Potential Titles: Name
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somethingdarkerIn this wilderness the feral things name me - Elizabeth Acevedo "Self-Portrait as Lilith"
Holding the deceased one's name in memory forever - Duane Ackerson "A Ghost Story"
That whatever is named will obey - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Sorrow takes different names - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"
Give up my name three times - Mary Alexandra Agner "So Many Lullabies"
Always remember your names - Nuola Akinde "Mothering"
Carving your name on the cell wall - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"
No name for what rises - Lauren K. Alleyne "Nothing to Declare"
Names become the first steppings into ruin - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
The name of the monument to the stars - Alise Alousi "Password"
My name is not a bridge - Mouna Ammar "ID"
Has named his unremembering - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of names"
In calling one thing by another's name - Rae Armantrout "Scumble"
Nor any of that host of glorious names - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
The desperate dance that signifies a loss too great to name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
We lie in the shadow of a future we cannot name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
My mother's blood and my father's name - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
No sepia set of nostalgic names - Mary Jo Bang "A Boy at Play Is an Actor in a Tragedy"
Death with a name on a bracelet - Mary Jo Bang "The Electric Eventual"
A brother grown bigger by another name - Mary Jo Bang "The Storm We Call Progress"
With pen of adamant inscribes their name - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
to name something blue - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"
Used the name we had agreed upon - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
I've only got the one death to my name - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"
Saying one name for a thousand years - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Whose very names would burn the cheek - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
A leviathan with no proper name - Joshua Bennett "In Defense of Henry Box Brown"
A more perfect name for water - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Little Brother"
The names those noteless burial-stones display - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Whispers its name from a waterfall's hairline - Sherwin Bitsui "Knives Whistle"
The whirlwind has no name - Terry Blackhawk "Out of the Labyrinth"
Hoard names as if they could be stolen - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
The echo of old names and weighted fill of rocks - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"
Erase the music of my name - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"
Her unknown face, her untold name - Laurel Blossom "In the Guesthouse"
Cry the names of colors - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"
Chant the names of colors - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"
I said your name but silence answered - Arna Bontemps "Gethsemane"
Hold only empty names - William Brewer "Explanation of Matter in Oxyana"
Names are only ever glass - William Brewer "Explanation of Matter in Oxyana"
So I can know whose names they're singing - William Brewer "Letter in Response to a Letter from My Son"
Cage of time or name - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 8"
Joy's goal is but a name - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 34"
When mirth was not an empty name - Anne Bronte "Past Days"
The earth and silt our names become - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
An iteration of the many names of god - Nickole Brown "Parable"
A sorrow on the air I taste but cannot name - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
The gentle name of spring - William Cullen Bryant "March"
Those who hate the name of truth - Michelangelo Buonarroti "III. To Pope Julius II" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A name I made by trading lives - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"
A litany of graceful names - CM Burroughs "Some Young Woman"
A dark matter that calls my name - Cecilia Caballero "Octavia Said You Cannot Know How Deeply People Feel Their Ancestors"
And threw your name into the sea - Nicole Callihan "The End of the Pier"
No more need to name me - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Homecoming Cistern Alien Vessel"
The sweetest curse of my name - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
Gives no triumphs her name - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Lazarus of Empires"
All things named of earth or heaven - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Even your names are in ruins - Will Carleton "Wealth"
My rescuing flower's name - Cyrus Cassells "The White Iris Beautifies Me"
Houses without names - Juana Castro "Cruz de Ventura Street"
Into the burden of our names - Paul Celan "So Many Constellations" (translated by Pierre Joris)
How to light my name under their skin - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
For every candle lit in my name - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
A lexicon of crimes they do in my name - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
Shrines without name or number - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"
A verb named for its noun - Dan Chiasson "Bloom (II)"
Chose for me auspicious names - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Your names as a talisman and a touchstone - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"
The host of names written on water - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
their name fierce on the planet - Lucille Clifton "amazons"
the name of the first was hunger - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"
the name of the second was faith - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"
iron understands time is another name for God - Lucille Clifton "rust"
I have eaten all your names - Ama Codjoe "My Nothings"
Eaten all your names - Ama Codjoe "My Nothings"
Your name unifies the heart - Leonard Cohen "I Lost My Way"
Places where names are hidden - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
Burst their manacles and wear the name - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "France: An Ode, 1797"
Draw a line beyond your names - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"
As sweetly as it was named - Donte Collins "Prayer Severing the Cycle"
Scattering names on a dusty floor - Nandi Comer "The Check In"
The rose already has many names - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
The flower you must never name - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
