Potential Titles: Fit/Fitful
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somethingdarkerCould fit in a pigeon's eye - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"
Fit for the conjugation of joy - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"
Folded my sorrows like fitted sheets - Andrea Blancas Beltran "Year of the Rat, Full Moon in Aries, and Coltrane Plays"
May fit inside a thimble - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"
A fit of trumpets and trombones sounding - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"
And a hand fit a fay's wand to wave - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Love fits the soul with wings - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LIII. Celestial and Earthly Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A feast fit to serve in the bowers of a dream - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]
Rooms that fit in my mind - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"
A fitting shroud to match my wedding dress - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
Crowns fit to deck Apollo's brows - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
A time hole where a woman could fit - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"
Fit to entrap a Syren in her dreams - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
To Mars that in fit incense woke - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
An emblem fit of human life - Paul Laurence Dunbar "By the Stream"
My raiment fits smooth to the spirit - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Birth"
All memory bends to fit - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Scared three babies into fits - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Where everything and nothing fits - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"
Our biochemical keys fit fossil locks - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Raised by Wolves"
Pavements fit for ghostly feet - Emily Lawless "From the Burren"
Fitly to hail that auspicious event - Henry S. Leigh "A Plain Answer (to a Civil Question)"
will make it feel small enough to fit - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
Fit rosary for a queen - James Russell Lowell "In a Copy of Omar Khayyam"
Close fitting, impervious still to rain or dew - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]
Needed a stage that fit - Jamaal May "Intake in the Ward"
As a whip fit for my Treason - Theodore Maynard "Punishment"
Where a century fits comfortably inside 10 am - John McCarthy "Gravestone"
Fitted complete to swim the ocean - J.H. McKenzie "The Titanic Disaster"
Until it fit comfortably on the feet of the divine - Matthew Olzmann "Olympus"
Fit shrines for wisdom's queen - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
A box in which regret will fit - Michael Torres "Writing Prompt"
Fits a mask of silver to the moon - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"
Fitting bones to the earth - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"
And pass to fitting spheres - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
Fit his tongue to dialogues of business, love, or strife - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
A wisdom fitted to the needs of hearts at leisure - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"
A snow-white butterfly dancing before the fitful gale - Richard Bowen "Genius" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
And glimmer shifting in the fitful glare - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"
A fitful note, clear from infinity - Arthur Colton "Wordsworth"
Light in fitful rays and tiniest needles - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Visions, dreams, and fitful whims of sleep - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
The fitful beacon's light - Lewis Morris "Look Out, O Love"
The fitful tracing of a portal - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
Fitful with supreme suspense - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Intra"
Find what prize befits their powers - George S. Burleigh "The Gardener" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
As befits a mage so skilled - Edward Dowden "The Mage"
As befits a pilgrim of the cosmos - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"
Curled wave and shattering thunder-fit - Elinor Wylie "Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin into English"
The tight-fitting black truth of my narrative - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Unfitted by an instant's grace - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LI"
Temperamentally unfit for death - Deborah Landau "Flesh"
A virtual world unfit for the virtuous - Charles Wright "Description's the Art of Something or Other"
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Fit for the conjugation of joy - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"
Folded my sorrows like fitted sheets - Andrea Blancas Beltran "Year of the Rat, Full Moon in Aries, and Coltrane Plays"
May fit inside a thimble - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"
A fit of trumpets and trombones sounding - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"
And a hand fit a fay's wand to wave - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Love fits the soul with wings - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LIII. Celestial and Earthly Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A feast fit to serve in the bowers of a dream - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]
Rooms that fit in my mind - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"
A fitting shroud to match my wedding dress - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
Crowns fit to deck Apollo's brows - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
A time hole where a woman could fit - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"
Fit to entrap a Syren in her dreams - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
To Mars that in fit incense woke - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
An emblem fit of human life - Paul Laurence Dunbar "By the Stream"
My raiment fits smooth to the spirit - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Birth"
All memory bends to fit - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Scared three babies into fits - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Where everything and nothing fits - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"
Our biochemical keys fit fossil locks - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Raised by Wolves"
Pavements fit for ghostly feet - Emily Lawless "From the Burren"
Fitly to hail that auspicious event - Henry S. Leigh "A Plain Answer (to a Civil Question)"
will make it feel small enough to fit - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
Fit rosary for a queen - James Russell Lowell "In a Copy of Omar Khayyam"
Close fitting, impervious still to rain or dew - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]
Needed a stage that fit - Jamaal May "Intake in the Ward"
As a whip fit for my Treason - Theodore Maynard "Punishment"
Where a century fits comfortably inside 10 am - John McCarthy "Gravestone"
Fitted complete to swim the ocean - J.H. McKenzie "The Titanic Disaster"
Until it fit comfortably on the feet of the divine - Matthew Olzmann "Olympus"
Fit shrines for wisdom's queen - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
A box in which regret will fit - Michael Torres "Writing Prompt"
Fits a mask of silver to the moon - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"
Fitting bones to the earth - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"
And pass to fitting spheres - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
Fit his tongue to dialogues of business, love, or strife - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
A wisdom fitted to the needs of hearts at leisure - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"
A snow-white butterfly dancing before the fitful gale - Richard Bowen "Genius" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
And glimmer shifting in the fitful glare - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"
A fitful note, clear from infinity - Arthur Colton "Wordsworth"
Light in fitful rays and tiniest needles - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Visions, dreams, and fitful whims of sleep - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
The fitful beacon's light - Lewis Morris "Look Out, O Love"
The fitful tracing of a portal - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
Fitful with supreme suspense - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Intra"
Find what prize befits their powers - George S. Burleigh "The Gardener" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
As befits a mage so skilled - Edward Dowden "The Mage"
As befits a pilgrim of the cosmos - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"
Curled wave and shattering thunder-fit - Elinor Wylie "Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin into English"
The tight-fitting black truth of my narrative - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Unfitted by an instant's grace - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LI"
Temperamentally unfit for death - Deborah Landau "Flesh"
A virtual world unfit for the virtuous - Charles Wright "Description's the Art of Something or Other"
Navigation Links:
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Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
