Potential Titles: Sudden

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then in the arbor of sudden light - Lee Ballentine "The Whole Atom"

Sudden summer of thunder - Mary Jo Bang "The Ana of Bliss"

To disappointment's sudden darkness wanes - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"

Wavering on the sudden brink of jaded bitterness - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Orrick Johns"

The sudden turn of life on the air - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

A soft impulse, a sudden dust - Stopford A. Brooks "The Spring of Love"

Sudden as a perfect fruit - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

If Day burst sudden from the bars of Night - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

A sudden comprehending - Witter Bynner "The Robin"

The sudden death of the sun - Henri Cole "Twilight"

Topple into sudden rifts, open into yawning chasms - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

And night fell suddenly and soon - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Story of the Birkenhead"

Wreath of sudden pain - Hart Crane "The Fernery"

Strange that I should have grown so suddenly blind - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

With April feet like sudden flowers - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"

In the sudden white light of noon - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"

About to sprout like a sudden hope - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

A sudden dust devil spirals in - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

Which turns a sudden venomous asp - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

Laying sudden hands on immortality - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

My musing heart suddenly kindled - Edward Dowden "The Gift"

With sudden passion languishing - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

And swell with sudden faith - Heid E. Erdich "Own Your Own: The Papergirl"

Sudden stillness fills my heart - Emanuel Geibel "[Schöne Lilie]" transl. by Edith Wharton

A sudden sail of amber flame - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Devil's Edge"

Kindling with a sudden light - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Lilac Tree"

Sudden April at my open door - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"

A bird suddenly stunned by the glass - Aracelis Girmay "Second Estrangement"

The sudden chorus of trees ignite - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

An altitude of sudden storms - Tom Healy "Base Camp"

Sudden invasive virulence - Mary Hickman "If the Heart Does Not Restart"

The sudden scarred face of the moon - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"

Suddenly regretting the tree my father planted - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

The sudden nip of knives - Richard Hughes "The Ruin"

Sudden flashes of the slipping skies - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"

Self-betrayal in its sudden burn - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

In sudden strange decision - Archibald Lampman "New Year's Eve"

With sudden and with startling vividness - Giacomo Leopardi "Aspasia" transl. by Frederick Townsend

In the sudden aftermath I inhaled a sadness - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"

Sudden seized with shadowy apprehension - Amy Levy "Medea"

In sudden toils of torment - Amy Levy "Medea"

Seized the sudden sky - J. Patrick Lewis "The Highest Air on a Skateboard"

Our sudden lack of atmosphere - Ada Limon "The Barer the Bones"

Making our strange disasters suddenly public - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Sudden ambush by the whirlwind - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

The eye's sudden and narrow saltwater - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Abandon our too sudden bodies - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"

Falling a sudden arrow of dismay - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"

In the sudden flame of his breath - Edmond McKenna "Prelude"

Wake a swarm to sudden storm - George Meredith "Outer and Inner"

This sudden hour retrieves the purpose of the past - Alice Meynell "The Two Poets"

Out of dashing sudden night - Maggie Nelson "Carnegie Hall"

Expressed themselves with thorns and sudden blossoms - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney

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

Into a cloud of sudden azaleas - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Rider"

In the sudden fire of its mouth - Mary Oliver "Night and the River"

Fey and sudden and unholy - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"

A sudden and catastrophic world - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Force Drift (VII)"

A sudden vengeance waits - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

Delve deeply into the corridors of the sudden - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Threshold"

Better than this sudden sleep - Mark Rich "To Sleep"

Nipped by sudden frosts and keen - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet V"

Sudden blossoming of one more rose - Alice Wellington Rollins "Influence"

With a sudden and repentant grace - Alice Wellington Rollins "She Came and Went"

With the sudden vision that made us one with night - George William Russell "The Vision of Love"

The sudden rise and slow relapse - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"

A sudden sense of the frozen void - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

To mark the sweetness of the sudden hour - Edward Shanks "The Return"

Pierced suddenly by pillars of heavy light - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"

Veneered in sudden wealth - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "I never knew of such a place]"

How wild with sudden scorn - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

And sudden starlight in remembering tears - George Sterling "Reincarnation"

A sudden flower blooms in my heart - George Sterling "You Are So Beautiful"

Sudden subtle bridges - Gerald Stern "Grass and Water"

Like a sudden waking - Susan Stewart "Poem from Holderlin"

Where our sharp, sworded lightning cut sudden - Alfred B. Street "Averill's Raid" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Sudden menace with no thought of the gradual - Dorothea Tanning "Lucky"

All the sudden singing skies - Louis Untermeyer "Protests"

Of cynic ice and sudden white blasts - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

Shivered in sudden naked shame - Mark Van Doren "To a Great Lady in My Small House"

A glory in the sudden hour of struggle -Tertius van Dyke "Love of Life"

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

The air suddenly redolent of borderlands - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"

Comes suddenly where pain and beauty meet - Marguerite O.B. Wilkinson "To William Butler Yeats" [The Little Review v.1 no. 4, June 1914]

The unlikelihood of sudden flame - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"


Too soon, too suddenly, too many times - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

and suddenly flings in a rain of gold - Elizabeth Bartlett "I would remember"

Suddenly free of panic - Robert Bly "Thoughts in the Cabin"

A suddenly revealed field of wheat - Cyrus Cassells "Return to Florence"

As suddenly more mine - Jennifer Chang "We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once"

All of us suddenly disappearing - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: II"

Ghosts emerging suddenly from stone - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Modern Fiction"

So many dimensions suddenly yellow - Pablo Neruda "The Clock Fallen into the Sea" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Spirits in the belly suddenly enlarged - Hoa Nguyen "The Flying Motorist Artist"

Plunge suddenly into Vortex - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Approach I. In the Grass: Halt by Roadside"

Suddenly assaulted with answers - Mary Oliver "Daisies"

Eyes like suddenly yielded gates - Lola Ridge "In Harness"

Suddenly made clear by the cicadas - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"

The masks suddenly fallen - Rachel Zucker "To Save America"


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