Potential Titles: Flood

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And snatched each soul back to flood - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

The shining flood of light I pour - Joan Aiken "Π in the Sky"

Liquid fire pouring a flood - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Breakdown way more wicked than Noah's flood - Mike Allen "Deluge"

No linearity in a flood - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Drowned by floods of sun - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

the no of drought flooded out - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"

Memory of the bitter flood - Charles Baudelaire "The Eyes of Beauty" transl. not credited

Brought alms in floods upon his head - Charles Baudelaire "The Seven Old Men" transl. not credited

The strength of the flood, the might of the falling snow - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

Daisies white in generous flood - Paul Bewsher "The Crash"

Lulled by the lapse of gliding floods - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

Time's flood sweeps on with endless flow - Isaac Gray Blanchard "Time and Change" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Upon a mountain stirring a surmise of floods - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

Merged in the formless flood - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 18"

With floods of silent tears - Anne Bronte "To Cowper"

To ford the floods of woe - Charlotte Bronte "The Wife's Will"

Where they joined their triple flood - Emily Bronte "The Philosopher"

A flood of trembling light - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"

The flood of salt curses - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Against the coming of the wasteful flood - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The floods of sunshine falling - F. O. Call "On a Swiss Mountain"

As the moon drags the flood tide - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: The Flood Tide"

So deep a flood of turbulent despair - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"

Holds out midst flood and fire - Joseph Horatio Chant "Brotherhood"

Flooding his limbs with unquenchable fire - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Imagery"

Flood my music with your autumn silence - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Worship"

The flood didn't come to flaw the ship - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

The great floods of the soul - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

The parade flooded the streets with sea wreckage - Alicia Cole "Once, I Was a Mermaid"

Rolls and laps in a new Great Flood - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Coax a measured flood - Imani Davis "Kink"

Midst crashing masts and raging flood - 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]

Falling anchors dash the foaming flood - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Flooded with unremembered names - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet 25"

Fir trees growing in flood water - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"

Floods are served to us in bowls - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love IV: Satisfied"

When the live flood foams - Edward Dowden "Salome"

When the floods are silver under willow - John Drinkwater "May Garden"

A sweet with floods of gall - William Drummond "Sonnet"

An aria in the flood - Chiyuma Elliott "The Winter Mirror (Explanation)"

The release of flood - Kathy Engel "It would be water"

The other pushing back the flood - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"

Where floods of rapture roll - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

The orange floods of afternoon - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

With flood tides filled thy bosom - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

Too late snatched from the flood - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous

For the taste of freedom to flood your famished mouth - Mina Florea "Remember"

Half-note in the flood - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 1"

He who came across the Atlantic flood - "Freedom's Beacon" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

The rock that bides the raging flood - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

And flooded backwards over the border - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"

A gradual flood of lightning - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"

Whose last lover was flood - Leah Naomi Green "Field Guide to the Chaparral"

Floods of light rich with all hues - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Emerging from the floods and fires - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"

Useless in the face of flood - francine j. harris "Wetland"

Echoes of sound flooding the earth - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"

Proud guardians of the regal flood - Felicia Hemans "The Troubadour and Richard Coeur de Lion"

Whose presence like a flood is swelling - Mrs. M.E. Hewitt "The Bride's Reverie" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no. 2, July 1850]

Poured it out in mellow floods - Geo. Canning Hill "Theodora: a Ballad of the Woods"

Mice and leverets caught by flood - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

A rustle of names flooding my breath - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Delfonic"

Of victory on field and flood - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

The flood of stifling numbers ebbs - John Keats "To Fanny"

In the murmuring of the floods - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"

A flood of glory hands upon the world - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"

Bright flood of burning light - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Lady, whom my beloved loves so well!]"

