Potential Titles: Let

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Let none judge us rashly - "Address to St. Andrews"

Let the blue light wash away the blood - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Poor planning lets fate devour the happy story - Mary Alexandra Agner "Sleeping Beauty"

Let the groundhog dream his dream - Joe Aguilar "Let Water Be Water"

Let down the lightning from a sultry sky - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

In ill-weather lets the ledge show fang - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Let something sour drip into your dreams - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

Let the fog visit and vanish - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"

Don't let them twist your silence - Raymond Antrobus "The Ghost of Laura Bridgman Warns Helen Keller About Fame"

Let amorphous restlessness condense - Rae Armantrout "Help"

Letting the fields escape - Simon Armitage "The Present"

Let hallowed dust return to dust - B. "Two Pictures: Love Celestial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

When you let go of a debt - Mary Jo Bang "From the Edge"

Let the string be knotted on its linear axis - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"

Let fragments hold a space - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"

Letting the ink of night in - Lou Barrett "Black Milk"

let me have time's dusk perspective - Elizabeth Bartlett "dusk I love"

let silence sleep between us - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"

let autumn shake its leaves - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"

Let patient mourners weep - Cora C. Bass "Dead on the Field of Battle"

Let glory light my face - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"

Let it arrive as fire - b: william bearhart "No More Fire Here: A Sestina"

Let them air the inn they keep - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

And let the crabs hack at my armor - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"

Lets fall a supernumerary horror - Robert Blair "The Grave"

never let them know your true size - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"

Let us dance by metal waters burned with gold - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

Let us go back and search the tangled dream - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

Let the majestic dahlia glitter - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

Nor let the aching heart pursue - Francis Ernest Bradley "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.25-v.1, 21 June 1884]

Let portcullis and drawbridge fall - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]

Let time and tears destroy - Emily Bronte "A Day Dream"

Let them fight for honour's breath - Emily Bronte "Song [The linnet in the rocky dells]"

Let us not with one stone kill - Nickole Brown "Parable"

Let my ears go secret agent - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

Let my hands quit their clapping - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

Let me triangulate icy shuffling under snow - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

Let the mimic canvas show - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Let me taste it whole - Sue Budin "Mouth"

To let nothing else slip away unsecured - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

Let earth give back the footprints - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVIII. Love's Vain Expense" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Let my heart forget - C. Burchardt "Complaint"

Letting trouble trundle by - Witter Bynner "Young Eden"

From the edge of a precipice lets himself fall - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

I will let you think the sea is sacred still - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"

Let thy first lessons from nature be won - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]

Let oblivion's curtain fall - Thomas Campbell "The Last Man"

Let us remain in word and action strangers - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Humanity"

Let it enchant the dolphins and the whales - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"

Let us keep our souls in silence - Annie Rothwell Christie "The Woman's Part"

Let justice reign supreme - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"

Let men be what they seem - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"

Let my heart get frozen - Leonard Cohen "Almost Like the Blues"

She lets the river answer - Leonard Cohen "Suzanne"

And let me in at the door - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"

Let the ice-plains echo - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

Let's commence the vigil of kisses - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

To let a red sword of virtue plunge into my heart - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Let the impatient wind push me - Shutta Crum "At the River"

Let us be merry before we go - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"

There's no letting go of a crab - Kurt Cyrus "Hotel Deep"

Let the pears cling to the empty branch - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"

Let memory in vain conspire - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"

Who will let loose a river of lament - Kwame Dawes "Talk"

Let Fame with wonder name the Greek - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

No more let Rome exult in Trajan's name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Deep and majestic let the numbers flow - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

To flee because home wouldn't let us stay - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

And let night surge over you - Harriet Dean "Blue-Prints: The Pillar"

Let no pebble smile - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life IX: The Test"

Letting go without drowning - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Happiness when it Comes"

Let the shadows troop to darkness - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

Will not let the zodiac distract us - Boris Dralyuk "The Bureau of Street Lighting"

Let all the song-birds die of love - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"

Yet let them be divine - T.S. Eliot "Song"

Let each man praise the river - William Hodgson Ellis "Magaguadavic and Digdeguash"

Let it be a symbol of a broader scope - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Let my tears stream free - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Let no bird escape her snare - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Never let the ball escape his glove - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"

Or let the Winter's gloom be yours - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

Let the rude waves beat their sullen music - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]

Let his weakness die in self-reclaiming dust - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

Over your bed let the Yew-bough fall - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"

Let the moon and the Pleiades set - Henry Farnan "How to Make Contact with a Lost Star System"

Let one Eye his watches keep - John Fletcher "Folding the Flocks"

Let the timid feet of dawn fly - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Let pomp and pride and the treasures of earth be given - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]

And I let it fall and break - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"

Let me into your grief - Robert Frost "Home Burial"

That I need learn to let go with the heart - Robert Frost "Wild Grapes"

Of love let's have no more to say - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]

Let your eyes flower from the dusk and flame - Zona Gale "Return"

Let but an adverse cloud appear - Thomas Gent "The Heliotrope"

Let someone else ascend the heights of Machu Picchu - Dana Gioia "Travel"

