Potential Titles: Half
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somethingdarkerBuilt from half a breath - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"
My children half wild screaming demigods - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"
half minutes of fire in my brainstem - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"
Left half cold on Caesar's plate - Richard Aldington "Lesbia"
The soul half eaten out with solitude - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
Salt lost half its savor - Maya Angelou "Insignificant"
His trajectory half awake, half anvil - William Archila "Spirits"
Down half the moon of sky - Atticus "Magic in Her"
Half a staircase leading up - David Baker "Gravel"
The other half of my divided self - Mary Jo Bang "Close Observation Especially of One Under Suspicion"
Gave him half her dripping heart - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"
Only half in bloom - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"
Half surprised by what they doubt - Elizabeth Bartlett "Perspective"
Versailles half expressed - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"
Made half the sky one darkness - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Half an egg in a pool of oil - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
A harp with half its strings destroyed - Francis Ernest Bradley "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.25-v.1, 21 June 1884]
Spoken out of half a dream - William Stanley Braithwaite "Near the End of April"
Could lift half of everything - Lucie Brock-Broido "Some Details of Hell"
A mind of two halves - Anthony Butts "Before Autumn"
Short as a breath half taken - Julie Byrne "The Singing of the Bread"
Half in misery's aching void - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"
Left half a life behind - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"
Broke all his moments in half - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
Breathing a hope that is half a prayer - Ralph Chaplin "Song of Separation"
Have but made the convict half divine - Ralph Chaplin "The Vision Maker: To Eugene Victor Debs"
So stand the doctrine's half - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"
Before they sawed the world in half - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
Come back half comforted - Susan Coolidge "Commissioned"
The whisper of gold, the story half told - Frank J. Cotter "The Land"
A breath sundrawn from half a world - James H. Cousins "Ireland"
The poppy half in sorrow - Arthur S. Cripps "The Seasons' Comfort"
Rebuking half in jest - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
Half a loaf from sumptuous crumbs - Countee Cullen "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind"
Consume half of everything it gives - Geffrey Davis "King County Metro"
Filled me with pine needles & pecan halves - Tyree Daye "Dream Book"
Half round the world of woe - Aubrey de Vere "Epitaph"
Half engineering, half a work of art - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
An aspen missing half its leaves - Chris Dombrowski "Koan"
Half reluctance that sinks gradually to rest - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Conqueror of half the world - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
Half so heavy as a cobweb's weight - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
Cancel half a line to give a Man excuse - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
Should suffer half a moment's wrong - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
No honour half so great is given - Charlotte Elliott "Saturday Morning"
Half in winter, half in wool - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"
Mirror halves of a shell - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
Half hidden under the liquid veil of spring - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Where a shy lily half hides - John Gould Fletcher "Two Ladies Contrasted"
Each pixel half reflecting my face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XVI"
Makes a sigh half a smile - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"
Its healing power rob death of half its sting - Fanny Forrester "Not Beautiful!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.11-v.I, 15 March 1884]
Visions of half the world burned black - Robert Frost "The Gum-Gatherer"
When half a headlong city reels triumphant - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
Unravelled of customs half a mundane sphere - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The prisoner of half moons - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
A book with half the pages still uncut - Mona Gould "This Was My Brother (For Lt.-Col. Howard McTavish, killed in action at Dieppe)"
Have half congealed the glowing tide - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Half the look betrayed a wish - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
To wayward ends and to half use - Ivor Gurney "Hospital Pictures 5. The Miner"
And half the town was breaking - Jesse Hammond "Confidence and Credit" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
That breaks grief in half - Nathalie Handal "She"
Half fragile as water, half hydrophobic wildchild - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"
Then rob him of half of his home - Robert M. Hart "Words of Sympathy" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Half mingled with the sky - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"
And half the song unsung - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Old Masonry"
Sadness sings half a tune - Conrad Hilberry "Sadness"
Half of his Eden sunlight buried - Margaret Houston "The Baby's Curls"
They but render half the heart - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"
Russia gobbling your world half in - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
A light steals half my mind - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"
Breaking all their moments in half - Ilya Kaminsky "4 a.m. Bombardment"
A good mile and a half of wind - Ilya Kaminsky "A Widower"
Half a century's silent growth - Edward Kearsley "Camp-Fire Lyrics: I. Camp--In Three Lights" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.89, May 1875]
Half in love with easeful Death - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
Half erased by the impartial storms - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
That fell half unspoken - Galway Kinnell "The Fundamental Project of Technology"
half a province of avalanches - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Forms of Range and Loathing"