Better known by fate and name - Susan Coolidge "Eighteen"
Because here we lose our names - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Names dim with Time's dull rust - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
There are always more names to speak alive - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"
Have left me but the name - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
Strove for a name - H.D. "Heliodora"
To name and watch each flower - H.D. "Nossis"
Flung her name against the dark - H.D. "Nossis"
Write my name with fire - Jim Daniels "Self-portrait with Cigarette"
That night shall mutter her lost name - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"
The way of naming the enemy - Kwame Dawes "from 'A Coda to History: 28. It Is Not As If'"
I made a photograph of my name - Meg Day "Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]"
An earth we knew the name of - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"
Let Fame with wonder name the Greek - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
No more let Rome exult in Trajan's name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
In black Oblivion's waves should whelm his name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Wear themselves ruthless for a sounding name - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
And his name was Dream - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"
Flooded with unremembered names - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet 25"
My name is leaving and my name is gone - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Sew her name into my hair - Diana Marie Delgado "Little Swan"
The tasks that called him by name - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"
The name they dropped upon my face - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XIV: Love's Baptism"
An appropriate name for gin - Chelsea Dingman "Epistemology"
A child outrunning its name - Chelsea Dingman "Reconstructing the Saints"
You are the cloud I never name - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Signing his name with an icicle quill - Mary Mapes Dodge "The Mayor of Scuttleton"
Scores of insufficient names - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
The name you chose is etched into air - Cass Donish "You, Emblazoned"
Sailed my name up high and free - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"
Of names that were most to love - John Drinkwater "The Old Warrior"
Touching those lost spaces inside his name - Camille T. Dungy "soldier's girl"
Can name the birds that sing - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"
Laughing out a happy name - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
Before the knowing and the naming - Katherine Edgren "Lost and Found"
Said my name before the mirror - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"
Naming the emptiness - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
Followed the river until I forgot my name - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
The name goes ahead to prepare you - JJJJJerome Ellis "Before Stuttering"
Nine circling years name thee - George Allan England "Dante"
When we have our names - Heid E. Erdich "Poem for Our Ojibwe Names"
Each name a net in his hands - Louise Erdrich "Birth"
Pledging a battered name - Donald Evans "Epicede"
The names of the gods who chose to ignore us - Kendall Evans "Now We Must Speak in the Shadows of Silence"
My faith forgets its name - Lupita Eyde-Tucker "Without Reparations"
A name noted on the rolls of Fame - "Fairy's Album: III. Fairy's Friends"
The names of our dying - Tarfia Faizullah "Consider the Hands Once Smaller"
For the promise of my name - Tarfia Faizullah "Register of Eliminated Villages"
No voices speak our name - an anonymous Cherokee "[Faster and fiercer rolls the tide]" published in the Cherokee Advocate in 1871 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Nothing in particular by any other name - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"
Rose above the shadows their names cast - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"
Their names on the sands of time - George Blackstone Field "Men of the Line"
Centuries dark with Cromwell's name - James T. Fields "On a Portrait of Cromwell"
A seam stitching darkness like a name - Annie Finch "Samhain"
To avoid use of his sacred name - Sandy Florian "But This Is Ambiguous"
Collecting names I had forgotten - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"
This blindness for names - Carolyn Forche "Book Codes: III"
Right to name my desires - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"
Draw my name in the sand and defy the rising tide - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Write his name nine times in blood ink - Rober Frazier "Primer to Impractical Magic"
The trial by existence named - Robert Frost "The Trial by Existence"
Call Summer by her name - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"
For the taste of our name - Jenny George "I Love You"
The gift that is my name - Angelo Geter "Praise"
A kinder way to say my own name - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
Bring blemish to your worthy name - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
With no right name - Christopher Gilbert "How the Stars Understand Us"
Awakened into knowledge beyond naming - Dana Gioia "After a Line of Neruda"
He remembers the name of every ghost - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
A long memory from my own name - Rae Gouirand "Inheritance"
The echo of your mother's name - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"
By a physics worth the name - Linda Gregerson "De Magnete"
A creature held together by a name - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"
A bird with no name at all - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"
A wraith without a name - Louise Imogen Guiney "Bankrupt"
Medea's soft and deadly name - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
Spur to a land of no name - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wild Ride"
The woman who knows names - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"
Glazed with the honey of their name - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"
Name it with other songs - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"
On His hands a name is graven - Frances Ridley Havergal "The Welcome to the King"
Holding the shadow of a name - Terrance Hayes "Coffin for Head of State"
Write the letters of my name in the sand - Georgia Heard "Room of Ordinary Things"
The stainless beauty of her name - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
Left Glory's isle another name - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of General Sir E--d P--k--m."
Breathe that name in Memory's ear - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of General Sir E--d P--k--m."
