Potential Titles: Roof
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somethingdarkerThe cry of a stork landing on the roof - Anna Akhmatova [Untitled] transl. Richard McKane
Beyond the roofs and lids of our limits - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"
Cormorants on pitched roofs - Mary Jo Bang "In the Present and Probable Future"
The oracle has no roof - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
A square with no roof but the sky - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
Finding birds in the building with no roof - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
Dripping on the roofs and rods - Stephen Vincent Benet "Rain after a Vaudeville Show"
Still on the high roofs of the mind - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
A magpie singing on the roof - John Philip Bourke "The Leaden Hoof"
Smashing clocks on the roof - William Brewer "Against Enabling"
Blasphemous worship under roofs of gold - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn of the Waldenses"
From roof-trees of slumber - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Beneath the roof of loneliness - Eduardo C. Corral "Lines Written During My Second Pandemic"
The wind shrieking in the zinc roof - Noemia da Sousa "Poem of Distant Childhood" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver
Owls buried against the black roofs - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"
Blackbirds sweeping over the metal roofs - Vievee Francis "Clarity"
From Vision's dizziest roof - Louis Golding "Cold Stars"
Disillusioned roofs with teeth of rust - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Two horses grazed on a roof - Marilyn Hacker "For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back"
Alone beneath the palace roof - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"
As smoke from the roof of a world on fire - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Strange noises between roof and rafter - William Dean Howells "Forlorn"
Weave a whole roof to the mountain - Kakuhaku "Sennin Poem" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
Hidden in the cracks of the roof tile - Kaneko Misuzu "Stars and Dandelions" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
Beneath the whispering roof - John Keats "Psyche"
Where saffron skies roof in the earth - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Like one who walketh in a plenteous land]"
In the roof space of isolation - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
Flame that licks the roof of hell - C.H.B. Kitchin "Ruler of infinite austerity"
The one roof we all share - Michael Lauchlan "Rain"
Laughter echoes from the vaulted roof - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
Neither on a cloud of soot nor a roof of stone - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
The roof of Blue-Beard's palace - Vachel Lindsay "When the Mississippi Flowed in Indiana"
Sifts down between the uneven roofs - Amy Lowell "Solitaire"
An emerald roof with sculptured eaves - James Russell Lowell "The Nest: May"
Upon the lighted roofs of Nineveh - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
A roof of flint and a floor of chalk - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"
Pierced the roof of the sky - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (6)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Hideous wings about the arch and ruined roof - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Avalanches would roar from the roofs - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
The fortitude of rain hitting the roof - Erika Meitner "Non-lieux"
The roof took flight long ago - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
A rain to pierce the roof - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
From under the haunted roof - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Into the roof of its suffering - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
A roof of absences - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Geometry of roofs under a cold sun - Pablo Neruda "I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]" transl. by Galway Kinnell
Over the roofs a mantle of husked sun - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Rain rumbled on the roofs - Pablo Neruda "Where the Rain Is Born: The Father" transl. by Alastair Reid
Roof and walls of vine - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"
One nation under this vaulted roof - January Gill O'Neil "Old South Meeting House"
Angels dancing all day on the roof - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
The perilous sound of hail on a tin roof - Linda Pastan "Ah, Friend"
The dim chaos of the roofs - Lola Ridge "Solo"
Every roof has a broken tile - Alberto Rios "The Broken"
Astray in the tangle of roofs - Charles G.D. Roberts "Twilight on Sixth Avenue"
Whose wings roofed Babylon - Isaac Rosenberg "The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Hordes"
Roofed in with a load of lead - Christina Rossetti "The Poor Ghost"
Rust and gold on the roofs of the sea - Carl Sandburg "Fins"
Beneath the river's roof of stars - Duncan Campbell Scott "Off Riviere du Loup"
The varying roof of heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
A roof with many beams and pillars - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
Scraps of smoke flying above your roof - Cathy Song "Waialua"
A common roof, with knots and laces - Eileen Spinelli "Those Sociable Weavers"
Set shining foot on temple roof - Robert Louis Stevenson "To Will. H. Low"
Broke up the roof for kindling - Su Tung-p'o "Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu" transl. by Burton Watson
Some roof of wildwood tree - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"
A labyrinth walled and roofed with woe - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
A dim fear passed through buttress, and roof, and beam - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: II. The Summons"
The hopvine's tresses sweeping the low roof - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Branches were our rafter and our roof - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson
From the roofed harbour - Derek Walcott "A Latin Primer"
Through a little roof of glass - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
A dark crimson corner of roof - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"
Practicing religions without a roof - Emanuel Xavier "Americano"
Cat claws on the heart's tin roof - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"
Claws on the heart's tin roof - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"
Beneath the umbrella of the roof - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"
Horns trumpeting over the flat-roofed acacia - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
Heavy rains choking in the roof-drains - John Freeman "The Chair"
a certain rooftop not far from collapse - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
