Potential Titles: Lay/Laid/Lain

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At my feet lay a sulphurous dragon - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Laying her hand deliberately against each thorn - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

And lays in stores of future treasures - "Autumn" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

That seven champions straight lay slain - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Survey the stone where Alexander's ashes lay - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

To lay your hands upon the sun - William Francis Barnard "To the Enemies of Free Speech"

Could lay hold on the tiger's terrible heart - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

To lay tourmalines and tinted glass - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"

To lay aside some store of thought - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

A tiny lay Puck hath late unfolden - B.C. "Love Lights" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.10-v.I, 8 March 1884]

What lay flickering just beyond the ken - Scott Cairns "Draw Near"

Then lay your rose on the fire - Leonard Cohen "The Window"

Who lays foundations formed to last - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Lay my heart upon his path - Susan Coolidge "Two Ways to Love. II"

Charmed by that siren lay - Walter de la Mare "Alexander"

In the wood's deep heart I lay me down - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

Laying sudden hands on immortality - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Lay prone on the perilous edge - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

And lay in the eye of the sun - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"

Lay dollar store boats in the gutters - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"

The mourner lays his head on the cold oak - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"

remember what lay beneath your weather - b ferguson "parkside & ocean"

What lay beneath your weather - b ferguson "Parkside & Ocean"

Lay it out beneath the lightning - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"

Lay faint on the Summer fields - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"

When earth lay robed in resurrection bloom - Fanny L. Glenfield "Ye Know Not What Ye Ask" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Golden and phantom-pale they lay - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"

Far on the verge of the ocean it lay - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"

All night lay hid in hollows of the earth - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

My heart lay still in the hand of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On Ne Badine Pas Avec La Mort"

The burden of that faint and melancholy lay - Rev. T.L. Harris "The Mourners" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Lay lonely to the moon - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Moon Dazzle"

Laying no morsel to mold - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"

Lay these words on the dead man's eyelids - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

Wells where Truth in secret lay - William D. Howells "A Poet"

Lay ripening in my soul - Aldous Huxley "Poem"

Lays her head on the knees of Night - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

Once lay at the breast of the moon - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Laying waste a field of daisies - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"

Lay down this weight of sceptred misery - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

The pine tree lay down its needles - Danusha Lameris "Let Rain Be Rain"

Lay four eggs at random in the garden - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"

Lay in shadow and dreamed of fame - Amy Levy "The Last Judgment"

As if some gem lay shrined beneath - Mrs. S. A. Lewis "The Ennuyee" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Lay aside my face of shame - Li T'ai-Po "Ch'ang Kan" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Tapestries of wild rose lay - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"

Lays aside her tattered winter weeds - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"

Lay my dead illusions there - Louis J. McQuilland "The Digger"

Must lay December's closing record here - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

And should the Cat lay siege to them - "The Mouse and the Christmas Cake"

My faith lay in a buried tower - Pablo Neruda "First Travelings" transl. by Alastair Reid

And only dust lay in the cup - E. Nesbit "Second Nature"

And silver mist before me lay - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Early Start"

Lay down in the deepest shadow - Grace Fallow Norton "Love Is a Terrible Thing"

Lay hands upon the wheel of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Lays its long scaffolding of shadow - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Where hopes lay strewn - Wilfred Owen "Apologia pro Poemate"

The field lays down its winded swords - Carl Phillips "Capella"

Lay untouched by regret - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"

And despair lays present ambush - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

Lay down your head upon my knee - "The Queen of Elfland"

A knife where my tongue lay - Sina Queyras "The Applicant"

Whine not in melancholy, plaintive lays - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Lay your millstone down - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"

At whose feet should I lay disappointment? - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"

Shadows lay upon the dials' faces - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumnal Day" transl. by Jessie Lemont

The dust of a world forgotten lay under the barren ground - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

And lay a daisy at the feet of God - Rennell Rodd "From the Hills of Gardens"

Lay your costly roses down - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"

Truth lays bare the broken bone - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

When our pathways lay together - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"

Lays his icy hand on kings - James Shirley "The Same"

Masons laying courses of stone ascending - Tom Sleigh "The Parallel Cathedral"

Whereon the shadows lay like rust - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