Bring our silent names there hoping we are forgiven - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Wake to my name called from nowhere - Krysten Hill "Nothing"
Your name to mingle with the dust - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Taking away its names - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"
Where your name goes missing in the wind - Carlie Hoffman "The Year Made Out of a Cut in Your Civilization"
Give my suffering a name - Jackson Holbert "January"
Upon the sacred name of Song - William D. Howells "Prelude (to an Early Book of Verse)"
A net of every name lost in the throat of a storm - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"
Names still haunting windows and doors - Mark Irwin "What a Great Responsibility"
Were experts on stars before astronomy had a name - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"
Our names shall fracture - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Fracture"
A rustle of names flooding my breath - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Delfonic"
My name protesting in ink - Amanda Johnston "Facing US"
This grief with no name - Parneshia Jones "My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea"
Whose name was written in the sand - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Derelicts"
A woman's name churned in sea foam - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
Who sings my name beyond the veil - Allison Joseph "Incognito Grief: A Blues"
Deep thoughts without a name - Sir Nizamat Jung "IV: Worship"
Already scratched your name on a bullet - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"
The largest quadrant shall be named first - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"
Our own name on the line - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"
The names would conjure other invisibles - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Leave his name upon the harp-string - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
And again the last time my name is said - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"
Buried the names you once were called - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"
Your name scrapes against thick-edged leaves - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"
I've written my name in vermilion so you won't forget - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"
With his name crumbling hungry in your mouth - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"
It hurts to unbutton his name from your skin - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"
Names that soften at moon - Amy King "The Marble Faun"
I painted your name in lace - Amy King "You Make the Culture"
The name I hear is mine - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"
My name is leaving and my name is gone - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
A myriad hailstones infected with her name - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"
Who built everything worthy of the name - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"
Named great planets in their orbits race - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Not a name, but a quantum of credit - Henry S. Leigh "Anticipations"
Forget the fame that gilds the name - Henry S. Leigh "The Miseries of Genius"
From the names that adorn Opposition - Henry S. Leigh "My Politics"
Before our names were fix'd - Henry S. Leigh "The Twins"
Resound with echoes of Daphne's name - Henry S. Leigh "The Two Ages"
Melted before I remembered my name - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"
all the vanished names of the wind - Michael Leong "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"
The name of the angel who guards my sleep - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"
Who will own our names - M.L. Liebler "Late Autumn Fire"
Love haunting your very name - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"
Called up the dragons by name - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"
Cold and mighty as his name - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"
Clasped my name between her lips - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Still have the fragrance of a good name - Lu Yu "Feeling Sorry for Myself" transl. by Burton Watson
Let new names take and root - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "dandelion"
Write their name upon its dome - Douglas Malloch "When the Geese Come North"
Give your shadow a name - Cynthia Manick "Things I Will Tell My Children About Destiny"
The exotic names of every flower and leaf - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
The echo calling fossil back to name - J. Michael Martinez "White"
The holy hintings of her name - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
The Muse forbears to name - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Wrote all the wrong names - Farid Matuk "For a Daughter/No Address"
The names of the leaves before they change - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Picking my name out of the wind - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"
In the name of Peter's luck - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "Who Was He? A Story of Peter the Great" transl. by John Pollen
Our names and our years and achievements - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"
Winds and rains who have lost their names - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Moaning my name through the wind - Ryan Mecum "The Time I Bought Matsuo Basho"
But none will speak your name - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
Live to discover our true names - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
Our souls were in our names - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
An unfamiliar name under a few high clouds - W.S. Merwin "Mementos"
If all the leaves my name could cry - Adam Mickiewicz "Tschatir Dagh (The Pilgrim)" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Call my name, leviathans - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"
who will be but a name in the mouths of others - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
Grief has not forgotten my name - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"
Have broken my name's oath - Jenny Molberg "Bathsheba as Poet"
No naming of blank spaces can save us - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
No one names the vultures - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Coup in Progress"
His name has changed with human years - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Sent roses by another name - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
He turns inside their names - Carol Muske-Dukes "After Skate"
These sacred names drained of their blood - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Your name vanished on horseback - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
You never knew her name - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
A name you can only give too late - Caroline Harper New "The Sargassum Fish"
An echo that loses her name - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Teacher's Pet"
Who loses these names - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
Important enough to be named - Dante Novario "The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882"
Though my love forget my name - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"
Where numbers cancel out names - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Smooth ripple of the wind's second name - Naomi Shihab Nye "Always Bring a Pencil"
Remember your deepest name - Naomi Shihab Nye "Breaking the Fast"
Said my name like a prayer - Naomi Shihab Nye "Moon over Gaza"
All the paraphernalia of our names - Joyce Carol Oates "Five Confessions: I. A Nap Without Sleep"
Whose name was Earth - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
Whose other name is rain - Mary Oliver "Not This, Not That"
Destinies of various name - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"
Hid their names behind other names - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Women of the 1980s"
Them without a name - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl’s rhyme"
The provenance of names - Elise Paschen "Aerial, Wild Pine"
Breathe new souls into their names - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Who carry with them the many names of the dead - Kailee Pedersen "Aviary"
In the name and cause of law - Walter S. Percy "The Shut and Open Hand: The Fist"
Ritual in the name of hope - Carl Phillips "Defiance"
Only weeds by a better name - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"
In the name of distraction - Carl Phillips "Soundtrack for a Frame of Winter"
Of faces and names known - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Master of names - Emilio Porta
The secret name of subtler sins - Lynn Powell "Slow Elegy from Afar"
The sign who names you - Marie-Francoise Prager
