Potential Titles: Mile
Jan. 5th, 2011 08:17 pmMy legs are tense from tabulating the miles - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"
Across thousands of miles of sky - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
Miles off approaching like a storm - Carl Adamshick "Black Snow [I live between the bus stop]"
Over 3,000 miles of aborted anticipation - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
Chalky cliffs and miles of sand - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Goes twenty miles further than possible - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Measure the miles with pebbles - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
Took half a mile of sunlight - Martin Armstrong "The Buzzards"
Two miles walked over a bridge - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
To haunt these sounding miles - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
Who had wandered a weary mile - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Another mile of silence - Leonard Cohen "Coming Back to You"
A heart at the mile's end beckons - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"
Mile upon mile of snow, ice, burning sand - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Miles of spaced echo - Robert Creeley "My New Mexico"
for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"
Its billion-mile-long pocket comb - Chris Dombrowski "February Sidereal with Backyard Doe"
Measure the miles in vines - Heid E. Erdich "Red Vines: Lines for Deloria"
Count miles on telephone poles - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"
Exactly half a mile from the ocean - Megan Fernandes "In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife"
Shrapnel bursting a mile in front - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"
And morning found the breeze a hundred miles away - Robert Frost "Wind and Window Flower"
The wind and dust of a thousand miles - Fu Hsuan "Woman" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Along the miles of tight-strung wire - Dana Gioia "The Argument"
Till echo rang a mile - Jean Glover "O'er the Muir amang the Heather"
Mile after mile slipping in between - Angelina Weld Grimké "Paradox"
Through the miles of relentless exile - Joy Harjo "For Earth's Grandsons"
A thousand mile escape homeward - Joy Harjo "Leaving"
As we beat up the mile - Cicely Herbert "Horses of Tartary"
To make a robe you'll wear ten thousand miles - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Fulling Cloth for Clothes" transl. by Burton Watson
Frightened a thousand miles away - Langston Hughes "Migrant"
That marks every mile devotion - Gary Jackson "Kansas"
A good mile and a half of wind - Ilya Kaminsky "A Widower"
Miles and miles of footprints in the dirt - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"
And stared a hundred million miles - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
The cracked earth radiated out for miles - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"
To shroud the miles across the face of the seas - Janet Kauffman "Reparations"
Travel for miles on the waves - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"
All the gray miles of this storm - Michael Lauchlan "Rain"
The lone weed tumbles ten thousand miles - Li Po "Seeing a Friend Off" transl. by Burton Watson
Where poppies bloom for miles - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
Singing the miles behind him - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"
With miles and miles of unused sky - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Homesteader"
A mile of twisted scaffolding - Anthony Madrid "I Know It But I Don't Know It"
Reaching out three thousand miles ahead - John Masefield "A Ballad of Cape St. Vincent"
Dead museums and miles of misery - John Masefield "Biography"
In a thousand miles of ugly scrubby waste and desolation - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Turn into a thousand dark miles of water - Brandy Nālani McDougall "On Finding My Father's First Essay"
Through the menacing miles - Claude McKay "Absence"
And joy of that last mile before I reach the sea - William Moore "Expectancy"
Miles of violence in their eyes - No'u Revilla "Welcome to the Gut House"
Nine miles of mist and fire - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"
Eighteen-hundred miles to a river of fire - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"
Thousands of miles spent in solitude - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"
And walked into the remaining hours and miles - Tim Pratt "The God of the Crossroads"
Fanned by perfume from fruitful miles - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Streaming over the blue miles - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Stamped the miles of mosses and blackened out the day - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
A mile across each single door - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A million miles of white snowstorms - Carl Sandburg "Two Strangers Breakfast"
Mile and a half of public sun - Teresa J. Scollon "July Fourth"
Thus far the miles are measured - William Shakespeare "Sonnet L"
Beyond the sapphire miles - George Sterling "The Wind"
Both in the inch and in the mile - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
Black festoons that stretch for miles - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
In snowdrifts ten miles north - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"
Half a mile down from Monticello - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"
The mile that walked to you - "Turvey Top"
Through calm unmeasured miles - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"
Slicing through thousands of miles - Jenny Xie "The Game"
In ghostly gardens a hundred miles away - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
Spinning and twisting a hundred miles away - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"
Must keep to a half-mile track - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Saltbush Bill"
Mileposts on that road of dread - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: V. Portrait of the Incomparable John Cowper Powys, Esq."