Half the wild ocean rose up to the clouds - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Twenty Bold Mariners"
Half the broad sky scowled in thunder and rain - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Twenty Bold Mariners"
Dividing the hours into two mismatched halves - Yoon Ha Lee "Equinox"
Whose waters divide to flow half east, half west - Li Po "We Will Grow Old Together" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
I keep ready half the quilt - Li T'ai-Po "The Lonely Wife" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Two halves of the same strange atmosphere - Ada Limon "The Crossing"
Delirium is a trinket cut in half - Tan Lin "Sent & scented wtih 10 emoticons"
Masks half its muscle in its skill - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
Dreamed through half my overture - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
I've been practicing curses more than half my life - Maya Marshall "Self-Portrait as a Recurring Reflection Elongated like a Length of Vertebrae"
An elbow cracking the Earth in half - Jamaal May "Megalophobia"
With half the host of heaven - Theodore Maynard "Pride"
The waters half asleep - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"
Where half our memories lie - John McCrae "The Pilgrims"
The first half of the ghost - Shane McCrae "In the Event Of"
Half clad in clouds - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"
Within whose glowing sphere is mirrored half a world - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
The orphic song half sung - George L. Moore "Keats"
The spell of half-memories, the touch of half tears - William Moore "Dusk Song"
And half your head with it - John Murillo "Mercy, Mercy, Me"
Fire has its cold half - Pablo Neruda "XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you"
Half possessed by delight - Tim Newcomb "The Smoke Within the Fire's Ring"
The broken halves of a milky sun - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Drop before you can half commence - "Nobody" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Each knowing half between breaths - Margaret Noodin "Into a Heart" transl. by the author
If half the rumors are true - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Will bear but half her grief - Ae.P. "Love Unsung" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.742, 16 March 1878]
One realm enfolding half the globe - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Curtains half concealed deeper horrors - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Half in cliffs and chasms - Walter S. Percy "Paupack"
Half her face tangled in the trees - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Not half so happy in heaven - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
If the half in common is a stranger - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"
Something half a-kin to fear - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"
Half spice, half amnesia - Barbara Ras "You Can't Have It All"
A puzzle on the table, half completed - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
Through the half drowned stars - Kenneth Rexroth "A Singing Voice"
Gems half weary of their glittering - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
A summer-sun sets ere one half is seen - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"
With half its sufferance denied - Kay Ryan "Burning Tent"
Half so sweet to memory's eye - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "To the Pine Tree" transl. either by the poet or by her husband
Towers half hung in the sun - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Half phantom at our feast - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"
Mile and a half of public sun - Teresa J. Scollon "July Fourth"
The first Pandora was not half so bright - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]
And half my course is well-nigh run - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
The whispering waves were half asleep - Shelley "The Recollections"
While half the world the other greets - Alexander Smith "[Joy, like a stream, flows]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
A steady tongue and half a dream - Patricia Smith "To 3, No One in the Place"
Half a-weary of my treasure - "Sorrow and My Heart" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Half in sand and half in spray - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Half sorrow and half peace - George Sterling "Beneath the Redwoods"
Girdled half of a world in gold - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Are half the music of the Past - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Silence has half her will - George Sterling "Respite"
Half its glowing temples fall to ash - George Sterling "A Visitor"
Half of a broken hope - Robert Louis Stevenson "If This Were Faith"
Half seems wishing it had stayed - "Sympathy" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
The other half of the sea-god's bones - Genevieve Taggard "Skull Song"
Half a league onward - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Half untold their secret keep - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Once, you handed me half a heart - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
And the whole is less than the half - "Turvey Top"
Half dipped in dark - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"
While the other half lives in the crypt - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
Half the names of the flowers - C. K. Williams "Doves"
Half our heavy task was undone - Charles Wolfe "The Burial of Sir John Moore"
That half the world has haunted - Humbert Wolfe "The Gods of the Copy-Book Headings: A Reply"
To take half the storm - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"
With faith half ignorant, half sublime - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
Half libidinous ether, half dirt full of soldiers' blood - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"
Half the songs of my desire - Francis Brett Young "Lament"
Half the world in one red bonfire - Francis Brett Young "Slender Themes"
His trajectory half awake, half anvil - William Archila "Spirits"
Even when half-awake in the new light - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"
The earliest pipe of half-awakened day - Maurice Hutton, LL.D. "Introduction [to Wayside Poems by William Hodgson Ellis]"
Except for a frozen half-bitten fruit - Monica de la Torre "Divagar"
Half blinded with rapture - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A Summer Wooing"