Let the whiskey tell the tale - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"

To let the heart sleep lightly - Mona Gould "Autumn Is Unfair"

Let not your anxious hearts be swayed - C. L. Graves "A Ballad of Eels"

The world so rarely lets us in - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"

Let not a false fate bind - Grenville Grey "Write Thou Upon Life's Page"

You said let's love like the lotus - Kimberly Grey "Reverie"

Let your existence define the boundary - Jin Ha "Whether You Like It Or Not" (translated by the author)

Let your chambers show no sorrow - Thomas Hardy "To a Well-Named Dwelling"

Let pythons wrap themselves around you - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

Let the sunlight of truth ever flash from his eye - Robert M. Hart "The Patriot's Wish" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Let the doves of fancy loose - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Around the Boree Log"

Let angels carelessly with robins sing - F.W. Harvey "That I May Be Given Fellowship of Angels and a Happy Heart"

Let its greener laurels flourish - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

Let not his royal dust be hid - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"

So let us toast our Foe of Foes - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

Let Joy sear every inch - Faylita Hicks "Black Escapism"

Let midnight gather up the wind - Conrad Hilberry "Christmas Night"

Mozart lets the chords fall in place - Conrad Hilberry "Divertimento 563"

Letting your hunger ride a ten-foot span - Conrad Hilberry "Pelican"

Let Fury lead the way - Jennie Earngey Hill "Sailing"

Letting the play develop in front of him - Edward Hirsch "Fast Break"

Let God pray to us for this man - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

Let its vastness be undisguised - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

But let the screaming echoes rest - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXV: The Oracles"

Let me mind the house of dust - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XII"

Letting midnight out on bail - Langston Hughes "Jam Session"

Let handfuls of the fat ears fall to them - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Let one grave our relics hold, entwined - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

Let me wed my fate - Jean Ingelow "Scholar and Carpenter"

Let me stay and taste undying Youth - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Let comets land in my mouth - K. Iver "Because You Can't"

But let it run to grass and weeds - "Johnny's Garden" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Let silence drill its hole - Daniel Johnson "Inheritance"

Let me be buried in the rain - Helene Johnson "Invocation"

Bursting, lets a thousand colors fly - James Weldon Johnson "Down By the Carib Sea (VI: Sunset in the Tropics)"

Letting reason go up in smoke - Camisha L. Jones "Accommodation"

And let the law go whistle - Ilya Kaminsky "Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle"

A crime to let a bad man live - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"

Let not my weak tongue faulter - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

A ring-dove let fall a sprig of yew - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Let me behold the summer sky - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

Let the unexpected take shape - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Let him fashion you from sandalwood - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 2"

Let the birds build nests out of your lies - Vandana Khanna "Fable"

Let you cut your teeth on my heart - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"

Let them come for what's left - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

Let forth Destruction's formless fiend - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

This time, we're going to let kudzu have a shot - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"

Let your eyes be fragmented - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"

Let there be a stone of suffering - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"

Let the fruit taste of sweetness and dust - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"

Let my spirit dream a while - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"

Let them disencumber your bounty - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"

Lets Passion's loosened elements fly - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

Let the braggarts go sleep in the gutter - Henry S. Leigh "Anacreontic (for a Cavalier Tea-Party)"

Let the foe be strong as he may - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Lets loose the whirlwind's vengeful power - "The Lesson of War" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.1, Jan. 1862]

Let the Furies rend her guilty soul - Amy Levy "Medea"

And let the tears together flow - Amy Levy "To Sylvia"

Objects that would not let you go - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

And let Reason keep the door - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Let the dust rise off in waves - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"

Windows open to let the fog roll - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

Let a thousand prophets have their due - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

Let the witches swallow it all - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"

Let the world's whispers call you in - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "barn owl"

Let new names take and root - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "dandelion"

Letting Fate to her fiddle - Kenneth MacLeod "Dance to your Shadow"

Let its secrets leak out into the starlight - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Let the March storm snuff out my flame - Naomi Long Madgett "How Shall I Face the Dawn?"

Let me find your guarded eyes - Naomi Long Madgett "Post-Script"

Let your speed decay - Anthony Madrid "Brake Light Out"

Let the muses close the horror shop - Randall Mann "End Words"

Let the dry heart fill its cup - Edwin Markham "A Prayer"

Let us abandon the moon - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Sonnet for Judith"

Let it be midnight here - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"

Let there be bells rung backward - John Masefield "King Cole"

Let loose from a barbed hook - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

Into the furnace let me go - Claude McKay "Baptism"

When night lets fall its fall - Claude McKay "Harlem Shadows"

Let's be off to the gray sea's border - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson

Let the world grow weeds - Edna St Vincent Millay "Interim"

Let sunlight gather in their hollow hands - N. Scott Momaday "War Chronicle"

Let us both listen till we understand - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"

Letting cloud take what shapes it may - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"

Let the sun's rays speak - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Let the golden rivers flow - Francis Neilson "Fortune, You Have Naught I Need"

Let weeping root me - Maggie Nelson "The Deep Blue Sea"

