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"

Who are calling out of the dimness vague and vast - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"

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"

When all dim heaven is trembling into stars - William Rose Benét "Unforgotten"

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

Dimmed by the lightning's ever-fitful glow - Ralph Chaplin "Prison Nocturne"

Dim landscapes of despair - Ralph Chaplin "Prison Shadows"

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"

And count some dim inheritance of sand - Hart Crane "The Wine Menagerie"

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

In the golden gloom of dreamland dim - Olive Custance "Twilight" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]

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]

Shed dim tears in Sorrow's pew - Jean de Esque "[To those that felt the wand of Muse]"

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"

That dim star that crowns its summit - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"

O'er the billowy waste of dim oblivion's flood - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]

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"

That dim Dock where Charon loads his Ship - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"

With dim realms of more enraptured rest - A.E. "The Feast of Age"

The dim and silver end of the day - George William Russell aka A.E. "Forgiveness"

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

Haunting dim memory with the early glory - Elizabeth J. Eames "Early English Poets: Addison" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]

Many long years have sped, and dimmed in dust - Elizabeth J. Eames "Early English Poets: Shakespeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.2, Feb. 1848]

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"

Some dim and tranquil world of golden pagodas - Arthur Davison Ficke "Three Japanese Paintings: II. Dream of a Chinese Rock Promontory (A Screen by Sesshu)" [The Little Review, May 1916, v.3, no.3]

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

A purple lure of love divine and dim - Nora May French "Mirage"

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"

To the cold constellations dim and high - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"

Dim paths that lead to odorous glooms - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]

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

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

Your gracious ways that are patterned in dim stones - Katherine Hale "Poetesses"

Trooping down dim flights of measured air - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"

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

On paper wings flit dimly through the night - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]

That lie in the dim shadow of the years - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Doubt"

When the sky was dim from some worn glory - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "A Dream"

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

Dimmed each star in memory's sky - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Homeward Bound" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]

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"

On empty stages of the years awake in the dim light - Samuel Hoffenstein "The Theatre Scrub-Woman Dreams a Dream" [The Broadway Anthology]

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

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

Over this dim indistinguishable country - David Hornibrook "Shadow Country"

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

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

Round the world's dim fringes tossed - Aldous Huxley "Leda"

Dim intermediate space with parallels of luminous dust - Aldous Huxley "Morning Scene"

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"

Never see the glory of this perfect day grow dim - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

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"

A dim undying hearth for loves that roam - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

Dim planets hung above the trembling trees - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

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]"

A pillar dim of gathered gusts and fiery rain - Henry Kendall "A Death in the Bush"

Dim with dreams of sudden storms and gusty surge - Henry Kendall "Drowned at Sea"

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

Heard a mellow hunting horn make dim report - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]

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

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

These dim, gray outer courts of her fantastic palace - Emma Lazarus "Fog" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]

Through the dim vista of past years - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"

Whose soft dim light would rise to bless each summer - "Lines in Humble Imitation of an Inimitable Scottish Poet" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

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

Twilight woods that brood dim in the gulfs beyond - H.P. Lovecraft "Fungi from Yuggoth" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]

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"

Climbed the dim and dreaming streets - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"

Seek among the dim realms of the dead - Frederic Manning "Demeter Mourning"

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"

Rocks in dim confusion rise - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."

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

To view the dim unshelter'd Waste - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "The Fall of Needwood"

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

Dim are the depths of the City of Dis - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Dives in Torment"

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"

Clogs the head and dims the eyes - "Pleasures of Snuff-Taking" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.333, 27 Sept. 1828]

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

From age-old tombs in dim dimensions hid - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [Fantasy Fan v.1, no.11, July 1934]

Amid dim hills that poison mosses blast - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]

Veils the secrets of those dim retreats - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]

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

The dead years seemed fallen dim and strange - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]

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"

Thro' their arched walks, dim at noonday - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"

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

Through the dim distant years it resoundeth - I.A.S. "In the Rhine Woods: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.24-v.I, 14 June 1884]

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

In this dim palace of grey Solitude - "A Sacred Grove" [Household Words no.26, Sept. 21, 1850]

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"

Ancient arches dim with caverned twilight - Odell Shepard "Laus Mariae"

Till Time's expiring lights grow dim - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]

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"

With the dim charnel gloom damply around - G.P.T. "Thaptopsis" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

Where the sundering shoals of day vex the dim sails - John B. Tabb "Dawn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Nov. 1889]

Your dry soul crumbles by dim degrees - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXXII: The Sum of Things to Another Woman"

Dim drachmas of his infinite arrears - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XLIV: The Conquest of Immortality"

By night the same great roof of stars is dim - Sara Teasdale "Enough"

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]"

Whose shadows fall grotesque and dim - Nora C. Usher "Mistletoe" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.49--v.I, 6 Dec. 1884]

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

That makes birds dream where dim boughs sway - Paul Verlaine "Nocturne" transl. by Clara Shanafelt [The Little Review, May 1916, v.3, no.3]

Until the eyes of the world grow dim - George Sylvester Viereck "The Ballad of the Golden Boy"

Dim earth's beauty with stain and spot - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]

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"


Their lines strain toward blood-dimmed collapse - Ryu Ando "The Drum Star (Orion's Ghost" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive Special 2017]


Reposed on some dim-curtained shelf and tasted peace - Samuel Hoffenstein "The Star Is Waiting to See the Manager" [The Broadway Anthology]


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"

Eyes and their undimmed lattices of flame - Hart Crane "Lachrymae Christi"

Come quietly and be undimmed - Alice Fulton "Tough Zinnias"

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


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