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Beyond the roofs and lids of our limits - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"
Cormorants on pitched roofs - Mary Jo Bang "In the Present and Probable Future"
The oracle has no roof - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
A square with no roof but the sky - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
Finding birds in the building with no roof - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
Dripping on the roofs and rods - Stephen Vincent Benet "Rain after a Vaudeville Show"
Still on the high roofs of the mind - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
A magpie singing on the roof - John Philip Bourke "The Leaden Hoof"
Smashing clocks on the roof - William Brewer "Against Enabling"
Blasphemous worship under roofs of gold - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn of the Waldenses"
From roof-trees of slumber - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Beneath the roof of loneliness - Eduardo C. Corral "Lines Written During My Second Pandemic"
The wind shrieking in the zinc roof - Noemia da Sousa "Poem of Distant Childhood" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver
Owls buried against the black roofs - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"
Blackbirds sweeping over the metal roofs - Vievee Francis "Clarity"
From Vision's dizziest roof - Louis Golding "Cold Stars"
Disillusioned roofs with teeth of rust - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Two horses grazed on a roof - Marilyn Hacker "For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back"
Alone beneath the palace roof - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"
As smoke from the roof of a world on fire - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Strange noises between roof and rafter - William Dean Howells "Forlorn"
Weave a whole roof to the mountain - Kakuhaku "Sennin Poem" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
Hidden in the cracks of the roof tile - Kaneko Misuzu "Stars and Dandelions" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
Beneath the whispering roof - John Keats "Psyche"
Where saffron skies roof in the earth - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Like one who walketh in a plenteous land]"
In the roof space of isolation - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
Flame that licks the roof of hell - C.H.B. Kitchin "Ruler of infinite austerity"
The one roof we all share - Michael Lauchlan "Rain"
Laughter echoes from the vaulted roof - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
Neither on a cloud of soot nor a roof of stone - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
The roof of Blue-Beard's palace - Vachel Lindsay "When the Mississippi Flowed in Indiana"
Sifts down between the uneven roofs - Amy Lowell "Solitaire"
An emerald roof with sculptured eaves - James Russell Lowell "The Nest: May"
Upon the lighted roofs of Nineveh - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
A roof of flint and a floor of chalk - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"
Pierced the roof of the sky - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (6)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Hideous wings about the arch and ruined roof - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Avalanches would roar from the roofs - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
The fortitude of rain hitting the roof - Erika Meitner "Non-lieux"
The roof took flight long ago - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
A rain to pierce the roof - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
From under the haunted roof - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Into the roof of its suffering - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
A roof of absences - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Geometry of roofs under a cold sun - Pablo Neruda "I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]" transl. by Galway Kinnell
Over the roofs a mantle of husked sun - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Rain rumbled on the roofs - Pablo Neruda "Where the Rain Is Born: The Father" transl. by Alastair Reid
Roof and walls of vine - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"
One nation under this vaulted roof - January Gill O'Neil "Old South Meeting House"
Angels dancing all day on the roof - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
The perilous sound of hail on a tin roof - Linda Pastan "Ah, Friend"
The dim chaos of the roofs - Lola Ridge "Solo"
Every roof has a broken tile - Alberto Rios "The Broken"
Astray in the tangle of roofs - Charles G.D. Roberts "Twilight on Sixth Avenue"
Whose wings roofed Babylon - Isaac Rosenberg "The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Hordes"
Roofed in with a load of lead - Christina Rossetti "The Poor Ghost"
Rust and gold on the roofs of the sea - Carl Sandburg "Fins"
Beneath the river's roof of stars - Duncan Campbell Scott "Off Riviere du Loup"
The varying roof of heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
A roof with many beams and pillars - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
Scraps of smoke flying above your roof - Cathy Song "Waialua"
A common roof, with knots and laces - Eileen Spinelli "Those Sociable Weavers"
Set shining foot on temple roof - Robert Louis Stevenson "To Will. H. Low"
Broke up the roof for kindling - Su Tung-p'o "Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu" transl. by Burton Watson
Some roof of wildwood tree - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"
A labyrinth walled and roofed with woe - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
A dim fear passed through buttress, and roof, and beam - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: II. The Summons"
The hopvine's tresses sweeping the low roof - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Branches were our rafter and our roof - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson
From the roofed harbour - Derek Walcott "A Latin Primer"
Through a little roof of glass - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
A dark crimson corner of roof - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"
Practicing religions without a roof - Emanuel Xavier "Americano"
Cat claws on the heart's tin roof - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"
Claws on the heart's tin roof - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"
Beneath the umbrella of the roof - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"
Horns trumpeting over the flat-roofed acacia - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
Heavy rains choking in the roof-drains - John Freeman "The Chair"
a certain rooftop not far from collapse - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
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