Potential Titles: Million

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A million heartbeats against the silence - Elmaz Abinader "After Breakfast"

Becomes millions, billions of miniscule glass boxes - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"

The hand that millions now can grasp - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle

Time with a million beating wings - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

One million incensed gestures - Maya Angelou "Savior"

Of million bees in old Lime-avenues - Martin Armstrong "Honey Harvest"

Among a million beating hearts - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Tramping millions drifting from one pole - Maurice Baring "Beethoven"

Brimmed with a million tears - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

Broke upon them like a million swords - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

Come home, you million ghosts - Stella Benson "The Cornishman"

So I might see those million ghosts come home - Stella Benson "The Cornishman"

Provoked its million tears and sighs - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

Watch the seething millions swarm - Edmund Blunden "The Watermill"

Appraise the aggravated fortune of the stranded millions - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"

The history of a million birds - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"

All Nature's million mysteries - Emily Bronte "Anticipation"

And millions in those solitudes - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"

A sky blistered with millions of stars - Sue Budin "Markers"

Disengage one man from the million - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

Millions fleck the face of Heaven - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Sweetness spilled from a million petals - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"

A million years before the blooming sun - John Davidson "Thirty Bob a Week"

The stars die a million years ago - Kwame Dawes "Last Days"

Peppered with a million spent moths - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

With a million midnight spots - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Pepper Shaker"

With a million stars you pin it to the sky - Eleanor Farjeon "The Night Will Never Stay"

The million lights of the polar-star - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs III"

Splintering into a million fragments - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

You who storm millions of graves - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

Over the million intricate threads - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Cutting me with its million rays - Deborah Garrison "Birth Day Pun"

A million silver planets spun - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"

One million doves in the driver seat - fei hernandez "Singing Funeral"

Mackerel that school by millions - Conrad Hilberry "Schooled in the Open Sea"

While voices of millions are shouting aloud - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

A white stucco ceiling with its million spider-cracks - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

With the crying blood of millions - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"

That for which millions prayed - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

Against a million anonymous eyes - Elizabeth Knapp "Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman's Instagram Account"

Staring into those million million suns - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Accomplice of a million crimes - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VII: A Reproach"

A flat red lily with a million petals she unfolds - D.H. Lawrence "Bombardment"

Have cajoled the souls of millions - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"

Sun-ripe Nature's million strings - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

The million airs that you pervade - Henry S. Leigh "The Subjects of Song"

The first of our million dancing years - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"

When a million years were done - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The scintillating eyes of a million strangers - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"

A million strangers waiting for you to fall - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"

A million graves to nurse the buried seed - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

Getting dealt a thousand scratches by a million splinters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

Hear her million voices hum - Dorothea Mackellar "Flower and Thorn"

Blown outward for a million years - Don Marquis "The Awakening"

The garnered music of a million Springs - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Assures me of a million memories - Herbert Woodward Martin "Appraisal"

Might sail a million years in nothing - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

These million leagues of fires - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

The million cells of sense - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

A million jeering lips and eyes - Theodore Maynard "The Fool"

Hear a million alien gospels - Alice Meynell "Christ in the Universe"

The million living fathers of the War - Alice Meynell "A Father of Women"

Fight a million regiments of wrong - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"

Raise millions to slaughter - Carlos Montezuma "Civilization"

For all my million little nothings - Yesenia Montilla "High Stakes"

Haunted by millions of hungers - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Torrent"

What madness to the million clings- "Napoleon" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

Showered a million joys - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"

Over our heads there were millions of stars - Sarah Noble-Ives "Thro' Fairyland"

Like a million flowers on fire - Mary Oliver "The Buddha’s Last Instruction"

A million brilliant ambers twisting - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"

Crowned with the snow of a million winters - James E. Pickering "The Call of the Mountains"

Millions of tangled comets - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The White Moth"

Millions of fruits grafted instead of born - Noel Quiñones "Orange"

Jeweled with a million flaming points - Lola Ridge "After Storm"

In a million avid points - Lola Ridge "Jaguar"

That have tamed a million such - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"

And a million tongues of madness rose singing - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"

A million torches and spears of flaming wings - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"

Somewhere among the million stalks - Christina G. Rossetti "A Green Cornfield"

Dead and lost beyond a million days - George William Russell "Babylon"

Death made wide a million gates - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"

A million sparks were whirling - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

A million miles of white snowstorms - Carl Sandburg "Two Strangers Breakfast"

For a million years and a day - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"

Millions of strange shadows on you - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIII"

Listening to the curious beauty of the sound of a million voices - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"

Merely a million angels - Patricia Smith "To 3, No One in the Place"

Repelled by millions of sea shells - Marin Sorescu "The Sea Shell" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Its million breaking bubbles - George Soule "Winter's Pride"

Told and retold by millions of bodies - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

The elephant and his million hands - Edwin Torres "Under Venus's Hair"

With all its million fires - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

The million laws of nature's realm - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours X" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Through its head swim a million fishes - Dean Young "Undertow" [ Poetry Nov. 2007]


A millionaire in little wealths - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love III"

Until the dreams of millionaires are clothing for the poor - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

That no millionaire can buy - Tom Hall "She Is Mine"


A million-dollar god with a two-cent heaven - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"


Through their million-footed dirge of unconcern - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"


To feed the million-throated swine - Sam Walter Foss "The Wail of the Hack Writer" [The Fly Leaf, v.1 no.2, Jan. 1896]


More than one million years past her last sigh - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]


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