Even if blood must sign your name - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
Killed my father to steal the name - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"
That has no name but forever exists - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "There it is: the camp that is yet to be born"
Not a name or a silence - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
My dead have no use for names - Paige Quinones "Visiting My Grandparents' Unmarked Graves"
A bouquet of bullets & names to be said - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"
at all the funerals when my name was good - m.s. RedCherries "playing america in spring"
Your name mentioned on the news - Ishmael Reed "A Black Genius"
Anvil and iron be thy name - Roger Reeves "For Black Children at the End of the World--and the Beginning"
Patterning a name in driblets of iodine - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"
Where beauty names itself - Adrienne Rich "Grating"
A weed we named white whisper - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
The fragments only of your old name - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
And disappointment marks the name - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
Caught on seas that have no name - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Flying Dutchman"
Let my name for ever be a question - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
His name the thunder of a battle call - Rennell Rodd "Une Heure Viendra Qui Tout Paiera"
You could buy your own name - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
To crown your honoured name - Christina Rossetti "[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]"
Guarded by the granite names of dead parishioners - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"
Stripped of everything, even our names - Mark Rudolph "Threnody at Sea"
would have been my name, if you didn't call me so - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"
Sparkle lost along with his given name - R.S. Saha "Kin"
To write our names in history - Sonia Sanchez "Poem"
A name is a cheap thing - Carl Sandburg "Blacklisted"
Even if we forget our names and houses in the finish - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"
of naming what is by what is not - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"
sung names into their absence - Sam Sax "Politics of Elegy"
On the time-flood's heaving waves my name - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"
Spoke the sacred names of Thebes - Ann K. Schwader "Horizon of the Aten"
Knew the name of every sheep - Duncan Campbell Scott "A Flock of Sheep"
And hallow the goblet that flows to his name - Sir Walter Scott "Song"
Would call him with false names - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Her name soaring in a silver note - Frank Dempster Sherman "The Song"
A name I do not recognize - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"
Neighbors whose names I've lost - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"
A thousand crickets scream my name - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"
That the winds forgot his very name - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
Whisper your name alike - Charles Simic "Quick Eats"
The names of his conniving stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Lands no dream may name - Clark Ashton Smith "The Infinite Quest"
Whose names are blotted from the lists of Time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Every name on the edge of being gone - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"
Every bird calls your name - Richard Solomon "Heaven's Gate"
Reciprocal will be their name - "Song of the Screw"
You can sign your name right on cinders - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
Force in name of justice spent - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
With names of battle-thunder - George Sterling "Altars of Victory"
Find a name scrawled in the bark - Susan Stewart "Poem from Holderlin"
The sigh of remembered names, the wine of remembered youth - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"
And in your name Medusa smiled - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Butter to blacken the family name - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 61: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
All the jewel-names of song - E. Sutton "The Pipes of the North"
They are all marked with your name - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
The names you mumbled in your nightmares - Sonya Taaffe "Teinds"
Dismiss it with a name of yesterday - Rabindranath Tagore "from Stray Birds [233-237]"
To do battle and call the angels, like comrades, by name - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"
To help us remember the names we've lost - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"
With the effort to relearn these names - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"
Boxes bearing the names of lost department stores - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
a door that cannot find its own name - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
must sing the name into existence - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
I am become a name - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"
Thy proudest torches yet shall be their names - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
Where the old names went - Leah Tieger "I-30, I-20, Farm to Market Road"
is there friction with a name for blend - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"
Name the tragedy the banishment - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"
Writing names across funereal woods and windows - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Complete with names - John Updike "Montes Veneris"
Awkward fingers stammering in an attempt to name - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
Someone names themself in the loss - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
Be sufficient to name ourselves otherwise - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
Swallows his own name - Emily van Kley "Upper Peninsula"
With two bags and three names at the border - Divya Victor "Make/Do"
Storms in the shape of names - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oak Falls"
Only two names to remember - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Till my name re-entered me - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament II"
Other nights we use just our names - Jo Walton "When We Were Robots in Egypt"
New peoples write--in blood--their name - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Called his warriors by their name - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "King Philip (Pometacom)"
Scrape the moss from our names - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
His name still blossoms with the daisies - Edith Wharton "Lines on Chaucer"
Half the names of the flowers - C. K. Williams "Doves"
The only haven he thought to give a name - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"
If the names sounded like home - Phillip B. Williams "Order of Events"
June is a yellow cup I'll not name - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
Crack a name open - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"
To trace down your ancestors' name - Huldah Lucile Winsted "In the Land of Dakota"
Have learned the turbulence of names - Jay Wright "Kumu"
A name only the brave can say - Assetou Xango "Give Your Daughters Difficult Names"
The worst of all bad names - W.B. Yeats "Father and Child"
Where they keep your name - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"
Names of flowers and warblers and stars - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
A more clinical name for breaking - C. Dale Young "The Hanged Man"
Whose name was writ in water - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Long after the roosters had crowed his name - Kevin Young "The Dry Spell"
Pick a sky and name it - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa
Before daylight without a name - Matthew Zapruder "Poem for Ferlinghetti"
The committee for naming tornadoes - Matthew Zapruder "Schwinn"
The sparrow named never - Matthew Zapruder "You Have Astounding Cosmic News"
Cry unto the night their battle-name - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"
All callsign and codename - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
A thing of soft misnomers - John Keats "Modern Love"
Old trophies, missing years and nameplates - John McCarthy "Ashley, Indiana"
Namesake means release - Kay Ulanday Barrett "While looking at photo albums"
To a softness that renames their tongues - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"
Renames itself with every ripple - Heid E. Erdich "Kennewick man Swims Laps"
Born with a surname of old oaks - Pablo Neruda "My Name Was Reyes" transl. by William O'Daly
Loaned surnames to stars - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"
Nameless.