Half-blinded by its golden rapture - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Half blind with the same sound - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
Its half-blown crimson to eclipse - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Three Roses"
Crawl, half-bone, half-bruise - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Half breed son of Pisces and Aquarius - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Crawl, half-bone, half-bruise - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
A half-built garden of theft - Erika Meitner "Ghost Eden"
Ruined temples half-buried in sand - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"
Half-captured happiness had left a scar - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
Half-carved by your hands - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"
A heave from the halfcourt moving like a meteor - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
The half-cracked shield of mockery - Louis Untermeyer "Monolog from a Mattress"
Dead Nelson and his half-dead crew - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"
Forever half done departing - Carl Phillips "From a Bonfire"
Among her other half-done projects - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Compromise and things half-done - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"
Of the sun's half-dreamt decay - Clark Ashton Smith "The Refuge of Beauty"
To lift one half-drowned yellow jacket from the birdbath - Keith Taylor "Outside"
My half-eclipsed notes - Saeed Jones "Coyote Cry"
Half-filled with wine from the cliffs - Paul Tran "Terroir"
To spend it on a half-finished freedom - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"
Brushstrokes of a painting half-finished - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Half-forgotten nightmare-pyres - Harold Acton "Invocation"
Unfolds the treasuries of half-forgotten and fragmental things - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
The half-forgotten breath of breezes - Amy Levy "London Poets"
Well-known but half-forgotten - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
A vial half-full of harsh perfume - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Half full of heaven - Kimberly Grey "Of Largeness"
Half-full of heaven's gold - Theodore H. Rand "In City Streets"
Half-heard like rain on pools - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Half-hearted in nothing - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Triumph Hard-Won"
As here alone and half hidden I lie - Catharine Davidson "The First Primrose" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.734, 19 Jan. 1878]
Half-hidden in the windless blur - Archibald Lampman "Heat"
And half-hidden melody - Margaret E. Sangster "Colors"
A violet by a mossy stone half hidden - William Wordsworth "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
Do half-homage to the God of Laws - George Meredith "Society"
Her eye, half-hooded, sharp and true - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
The half-hope and passion unexpressed - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
One half hour of the long twenty-four - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Chime in silverly across the half-imagined wind - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
reveal the half-life of the illicit - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
The fading half life of ambition - Linda Pastan "In the Walled Garden"
Dusk-airs and breaths of half-light - Ivor Gurney "De Profundis"
Tapers burning in the dim half-light - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Quickly shifting puddles of purpler half-light - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Half-lost memories of some old dream - Emily Pauline Johnson "Low Tide at St. Andrews"
Half lost in Van Gogh's swarm of colors - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
A wish achieved and half lost again - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"
Took half a mile of sunlight - Martin Armstrong "The Buzzards"
Exactly half a mile from the ocean - Megan Fernandes "In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife"
Must keep to a half-mile track - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Saltbush Bill"
Half a mile down from Monticello - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"
The spell of half-memories, the touch of half tears - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Half-note in the flood - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 1"
Invent me in the half-opened eye of night - Vandana Khanna "Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation"
The shadows half-opened - Pablo Neruda "The Creation" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Dissolving score of wild half-phrasings - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Smile translucent as a half-remembered sunset - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
This half-remembered light - Donika Kelly "Brood"
They caught me half-revealed - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"
Sweet as victory half-revealed - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
The half-secret gleam of a passion-flower - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Half-shadowings of the thing I meant - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Original Impulse"
The casual slanting of a half-spent sun - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "Afterwards"
They carry shards of their half-spoken dreams - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
Only the half-spoken promises of Heaven - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"
Because you half-surmise my quarter-mile - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
Half-taught in anguish - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Grief"
With your fake summer of half-thawed hives - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"
To know halftime won't fix everything - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
Tremulous with pathos of a half-told tale - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"
Half-truths told and entire lies - Maya Angelou "In a Time"
Offering up their gray matter to irrational half truths - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
Most stories are at least half true - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
When the mortal spirit weds a half-veiled immortality - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"
Because I have mouthed your name in half-wish - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"
Like the breath of morning to half-withered flowers - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
