Potential Titles: Century

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As in a foam of centuries - Harold Acton "In the Month of Athyr"

They wait for centuries on their knees - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"

Centuries in layers of abandoned love - Julie Babcock "The Grey Goose"

Over the century of beams - David Baker "Gravel"

Rotating centuries across the stars - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"

And, even after a century, bloom - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dry Sanctuary"

The chain of centuries from dusk to dawn - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"

A few centuries of honest work - Wendell Berry "Anglo-Saxon Protestant Heterosexual Men"

Sprouting on acres of aching centuries - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

The meadows like rolled-out centuries - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"

By centuries of baffled meditation - Maxwell Bodenheim "To a Man"

I may pass through centuries of death - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"

Stealing into ruin as the centuries unraveled - Bruce Boston "Ghost People"

Of ancestors a century past - Joseph Bruchac "Prints"

Dark with the thick moss of centuries - William Cullen Bryant "Monument Mountain"

A drum that sounded centuries ago - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"

From which the centuries climb - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Tree of Truth"

From beneath the dust of buried centuries - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Where ghostly centuries complain - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"

dreaming a small boat through centuries of water - Lucille Clifton "shadows"

Grey-mossed and lichened by centuries - Arthur Colton "The Poet and the Fountain"

The sky is a century with no windows - Eduardo C. Corral "To a Blossoming Saguaro"

The sands of centuries o'er them - E. Coungeau "Peace"

At callow thoughts of centuries - James H. Cousins "Copernicus"

Resolutely through centuries of remorse - Shutta Crum "All That is Left"

Hear the steel of a new century creaking - Kwame Dawes "Steel"

Spent centuries cradled in mist - Natalia del Pilar "The Women of Matinino"

If only centuries delayed - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love VI"

The doors of centuries opened wide - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

The century's fiery-hearted bloom - Edward Dowden "Helena"

Centuries of dead summers - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel V: On the Sea-Cliff"

Century-silent, shadowy mazes - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

A century hence will envenom a lover - Edward Dowden "Unuttered"

The already brutal century - Stephen Dunn "The Slow Surge"

That outwear the centuries - Helen Parry Eden "Simkin"

Wearing the century's dark caul - Claudia Emerson "Atlas"

From centuries lived on waves - Heid E. Erdich "Dancer Origin Story"

Schooled by the blasts of centuries - Anthony Euwer "The Juggler"

Alive for centuries trespassing - Ilyus Evander "tempo"

The great vigilance of the 19th century - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"

Centuries dark with Cromwell's name - James T. Fields "On a Portrait of Cromwell"

Centuries of preparation to return - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

Beneath the cloak of centuries - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen k"

Would starve them out for centuries - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen K"

Wrapped with a century of ivy - Andrea Gibson "Ivy"

Slow constricting centuries of cold - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "How Would You?"

Savor the smoke of that sinister century - Dana Gioia "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"

Changed over the course of centuries - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"

With the red might of centuries - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

The sombre casket of centuries of song - Katherine Hale "I Who Cut Patterns"

Survive a whole century of hunt - Faylita Hicks "Photo of a Girl, 1988: Cyborg"

The moan of centuries breaks - B. Higgins "Gallipoli: An Epitaph"

The sorrows all the centuries provide - Juan Ramon Jimenez "One Night" transl. by Thomas Walsh

Won from the gaze of many centuries - John Keats "Hyperion"

So through the lagging centuries - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

A century or more of utter blackness - Ted Kooser "Ink Black"

Watch over a century of nights - Amy Lowell "A Little Song"

The air of icy centuries of night - Amy Lowell "To Elizabeth Ward Perkins"

Fresh as the morning, though with centuries old - Maria White Lowell "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle"

The refuse of your unborn centuries - Mina Loy "The Dead"

To meet the coming centuries - Edwin Markham "These Songs Will Perish"

Within these forty centuries - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"

Centuries that bore a crimson hue - George Martin "Books"

Buries old habits for centuries - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Sonnet for Judith"

Where a century fits comfortably inside 10 am - John McCarthy "Gravestone"

The visiting vision of seven centuries - Alice Meynell "Two Boyhoods"

Under centuries of fine dead dust of roses - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet VI from Second April

The wager standing for centuries - Joseph Millar "Job"

Centuries of rain weighed the windows down - Claire Millikin "Dress Like a Girl"

A century of hunger - Anis Mojgani "Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget"

No power beyond our century - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"

The centuries of remembering - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"

This new century of cosmic meltdown - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

While our toes perch in this century - Maggie Nelson "Sleepy Demise of the Season"

Striking across the centuries in stone - Pablo Neruda "The Blind Statue" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Pity on these centuries - Pablo Neruda "The Masks" transl. by Richard Schaaf

All the centuries of hope deferred - E. Nesbit "Mummy Wheat"

The centuries in their masquerade - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci II: At Florence"

Of centuries touched by genius into life - Thomas O'Hagan "Trouble in the Louvre"

The deep-green forests of that epauletted century - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Ghosts of buried centuries - Sir Noel Paton "In Shadowland"

Foreseeing a century without light - Phan Nhien Hao "Flamenco Vietnamese Opera" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

Lies broken as with centuries - E.J. Pratt "Sea Variations"

Which, a century ago, was the Queen of metaphors - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

For a peasant century's bread - Adrienne Rich "1941"

My century's hinged and beveled mirror - Adrienne Rich "1999"

Heard now the feet of centuries - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Not all the rain of centuries - Lola Ridge "Shadow"

Starting a century of fires - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

A hundred wild centuries and fifteen - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"

The breaking news of the century - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"

A tornado from a future century - Sahar Romani "Afternoon in Andalusia"

Centuries between my teeth - heidi andrea restrepo rhodes "Flying down the Five"

Reaching back into the dark century - David St. John "Alexandr Blok"

And the press of time running into centuries - Carl Sandburg "Skyscraper"

Suspended through the twilight centuries - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"

Unweaving my dreams each century - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"

Eroded by slowly dreaming centuries - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Tongues parched centuries past silence - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"

Twenty-five centuries of space and time - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"

Roistering down the centuries - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Reckons the rhythm of centuries - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

The centuries that foster thee - George Sterling "The Evanescent"

Cleft in each century's shock - Alfred B. Street "The Devil's Pulpit: Tupper's Lake"

The shackled feet of centuries - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

Drink deeply of a century's streams - Muriel Stuart "The Seed Shop"

what century fell at your door? - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

Beneath the haze of a century's smoke - Matthew Thorburn "The Angel and the Lady"

Bright sun dispelled the gloom of rolling centuries - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

With centuries of snow - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"

Carved from centuries of hunger - Ocean Vuong "The Smallest Measure"

The circle of one century - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"

A century of hope - Charles William Wallace "Through Reverent Eyes"

Had rung in the morning of centuries - Joseph R. Wilson "The Lilacs of Shawmont"

In lies We've exposed for centuries - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

That came centuries after the hour - Jenny Xie "Present Continuous"

Periscoping centuries pursue - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton


The majestic blooming of the century plant - Bruce Boston "A Life in the Day Of"


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