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Holding the deceased one's name in memory forever - Duane Ackerson "A Ghost Story"
That whatever is named will obey - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Sorrow takes different names - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"
Give up my name three times - Mary Alexandra Agner "So Many Lullabies"
Always remember your names - Nuola Akinde "Mothering"
Carving your name on the cell wall - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"
No name for what rises - Lauren K. Alleyne "Nothing to Declare"
Names become the first steppings into ruin - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
The name of the monument to the stars - Alise Alousi "Password"
My name is not a bridge - Mouna Ammar "ID"
Has named his unremembering - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of names"
In calling one thing by another's name - Rae Armantrout "Scumble"
Nor any of that host of glorious names - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
The desperate dance that signifies a loss too great to name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
We lie in the shadow of a future we cannot name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
My mother's blood and my father's name - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
No sepia set of nostalgic names - Mary Jo Bang "A Boy at Play Is an Actor in a Tragedy"
Death with a name on a bracelet - Mary Jo Bang "The Electric Eventual"
A brother grown bigger by another name - Mary Jo Bang "The Storm We Call Progress"
With pen of adamant inscribes their name - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
to name something blue - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"
Used the name we had agreed upon - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
I've only got the one death to my name - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"
Saying one name for a thousand years - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Whose very names would burn the cheek - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
A leviathan with no proper name - Joshua Bennett "In Defense of Henry Box Brown"
A more perfect name for water - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Little Brother"
The names those noteless burial-stones display - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Whispers its name from a waterfall's hairline - Sherwin Bitsui "Knives Whistle"
The whirlwind has no name - Terry Blackhawk "Out of the Labyrinth"
Hoard names as if they could be stolen - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
The echo of old names and weighted fill of rocks - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"
Erase the music of my name - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"
Her unknown face, her untold name - Laurel Blossom "In the Guesthouse"
Cry the names of colors - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"
Chant the names of colors - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"
I said your name but silence answered - Arna Bontemps "Gethsemane"
Hold only empty names - William Brewer "Explanation of Matter in Oxyana"
Names are only ever glass - William Brewer "Explanation of Matter in Oxyana"
So I can know whose names they're singing - William Brewer "Letter in Response to a Letter from My Son"
Cage of time or name - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 8"
Joy's goal is but a name - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 34"
When mirth was not an empty name - Anne Bronte "Past Days"
The earth and silt our names become - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
An iteration of the many names of god - Nickole Brown "Parable"
A sorrow on the air I taste but cannot name - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
The gentle name of spring - William Cullen Bryant "March"
Those who hate the name of truth - Michelangelo Buonarroti "III. To Pope Julius II" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A name I made by trading lives - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"
A litany of graceful names - CM Burroughs "Some Young Woman"
A dark matter that calls my name - Cecilia Caballero "Octavia Said You Cannot Know How Deeply People Feel Their Ancestors"
And threw your name into the sea - Nicole Callihan "The End of the Pier"
No more need to name me - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Homecoming Cistern Alien Vessel"
The sweetest curse of my name - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
Gives no triumphs her name - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Lazarus of Empires"
All things named of earth or heaven - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Even your names are in ruins - Will Carleton "Wealth"
My rescuing flower's name - Cyrus Cassells "The White Iris Beautifies Me"
Houses without names - Juana Castro "Cruz de Ventura Street"
Into the burden of our names - Paul Celan "So Many Constellations" (translated by Pierre Joris)
How to light my name under their skin - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
For every candle lit in my name - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
A lexicon of crimes they do in my name - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
Shrines without name or number - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"
A verb named for its noun - Dan Chiasson "Bloom (II)"
Chose for me auspicious names - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Your names as a talisman and a touchstone - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"
The host of names written on water - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
their name fierce on the planet - Lucille Clifton "amazons"
the name of the first was hunger - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"
the name of the second was faith - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"
iron understands time is another name for God - Lucille Clifton "rust"
I have eaten all your names - Ama Codjoe "My Nothings"
Eaten all your names - Ama Codjoe "My Nothings"
Your name unifies the heart - Leonard Cohen "I Lost My Way"
Places where names are hidden - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
Burst their manacles and wear the name - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "France: An Ode, 1797"
Draw a line beyond your names - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"
As sweetly as it was named - Donte Collins "Prayer Severing the Cycle"
Scattering names on a dusty floor - Nandi Comer "The Check In"
The rose already has many names - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
The flower you must never name - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
Better known by fate and name - Susan Coolidge "Eighteen"
