Potential Titles: Float
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somethingdarkerA boat afloat on a river of tears - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The golden lilies afloat with the dragon-fly - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"
Afloat out on the starlit water - Armen Davoudian "Hot Springs"
The mechanics of staying afloat - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"
Changeful fancies set afloat - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Poet in His Youth, and the Cuckoo-Bird"
Afloat in their ancient miasma - Mary Karr "Metaphysique du Mal"
Painted insects floating motionless - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
To float impalpable in dusk - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
I float heedless on my way - Joan Aiken "Π in the Sky"
Floating mountains dreaming - Francisco X. Alarcon "Clouds"
Comes floating by on the fragrant air - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"
Float face up in silence - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Filling the New House"
Floating mirrors with unidentified objects - Peter Balakian "Waiting for a Number"
That float upon the Elfin breeze - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Like angel whispers floating by - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Song"
Shaped from the floating cloud - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Larks on russet pinions float - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
Where the moons of desire float anchored - Stephen Vincent Benet "Wisdom-Teeth"
Floating in light from windows - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"
Float to the moon in origami rockets - Bruce Boston "Origami Rockets"
Floating in a hole in the air - William Brewer "To the Addict Who Mugged Me"
Floats back dishevelled strength in agony - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To George Sand: A Recognition"
Float at peace in her salty arms - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Floating corks in the Dead Sea - Ana Castillo "Tell Me to Live for Something"
Floating in the deep throat of night - Tiana Clark "Flambeaux"
When mystic murmurs float - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
To float through star-littered fields - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
Floating hands were laid upon me - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"
Floating 'neath the alder's shade - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Floating upon the tides of sleep - Eleanor Farjeon "Dream-Ships"
Floating on the sea's shifting horizons - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen i"
The floating aria of the sirens - Louise Gluck "Parable of the Hostages"
Float on a profound misunderstanding of snow - Wendy Guerra "Snow in Havana" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
And the song of frogs floated up - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Wind in Mexico"
Floating almost unnoticed - Anna Grossnickle Hines "Making an Entrance"
Pigeon feather floating on the tension of the water - Tony Hoagland "Field Guide"
Floating on the currents of afterbirth - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"
Floats from some warmer place - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
Floats in the teacup of your dreams - Philip Lamantia "Celestial Estrangement"
Dreamlike before me floating - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
The fragments of a floating tale - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Floating in a bath of timelessness - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
Float like light between - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Floated in a silence that whirred and pinged - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
Level with the floating clouds - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
Mint leaves floating in a cup - Naomi Shihab Nye "You Are Your Own State Department"
Seven dancer floating even as worms - Mary Oliver "Seven White Butterflies"
Whose floating glory melts within the sky - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
When years have floated onward - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
And leave an echo floating by - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Give us salinity to float in the betweens - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
Floating on a wave of blood - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Float toward a tulip light - Sina Queyras "Tulips"
Floating on a haze of sky - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Winter on the Zuyder Zee"
Float like blossoms of dust - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with Wanting Something"
Where lapwings float at rest - Herbert Randall "The Angelus of Plymouth Woods"
Between them and the floating dust - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
A floating bubble of silence - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"
Solitude floats down the river wan - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Where Circe's isle floats purple - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
a drone floats on the spine of my words - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
Its top level with the floating clouds - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Turned into carnations for parade floats - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"
Shadowy vessels floating out of sight - Edward Shanks "Boats at Night"
While stars float away - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Never Learns to Cook or Sew"
Float once more on sheer survival - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"
Floating with the water I escape - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"
To float on alien waters - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Float with unheeded fire - George Sterling "The Light-Giver"
A swan and shadow floating down - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
And pick an X-ray to float on - Mary Szybist "Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle"
The floating notes of festival encores - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
cascades between floating lakes - Alexander Te Pohe "Luna"
Comes floating down in long vibration - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
A thousand floating motes of gold - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"
Floated soundless in the great gulf of space - W.J. Turner "Death"
Still intangible power floats out of the sky - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
The condor be a floating witness - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
