live in secret cities - Alberto Rios "The Cities Inside Us"

We are the secret citizens of the city - Alberto Rios "The Cities Inside Us"

But we went from the sorrowful city and wandered - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Where the numberless dead cities sleep - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"

what this city of smoke & blood has to tell - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"

Mighty city with a hundred graces - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Somewhere in the city's push and fury - Carl Sandburg "Shirt"

Count out cities and forget the numbers - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Cities are only wind and flame - D.L. Sayers "For Phaon"

The pitted pillars of our last and highest cities - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"

Whose face is lit with the flames of cities - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"

Roll over the city of doom - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"

To view the city wrapped in silence deep - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"

Heavy and slow in the streets of ruined cities - Gilbert Sheldon "St. Anthony's Township"

Ancient cities built on cliffs - Joyce Sidman "The Mushrooms Come"

Build me a city and call it Jerusalem - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"

Cities under crowns of snow - Richard Siken "Seaside Improvisation"

a city that too builds its water from fly ash - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

The crooked steel teeth of the city - Aaron Smith "Boston"

dismantling the weapons array pointed at the city - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"

Where a city's bones are strewn - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"

Cities of the wide mirage - Clark Ashton Smith "Psalm"

Against a city's flat face - Patricia Smith "Siblings"

Cupped by the towering city skyscrapers - Jean M. Snyder "Buffalo Harbor"

The City is only the daughter - Robert J.C. Stead "The Prairie"

The cities of accurst desire - George Sterling "The Swoon"

In nameless cities of the past - George Sterling "The Wind"

In that ruined mountain city - Gerald Stern "The Hammer"

Above the city's cold twilight - Trumbull Stickney "Six O'Clock"

The towers of Jason's sea-girt city - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"

While far away towers fall and ancient cities crumble - Keith Taylor "Responsibilities"

When thy cities flake the night with flames - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

Look back fondly at the city gates - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson

Like a city of moons - Louis Untermeyer "In a Cab"

A city haunted, a multitude enchanted - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

The sepia of this desert city - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"

Drawn tight against the city wind - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

Wheels rumbling through the dark city - William Carlos Williams "The Great Figure"

Overstayed our party in the heavenly city - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"

For this Priam's great city of Troy was sacrificed - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"

In the shadows of city lights - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"

This city of riches has fallen empty - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Was builded on that broken city's tears - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Frail cities of lath and reed - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Forbidden to abandon our dark cities - Adam Zagajewski "Our Northern Cities"

Come dancing bitter city - Matthew Zapruder "Thank You for Being You"

Carved the city into hundredths - Art Zilleruelo "Someone's Property"


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