Because here we lose our names - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Names dim with Time's dull rust - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
There are always more names to speak alive - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"
Have left me but the name - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
Strove for a name - H.D. "Heliodora"
To name and watch each flower - H.D. "Nossis"
Flung her name against the dark - H.D. "Nossis"
Write my name with fire - Jim Daniels "Self-portrait with Cigarette"
That night shall mutter her lost name - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"
The way of naming the enemy - Kwame Dawes "from 'A Coda to History: 28. It Is Not As If'"
I made a photograph of my name - Meg Day "Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]"
An earth we knew the name of - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"
Let Fame with wonder name the Greek - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
No more let Rome exult in Trajan's name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
In black Oblivion's waves should whelm his name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Wear themselves ruthless for a sounding name - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
And his name was Dream - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"
Flooded with unremembered names - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet 25"
My name is leaving and my name is gone - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Sew her name into my hair - Diana Marie Delgado "Little Swan"
The tasks that called him by name - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"
The name they dropped upon my face - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XIV: Love's Baptism"
An appropriate name for gin - Chelsea Dingman "Epistemology"
A child outrunning its name - Chelsea Dingman "Reconstructing the Saints"
You are the cloud I never name - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Signing his name with an icicle quill - Mary Mapes Dodge "The Mayor of Scuttleton"
Scores of insufficient names - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
The name you chose is etched into air - Cass Donish "You, Emblazoned"
Sailed my name up high and free - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"
Of names that were most to love - John Drinkwater "The Old Warrior"
Touching those lost spaces inside his name - Camille T. Dungy "soldier's girl"
Can name the birds that sing - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"
Laughing out a happy name - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
Before the knowing and the naming - Katherine Edgren "Lost and Found"
Said my name before the mirror - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"
Naming the emptiness - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
Followed the river until I forgot my name - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
The name goes ahead to prepare you - JJJJJerome Ellis "Before Stuttering"
Nine circling years name thee - George Allan England "Dante"
When we have our names - Heid E. Erdich "Poem for Our Ojibwe Names"
Each name a net in his hands - Louise Erdrich "Birth"
Pledging a battered name - Donald Evans "Epicede"
The names of the gods who chose to ignore us - Kendall Evans "Now We Must Speak in the Shadows of Silence"
My faith forgets its name - Lupita Eyde-Tucker "Without Reparations"
A name noted on the rolls of Fame - "Fairy's Album: III. Fairy's Friends"
The names of our dying - Tarfia Faizullah "Consider the Hands Once Smaller"
For the promise of my name - Tarfia Faizullah "Register of Eliminated Villages"
No voices speak our name - an anonymous Cherokee "[Faster and fiercer rolls the tide]" published in the Cherokee Advocate in 1871 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Nothing in particular by any other name - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"
Rose above the shadows their names cast - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"
Their names on the sands of time - George Blackstone Field "Men of the Line"
Centuries dark with Cromwell's name - James T. Fields "On a Portrait of Cromwell"
A seam stitching darkness like a name - Annie Finch "Samhain"
To avoid use of his sacred name - Sandy Florian "But This Is Ambiguous"
Collecting names I had forgotten - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"
This blindness for names - Carolyn Forche "Book Codes: III"
Right to name my desires - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"
Draw my name in the sand and defy the rising tide - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Write his name nine times in blood ink - Rober Frazier "Primer to Impractical Magic"
The trial by existence named - Robert Frost "The Trial by Existence"
Call Summer by her name - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"
For the taste of our name - Jenny George "I Love You"
The gift that is my name - Angelo Geter "Praise"
A kinder way to say my own name - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
Bring blemish to your worthy name - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
With no right name - Christopher Gilbert "How the Stars Understand Us"
Awakened into knowledge beyond naming - Dana Gioia "After a Line of Neruda"
He remembers the name of every ghost - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
A long memory from my own name - Rae Gouirand "Inheritance"
The echo of your mother's name - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"
By a physics worth the name - Linda Gregerson "De Magnete"
A creature held together by a name - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"
A bird with no name at all - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"
A wraith without a name - Louise Imogen Guiney "Bankrupt"
Medea's soft and deadly name - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
Spur to a land of no name - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wild Ride"
The woman who knows names - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"
Glazed with the honey of their name - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"
Name it with other songs - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"
On His hands a name is graven - Frances Ridley Havergal "The Welcome to the King"
Holding the shadow of a name - Terrance Hayes "Coffin for Head of State"
Write the letters of my name in the sand - Georgia Heard "Room of Ordinary Things"
The stainless beauty of her name - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
Left Glory's isle another name - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of General Sir E--d P--k--m."
Breathe that name in Memory's ear - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of General Sir E--d P--k--m."
