Potential Titles: Name

[somethingdarker]

In 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.

Unnamed.


Navigation Links:
Go to N word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.