Potential Titles: Fly (not the insect)

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Misery flying out the window - Duane Ackerson "What If"

Dream of flying lift a marble bird - Leonie Adams "A Gull Goes Up"

More afraid of never flying - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Flies to all the wrong conclusions - Cameron Awkward-Rich "The Little Girl Dreams of Dying"

daedalus fly your wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "ekstasis"

Flying into a cloud - Basho transl. by David Young

A wandering heart drives them to fly - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

The unquiet wish to fly - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

From the demon strive in vain to fly - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Blunts the dart that from her quiver flies - "The Belles of Williamsburg"

Roaring the fame of the flying dart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

That terror seized on all that fly - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

Catch morsels of food from birds flying overhead - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Handpainted Chinaware" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

And fly away from me like dragons - Shannon Bramer "My Cars Never Sleep"

And nights in rosy riot fly - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"

In famished troops will fly - Emily Bronte "A Day Dream"

When rooks fly homeward - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "When Rooks Fly Homeward"

Chasing a fly-by-night sparrow - Cyrus Cassells "How Many Lives Have We Lived in Paris?"

Ordered the phoenixes to fly aloft - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Love itself flies after - Florence Earle Coates "An Adieu"

Junk that flies to outer limits - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"

The lost bee flies to die in golden broom - Danske Dandridge "A Question"

And dim in quicksands seems to fly - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Fly weightless as though nothing mattered - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"

Take it and fly through never - Gregory Djanikian "Children's Hospital, Emergency Room"

Flying through the ten toasts - Alda do Espirito Santo "The Same Side of the Canoe" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver

A blackbird flying so quickly west - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

Careless grace in flying poise - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Fly figure-eights over the cottonwoods - Michael Dumanis "Nebraska"

Let the timid feet of dawn fly - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Up the chimney was forced to fly - "The Fox and the Geese"

Flying out of black cedars - Wilfrid Gibson "The Parrots"

Which fly from hall and palace - Ieuan Gwynedd "The Cottages of Wales" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Through death's portals I will fly - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Wings of pain that fly - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"

The lark sings loudest when flying fast - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"

Saw the vanquish'd eagles fly - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"

Ascends and bids oblivion fly - George Moses Horton "Memory"

With their rushing splendors fly - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"

On Friday the eagle flies - Langston Hughes "Consider Me"

Amid the flying ruins of strife - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"

A race with flying clouds and tossing gulls - Emily Pauline Johnson "Erie Waters"

Bursting, lets a thousand colors fly - James Weldon Johnson "Down By the Carib Sea (VI: Sunset in the Tropics)"

Flying along in a dream - Richard Jones "Rest"

One wall flies out the window - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"

Flying through sheds and airy quadrants - Janet Kauffman "Instead of Flying in Water"

When the red flags fly in London - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Conspiracy Theory"

Fly no more on my fiery steed - Fanny Kemble "A Farewell"

Sister of the flying beam and speedy shadow - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

Souls fly free - Kim Unsong "Photons & Souls"

And fly very brilliant back - Galway Kinnell "On the Oregon Coast"

A hope worth flying to - Alfred Kreymborg "Peasant"

With flying fringes dim as smoke - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"

For the darkly flying fowls of Afterwards - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

Where the brown buzzard flies - Emma Lazarus "The South"

Lets Passion's loosened elements fly - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

Where now only the partridges fly - Li Po "In Yuch Viewing the Past" transl. by Burton Watson

Flying waters descending straight - Li Po "Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu" transl. by Burton Watson

Flying waterfalls and rolling torrents - Li Po "The Szechwan Road" transl. by Arthur Waley

As fly the irrevocable hours - James Russell Lowell "For a Bell at Cornell University"

Flying from former fires into cerulean skies - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

From the hill of the flying deer - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XIV: Duchommar, Morna"

Trains the fledgling bard to fly - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

Voices fly light light - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)

Curses from their rookery fly - George Martin "In Memory of Joseph Guibord"

Then on a sunbeam fly away - William P. M'Kenzie "The Mother's Song"

The flying hours shall chase regret - Louis J. McQuilland "Chateau d'Espoir"

With thunder of flying feet - Louis J. McQuilland "The Horseman"

Cardinals flying straight up - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"

The many intricate songs of birds flying in Central Park - Nancy Mercado "New York at 42"