Bring our silent names there hoping we are forgiven - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Wake to my name called from nowhere - Krysten Hill "Nothing"
Your name to mingle with the dust - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Taking away its names - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"
Where your name goes missing in the wind - Carlie Hoffman "The Year Made Out of a Cut in Your Civilization"
Give my suffering a name - Jackson Holbert "January"
Upon the sacred name of Song - William D. Howells "Prelude (to an Early Book of Verse)"
A net of every name lost in the throat of a storm - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"
Names still haunting windows and doors - Mark Irwin "What a Great Responsibility"
Were experts on stars before astronomy had a name - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"
Our names shall fracture - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Fracture"
A rustle of names flooding my breath - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Delfonic"
My name protesting in ink - Amanda Johnston "Facing US"
This grief with no name - Parneshia Jones "My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea"
Whose name was written in the sand - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Derelicts"
A woman's name churned in sea foam - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
Who sings my name beyond the veil - Allison Joseph "Incognito Grief: A Blues"
Deep thoughts without a name - Sir Nizamat Jung "IV: Worship"
Already scratched your name on a bullet - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"
The largest quadrant shall be named first - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"
Our own name on the line - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"
The names would conjure other invisibles - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Leave his name upon the harp-string - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
And again the last time my name is said - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"
Buried the names you once were called - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"
Your name scrapes against thick-edged leaves - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"
I've written my name in vermilion so you won't forget - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"
With his name crumbling hungry in your mouth - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"
It hurts to unbutton his name from your skin - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"
Names that soften at moon - Amy King "The Marble Faun"
I painted your name in lace - Amy King "You Make the Culture"
The name I hear is mine - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"
My name is leaving and my name is gone - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
A myriad hailstones infected with her name - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"
Who built everything worthy of the name - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"
Named great planets in their orbits race - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Not a name, but a quantum of credit - Henry S. Leigh "Anticipations"
Forget the fame that gilds the name - Henry S. Leigh "The Miseries of Genius"
From the names that adorn Opposition - Henry S. Leigh "My Politics"
Before our names were fix'd - Henry S. Leigh "The Twins"
Resound with echoes of Daphne's name - Henry S. Leigh "The Two Ages"
Melted before I remembered my name - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"
all the vanished names of the wind - Michael Leong "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"
The name of the angel who guards my sleep - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"
Who will own our names - M.L. Liebler "Late Autumn Fire"
Love haunting your very name - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"
Called up the dragons by name - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"
Cold and mighty as his name - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"
Clasped my name between her lips - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Still have the fragrance of a good name - Lu Yu "Feeling Sorry for Myself" transl. by Burton Watson
Let new names take and root - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "dandelion"
Write their name upon its dome - Douglas Malloch "When the Geese Come North"
Give your shadow a name - Cynthia Manick "Things I Will Tell My Children About Destiny"
The exotic names of every flower and leaf - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
The echo calling fossil back to name - J. Michael Martinez "White"
The holy hintings of her name - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
The Muse forbears to name - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Wrote all the wrong names - Farid Matuk "For a Daughter/No Address"
The names of the leaves before they change - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Picking my name out of the wind - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"
In the name of Peter's luck - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "Who Was He? A Story of Peter the Great" transl. by John Pollen
Our names and our years and achievements - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"
Winds and rains who have lost their names - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Moaning my name through the wind - Ryan Mecum "The Time I Bought Matsuo Basho"
But none will speak your name - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
Live to discover our true names - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
Our souls were in our names - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
An unfamiliar name under a few high clouds - W.S. Merwin "Mementos"
If all the leaves my name could cry - Adam Mickiewicz "Tschatir Dagh (The Pilgrim)" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Call my name, leviathans - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"
who will be but a name in the mouths of others - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
Grief has not forgotten my name - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"
Have broken my name's oath - Jenny Molberg "Bathsheba as Poet"
No naming of blank spaces can save us - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
No one names the vultures - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Coup in Progress"
His name has changed with human years - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Sent roses by another name - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
He turns inside their names - Carol Muske-Dukes "After Skate"
These sacred names drained of their blood - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Your name vanished on horseback - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
You never knew her name - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
A name you can only give too late - Caroline Harper New "The Sargassum Fish"
An echo that loses her name - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Teacher's Pet"
Who loses these names - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
Important enough to be named - Dante Novario "The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882"
Though my love forget my name - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"
Where numbers cancel out names - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Smooth ripple of the wind's second name - Naomi Shihab Nye "Always Bring a Pencil"
Remember your deepest name - Naomi Shihab Nye "Breaking the Fast"
Said my name like a prayer - Naomi Shihab Nye "Moon over Gaza"
All the paraphernalia of our names - Joyce Carol Oates "Five Confessions: I. A Nap Without Sleep"
Whose name was Earth - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
Whose other name is rain - Mary Oliver "Not This, Not That"
Destinies of various name - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"
Hid their names behind other names - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Women of the 1980s"
Them without a name - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl’s rhyme"
The provenance of names - Elise Paschen "Aerial, Wild Pine"
Breathe new souls into their names - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Who carry with them the many names of the dead - Kailee Pedersen "Aviary"
In the name and cause of law - Walter S. Percy "The Shut and Open Hand: The Fist"
Ritual in the name of hope - Carl Phillips "Defiance"
Only weeds by a better name - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"
In the name of distraction - Carl Phillips "Soundtrack for a Frame of Winter"
Of faces and names known - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Master of names - Emilio Porta
The secret name of subtler sins - Lynn Powell "Slow Elegy from Afar"
The sign who names you - Marie-Francoise Prager
Even if blood must sign your name - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