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My children half wild screaming demigods - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"
half minutes of fire in my brainstem - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"
Left half cold on Caesar's plate - Richard Aldington "Lesbia"
The soul half eaten out with solitude - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
Salt lost half its savor - Maya Angelou "Insignificant"
His trajectory half awake, half anvil - William Archila "Spirits"
Down half the moon of sky - Atticus "Magic in Her"
Half a staircase leading up - David Baker "Gravel"
The other half of my divided self - Mary Jo Bang "Close Observation Especially of One Under Suspicion"
Gave him half her dripping heart - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"
Only half in bloom - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"
Half surprised by what they doubt - Elizabeth Bartlett "Perspective"
Versailles half expressed - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"
Made half the sky one darkness - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Half an egg in a pool of oil - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
A harp with half its strings destroyed - Francis Ernest Bradley "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.25-v.1, 21 June 1884]
Spoken out of half a dream - William Stanley Braithwaite "Near the End of April"
Could lift half of everything - Lucie Brock-Broido "Some Details of Hell"
A mind of two halves - Anthony Butts "Before Autumn"
Short as a breath half taken - Julie Byrne "The Singing of the Bread"
Half in misery's aching void - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"
Left half a life behind - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"
Broke all his moments in half - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
Breathing a hope that is half a prayer - Ralph Chaplin "Song of Separation"
Have but made the convict half divine - Ralph Chaplin "The Vision Maker: To Eugene Victor Debs"
So stand the doctrine's half - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"
Before they sawed the world in half - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
Come back half comforted - Susan Coolidge "Commissioned"
The whisper of gold, the story half told - Frank J. Cotter "The Land"
A breath sundrawn from half a world - James H. Cousins "Ireland"
The poppy half in sorrow - Arthur S. Cripps "The Seasons' Comfort"
Rebuking half in jest - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
Half a loaf from sumptuous crumbs - Countee Cullen "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind"
Consume half of everything it gives - Geffrey Davis "King County Metro"
Filled me with pine needles & pecan halves - Tyree Daye "Dream Book"
Half round the world of woe - Aubrey de Vere "Epitaph"
Half engineering, half a work of art - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
An aspen missing half its leaves - Chris Dombrowski "Koan"
Half reluctance that sinks gradually to rest - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Conqueror of half the world - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
Half so heavy as a cobweb's weight - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
Cancel half a line to give a Man excuse - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
Should suffer half a moment's wrong - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
No honour half so great is given - Charlotte Elliott "Saturday Morning"
Half in winter, half in wool - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"
Mirror halves of a shell - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
Half hidden under the liquid veil of spring - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Where a shy lily half hides - John Gould Fletcher "Two Ladies Contrasted"
Each pixel half reflecting my face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XVI"
Makes a sigh half a smile - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"
Its healing power rob death of half its sting - Fanny Forrester "Not Beautiful!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.11-v.I, 15 March 1884]
Visions of half the world burned black - Robert Frost "The Gum-Gatherer"
When half a headlong city reels triumphant - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
Unravelled of customs half a mundane sphere - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The prisoner of half moons - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
A book with half the pages still uncut - Mona Gould "This Was My Brother (For Lt.-Col. Howard McTavish, killed in action at Dieppe)"
Have half congealed the glowing tide - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Half the look betrayed a wish - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
To wayward ends and to half use - Ivor Gurney "Hospital Pictures 5. The Miner"
And half the town was breaking - Jesse Hammond "Confidence and Credit" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
That breaks grief in half - Nathalie Handal "She"
Half fragile as water, half hydrophobic wildchild - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"
Then rob him of half of his home - Robert M. Hart "Words of Sympathy" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Half mingled with the sky - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"
And half the song unsung - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Old Masonry"
Sadness sings half a tune - Conrad Hilberry "Sadness"
Half of his Eden sunlight buried - Margaret Houston "The Baby's Curls"
They but render half the heart - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"
Russia gobbling your world half in - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
A light steals half my mind - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"
Breaking all their moments in half - Ilya Kaminsky "4 a.m. Bombardment"
A good mile and a half of wind - Ilya Kaminsky "A Widower"
Half a century's silent growth - Edward Kearsley "Camp-Fire Lyrics: I. Camp--In Three Lights" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.89, May 1875]
Half in love with easeful Death - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
Half erased by the impartial storms - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
That fell half unspoken - Galway Kinnell "The Fundamental Project of Technology"
half a province of avalanches - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Forms of Range and Loathing"
Half the wild ocean rose up to the clouds - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Twenty Bold Mariners"