While the trees are flying - W.S. Merwin "Mementos"

Whatever vermilion myth flies - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"

That crow is flying after that cuckoo - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"

Sparks flying in the voice of the rain - Pablo Neruda "Slow Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Dragons flying in a red light - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"

By their sudden echoes flying - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Joy in storms and flying suns - Robert Nichols "The Man of Honour"

Rival the flying wind's swiftness - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)

Years flying out of your skin - Naomi Shihab Nye "Late"

with horns that fly in the wind - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

To some rich desert fly - Punch "Ballad of Bedlam"

Open my inward vision flies - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen

Burns in the flying spheres - Theodore H. Rand "The Veiled Presence"

Given courage of a flying star - Herbert Randall "My Faith"

Fly to the mountains for one safe bough - Lola Ridge "Reveille"

The hard crooked flying of buzzards - Lynn Riggs "The Arid Land"

And in your dreams you'll fly - Deborah Ruddell "Penguin's Lullaby"

Flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"

Regrets fly kites in your eyes - Carl Sandburg "Wistful"

Two robins fly out of the sun - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

A bat flies across the last star - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXX"

Heavy ignorance aloft to fly - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVIII"

Tempts and then flies - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Flower That Smiles Today"

Fly before you to find us shelter - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Downtrodden"

To stand while all the seasons fly - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"

Fly out over the carrion scene and remember - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"

By exultation of the flying dance - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"

And furnished them wings to fly - Langdon Smith "Evolution"

Scraps of smoke flying above your roof - Cathy Song "Waialua"

Can fly when it dares to - Eileen Spinelli "The Chase"

Penguins fly through watersky - Eileen Spinelli "Water-Wings"

Put my riddle to the flying breeze - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Riddle of Life"

A herald soul before its master's flying - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"

White flying joy - Sara Teasdale "Meadowlarks"

Set the wild echoes flying - Alfred Tennyson "The Splendor Falls"

Like souls flying into the hole no one can see - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

our daughters fly kites by the cathedral - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

As the swallow flies to the Summer - Katherine Tynan "Wild Geese"

Thread the labyrinth with flying feet - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

A lonely dove in silence flying - Henry van Dyke "Wings of a Dove"

And watch the far wings fly - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"

The arrows of pestilence flying - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "Foreshadowings"

Comes like the swallow and flies as soon - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"

Keep the ceaseless shuttles flying - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]

Fly away, sprout and grow again in another place - Shuyi Yin "Growing Chair"

At dawn the phantoms fly - Francis Brett Young "Before Action"


Two wingless geese flew up the sky - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVI: Hard to Believe" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Pheasants flew down from the rafters - "At Fifteen I Went Off to the Army" transl. by Burton Watson

While the bat and beetle flew - Edmund Blunden "Forefathers"

When fishes flew and forests walked - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"

Bluebirds flew out of my mouth - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"

Thoughts from joy's branches flew - Hafiz "The Divan XXXVII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

My spirit flew in feathers then - Thomas Hood "I Remember"

The season in which they flew - Charles Jensen "Complaint of Achilles' Heel"

Flew forward into the depths of prospect - Joanna Klink "Pericardium"

And the witch flew away on her broom - Rachel Kolar "Hey, Diddle, Diddle, Black Cat with a Fiddle"

Flew away to line the nests of birds - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"

Flew the dark recess of God's mind - Louise Mathias "Quandary"

The petrel's wind flew over eternity - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Flew around the mountains of sorrow - Pablo Neruda "Time that Wasn't Lost" transl. by William O'Daly

The stars flew by the cave's wide door - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

The sparrows who flew from falling Rome - Ocean Vuong "Seventh Circle of Earth"

From ripening corn the pigeons flew - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"


The urgent chirper, fledgling flier - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"


Flight.


Through a thousand labyrinths flown - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited

Control with gossamer threads wide-flown - James Russell Lowell "The Dancing Bear"

Where neither dove nor crow has flown - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"

How truant years have flown - John McCrae "Then and Now"

As my Hopes have flown before - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"

Lonely dreamer of a dream long flown - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dreamers"

Far-flown in black occlusion - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Flown off to the winds - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 56: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

And whispered omens flew like bats - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."

Ten swift years had flown - F.E. Weatherly "No Thank You, Tom"


The hunter's dart outflying - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "I Wonder"


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