Potential Titles: Drift/Adrift
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somethingdarkerPoseidon's burnished axle drifts - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"
A toy dog left on a rowboat adrift - Mary Jo Bang "Today You're the Still Photographer"
Darkness sets adrift the rest - Marianne Boruch "After Supper in Madison, Wisconsin"
A ruined wreck adrift upon a surging sea - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
To sleep adrift in birdsong - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
A wee spore adrift among the fireflies - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"
Adrift in the inky darkness - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
Dimmed lights adrift from nobler dreams - Don Marquis "Proem"
Adrift on the seas of his certainties - Maureen N. McLane "From A Book of Hours"
The last luckless mollusk adrift in the blast - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
Cast adrift by proxy on a vast black sea - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Kin and neighbors and nations adrift - Tracy K. Smith "[The will to see oneself as fragile]"
Drifting down through the dissolving parachutes - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"
Drift only shell and fire - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"
Tramping millions drifting from one pole - Maurice Baring "Beethoven"
Backward, through the drifting mist of years - Maurice Baring "Harvest in Russia"
Drift round my bed like thistledown - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
The drifting shaft of shadows - Elizabeth Bartlett "Afternoon of a Journey"
The Sphinx stirred, shaking the drifted moonlight - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Win the drifting pension of dust - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Incurable Mystic Answers Western Ambitions"
Heaps of rare drifted salvage - Louise Morey Bowman "Oranges"
Drift and abundance in what she offered - Elizabeth Bradfield "Learning to Swim"
Drift along the Bay of Time - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"
Drifted along in a golden dream - F. O. Call "Hidden Treasure"
Gaunt shadow-ships drift silent - F. O. Call "A River Sunset"
Beneath the loose and drifting snow - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"
Drift where the gods won't find us - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
Drifts of wild-thorn flowers - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
An unmoored boat drifting aimlessly - Chia Yi "Rhyme-Prose on the Owl" transl. by Burton Watson
Break in tortured whirling drifts - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
The wilder the drifting, the deeper the hue - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Drifting forever away from me - Jim Daniels "The Dark Miracle"
Dances and drifts in endless play - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs"
The barges drift with turning tide - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"
Trip along drift lines searching - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"
Upon a rainbow drift of weeds - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
While someone else's fortune drifts downstream - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"
Sweetly drifting on thick tides of oil and pennies - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"
Drifting in our separate bones - Rae Gouirand "Terminus"
Pigeons drifting from sky to earth - Mona Gould "Cathedral"
An upheaval in daily drifting - Richard Greenfield "Hither Come Hither"
Keen as the ancient drift of sleep - Louise Imogen Guiney "Borderlands"
See the everlasting drift of years - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
Moments drift on golden clouds - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XII"
In deadly drifts of fiery spray - Charles Fenno Hoffman "Monterey"
Over the weeping grass they drift - Mildred Howells "Fog Wraiths"
Nothing drifts in a tar pit - fahima ife "recrudescence"
Drifting parabotanical evasion - fahima ife "recrudescence"
Drifted down the steps in an ebony fog - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
A change to drifting dust - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"
drifting under a wooden sky - Tanque R. Jones "Eight Months"
Drift tediously to the end of the world - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"
Flutters and drifts, like sympathy - Nate Klug "Jasmine"
Petals in drifts on the sidewalk - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
And breathe the drifting smoke of memory - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"
The drifts covered the streetlamps - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"
The cry and drift of feet - Archibald Lampman "Unrest"
Things of drift and shadow - Archibald Lampman "White Pansies"
From the gates of light had drifted - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Here also, drifting clouds may blind the sun - Li T'ai-Po "Feng Haung T'ai: Ascending the Terrace of the Silver-Crested Love-Pheasants at the City of the Golden Mound" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Drifted back within the bounds of space - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Sailed for the ice drift and snow - Mrs Elizabeth A (MacQueen) MacLeod "Sieur de Maisonneuve, or The Founding of Montreal"
Drift as phantoms by the songless town - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
Red herds of sullen cattle drifting - John Masefield "The River"
Know not the drift of my dreaming - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "A Midsummer Night's Dream" transl. by John Pollen
