Potential Titles: Ray

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The sky extends blazing centrifugal rays - Daisy Aldan "The Little Mermaid"

Flash forth in rays of silvery light - Willis Boyd Allen "The Fourth Watch"

And gentlest ray of stars glide down - Rev. Rufus Henry Bacon "Woman's Heart:--A Sonnet. For Julia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Far from the sun's fierce rays - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "The Fisherman's Dream"

Between the pizza and the death ray - Leah Bobet "Her Hero"

That heavenward flashed its ray - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"

Tints to-morrow with prophet ray - Byron [untitled]

Soaked in rays of truth of stories - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"

Of Reason's piercing ray defrauded - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"

Vital ray of the divine sun - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Lynne Lawner

Concentres all the rays of all the ages past - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

When the sunset rays dart kisses - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Not a ray of noontide sought you - Susan Coolidge "To J.H. and E.W.H."

Potent as the rays of pure desire - Max Eastman "X Rays"

Numberless wings in the moon's silver ray - "The Emperor's Rout"

Jingling tumult of white-hot rays - John Gould Fletcher "London Excursion"

Rays of glory, vague with veils - Zona Gale "Light"

Cutting me with its million rays - Deborah Garrison "Birth Day Pun"

With clear rays kindled - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Many a gem of purest ray - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Wild with asters' blue rays and white - Pamela Gross "The Hive"

All the diamond's crystal rays - Felicia Hemans "To My Mother"

Light in fitful rays and tiniest needles - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

A ray of travelling glory - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

Melting in the sun's devouring ray - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Away, away! bear me away, away]"

Eclipse the midnight moon's soft ray - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."

Streaked with no ray of light - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway I: The Shadow on the Shore"

Vivid rays tinged sacred Jordan's breast - Mrs. Leprohon (nee Rosanna Eleanor Mullins) "Abraham's Sacrifice"

Let the sun's rays speak - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Long rays streaming through the forests - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]

Treasure every eloquent ray of golden light - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Cracking a star of rays - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"

With the pulverized rays of a star - James Whitcomb Riley "Spirk Troll-Derisive"

Silent rays still tranquil and serene - Alice Wellington Rollins "Steadfast"

In the ray of one great sun - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

Iron rays of dawn relentless - Clark Ashton Smith "Desolation"

Rays that leap from severed suns - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

And gave us never yet a ray of satisfaction - Carmen Sylva "Out of the Deep"

Won from the rays slipped off the sun - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"

Set in ruby rays serene - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"

Remains to catch the parting ray - Anna Williams "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"

Gleams forth in fourfold rays - "XIV" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton


Cold and rayless in the starless gloom - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

In the rayless house of darkness - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Boundless fields of rayless polar night - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Sequoyah"


By the first swift sun-ray slain - Edgell Rickword "Yegor"


Unraying yet, more pearl than star - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"


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