Had passed some milestone unaware - Dana Gioia "The Road"
The milestones into headstones change - James Russell Lowell "Sixty-Eighth Birthday"
The gleam of the milestones you must pass - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XI. The Lodger"
That has a ten-mile voice and shines as far - W.H. Davies "The White Cascade"
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Across thousands of miles of sky - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
Miles off approaching like a storm - Carl Adamshick "Black Snow [I live between the bus stop]"
Over 3,000 miles of aborted anticipation - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
Chalky cliffs and miles of sand - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Goes twenty miles further than possible - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Measure the miles with pebbles - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
Took half a mile of sunlight - Martin Armstrong "The Buzzards"
Two miles walked over a bridge - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
To haunt these sounding miles - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
Who had wandered a weary mile - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Another mile of silence - Leonard Cohen "Coming Back to You"
A heart at the mile's end beckons - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"
Mile upon mile of snow, ice, burning sand - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Miles of spaced echo - Robert Creeley "My New Mexico"
for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"
Its billion-mile-long pocket comb - Chris Dombrowski "February Sidereal with Backyard Doe"
Measure the miles in vines - Heid E. Erdich "Red Vines: Lines for Deloria"
Count miles on telephone poles - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"
Exactly half a mile from the ocean - Megan Fernandes "In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife"
Shrapnel bursting a mile in front - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"
And morning found the breeze a hundred miles away - Robert Frost "Wind and Window Flower"
The wind and dust of a thousand miles - Fu Hsuan "Woman" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Along the miles of tight-strung wire - Dana Gioia "The Argument"
Till echo rang a mile - Jean Glover "O'er the Muir amang the Heather"
Mile after mile slipping in between - Angelina Weld Grimké "Paradox"
Through the miles of relentless exile - Joy Harjo "For Earth's Grandsons"
A thousand mile escape homeward - Joy Harjo "Leaving"
As we beat up the mile - Cicely Herbert "Horses of Tartary"
To make a robe you'll wear ten thousand miles - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Fulling Cloth for Clothes" transl. by Burton Watson
Frightened a thousand miles away - Langston Hughes "Migrant"
That marks every mile devotion - Gary Jackson "Kansas"
A good mile and a half of wind - Ilya Kaminsky "A Widower"
Miles and miles of footprints in the dirt - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"
And stared a hundred million miles - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
The cracked earth radiated out for miles - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"
To shroud the miles across the face of the seas - Janet Kauffman "Reparations"
Travel for miles on the waves - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"
All the gray miles of this storm - Michael Lauchlan "Rain"
The lone weed tumbles ten thousand miles - Li Po "Seeing a Friend Off" transl. by Burton Watson
Where poppies bloom for miles - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
Singing the miles behind him - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"
With miles and miles of unused sky - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Homesteader"
A mile of twisted scaffolding - Anthony Madrid "I Know It But I Don't Know It"
Reaching out three thousand miles ahead - John Masefield "A Ballad of Cape St. Vincent"
Dead museums and miles of misery - John Masefield "Biography"
In a thousand miles of ugly scrubby waste and desolation - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Turn into a thousand dark miles of water - Brandy Nālani McDougall "On Finding My Father's First Essay"
Through the menacing miles - Claude McKay "Absence"
And joy of that last mile before I reach the sea - William Moore "Expectancy"
Miles of violence in their eyes - No'u Revilla "Welcome to the Gut House"
Nine miles of mist and fire - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"
Eighteen-hundred miles to a river of fire - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"
Thousands of miles spent in solitude - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"
And walked into the remaining hours and miles - Tim Pratt "The God of the Crossroads"
Fanned by perfume from fruitful miles - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Streaming over the blue miles - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Stamped the miles of mosses and blackened out the day - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
A mile across each single door - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A million miles of white snowstorms - Carl Sandburg "Two Strangers Breakfast"
Mile and a half of public sun - Teresa J. Scollon "July Fourth"
Thus far the miles are measured - William Shakespeare "Sonnet L"
Beyond the sapphire miles - George Sterling "The Wind"
Both in the inch and in the mile - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
Black festoons that stretch for miles - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
In snowdrifts ten miles north - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"
Half a mile down from Monticello - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"
The mile that walked to you - "Turvey Top"
Through calm unmeasured miles - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"
Slicing through thousands of miles - Jenny Xie "The Game"
In ghostly gardens a hundred miles away - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
Spinning and twisting a hundred miles away - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"
Must keep to a half-mile track - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Saltbush Bill"
Mileposts on that road of dread - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: V. Portrait of the Incomparable John Cowper Powys, Esq."
Had passed some milestone unaware - Dana Gioia "The Road"
The milestones into headstones change - James Russell Lowell "Sixty-Eighth Birthday"
The gleam of the milestones you must pass - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XI. The Lodger"
That has a ten-mile voice and shines as far - W.H. Davies "The White Cascade"
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