Knee-deep in transcendental drifts - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"
But the drifting to another shore - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
Will stay to watch you drift apart and pass away - Harold Monro "Journey"
The days of the roses glow in the drift - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Left home to drift near a deeper home - Mark Nepo "Stopped Again by the Sea"
Opal of the drifting desert sand - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"
Where the ocean drifts its rhythms to the beach - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Continents merged & drifted - Kiki Petrosino "The Prince"
Some land of wind and drifting leaves - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
Dead leaves drift on the lute - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Alma Mater"
Drift towards a mystic isle - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Winter on the Zuyder Zee"
Drift now beneath its feathered darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"
Spices drifted out of the blown fire - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
The slow, eternal drift of stars - Charles G.D. Roberts "Eastward Bound"
The rocking echo drifts and dies - Lloyd Roberts "The Kill"
Drift & sing the death of starlight - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
To drifts of glowing death - Effie Smith "October"
Out of the drifting leaf and the dying light - Arthur Stringer "The Passing"
Drift on the Stream of Infinite Flux - Tao Yuanming "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Arthur Waley
Despite how loneliness drifts beside us all - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
The surtures of the moon drift into sharpness - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Drifting lands close on ancient seas - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"
A ribbon of geese drifts high above - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
Drifting to some lost and fading place - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"
A drifter in the kitchen - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"
Flake of night drifting in the eye of day - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"
The drift and change of things - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
In their slow drift toward received form - Charles Wright "The Gospel According to Somebody Else"
Forget me and let me drift - Javier Zamora "Instructions for My Funeral"
Drifting toward the opposite - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"
Drifting clouds passing over a border - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #6" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Driftwood.
The smoke-drift of puffed-out heroes - Wallace Stevens "The Course of a Particular"
In snowdrifts ten miles north - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"
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A toy dog left on a rowboat adrift - Mary Jo Bang "Today You're the Still Photographer"
Darkness sets adrift the rest - Marianne Boruch "After Supper in Madison, Wisconsin"
A ruined wreck adrift upon a surging sea - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
To sleep adrift in birdsong - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
A wee spore adrift among the fireflies - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"
Adrift in the inky darkness - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
Dimmed lights adrift from nobler dreams - Don Marquis "Proem"
Adrift on the seas of his certainties - Maureen N. McLane "From A Book of Hours"
The last luckless mollusk adrift in the blast - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
Cast adrift by proxy on a vast black sea - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Kin and neighbors and nations adrift - Tracy K. Smith "[The will to see oneself as fragile]"
Drifting down through the dissolving parachutes - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"
Drift only shell and fire - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"
Tramping millions drifting from one pole - Maurice Baring "Beethoven"
Backward, through the drifting mist of years - Maurice Baring "Harvest in Russia"
Drift round my bed like thistledown - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
The drifting shaft of shadows - Elizabeth Bartlett "Afternoon of a Journey"
The Sphinx stirred, shaking the drifted moonlight - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Win the drifting pension of dust - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Incurable Mystic Answers Western Ambitions"
Heaps of rare drifted salvage - Louise Morey Bowman "Oranges"
Drift and abundance in what she offered - Elizabeth Bradfield "Learning to Swim"
Drift along the Bay of Time - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"
Drifted along in a golden dream - F. O. Call "Hidden Treasure"
Gaunt shadow-ships drift silent - F. O. Call "A River Sunset"
Beneath the loose and drifting snow - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"
Drift where the gods won't find us - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
Drifts of wild-thorn flowers - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
An unmoored boat drifting aimlessly - Chia Yi "Rhyme-Prose on the Owl" transl. by Burton Watson
Break in tortured whirling drifts - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
The wilder the drifting, the deeper the hue - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Drifting forever away from me - Jim Daniels "The Dark Miracle"
Dances and drifts in endless play - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs"
The barges drift with turning tide - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"