Flood the house with darkness - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"

Through surging floods of song - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

Ran downward to the flood - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"

Above your brown floods rise - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway II: A Bog-Filled Valley"

With cataract floods the patient strand - Emily Lawless "From the Burren XII: Yet a Little Longer"

Sweeps in one all-mastering flood - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Of the world before the floods - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"

High above flood and fire - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

fire floods the cities - Joseph Lease "Falling"

Between the flooded fields of the moon - R.B. Lemberg "The Rivers, the Birchgroves, All the Receding Earth"

Stones that fear no flood - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Stone"

Meeting in a flooded rice field - Lin Ling "Footpaths Cross in the Rice Field" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

Flood to fire, loss to drought - Marissa Lingen "The Plural of Apocalypse"

A brief softening and then a flood - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

Interrogated by floods - Bojan Louis "Ghazal IV"

The flooding dark about their knees - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"

Clamor warring wastes of flood - Don Marquis "A Nightmare"

Thought as soundless as a flood - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"

Sheds floods of light - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"

Within the whirlpool presence of a flood - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

Of the flowers flooding grass - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Through ruinous floods uplift - George Meredith "My Theme"

Another flood of fangs and claws - George Meredith "Society"

What the flood will take from us - Jenny Molberg "Invocation"

Mingled with the howl of hidden floods - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Hell" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Whole lifetimes flooding by me - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"

And a new music lived upon the floods - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

To drink the cup gemmed with a poison flood - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Flooded dwellings and crevices of pain - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"

Melting into the flood of night - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Ride on the darkening flood - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

The haughty, chiding flood - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

More still than a flooded meadow - Carl Phillips "As If Lit from Beneath, and Tossing"

Flooded the crimson twilight - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: A Lost Chord"

Or flood the field pink - Khadijah Queen "Epilogue for Personae"

Far floods thy bridal brought - Theodore H. Rand "Annapolis Basin"

Iron gateways with remorseless flood - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"

Flood all the place of tears - Theodore H. Rand "The Tireless Sea"

Purifying floods of song - James Whitcombe Riley "The Song I Never Sing"

Though floods of wrath may drench it - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Though wide was the flood - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Swept the conquering flood - John Jerome Rooney "Mississippi"

Across the flood of ether - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"

Slant willows by the flooded bog - George Santayana "Cape Cod"

Drank full many a draught of Phlegethon's black flood - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"

Catch crabs in Lethe's flood - Friedrich Schiller "The Journalists and Minos"

In the green flood of twilight - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"

Black flood on whirlpool driven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

A cold jail cell flooded with light - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

Dry spells flooded with demand - Cedar Sigo "Like Stride"

This month of flood, blackout and frustration - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"

Folds the systems in a flood of light - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Floods the earth of our chests - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 178: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Projecting horror on the blacken'd flood - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

The wreckage faced the surface of the flood - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"

Next year on floods of spring - Tu Fu "They Say You're Staying in a Mountain Temple" transl. by Burton Watson

Floods of colour long concealed - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"

And swam the flood of air - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

Floods of wrath from the frowning skies - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"

Flooded our horizons with neon fire - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"

Sheaves of visas lost in monsoon floods - Divya Victor "Threshold"

Will guide you through the angry flood - Arthur Weir "Pere Brosse"

Overflowed with rippled floods of sound - Edith Wharton "Maiden, Arise"

The waves of evening flood - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"

Full flooded on the fainting sands - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"

Transfigured in the silver flood - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Unnamed light that floods the world with splendour - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

Committed ourselves to flood and flight - Tanaya Winder "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It's the Quickest Way Through"

A river flooding the underweave - Charles Wright "Double Salt"

Tarnished with smoke of the flood - Elinor Wylie "Sea Lullaby"

Time's bitter flood - W.B. Yeats "The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends"

In a clear flood of sunlight vibrating - Francis Brett Young "The Leaning Elm"

Flooded with thunder and tumbling skies - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 15" transl. by Katherine Silver


Climbs the crimson-flooded air - James M'Carroll "Dawn"

Flakes of flood-birthed moonlight - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"

The flood-flecked talon's law - Pablo Neruda "Interstellar Eagle" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

The flood-gates of the rivers of heaven - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

The moon's floodlights burning - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"

Deep flood-mark of beauty - Leonie Adams "Midsummer"

Had taken root in the floodplain of your hands - Shutta Crum "Things Done Wrong"

Drained floodplains and eucharistic jimson weed - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"

Between its flood-torn shores - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Floodwater pulling me down - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

The flood-wave and the second ebb tide - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer

On the time-flood's heaving waves my name - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"

Through wind-flooded canyons - Natalie Diaz "Duned"


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