Potential Titles: Early

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Bound to each other in earliest vow - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry II: Farewell" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Early fall wrapped in a shawl - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Every illustrious hue of the earliest sunset's tapestry - William Rose Benét "Imagination"

And early stars wasting away - Richard Blanco "Papa's Bridge"

How early darkness comes to dreams - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

I sold my early truth - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"

The early winds took up the words - Jonathan Henderson Brooks "The Resurrection" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Early spring's dissolving powers - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Hawthorn Spray"

That old early time, when came the victor Roman - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

The early dark is a paraphrase of Mars - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"

Early in the era of the pause button - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"

Like breath of early blooms - Susan Coolidge "A Portrait"

For us, the ancestors came too early - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

Make early flowers of all things - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"

And winter's earliest whisper roams - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Only if it's not the earliest stage of a black hole - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

Waken thoughts of Being's early day - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]

Calls out from heaven the earliest star - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

Sun-chromed ravens in early devotion - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Early in the noon-stabbed dusk - Chris Dombrowski "Direction"

Assembled in light of earliest birds - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

Bending beneath a weight of early snow - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Snow in October" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Her early leaf's a flower - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

Salt sculptures from an earlier time - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"

Caught from a snowdrop in earliest spring - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"

Early to the storm resign - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

Before your gates at early morning - Mary E. Hewitt "Green Spots in the City" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Whose smile wreathes early Morn - Jennie Earngey Hill "Life's Day"

Early wise and brave in season - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIV"

The earliest pipe of half-awakened day - Maurice Hutton, LL.D. "Introduction [to Wayside Poems by William Hodgson Ellis]"

Climb the stalk of early winter - Donika Kelly "Winter Poem"

'Twixt the last violet and the earliest rose - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"

The work-song of the early bees - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"

When the early dewdrops glisten - J.I.L. "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.117-v.III, 27 March 1886]

Conversations with an early moon - Amy Lowell "Lilacs"

Such tenderness this early morning - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

Toward the earliest gods - Sandra McPherson "Pregnancy"

Vespers freeze early winter's backyard - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"

Listened for the early arrival of blackbirds - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

The quick wrist of early summer - Mary Oliver "Black Snake This Time"

The early abysmal drafts - Grace Paley "The Irish Poet"

Early soldiers of the season - Linda Pastan "Cassandra"

Early in its slow unwinding to never again - Carl Phillips "Scattered Snows, to the North"

Almonds bloom in early Spring - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Dawn Among the Olive Groves"

Out hunting in the early light - Muriel Rukeyser "Painters"

All the early stations desire - Kay Ryan "Latents"

sorrow knew me in the early hours - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"

Autumn enters my blood early - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #84"

The gravestones of our early curiosities - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"

Who in earlier days sought refuge here - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Huguenot Fort"

The fruit we early won from tales - B. Simmons "Philhellenic Drinking-Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]

The arrows of the early frost - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

Have lived in earlier worlds unknown - Arthur Stringer "March Twilight"

Early and late and forever cries out - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"

Mind intent to wield the early axe - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke in Winter"

Where plowed lands fulfill their early promise - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Slept on unknowing in that early dawn - Tsiang-Tien "To the Dancing-Girl Siao-Ling" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Blossoms like the earliest tree - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Mockery"

Early seeds lay cold in the ground - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

While some early riser bears witness - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]

Early mist breaking on low tide - John Moncure Wettarau "Morning, Maine Honolulu"

The lost hero's early tomb - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"


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