Potential Titles: Fast
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somethingdarkerWhile the squirrel gathers fast - Benjamin West Ball "L'Envoi"
Shall bind the future fast - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
When utter Defeat has gripped you fast - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"
My restless hands hold fast the wheel - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
Fast as the law would allow - Frank Bidart "California Plush"
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Woman's Shortcomings"
Tied fast to nothing - Henri Cole "Toxicology"
Though they follow so wild and so fast - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
For stones below would hold them fast - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"
A wind that follows fast - Allan Cunningham "At Sea"
And fleeing fast from hell - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "That Hill"
The prowling gnat fled fast away - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
The driving sleet fell fast - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous
Then tears came fast instead of words - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Thick and fast the leaves are falling - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"
Her never-singing lips shut fast - John Freeman "The Chair"
They too had fasted in the wilderness - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Gorse"
With your subtle spell, hold our senses fast - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]
The lark sings loudest when flying fast - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
Cold will soon be fast upon us - Jennie Earngey Hill "Bonny Bunny"
But are held fast to their flames - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
Too fast to yonder strand forlorn - A.E. Housman "Last Poems I: The West"
undone by reality speeding too fast - Camisha L. Jones "The Law of Motion"
New ferns snaking fast up the old hosts' throats - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"
Along the fast streets of luminous encounters - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
Trajectory too fast to be soundless - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
A whirlwind of octaves play'd furious and fast - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"
Thrice as fast as any gale - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"
The rudder in the stern set fast - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "Who Was He? A Story of Peter the Great" transl. by John Pollen
Fettered the flowing waters fast - Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee "Our Ladye of the Snow"
Fast as windy flame devours - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
So fast it feels like slow motion - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Still Life as Rocket: 42"
Bound by a fast symmetry - Mahealani Perez-Wendt "Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu"
Whom unmerciful Disaster followed fast and followed faster - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
Clinging fast holding to the friendly rope - Miriam Clark Potter "The Children of the Wind"
The lighthouse lamp is fast asleep - Miriam Clark Potter "The Lighthouse Lamp"
Held fast in the pipes of Pan's flute - Rainer Maria Rilke "Music" transl. by Jessie Lemont
In dreamless sleep locked fast - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"
And night, the dark blue hunter, followed fast - George William Russell "The Hunter"
A fast cloud moving against the sand - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #95"
Keep for us remembrance fast - Evalyn Callahan Shaw "October"
Bound down with fetters fast - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Of utter ruin and fast decay - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"
For Sorrow's fast on Friday - "The Song of the Seven Archangels" transl. by Ernest Rhys
Shall find the feet of Change are fast - George Sterling "The Gleaner"
The winds blow fast as the stars are slow - Edward Thomas "Out in the Dark"
My thoughts are tangled fast in gloom - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
To our hearts and thoughts cling fast - Edith Wharton "June and December"
Life in stone bound fast - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
Fast in chains of horror bound - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Sunset's skinned knuckle try at holding fast - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Cloak held fast by Psyche's brooch - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday X: Case Sensitive"
Under a sky fast-blue with change - Alessandra Lynch "Funeral: For Us His Gold"
A fast-driving diesel flatbed of felled trees - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Of foot going faster than thought - Elizabeth Bartlett "O To Be an Ostrich"
Practice losing farther, losing faster - Elizabeth Bishop "One Art"
Faster for the stars - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet II in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Grief burns faster there - Jennifer Chang "How to Live in an American Town"
Hurl myself faster toward extinction - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"
The dark seeps in faster underneath the lights - Kaily Dorfman "The Wolf"
Because spaceships are faster than cars - Daniel Errico "In Space"
Faster and fiercer rolls the tide - an anonymous Cherokee "[Faster and fiercer rolls the tide]" published in the Cherokee Advocate in 1871 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
They who come faster than fate - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
While round them shadows gathered faster - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"
Faster than the mind absorbs - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"
Aladdin's wealth scarce mounted faster - W.P.P. "Epistle to the Editor" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Whom unmerciful Disaster followed fast and followed faster - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
Spending faster than it comes - "The Rakes of Mallow" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
my voice travels faster than light - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
Faster than the breath's steady luggage - Keith S. Wilson "Book of Horses"
Bright flesh startling my fasting tongue - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"
Light your pipe on a fasting heart - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon
After a year of boundless fasting - Claire Millikin "Anorexic Girl"
I've taken to this mind fasting - Jenny Xie "To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement"
Into the fastness of its abyss - Elsa Gidlow "I, Lover"
Storm through the desolate fastnesses - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
A fastness of double rivers - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
And in fastnesses of chalk imprisons - Walter S. Percy "The Blizzard"
Fast-forward into a bleaker future - Jane Yolen "Fence of Bones"
Hand-fast to her twilight appearance - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"