Trip along drift lines searching - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"
Upon a rainbow drift of weeds - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
While someone else's fortune drifts downstream - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"
Sweetly drifting on thick tides of oil and pennies - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"
Drifting in our separate bones - Rae Gouirand "Terminus"
Pigeons drifting from sky to earth - Mona Gould "Cathedral"
An upheaval in daily drifting - Richard Greenfield "Hither Come Hither"
Keen as the ancient drift of sleep - Louise Imogen Guiney "Borderlands"
See the everlasting drift of years - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
Moments drift on golden clouds - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XII"
In deadly drifts of fiery spray - Charles Fenno Hoffman "Monterey"
Over the weeping grass they drift - Mildred Howells "Fog Wraiths"
Nothing drifts in a tar pit - fahima ife "recrudescence"
Drifting parabotanical evasion - fahima ife "recrudescence"
Drifted down the steps in an ebony fog - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
A change to drifting dust - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"
drifting under a wooden sky - Tanque R. Jones "Eight Months"
Drift tediously to the end of the world - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"
Flutters and drifts, like sympathy - Nate Klug "Jasmine"
Petals in drifts on the sidewalk - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
And breathe the drifting smoke of memory - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"
The drifts covered the streetlamps - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"
The cry and drift of feet - Archibald Lampman "Unrest"
Things of drift and shadow - Archibald Lampman "White Pansies"
From the gates of light had drifted - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Here also, drifting clouds may blind the sun - Li T'ai-Po "Feng Haung T'ai: Ascending the Terrace of the Silver-Crested Love-Pheasants at the City of the Golden Mound" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Drifted back within the bounds of space - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Sailed for the ice drift and snow - Mrs Elizabeth A (MacQueen) MacLeod "Sieur de Maisonneuve, or The Founding of Montreal"
Drift as phantoms by the songless town - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
Red herds of sullen cattle drifting - John Masefield "The River"
Know not the drift of my dreaming - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "A Midsummer Night's Dream" transl. by John Pollen
Knee-deep in transcendental drifts - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"
But the drifting to another shore - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
Will stay to watch you drift apart and pass away - Harold Monro "Journey"
The days of the roses glow in the drift - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Left home to drift near a deeper home - Mark Nepo "Stopped Again by the Sea"
Opal of the drifting desert sand - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"
Where the ocean drifts its rhythms to the beach - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Continents merged & drifted - Kiki Petrosino "The Prince"
Some land of wind and drifting leaves - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
Dead leaves drift on the lute - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Alma Mater"
Drift towards a mystic isle - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Winter on the Zuyder Zee"
Drift now beneath its feathered darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"
Spices drifted out of the blown fire - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
The slow, eternal drift of stars - Charles G.D. Roberts "Eastward Bound"
The rocking echo drifts and dies - Lloyd Roberts "The Kill"
Drift & sing the death of starlight - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
To drifts of glowing death - Effie Smith "October"
Out of the drifting leaf and the dying light - Arthur Stringer "The Passing"
Drift on the Stream of Infinite Flux - Tao Yuanming "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Arthur Waley
Despite how loneliness drifts beside us all - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
The surtures of the moon drift into sharpness - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Drifting lands close on ancient seas - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"
A ribbon of geese drifts high above - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
Drifting to some lost and fading place - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"
A drifter in the kitchen - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"
Flake of night drifting in the eye of day - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"
The drift and change of things - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
In their slow drift toward received form - Charles Wright "The Gospel According to Somebody Else"
Forget me and let me drift - Javier Zamora "Instructions for My Funeral"
Drifting toward the opposite - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"
Drifting clouds passing over a border - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #6" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Driftwood.
The smoke-drift of puffed-out heroes - Wallace Stevens "The Course of a Particular"
In snowdrifts ten miles north - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"
Navigation Links:
Go to D word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
