Potential Titles: Dim

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Sultry clouds her blazing eyes bedim - Maurice Baring "Phedre"


How dim the dawn of truth - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Visionary fabrics dim and vast - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"

Dim his red nocturnal torch - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"

The dim reaches of a watchdog's yawn - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

Back from the margin of the dim abyss - Maurice Baring "Julian Grenfell"

In skies not dark but only dim - Maurice Baring "A June Night in Russia"

Winged messengers from eyries dim - Maurice Baring "Wagner"

Turns dim against the dawn - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"

In waves of light upon the far, dim shades of night - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Wheel for dim, celestial wars - Stephen Vincent Benet "Campus Sonnet: 1. Before an Examination"

Dim and aimless on a dolorous way - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

That cherish dim waters - Gordon Bottomley "The Crier by Night"

Dreams the dim hills of the future - Vera M. Brittain "Daphne"

Through the dim horizon's haze - Anne Bronte "Fluctuations"

Makes Olympian glory dim - Charlotte Bronte "Pilate's Wife's Dream"

The dim moon struggling in the sky - Emily Bronte "Faith and Despondency"

Dimmed their tapers of gold - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Dryad"

Where walk dim ghosts of thoughts - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

Dim curtains of duskfire and dew - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"

Over the dim blue hills - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"

Sinking in the distance dim - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

With this dim diadem invested - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"

Dim green or torn with golden scars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

A faint, dim breath of bitter lies - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"

Names dim with Time's dull rust - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"

a slender dimness in the unshapeful hour - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

And dim in quicksands seems to fly - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Tales told in dim Eden - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"

A dusk where one dim lamp burns - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"

Whose beauty dims my waking eyes - Walter de la Mare "Music"

Grass between dim lonely dunes of sand - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

Dimly stirred by tropic hint - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XII: Psalm of the Day"

Dim as the border star - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXIII: Requiem"

Dim Night is monarch now - Irving Sidney Dix "Starlight Lake"

Murmur dim melodious secrets - Edward Dowden "The Fountain"

On dimmest wing in Twilight's train - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VII. The Pause of Evening"

Bound in a cobweb dungeon dim - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Rugged and dim was his onward track - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Who moves in the twilight dim - A.E. "Unconscious"

sometime in the dimming past - Safia Elhillo "Transport"

Not thus eclipsed and dim - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"

In the dim of the kerosene lamps - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"

As vesper chimes grow dimmer and more faint - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]

A dim chord of flame between his lips - Joseph Fasano "October"

O'er her low head grey and dim - Samuel Ferguson "The Fairy Thorn"

And pink bindweed dimly, steadily flower - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"

Wash the dim shores of old Eternity - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

Dim grey with shade - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Beneath her wings of lilac dim - Edmund Gosse "A Dream of November"

October's gold is dim - David Gray "Sonnet"

Dim flights of measured air - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"

Dim spectres tread that haunted verge - Jennie Earngey Hill "Alone"

Dreaming of a day less dim, dreaming of a time less far - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

Engulf the last dim star - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"

To dim the sense of not belonging here - Cynthia Hogue "The Loire Valley (Solstice 2015)"

A dream of happiness remembered dim - William D. Howells "Vagary"

Dim that travelling eye - Richard Hughes "Cottager is given the Bird (1921)"

A dimness on the grasses - Jean Ingelow "The Star's Monument"

The starry light upon your forehead dims - "John Bull to Jonathan" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

The dim lit avenues of the mind - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"

The dim phantoms of o'er shadowed pleasures - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Webs and dim branching, cross-firing - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"

The dim echoes of old Triton's horn - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

How dim and strange your features - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

Dim lands in troubled dreams - Fanny Kemble "Song [Pass thy hand through my hair, lore]"

With flying fringes dim as smoke - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"

I heard her sing in wood paths dim - Lucy Larcom "November"

The dog-star of treason grows dim - "The Last Charge" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

With the dim light of full, healthy life - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"

The lilac's dim explosion fills the air - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"

Which day dims from our vision - Amy Lowell "In Darkness"

A dim red glare through mud bespattered glass - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"

To burn our souls before altars dim - Amy Lowell "New York at Night"

Wipes no dimness from the glass - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Dim shone the golden crown - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

Along the dim hills of dreamland - P.H.B. Lyon "The Deserted Garden"

Into the dim fabric of his dream - Edwin Markham "Midsummer Noon"

Hands dim with loneliness - Jeannette Marks "Ravello"

Dimmed lights adrift from nobler dreams - Don Marquis "Proem"

The dim souls of the crocuses - Edgar Lee Masters "Inexorable Deities"

Folding into the dim fringes of themselves - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Dim shrines of sweet forgotten art - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"

Melodies of dim remembered runes - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"

Music dims against the complicated bramble - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"

Bear dim relations to our common doom - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

From the dream-mist doubtful and dim - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"

In cool aisles of forests dim - Irene Elder Morton "Browning"

My salt of the dim week - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly

Your memories are cooling, dimming - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"

And time could dim a vow - Dorothy Parker "The False Friends"

Dim terrors in the gloomy deep - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

From the dim hereafter - Jack Prelutsky "The Haunted House"

Mists of passion dimmed my sight - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "One Night"

midnight dreams a dim reflection of a lifetime - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Through all their chambers dim and vast - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

The dim torch that Zarathustra blew on - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

Overflowed the dim gold vase of evening - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

The dim pulse of the rye - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Against the dimmer arc of heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"

Dance in the dim violet places - Lola Ridge "Snow-Dance for the Dead"

The dim chaos of the roofs - Lola Ridge "Solo"

In the dim phantom boat that glided past - Rainer Maria Rilke "Lament" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Softly falls at that dim hour - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Dim shores of emptiness - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Ideal"

Through dim uncertain paths - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Proem"

Tapers burning in the dim half-light - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"

Red and gold strike down the twilight dim - Rennell Rodd "In Chartres Cathedral"

Whose dim foreknowledge is at rest - Rennell Rodd "In Chartres Cathedral"

Sorrows by time made dim - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems VI: Northumbria.--A Dirge"

The dim uncertain music in the shadows played - V. Sackville-West "The Banquet"

The dim edge of sleep - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"

Dim gardens of fire - Evelyn Scott "From Brooklyn"

Dimmed with tobacco and dream - Robert W. Service "Good-Bye, Little Cabin"

The wide pathless desert of dim sleep - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Is grown a dimmer gold - Clark Ashton Smith "Autumnal"

Each dim atom of the system manifest - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"

The dim wattage of time - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"

A dim nimbus on my head - A.E. Stallings "Evil Eye"

The swallows of dreams through its dim fields dart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

In the dim alcoves of grief - Bianca Stone "A Brief Topography of the MSCOG"

A dim fear passed through buttress, and roof, and beam - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: II. The Summons"

The dim psychic crystals of my soul - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

Until it becomes my own dim map - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"

Dark the night and dim the day - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"

From depths of evening's treasury dim - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

These dim vaults of clay - Thomas Walsh "Coelo et in Terra"

Dim world of lonely light - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Dim wisdoms that outweary Time - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

The gray of a glass of water in a dimly lit room - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

Where the dim tides are hurled- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"


Dimly-glowing bells of sleeping sea-anemones - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"


Falling on dream-dimmed eyes - W.B. Yeats "He tells of a Valley full of Lovers"


Of fear-undimmed endeavor- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"

Undimmed by hovering wraith of doubt - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy


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