Potential Titles: Fade

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Austere as faded fire - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"

Now crumbling cities of our fading Empire - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"

Unrolls her faded glories - William Talbot Allison "Vanishings"

Faded deserts and the unceasing sea - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"

Fading redundancies - Rae Armantrout "Heaven"

Perfect fading wish of every shooting star - Atticus "Magic in Stars"

Their faded state in such pure haunts - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

Somewhere past the point of fading - Mary Jo Bang "The Perpetual Night She Went Into"

When London's faded glories rise to view - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Happy in my fading dream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"

The world's onward dream would fade - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited

Till Autumn fades the rose - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

When your braggarts of planets fade - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"

The drowning shadow of a fading land - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Faded into amber & archive - Joshua Bennett "The Sobbing School"

I stuffed my ears with faded stars - Maxwell Bodenheim "After Feeling Deux Arabesques by Debussy"

All things within this fading world - Anne Bradstreet "Before the Birth of One of Her Children"

Their shining garments fade - Anna Hempstead Branch "While Loveliness Goes By"

And shows her fading scroll - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert I: The Garden"

As the long-toiling light fades - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Death of the Laureate"

When the pale stars fade at dawn - C.S. Calverley "Arcades Ambo"

Star-touched, across the fading trail - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"

Fade into a singularity - Onyedikachi Chinedu "Snail-Picking"

Will fade like visioned dreams - John Clare "An Invite to Eternity"

The fevered radiance fades from life's doomed tree - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Every atom of my existence faded - Michelle Dang "Calculating U"

Whose bloom has faded in the midnight watch - Lucretia Maria Davidson "To My Mother"

As fading is to what remains - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"

Some darknesses refuse to fade - Danielle DeTiberus "The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly"

Vast, in its fading ratio - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XII"

A glory to the fading leaf - Irving Sidney Dix "An Idyll of the Hills part 2: October"

Whose hopes and young ambitions fell and faded - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

All earth's riot fades - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"

More distant and more solemn than a fading star - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

Too slow my rainbow fades - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"

The tatters of a faded shawl - Arthur Davison Ficke "Portrait of an Old Woman"

Promising weeks of time to fade through - Annie Finch "Chain of Women"

The fading edge of all delight - John Freeman "The Wakers"

And not a question for the faded flowers - Robert Frost "Flower-Gathering"

Fade in silence on a drowsy wing - Louis Golding "Derwentwater"

Faded from the room of sighs - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"

For your brief life's faded light - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

In the gown of fading fashion - Thomas Hardy "The Old Gown"

My head unturned lest my dream should fade - Thomas Hardy "The Shadow on the Stone"

Dead hopes and faded joys of bright departed years - Rev. T.L. Harris "The Mourners" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Like a cinder fading black at last - F.W. Harvey "Prisoners"

While mineral sirens fade - Brenda Hillman "The Hour Until We See You"

Fading back into shadows - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

Your fading fire mend first - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Candle Indoors"

The quenching of the fading day - A.E. Housman "To My Dear Friend, M. J. Jackson, A Disparager of This Treatise" (translated by A.M. Juster)

The faded moon forgets - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: Song for the Night of Christ's Resurrection"

Faded polaroids stacked in a keepsake box - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Last year's fading yield - Elinor Jenkins "To H.S.T."

In a faded scarf of fragrance - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Ballad of Yaada"

Fading through all of the tints of the rose - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"

The power to fade the voices - Camisha L. Jones "Ode to My Hearing Aids"

When he falls asleep, does light fade? - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"

Fades past the near meadows - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Of all Olympus' faded hierarchy - John Keats "Psyche"

Shake the fading stars from her robes of light - Fanny Kemble "A Farewell"

Violets fade with the May - Joyce Kilmer "Villanelle of the Players"

The complicated, fading map of cures - Ted Kooser "Father"

As slowly fades the day - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

Faint as sunshine-faded ghosts - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Archways lined with faded saints - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"

In deserted gardens fading orchids grieve - Li Ho "For the Examination at Ho-nan-fu: Songs of the Twelve Months (with Intercalary Month)" transl. by Burton Watson

What is fortune among fading flowers? - Sandra J. Lindow "The Wolf from the Door"

The faded bloodstains on the sofa - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

The fading vision of the heart - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"

Of happy days and faded flowers - Frank J. Medina "Parting"

As Hope's sweet visions fade away - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

The fading moon and the vanguard of the sun - N. Scott Momaday "The First Day"

Past the everyday fade - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

And fade in their retreat - Francis Neilson "Sanctuary"

A fading dream of veil and star - E. Nesbit "The Veil of Maya"

Fade away twinkling, flickering in the air of the times - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"

That are made to fade and fall away - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

But midnight fades to dawn - Bruce Nugent "My Love"

Born of spruce and fading light - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Portrait of My Father as a Pianist"

Whatever flowered had to fade - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Understand"

The fading half life of ambition - Linda Pastan "In the Walled Garden"

Done with fading shadows - Hai-Dang Phan "River to River"

Fold her under the faded shawl - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Alma Mater"

Prate not of failing hopes, of fading flowers - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Though thy time-garment fade and vanish - Theodore H. Rand "The White Rose"

Fade from pastels to vibrancy - M. Regan "The Hollow"

Gold at the uttermost circles fading - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Fades with faint quiverings - Arthur Rimbaud "Novel" transl. by Wyatt Mason

Pass this message onward as energy fades - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"

As if the last of days were fading - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Dark Hills"

A web threaded with fading fire - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"

The two that fade away together - Carl Sandburg "A Coin"

As fading stars surrender - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

By fading firelight in the caves of winter - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

From the lines of faded ink - Frederick George Scott "Old Letters"

Eternal summer shall not fade - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVIII"

The wide world and all her fading sweets - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIX"

Fades from our charmed sight - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Oak flesh that fades on iron bone - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

Watched the golden reefs of sunset fade - George Sterling "Hesperian"

Sleep's faded papier-mache - Wallace Stevens "Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself"

Over-scored with faded words and stained with time - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"

Fade at forethought's touch - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"

In the mirror of a fading photograph - Russell Thorburn "Bad Men and Dirt"

Wear a wreath of fading flowers - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"

On a fading shift of ardent erosion - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"

Where worlds of circling light arise and fade - W.J. Turner "Death"

Thin fading dreams by day - Walter J. Turner "Romance"

Drifting to some lost and fading place - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"

Fades into the clouding sand - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"

In an old coat and a faded gown - Mary Webb "Market Day"

And faded in the crumbling light - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"

Fades out in fire - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

We'll not mourn for the faded and gone - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Only the fading inks of spirit artistry - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"

In honor of faded maps - Adam Zagajewski "Grazyna"

In a whitened time that fades desire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 20" transl. by Katherine Silver


Build with fadeless rubies - Frances E.W. Harper "The Building"

A spirit-planted, fadeless flower - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"

Fadeless and fair is that glorious dawn - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]


To the never-fading sun-fields - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"


Unfaded too its crimson brands - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

The unfading crown of sacrifice - Francis Brett Young "Sonnet [Not only for remembered loveliness]"


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