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The golden lilies afloat with the dragon-fly - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"
Afloat out on the starlit water - Armen Davoudian "Hot Springs"
The mechanics of staying afloat - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"
Changeful fancies set afloat - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Poet in His Youth, and the Cuckoo-Bird"
Afloat in their ancient miasma - Mary Karr "Metaphysique du Mal"
Painted insects floating motionless - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
To float impalpable in dusk - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
I float heedless on my way - Joan Aiken "Π in the Sky"
Floating mountains dreaming - Francisco X. Alarcon "Clouds"
Comes floating by on the fragrant air - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"
Float face up in silence - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Filling the New House"
Floating mirrors with unidentified objects - Peter Balakian "Waiting for a Number"
That float upon the Elfin breeze - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Like angel whispers floating by - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Song"
Shaped from the floating cloud - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Larks on russet pinions float - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
Where the moons of desire float anchored - Stephen Vincent Benet "Wisdom-Teeth"
Floating in light from windows - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"
Float to the moon in origami rockets - Bruce Boston "Origami Rockets"
Floating in a hole in the air - William Brewer "To the Addict Who Mugged Me"
Floats back dishevelled strength in agony - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To George Sand: A Recognition"
Float at peace in her salty arms - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Floating corks in the Dead Sea - Ana Castillo "Tell Me to Live for Something"
Floating in the deep throat of night - Tiana Clark "Flambeaux"
When mystic murmurs float - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
To float through star-littered fields - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
Floating hands were laid upon me - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"
Floating 'neath the alder's shade - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Floating upon the tides of sleep - Eleanor Farjeon "Dream-Ships"
Floating on the sea's shifting horizons - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen i"
The floating aria of the sirens - Louise Gluck "Parable of the Hostages"
Float on a profound misunderstanding of snow - Wendy Guerra "Snow in Havana" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
And the song of frogs floated up - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Wind in Mexico"
Floating almost unnoticed - Anna Grossnickle Hines "Making an Entrance"
Pigeon feather floating on the tension of the water - Tony Hoagland "Field Guide"
Floating on the currents of afterbirth - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"
Floats from some warmer place - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
Floats in the teacup of your dreams - Philip Lamantia "Celestial Estrangement"
Dreamlike before me floating - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
The fragments of a floating tale - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Floating in a bath of timelessness - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
Float like light between - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Floated in a silence that whirred and pinged - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
Level with the floating clouds - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
Mint leaves floating in a cup - Naomi Shihab Nye "You Are Your Own State Department"
Seven dancer floating even as worms - Mary Oliver "Seven White Butterflies"
Whose floating glory melts within the sky - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
When years have floated onward - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
And leave an echo floating by - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Give us salinity to float in the betweens - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
Floating on a wave of blood - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Float toward a tulip light - Sina Queyras "Tulips"
Floating on a haze of sky - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Winter on the Zuyder Zee"
Float like blossoms of dust - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with Wanting Something"
Where lapwings float at rest - Herbert Randall "The Angelus of Plymouth Woods"
Between them and the floating dust - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
A floating bubble of silence - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"
Solitude floats down the river wan - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Where Circe's isle floats purple - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
a drone floats on the spine of my words - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
Its top level with the floating clouds - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Turned into carnations for parade floats - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"
Shadowy vessels floating out of sight - Edward Shanks "Boats at Night"
While stars float away - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Never Learns to Cook or Sew"
Float once more on sheer survival - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"
Floating with the water I escape - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"
To float on alien waters - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Float with unheeded fire - George Sterling "The Light-Giver"
A swan and shadow floating down - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
And pick an X-ray to float on - Mary Szybist "Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle"
The floating notes of festival encores - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
cascades between floating lakes - Alexander Te Pohe "Luna"
Comes floating down in long vibration - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
A thousand floating motes of gold - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"
Floated soundless in the great gulf of space - W.J. Turner "Death"
Still intangible power floats out of the sky - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
The condor be a floating witness - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
Navigation Links:
Go to F word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