The Present lay like Eden round us - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

On tombs where Time lay dead - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"

The road the sun lays down in light - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"

Lay the gold tithings barren - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

When earth and heaven lay down their veil - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

Still wrangled for a crown that lay amid the dust - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"

Peace lay folded between our hands - Iris Tree "[Long ago we walked together in a garden]"

A few grains of wheat lay at the barn door - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"

Lay down the tangled web of life - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]

Lay on the shore of heaven - Louis Untermeyer "Leaving the Harbor"

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

Where all the suns of civilization lay - Lucian B. Watkins "The Old Log Cabin"

Lay fiery siege to the embattled world - William Watson "Sketch of a Political Character"

The wind lays ghostly kisses on my lips - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"

Lay aside the toiling oar - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

And idle lay the useless oars - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The ducks' black squadron anchored lay - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Mischief deep in ambush lay - Zavarr Wilmshurst "Love and Mischief"

Where all the suns of civilization lay - Lucian B. Watkins "The Old Log Cabin"

When you lay down your thorns - Wendy Xu "Praxis"


Whose brickwork base the cunning Romans laid - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Laid out like a beach ball gone airless - Mary Jo Bang "You Know"

A crownless king laid low - Ardelia Maria Barton "Man Defying the Dying Sun"

That laid my goods now in the dust - Anne Bradstreet "Verses upon the Burning of our House"

To foes a hidden trap well laid - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"

That nighttime brigade of ghosts now laid to rest - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"

Which Day has laid aside - F. O. Call "Swiss Sketches. I: After Sunset on Jura"

Laid it where the sunbeams fall - C.S. Calverley "Motherhood"

Had laid Goliaths in the dust - John Castillo "Old Sam! or the Effects of the Gospel"

Floating hands were laid upon me - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"

These stones by time in ruin laid - Walter de la Mare "The Corner Stone"

The swallow's eggs are laid along the belfry walls - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

Laid her docile crescent down - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XIX: The Monument"

Deeper than coiled waters laid - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

With robe and girdle laid aside - Edward Dowden "Poesia"

Sunlight on a truth laid bare - Parke Farley "Patriots: On the '7:50'"

The truth of life before him laid - Charles Gibson "Sonnets III"

This dust of thoughts be laid at last - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIII: The Immortal Part"

These treasured things I laid upon the pyre - Aldous Huxley "Misplaced Love"

We're laid out like liquid timepieces - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

Laid a rich state on frugality - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

And in the ashes laid - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"

Scars laid while I slept - Keetje Kuipers "Emesis"

Stony before I was laid in stone - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

The King in vain laid siege thereto - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Three spells I have laid on the rising sun - Don Marquis "The Sailor's Wife Speaks"

Must doff my will as raiment laid away - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"

All veil of shame laid by - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

A thousand paper coffins laid end to end - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

Assassins laid in wait for Caesar - Alexander Posey "The Conquerors"

The harrow and sickle are laid away - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"

Laid on bones taken from the ribs of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"

Every specter laid by tattered saffron - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"

The calculus of fear laid forth in gore - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah VI: Of What Remained"

Laid great bases for eternity - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXV"

Cupid laid by his brand - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLIII"

Wreathes of hope in darkness laid - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The New Year"

Laid bare in the last line's turn - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "When You're Away, I Consider Form"

What survives will be laid bare - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"

I laid my heart on a stone - Iris Tree "[I laid my heart on a stone]"

The cornerstone in Truth is laid - Henry van Dyke "For the Friends at Hurstmont"

With sudden hand ungently laid - D.E.A. Wallace "Sonnet in Contempt of Death"

And smiling laid his cup of hemlock down - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"


Like sapphires that have lain in hell - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"


Sapphire in Heaven's floor inlaid - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"

Inlaid on the skies of the heart - Ping Hsin "Multitudinous Stars" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

Whose inlaid marbles mock the flowers - Bayard Taylor "The Odalisque" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]


Broken images of patterns laid-up in heaven - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"


Mislaid all the best of you into us - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet Imagining My Father's Uncertainty and Nothing Else"


An unbroken overlay of dust motes - Mary Jo Bang "A Man Mentioned in an Essay"

Walled and overlaid with dazzling crystal - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"


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