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Shall bind the future fast - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
When utter Defeat has gripped you fast - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"
My restless hands hold fast the wheel - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
Fast as the law would allow - Frank Bidart "California Plush"
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Woman's Shortcomings"
Tied fast to nothing - Henri Cole "Toxicology"
Though they follow so wild and so fast - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
For stones below would hold them fast - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"
A wind that follows fast - Allan Cunningham "At Sea"
And fleeing fast from hell - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "That Hill"
The prowling gnat fled fast away - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
The driving sleet fell fast - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous
Then tears came fast instead of words - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Thick and fast the leaves are falling - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"
Her never-singing lips shut fast - John Freeman "The Chair"
They too had fasted in the wilderness - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Gorse"
With your subtle spell, hold our senses fast - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]
The lark sings loudest when flying fast - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
Cold will soon be fast upon us - Jennie Earngey Hill "Bonny Bunny"
But are held fast to their flames - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
Too fast to yonder strand forlorn - A.E. Housman "Last Poems I: The West"
undone by reality speeding too fast - Camisha L. Jones "The Law of Motion"
New ferns snaking fast up the old hosts' throats - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"
Along the fast streets of luminous encounters - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
Trajectory too fast to be soundless - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
A whirlwind of octaves play'd furious and fast - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"
Thrice as fast as any gale - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"
The rudder in the stern set fast - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "Who Was He? A Story of Peter the Great" transl. by John Pollen
Fettered the flowing waters fast - Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee "Our Ladye of the Snow"
Fast as windy flame devours - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
So fast it feels like slow motion - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Still Life as Rocket: 42"
Bound by a fast symmetry - Mahealani Perez-Wendt "Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu"
Whom unmerciful Disaster followed fast and followed faster - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
Clinging fast holding to the friendly rope - Miriam Clark Potter "The Children of the Wind"
The lighthouse lamp is fast asleep - Miriam Clark Potter "The Lighthouse Lamp"
Held fast in the pipes of Pan's flute - Rainer Maria Rilke "Music" transl. by Jessie Lemont
In dreamless sleep locked fast - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"
And night, the dark blue hunter, followed fast - George William Russell "The Hunter"
A fast cloud moving against the sand - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #95"
Keep for us remembrance fast - Evalyn Callahan Shaw "October"
Bound down with fetters fast - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Of utter ruin and fast decay - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"
For Sorrow's fast on Friday - "The Song of the Seven Archangels" transl. by Ernest Rhys
Shall find the feet of Change are fast - George Sterling "The Gleaner"
The winds blow fast as the stars are slow - Edward Thomas "Out in the Dark"
My thoughts are tangled fast in gloom - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
To our hearts and thoughts cling fast - Edith Wharton "June and December"
Life in stone bound fast - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
Fast in chains of horror bound - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Sunset's skinned knuckle try at holding fast - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Cloak held fast by Psyche's brooch - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday X: Case Sensitive"
Under a sky fast-blue with change - Alessandra Lynch "Funeral: For Us His Gold"
A fast-driving diesel flatbed of felled trees - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Of foot going faster than thought - Elizabeth Bartlett "O To Be an Ostrich"
Practice losing farther, losing faster - Elizabeth Bishop "One Art"
Faster for the stars - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet II in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Grief burns faster there - Jennifer Chang "How to Live in an American Town"
Hurl myself faster toward extinction - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"
The dark seeps in faster underneath the lights - Kaily Dorfman "The Wolf"
Because spaceships are faster than cars - Daniel Errico "In Space"
Faster and fiercer rolls the tide - an anonymous Cherokee "[Faster and fiercer rolls the tide]" published in the Cherokee Advocate in 1871 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
They who come faster than fate - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
While round them shadows gathered faster - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"
Faster than the mind absorbs - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"
Aladdin's wealth scarce mounted faster - W.P.P. "Epistle to the Editor" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Whom unmerciful Disaster followed fast and followed faster - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
Spending faster than it comes - "The Rakes of Mallow" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
my voice travels faster than light - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
Faster than the breath's steady luggage - Keith S. Wilson "Book of Horses"
Bright flesh startling my fasting tongue - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"
Light your pipe on a fasting heart - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon
After a year of boundless fasting - Claire Millikin "Anorexic Girl"
I've taken to this mind fasting - Jenny Xie "To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement"
Into the fastness of its abyss - Elsa Gidlow "I, Lover"
Storm through the desolate fastnesses - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
A fastness of double rivers - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
And in fastnesses of chalk imprisons - Walter S. Percy "The Blizzard"
Fast-forward into a bleaker future - Jane Yolen "Fence of Bones"
Hand-fast to her twilight appearance - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"
Navigation Links:
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Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