Let's just say I hope - Marilyn Nelson "Safe Path Through Quicksand"

Let fall its tears like glacial swords - Pablo Neruda "Appointment with Winter" transl. by Alastair Reid

Let dew fall on horseshoes - Pablo Neruda "The Earth" transl. by Richard Schaaf

Let the circus admire our own dexterity - Pablo Neruda "Elegy: XIV" transl. by Ilan Stavans

Let the confident voice emerge - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A place that let us all sorrow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Unforgettable"

Let go of the wrists of idleness - Mary Oliver "Black Oaks"

Let the bitterness sink to the bottom - January Gill O'Neil "In the Company of Women"

When I die let me live - Meghan O'Rourke "Unforced Error"

Just let me stand here with an open eye - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

Arranged its shade to let hearts of sunlight fall - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"

Let loose by the blackbirds - Linda Pastan "The Blackbirds"

Let our anger be as fire, blasting chains and tyranny - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Let me calmly wait the summons - Samuel D. Patterson "The Prayer of the Dying Girl" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Will let sparrows build their nest there - Kailee Pedersen "Aviary"

Let her multiply in gold - Kiki Petrosino "Sermon"

Let the nights unfurl before them - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"

Manifestation of letting go - Carl Phillips "A Summer"

Let it be hail, rain, freeze or snow - "Poor Old Horse"

To the huntsman let him go - "Poor Old Horse"

Let kings and empires tremble - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"

To let forbidden thoughts go free - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"

Letting hunger quicken the hunter in me - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

Let it be a history learned from orange - Noel Quiñones "Orange"

Swing wide to let the sunset through - Herbert Randall "The Winnetuxet"

Let silence speak in my stead - William Reichard "In the Evening"

Let the iron run wild - Lola Ridge "Reveille"

To unbar the gates and let the rivers run - Lloyd Roberts "One Morning when the Rain-Birds Call"

Let the spring of life well up and drown the empty quest - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"

Let my name for ever be a question - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Let the stars belong to themselves - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"

Let the walls be hung with black - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"

Let these dreams and terrors cease - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"

Let us nourish beginnings - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"

Let your heart alone go dreaming - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"

Dry things letting us drink - Kay Ryan "Dry Things"

Let life replace memory - Omar Sakr "Where I am Not"

Let me lift and loosen old foundations - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"

Let the woodpecker drum and drum - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"

Let a Fury borrow lyre, notes, and dress - Friedrich Schiller "The Muses' Revenge"

Let to infinity the thread extend - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

Let love be silent - Jason Schneiderman "Wedding Poem for Ada & Lucas"

All kinds of wishes let loose - Teresa J. Scollon "Goodbye to Dwight Lipke"

Let us crown him where he sits apart - Robert W. Service "The Man Who Knew"

Let me resurrect beyond the bracken - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"

Let not winter's ragged hand deface - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VI"

Deep in the dust let all such pass away - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Let all the flowers wake to life - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick "Easter"

Let peace be in the hearts that mourn - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick "Easter"

When home won't let you stay - Warsan Shire "Home"

Let the static swallow me whole - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"

If you let those sleepy eyes stay closed - Mrs. L.L. Sloanaker "The Birds' Concert" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Let us praise the ghost gardens - Maggie Smith "Perennials"

Let all men go apart and mourn together - James Stephens "Deirdre"

Lets bad instruments produce the best events - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

But Fate is careless and will let us go - Carmen Sylva "The Gnat"

Let the patterns arrange themselves - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Let their cats go out hunting at night - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

Took the wind and let it go - Sara Teasdale "Places III: Winter Sun (Lenox)"

With doubts that will not let me rest - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

Let your fugue pursue its scornful flight - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

The dark itself parted to let us pass - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Latent"

not letting me baptize the dark - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

Ever insurgent let me be - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"

Let them rise from the heart's tomb - Lydia L.A. Very "Memory" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Let not my name still be a word of grief - Mrs. E.R.B. Waldo "The Dead Child to its Mother" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]

Let it rust under the stairs - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

And let who can be clever - Charles William Wallace "On Kingsley's 'Farewell'"

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

Nor let the grass of tarrying grow - William Watson "Lines (with a Volume of the Author's Poems Sent to M.R.C.)"

Let sugar snow on my mitten - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"

Let the lamb wake in the dawn - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Come Shaker Life"

And let the folly-chimes outvoice the tone - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"

Content to let the north-wind roar - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

On joy and pleasure let my wishes feed - "The Whore"

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

Like the dewdrops, let us scatter - Myra Viola Wilds "Dewdrops"

Let the polished plows stay idle - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"

To let the light in means exposure - Katie Willingham "Terrifying Robot Update"

Then let the world its malice all combine - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Let your song rise on twisted breezes - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"

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

Let the drum be ready for the dance - "XXIV" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Let us keep our stars to ourselves - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"

Let the gods look away as always - Kevin Young "Hive"

Forget me and let me drift - Javier Zamora "Instructions for My Funeral"

Let us exchange dreams - Matthew Zapruder "Journey Through the Past"

Let me go from here to anywhere - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"


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