Potential Titles: Amid/Mid/Midst

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Alone amid so much dark - Francisco X. Alarcon "Somewhere Else"

Sweet sings the missel-thrush amid the crash - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"

Amid the shock of rudest storms - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"

An anointed queen amid her maids - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"

Amid this noisy Babel mingle - B.B. "Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Amid the calm and liberal air - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

Amid the beaming of love's stars - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "Dirge"

Uncursed amid the harpy tribe - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

Amid the wilderness of waves - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

Amid his red and reeling priests - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"

Amid the promise of perish - Jari Bradley "Unruly"

Amid the kisses of the soft south-west - William Cullen Bryant "Autumn Woods"

Amid the mild and mellow light - William Cullen Bryant "A Walk at Sunset"

In dread solitude of soul amid the faithless - Edward Carpenter "Beethoven"

Amid such choruses of desire - Lucille Clifton "sorrow"

Ply the hook amid the yellow corn - Arthur S. Cripps "The Seasons' Comfort"

Amid the persistence of fireflies - Shutta Crum "How Poetry Reframes the Moment"

Found some anchorage amid our days - Shutta Crum "Navigation"

White ash amid funereal cypresses - H.D. "Helen"

Amid this wilderness of life - Lucretia Maria Davidson "To My Mother"

Speak out amid the depth of night - Irving Sidney Dix "Hope"

Array in harmony amid the deep - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Forever amid these lights - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Amid the maelstroms of desire - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"

Lost amid the azure of the skies - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

And lose myself amid so many alike - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

Bright amid the vapourous fears - H.C. Harwood "Dedication, of an Unwritten Masterpiece, to a Woman as Yet Unknown"

I stood amid the forms of light - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Amid the flying ruins of strife - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"

Amid the hush of ages - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Art of Alma-Tadema"

Warps and wefts amid mats of moss - Jenny Johnson "Gay Marriage Poem"

Sat unmoving and alert amid devouring light - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

In tears amid the alien corn - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Amid the dwellings where dreams go - John Langdon-Davies "Quits!"

Crushed amid iron walls - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IV: Night Sounds"

Wakening amid the silent ruins of Zion - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Amid the reeds at setting sun - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

myrtle amid the tall wonders of juniper - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"

Single notes amid a glorious throng - Amy Lowell "Listening"

Has reared them amid tempests - Alice C. MacDonell "The Weaving of the Tartan"

Amid the wreck of visions dead - Don Marquis "The Seeker"

Hiding in burrows of fate amid great cities - Edgar Lee Masters "Theodore the Poet"

Enthroned amid the choirs - Theodore Maynard "The Building of the City"

Amid the tantrums of the privileged - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

He sat amid a burning world - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Hell" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Amid the multitude of buried hours - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

And thorns amid the roots - Pablo Neruda "America" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Amid the pinnacles of wrath - Pablo Neruda "Elegy" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Seeking amid the watery constellations - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Amid the encircling gloom - John Henry (Cardinal) Newman "Lead Kindly Light"

Amid war's furnace flame - Meredith Nicholson "In Ether Spaces"

Who can sing amid this roar of streets - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Made solitude appear amid the waste - Philo "The Tribute"

Amid the bright reflections of the day - Charles Constantine Pise "Summer Evening"

Amid the tempest he aroused - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"

Amid the boasts of victory - Alexander Posey "The Conquerors"

Amid the wrecks of truth - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

She walks amid the golden fields of Time - Thomas Buchanan Read "Lines, Suggested by Rogers' Statue of Ruth"

Moved amid the multitude of olive trees - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

Whirled amid the pillared frame of ivory - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 3: The Ray II"

Amid the plumbless jasmine of the light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"

Amid the silver loneliness of night - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"

Amid mirth's unrestricted din - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil - Carl Sandburg "Chicago"

Crept amid the branches of the elm - L. Virginia Smith "Bless the Homestead Law"

My thoughts amid the golden spheres - Ezra Hurlburt Stafford "The Last Orison"

Amid old elms and older mansions - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Here amid the seething London tides - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"

We stand amid blown cypresses - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"

Amid the flux of many thousand years - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

Sank amid ripples of light - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"

Still wrangled for a crown that lay amid the dust - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"

Amid the dust of vanished lives - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."