Killed my father to steal the name - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"
That has no name but forever exists - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "There it is: the camp that is yet to be born"
Not a name or a silence - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
My dead have no use for names - Paige Quinones "Visiting My Grandparents' Unmarked Graves"
A bouquet of bullets & names to be said - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"
at all the funerals when my name was good - m.s. RedCherries "playing america in spring"
Your name mentioned on the news - Ishmael Reed "A Black Genius"
Anvil and iron be thy name - Roger Reeves "For Black Children at the End of the World--and the Beginning"
Patterning a name in driblets of iodine - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"
Where beauty names itself - Adrienne Rich "Grating"
A weed we named white whisper - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
The fragments only of your old name - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
And disappointment marks the name - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
Caught on seas that have no name - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Flying Dutchman"
Let my name for ever be a question - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
His name the thunder of a battle call - Rennell Rodd "Une Heure Viendra Qui Tout Paiera"
You could buy your own name - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
To crown your honoured name - Christina Rossetti "[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]"
Guarded by the granite names of dead parishioners - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"
Stripped of everything, even our names - Mark Rudolph "Threnody at Sea"
would have been my name, if you didn't call me so - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"
Sparkle lost along with his given name - R.S. Saha "Kin"
To write our names in history - Sonia Sanchez "Poem"
A name is a cheap thing - Carl Sandburg "Blacklisted"
Even if we forget our names and houses in the finish - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"
of naming what is by what is not - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"
sung names into their absence - Sam Sax "Politics of Elegy"
On the time-flood's heaving waves my name - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"
Spoke the sacred names of Thebes - Ann K. Schwader "Horizon of the Aten"
Knew the name of every sheep - Duncan Campbell Scott "A Flock of Sheep"
And hallow the goblet that flows to his name - Sir Walter Scott "Song"
Would call him with false names - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Her name soaring in a silver note - Frank Dempster Sherman "The Song"
A name I do not recognize - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"
Neighbors whose names I've lost - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"
A thousand crickets scream my name - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"
That the winds forgot his very name - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
Whisper your name alike - Charles Simic "Quick Eats"
The names of his conniving stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Lands no dream may name - Clark Ashton Smith "The Infinite Quest"
Whose names are blotted from the lists of Time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Every name on the edge of being gone - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"
Every bird calls your name - Richard Solomon "Heaven's Gate"
Reciprocal will be their name - "Song of the Screw"
You can sign your name right on cinders - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
Force in name of justice spent - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
With names of battle-thunder - George Sterling "Altars of Victory"
Find a name scrawled in the bark - Susan Stewart "Poem from Holderlin"
The sigh of remembered names, the wine of remembered youth - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"
And in your name Medusa smiled - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Butter to blacken the family name - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 61: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
All the jewel-names of song - E. Sutton "The Pipes of the North"
They are all marked with your name - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
The names you mumbled in your nightmares - Sonya Taaffe "Teinds"
Dismiss it with a name of yesterday - Rabindranath Tagore "from Stray Birds [233-237]"
To do battle and call the angels, like comrades, by name - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"
To help us remember the names we've lost - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"
With the effort to relearn these names - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"
Boxes bearing the names of lost department stores - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
a door that cannot find its own name - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
must sing the name into existence - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
I am become a name - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"
Thy proudest torches yet shall be their names - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
Where the old names went - Leah Tieger "I-30, I-20, Farm to Market Road"
is there friction with a name for blend - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"
Name the tragedy the banishment - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"
Writing names across funereal woods and windows - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Complete with names - John Updike "Montes Veneris"
Awkward fingers stammering in an attempt to name - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
Someone names themself in the loss - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
Be sufficient to name ourselves otherwise - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
Swallows his own name - Emily van Kley "Upper Peninsula"
With two bags and three names at the border - Divya Victor "Make/Do"
Storms in the shape of names - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oak Falls"
Only two names to remember - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Till my name re-entered me - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament II"
Other nights we use just our names - Jo Walton "When We Were Robots in Egypt"
New peoples write--in blood--their name - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Called his warriors by their name - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "King Philip (Pometacom)"
Scrape the moss from our names - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
His name still blossoms with the daisies - Edith Wharton "Lines on Chaucer"
Half the names of the flowers - C. K. Williams "Doves"
The only haven he thought to give a name - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"
If the names sounded like home - Phillip B. Williams "Order of Events"
June is a yellow cup I'll not name - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
Crack a name open - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"
To trace down your ancestors' name - Huldah Lucile Winsted "In the Land of Dakota"
Have learned the turbulence of names - Jay Wright "Kumu"
A name only the brave can say - Assetou Xango "Give Your Daughters Difficult Names"
The worst of all bad names - W.B. Yeats "Father and Child"
Where they keep your name - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"
Names of flowers and warblers and stars - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
A more clinical name for breaking - C. Dale Young "The Hanged Man"
Whose name was writ in water - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Long after the roosters had crowed his name - Kevin Young "The Dry Spell"
Pick a sky and name it - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa
Before daylight without a name - Matthew Zapruder "Poem for Ferlinghetti"
The committee for naming tornadoes - Matthew Zapruder "Schwinn"
The sparrow named never - Matthew Zapruder "You Have Astounding Cosmic News"
Cry unto the night their battle-name - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"
All callsign and codename - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
A thing of soft misnomers - John Keats "Modern Love"
Old trophies, missing years and nameplates - John McCarthy "Ashley, Indiana"
Namesake means release - Kay Ulanday Barrett "While looking at photo albums"
To a softness that renames their tongues - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"
Renames itself with every ripple - Heid E. Erdich "Kennewick man Swims Laps"
Born with a surname of old oaks - Pablo Neruda "My Name Was Reyes" transl. by William O'Daly
Loaned surnames to stars - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"
Nameless.
Unnamed.
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