Potential Titles: Melt

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The interior of a melting fear - manuel arturo abreu "Sound Has Ears"

Would melt her body into song - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Melting into condensed rain - Zaina Alsous "Dead as a Dodo"

As the stars melted into morning - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

To melt his troubled soul away - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

To melt the frozen face of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "All This, Before"

on the boiled side of melt - Samiya Bashir "Some days of wine and pastry"

Melt into mad, wet math - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"

Then melt as in a dream - Thomas Boyd "To the Lianhaun Shee"

archipelagos drowned by the melting of ice - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]

Have seen their morning melt in tears - Emily Bronte "Anticipation"

Melt on the horizon's rim - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

Then melt openly into layers of fire - Paul Cameron Brown "Cienfuegos"

Melt in tender light - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Still smiling as she melted slow - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Where a frozen heart can melt - Sue Budin "Spacecraft"

Violet splendor melting down - W. Wilfred Campbell "Glory of the Dying Day"

Melt the frost of each sullen mood - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

All within the time frame of a melting clock - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Forms and melts the surging haze - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

As melts a star into the day - Susan Coolidge "Through the Door"

Silhouettes flaring bright as glass melting - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"

As sunlight melts in wine - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"

Doesn't know iceberg from melt - Dante Di Stefano "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns"

Melting the ghosts of Winter - Irving Sidney Dix "An Idyll of the Hills part 1: March"

A winter's worth of melting snow - Chris Dombrowski "Coda"

Bright tapestry of boulders before the melt - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"

Melts the red light of the sun - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

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

These the Siroc could not melt - Ralph Waldo Emerson (uncredited) "The Test" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Where afternoon melts into night - Arthur Davison Ficke "A Watteau Melody"

Melt the glass and leave the sticks - Robert Frost "To the Thawing Wind"

Green mosses in the melting snow - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"

Pan's voice melted to a wail - Edmund Gosse "Philomel in London"

Melts no heart but mine - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"

Melted a little of itself out of sheer boredom - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

The cadence melting into air - Felicia Hemans "To Mr Edwards, the Harper of Conway"

Fill the ocean with melted ice - Arden Eli Hill "None of the Star Trek Ships Are Named After Confederate Generals"

With soft melting murmurs - John Imlah "Kathleen"

Snow-clad Cenis' heart of stone might melt - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

Melting ice and brown islands of bulrush - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"

Melting walls and circling vultures - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Melting in the sun's devouring ray - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Away, away! bear me away, away]"

Love was melting our two souls - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"

Never Icarus with wax melting - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

And the broad prairie melts in mist of tears - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

Melted before I remembered my name - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

Where the pale sea melts into the sky - Dorothea Mackellar "Sea-Fog"

A heart that can melt stones - Heather McHugh "A Physics"

The melting voice through mazes running - John Milton "L'Allegro"

Will melt from earthly mould - John Milton "Verses from the Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity"

Leaping fountains breathe like melted gems - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Melting away as it's moving along - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

Of hope that melted in air - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"

In golden haze melt down the amber sky - "My Psalm" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]

Forging dreams big as melting stars - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author

Melting into the flood of night - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Time melts when white hawks come - dg nanouk okpik "When White Hawks Come"

The melting that gold requires - Jose Olivarez "Mexican Heaven"

Whose floating glory melts within the sky - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Melt from clubs to hearts to doorsteps - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"

Spent decades learning how best to melt - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

Or melt at others' woe - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

Melt into a faintly honey-scented mist - Tim Pratt "Angel Bites"

Melting aisles of liquid light - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Aspiration"

Until my soul was melted into song - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Spins dooms and weirds and meltings - Edgell Rickword "Winter Prophecies"

Melt me down with your charms - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Fiercer than melted snow - Raquel Salas Rivera "the independence (of puerto rico)"

Memory a verb that melted to a nothing - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"

Hammered, beaten, seven times melted - Taras Shevchenko "On the Eleventh Psalm" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Melting each frozen bone - Joyce Sidman "Invisibility Spell"

Melting the landscape of glory - E. Clementine Stedman "A Winter Scene"

Hundred league lake of melted silver - Su Tung-p'o "Mid-Autumn Moon" transl. by Burton Watson

Yellow melting like a firework petal - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"

Might melt with midnight into cold air - Sonya Taaffe "Teinds"

To thaw and trickle with the melting snow - Henry David Thoreau "The Thaw"

Allowed time to melt - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Lessen"

Melted blue by starlit blade - Edwin Torres "Temporality at 5 a.m."

Melts in a sunset of fire - Louis Untermeyer "Revelation"

the heat of mythologies at melt - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

Melted into a bead of whiskey - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"

the fist of new snow on its way to melting - Asiya Wadud "number four"

The silver dawn of night that melts the dark - Edith Wharton "Impromptu"

Melt down the amber sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

And melt not in an acid sect - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

To let its frozen hours melt - Richard Wilbur "Anterooms"

Where madness melts in bliss - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

The sun that melted the wings' wax - William Carlos Williams "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"

Ice caps don't choose to melt - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"

That first warm rain that melts the heart of earth - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"

Melting objects, disappearing sounds - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"


Burned with tears and flower-melt - John Ciardi "Abundance"

This new century of cosmic meltdown - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

Meltwater frozen for millennia - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"

The relief of snowmelt - Carl Phillips "Anyone Who Had a Heart"

Unmelted by the powerless sun - Tim Newcomb "December 2013"

Impervious as unmelting hail - Lola Ridge "Ward X"


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