Amid a marble solitude - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"

Who grieves amid earth's dying leaves - W.J. Turner "Death"

Amid unblemished guests - John Updike "Hiroshima, 2000"

Amid the white and crimson store - Henry van Dyke "Reliance"

True amid the red instant - Emily van Kley "Premises"

Bright joy amid my stones - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell

Revelled amid the sculptured lattices - Thomas Walsh "Egidio of Coimbra--1597 A.D."

Amid the ruins of my shattered life - Helen Hay Whitney "Water and Wine"

Let us revel amid the shield-flowers - "XVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Amid the wandering, starry mirth- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Hid his face amid a crowd of stars - W.B. Yeats "When You Are Old"

Amid a crowd of stars - W.B Yeats "When You Are Old"

Amid winds that vanquish the grass - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


A long brass gun amidships - John Masefield "A Ballad of John Silver"


Amidst the scuttling of bear and mice - Sandra Alcosser "Cry"

Amidst a tightening lattice of hungry radiance - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

Serene amidst alarms - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Bits of life amidst the spores of stillness - Paul Cameron Brown "Devastation"

Her lantern glows amidst sweet eglantine - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"

sleep amidst a barricade of trees - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

Amidst the idols of speaking tides - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Accuracy amidst the perpetual scattering - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

An immortal crane amidst the screams - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

Can find you amidst this atlas of tears - Naomi Shihab Nye "Lunch in Nablus City Park"

Amidst this intolerable radiance - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

Amidst the delusion of June - Richard Solomon "Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion"

Amidst onions, and turnips, and tape - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

Amidst the soundless solitudes immense - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Stardust standing amidst a field of stones - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"

Seeking solace, grace, amidst the chaos - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"



And chaos spread mid majesty and grandeur - William Anderson "The Alpine Horn"

'Mid the wrecks of a falling world - Avena "Columbia's Banner"

Mid snares and pitfalls scattered - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds

To pause 'mid its day-dreams so witchingly bright - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"

The holly mid ten thousand thorns - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"

Melts from the mid spheres of heaven - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

Pooled 'mid reeds and gorse - Louise Imogen Guiney "A Reason for Silence"

'Mid whose wild din I pause - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Dwell mid the currents of time - George Santayana "Fair Harvard"

Mid Ether's columned temples - "Superior Nonsense Verses"

'Mid hollow charnel let me watch the flame - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

Lose themselves mid groves and copses - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"


Reversing direction mid-air - Cheryl Dumesnil "It's not the Holy Spirit"

The glasscut-moon healing into midday sky - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

New moon in midheaven - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"


In the midst of pretending to drown - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

Mice in the midst of things - Mary Jo Bang "Can the Individual Experience Tragic Consequences?"

To a man in the midst of dissolving - Mary Jo Bang "Having Both the Present and Future in Mind"

Music in the midst of desolation - Laurence Binyon "For the Fallen"

That loves to dwell 'midst skulls and coffins - Robert Blair "The Grave"

In the midst of a dazzled conclave - C.S. Calverley "Flight"

In the midst of secret things - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Holds out midst flood and fire - Joseph Horatio Chant "Brotherhood"

Midst crashing masts and raging flood - 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]

Frowns midst the roses - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Midst ruins finds a dwelling - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

Temperance in the midst of ecstasy - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"

Midst multiplied cares they have such power - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

In the midst of his fifth lustre - Giacomo Leopardi "Consalvo" transl. by Frederick Townsend

Love in the midst of rue - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"

In the midst of this unending Light - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

Traps in the midst of dreams - Wallace Stevens "Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks"

Arose in the midst of dreams - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Song of Rahero: I. The Slaying of Tamatea"

Amidst the clover sweet with dew - Nixon Waterman "Thoughts Thought Whilst Thinkin' About Mary and Her Pet Lamb"

In the midst of irrational things - Walt Whitman "Me Imperturbe"


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