Half the broad sky scowled in thunder and rain - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Twenty Bold Mariners"
Dividing the hours into two mismatched halves - Yoon Ha Lee "Equinox"
Whose waters divide to flow half east, half west - Li Po "We Will Grow Old Together" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
I keep ready half the quilt - Li T'ai-Po "The Lonely Wife" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Two halves of the same strange atmosphere - Ada Limon "The Crossing"
Delirium is a trinket cut in half - Tan Lin "Sent & scented wtih 10 emoticons"
Masks half its muscle in its skill - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
Dreamed through half my overture - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
I've been practicing curses more than half my life - Maya Marshall "Self-Portrait as a Recurring Reflection Elongated like a Length of Vertebrae"
An elbow cracking the Earth in half - Jamaal May "Megalophobia"
With half the host of heaven - Theodore Maynard "Pride"
The waters half asleep - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"
Where half our memories lie - John McCrae "The Pilgrims"
The first half of the ghost - Shane McCrae "In the Event Of"
Half clad in clouds - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"
Within whose glowing sphere is mirrored half a world - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
The orphic song half sung - George L. Moore "Keats"
The spell of half-memories, the touch of half tears - William Moore "Dusk Song"
And half your head with it - John Murillo "Mercy, Mercy, Me"
Fire has its cold half - Pablo Neruda "XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you"
Half possessed by delight - Tim Newcomb "The Smoke Within the Fire's Ring"
The broken halves of a milky sun - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Drop before you can half commence - "Nobody" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Each knowing half between breaths - Margaret Noodin "Into a Heart" transl. by the author
If half the rumors are true - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Will bear but half her grief - Ae.P. "Love Unsung" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.742, 16 March 1878]
One realm enfolding half the globe - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Curtains half concealed deeper horrors - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Half in cliffs and chasms - Walter S. Percy "Paupack"
Half her face tangled in the trees - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Not half so happy in heaven - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
If the half in common is a stranger - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"
Something half a-kin to fear - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"
Half spice, half amnesia - Barbara Ras "You Can't Have It All"
A puzzle on the table, half completed - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
Through the half drowned stars - Kenneth Rexroth "A Singing Voice"
Gems half weary of their glittering - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
A summer-sun sets ere one half is seen - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"
With half its sufferance denied - Kay Ryan "Burning Tent"
Half so sweet to memory's eye - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "To the Pine Tree" transl. either by the poet or by her husband
Towers half hung in the sun - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Half phantom at our feast - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"
Mile and a half of public sun - Teresa J. Scollon "July Fourth"
The first Pandora was not half so bright - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]
And half my course is well-nigh run - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
The whispering waves were half asleep - Shelley "The Recollections"
While half the world the other greets - Alexander Smith "[Joy, like a stream, flows]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
A steady tongue and half a dream - Patricia Smith "To 3, No One in the Place"
Half a-weary of my treasure - "Sorrow and My Heart" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Half in sand and half in spray - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Half sorrow and half peace - George Sterling "Beneath the Redwoods"
Girdled half of a world in gold - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Are half the music of the Past - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Silence has half her will - George Sterling "Respite"
Half its glowing temples fall to ash - George Sterling "A Visitor"
Half of a broken hope - Robert Louis Stevenson "If This Were Faith"
Half seems wishing it had stayed - "Sympathy" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
The other half of the sea-god's bones - Genevieve Taggard "Skull Song"
Half a league onward - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Half untold their secret keep - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Once, you handed me half a heart - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
And the whole is less than the half - "Turvey Top"
Half dipped in dark - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"
While the other half lives in the crypt - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
Half the names of the flowers - C. K. Williams "Doves"
Half our heavy task was undone - Charles Wolfe "The Burial of Sir John Moore"
That half the world has haunted - Humbert Wolfe "The Gods of the Copy-Book Headings: A Reply"
To take half the storm - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"
With faith half ignorant, half sublime - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
Half libidinous ether, half dirt full of soldiers' blood - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"
Half the songs of my desire - Francis Brett Young "Lament"
Half the world in one red bonfire - Francis Brett Young "Slender Themes"
His trajectory half awake, half anvil - William Archila "Spirits"
Even when half-awake in the new light - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"
The earliest pipe of half-awakened day - Maurice Hutton, LL.D. "Introduction [to Wayside Poems by William Hodgson Ellis]"
Except for a frozen half-bitten fruit - Monica de la Torre "Divagar"
Half blinded with rapture - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A Summer Wooing"
Half-blinded by its golden rapture - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Half blind with the same sound - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
Its half-blown crimson to eclipse - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Three Roses"
Crawl, half-bone, half-bruise - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Half breed son of Pisces and Aquarius - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Crawl, half-bone, half-bruise - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
A half-built garden of theft - Erika Meitner "Ghost Eden"
Ruined temples half-buried in sand - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"
Half-captured happiness had left a scar - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
Half-carved by your hands - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"
A heave from the halfcourt moving like a meteor - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
The half-cracked shield of mockery - Louis Untermeyer "Monolog from a Mattress"
Dead Nelson and his half-dead crew - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"
Forever half done departing - Carl Phillips "From a Bonfire"
Among her other half-done projects - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Compromise and things half-done - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"
Of the sun's half-dreamt decay - Clark Ashton Smith "The Refuge of Beauty"
To lift one half-drowned yellow jacket from the birdbath - Keith Taylor "Outside"
My half-eclipsed notes - Saeed Jones "Coyote Cry"
Half-filled with wine from the cliffs - Paul Tran "Terroir"
To spend it on a half-finished freedom - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"
Brushstrokes of a painting half-finished - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Half-forgotten nightmare-pyres - Harold Acton "Invocation"
Unfolds the treasuries of half-forgotten and fragmental things - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
The half-forgotten breath of breezes - Amy Levy "London Poets"
Well-known but half-forgotten - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
A vial half-full of harsh perfume - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Half full of heaven - Kimberly Grey "Of Largeness"
Half-full of heaven's gold - Theodore H. Rand "In City Streets"
Half-heard like rain on pools - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Half-hearted in nothing - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Triumph Hard-Won"
As here alone and half hidden I lie - Catharine Davidson "The First Primrose" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.734, 19 Jan. 1878]
Half-hidden in the windless blur - Archibald Lampman "Heat"
And half-hidden melody - Margaret E. Sangster "Colors"
A violet by a mossy stone half hidden - William Wordsworth "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
Do half-homage to the God of Laws - George Meredith "Society"
Her eye, half-hooded, sharp and true - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
The half-hope and passion unexpressed - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
One half hour of the long twenty-four - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Chime in silverly across the half-imagined wind - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
reveal the half-life of the illicit - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
The fading half life of ambition - Linda Pastan "In the Walled Garden"
Dusk-airs and breaths of half-light - Ivor Gurney "De Profundis"
Tapers burning in the dim half-light - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Quickly shifting puddles of purpler half-light - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Half-lost memories of some old dream - Emily Pauline Johnson "Low Tide at St. Andrews"
Half lost in Van Gogh's swarm of colors - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
A wish achieved and half lost again - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"
Took half a mile of sunlight - Martin Armstrong "The Buzzards"
Exactly half a mile from the ocean - Megan Fernandes "In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife"
Must keep to a half-mile track - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Saltbush Bill"
Half a mile down from Monticello - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"
The spell of half-memories, the touch of half tears - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Half-note in the flood - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 1"
Invent me in the half-opened eye of night - Vandana Khanna "Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation"
The shadows half-opened - Pablo Neruda "The Creation" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Dissolving score of wild half-phrasings - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Smile translucent as a half-remembered sunset - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
This half-remembered light - Donika Kelly "Brood"
They caught me half-revealed - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"
Sweet as victory half-revealed - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
The half-secret gleam of a passion-flower - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Half-shadowings of the thing I meant - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Original Impulse"
The casual slanting of a half-spent sun - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "Afterwards"
They carry shards of their half-spoken dreams - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
Only the half-spoken promises of Heaven - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"
Because you half-surmise my quarter-mile - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
Half-taught in anguish - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Grief"
With your fake summer of half-thawed hives - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"
To know halftime won't fix everything - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
Tremulous with pathos of a half-told tale - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"
Half-truths told and entire lies - Maya Angelou "In a Time"
Offering up their gray matter to irrational half truths - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
Most stories are at least half true - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
When the mortal spirit weds a half-veiled immortality - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"
Because I have mouthed your name in half-wish - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"
Like the breath of morning to half-withered flowers - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
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