Potential Titles: Call

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Our calling permits no retreat - A.L.O.E. "Hymn of Industry"

Those bottomless zeros are calling us - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"

With the fragrance we call grief - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

Spectres trooping to the wisard's call - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Crammed full of phone calls and supershriek demands - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

The seed we call our soul - Julia Alvarez "Locust"

Sleep's mellow horns are faintly calling - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Sleep's Serenade"

A call that requires you to hear your own whisper - Mouna Ammar "What it's Like"

In calling one thing by another's name - Rae Armantrout "Scumble"

What the pagans called god - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Where ruin echoes to destruction's calls - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

Passing through a furious fire called time - Mary Jo Bang "No More"

Hear the call from a hundred lands - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"

The call of the lonesome place - Djuna Barnes "Call of the Night"

Can hear his own answered call - Elizabeth Bartlett "Self-Evident"

To meet the sun-god's call - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Awakening of the Lilies"

A thousand torch songs calling out - Ellen Bass "Pearls"

The slow, dark cattle call of cause and effect - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"

Spirits that call and no one answers - Hilaire Belloc "Hannaker Mill (1913)"

And climbed the ladder of swords that men call Life - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"

The stubborn sergeant men call Pride - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Called Desire from his lightning - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

My voice opens and calls you in - Emily Berry "The End"

The sea calls home his crystal waves - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"

The blue space we call wonder - Sheila Black "The Earth"

The wayward cuckoo calls aloud - "The Blackbird" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Snap-frozen in the blizzards called down by Baba Yaga - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"

An owl's soft, pulsing calls - Terry Blackhawk "Along Waite Road"

The garden song calls the pollinators - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

Calls the watchman of the night - William Blake "A Dream"

Call me an eater of butterflies - Tommye Blount "The Bug Chaser"

And the cuckoo called again - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

I have called boulders - Robert Bly "Question in the Los Gatos Hills"

With cunning magic called your ghost - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

Call back that lost island - Geoffrey Brock "Odysseus Old"

And none can hear my secret call - Anne Bronte "The Doubter's Prayer"

November's gusts unheeded call - Emily Bronte "Faith and Despondency"

Each companion call and alarm - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

Sound a language that calls all language home - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Rain and silence paid another call - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"

Call your thoughts home - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Fear to call it loving - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Woman's Shortcomings"

Prattling current's merry call - William Cullen Bryant "The Rivulet"

Call on nature to collect and bind - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. First Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds

I called you so late - Julie Byrne "All the Land Glimmered Beneath"

Called through the shadow-swept air - Mary C.G. Byron "The Tryst of the Night (M. C. Gillington)"

A dark matter that calls my name - Cecilia Caballero "Octavia Said You Cannot Know How Deeply People Feel Their Ancestors"

Call'd a rebel out to lead the van - John Castillo "Old Sam! or the Effects of the Gospel"

Only one can be called home - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"

Calls from the future rang different - Connstynce Nduta Chege "To Get 2(54) You"

Can't avoid the fact of their calling - Catherine Chen "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left"

A grave where the hill-winds call - Nora Chesson "A Connaught Lament"

When Emily's deathly fly calls to her - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [Emily Dickinson]

Calling from every mirrored thing - Lucille Clifton [untitled]

Stretched to call me out of dust - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"

Refused to call the darkness poetry - Leonard Cohen "Welcome to These Lines"

Where we call up love and family - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"

From dark and icy caverns called - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

Hear clouds calling - Hilda Conkling "Clouds"

The path where calls my eager mind - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr "Sonnet [I would not tarry if I could be gone]"

The curlews' call gave token - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Called the roll of the roses - Nathalia Crane "The Roll of the Roses"

I call the gems from the necks of fair ladies - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

All these I encompass in my calling - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

And call upon the unknown Gods - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"

How shall I call you back? - H.D. "Circe"

Calls for a probable necessary sequence - Laura Da' "Twelve Gates"

Clarions of horizons calling - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh

Mountain voices calling vibrate there - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh

A small number of promises called tomorrow - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"

Her speaking full of ravens' calls - Tyree Daye "'tween my gone people & me"

Then I remember: when you're called, you go - Diana Marie Delgado "And So Many Are Dear"

The hours call out their commands - Carl Dennis "Bimini Queen"

The tasks that called him by name - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"

Because the light called - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"

The place called morning - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature II: Out of the Morning"

Each lonely owl hath ceas'd to call - Irving Sidney Dix "Starlight Lake"

And quiet between bird calls - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Call country ants to harvest offices - John Donne "The Sun Rising"

The cricket has called the second hour - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Call me back to their succor - A.E. "Love"

Call me a useless miracle - Cornelius Eady "Running Man"

The crimson windy call of liberty - Max Eastman "To an Actress"

Calling always for rain - Eve L. Ewing "Shea Butter Manifesto"

Call of the corncrake, cuckoo, or crane - credited to an emigrant named MacAmbrois "The Exile's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull

No bell to call the Hours - "The Feathered Hermit" transl. by Eleanor Hull

The splintered heights call me - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

Call me with fierce lights - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

Calls to fierce miracles - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

The edge of a thing called life - George Blackstone Field "The Answer"

When the loneliness is calling for her child - George Blackstone Field "Recalled"

Called up the saints of the ages - George Blackstone Field "The Rodman's Dream"

I remember well the far pipes calling - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

Call down moose from the mountain - Carolyn Forche "Calling Down the Moose"

Take the thin call of bells - Katie Ford "A Spell"

Call Summer by her name - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"

As museums keep calling out - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: IV"

Called from the depths of chaos form and might - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)

Calls the lightning from its throne on high - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)

My heart answering to the call - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Devil's Edge"

Hesitate to call it memory - Nikita Gill "A Mortal Interlude: To the Poets"

Slow our heartbeat to a cricket's call - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"

A lord in heaven called the sun - Louise Gluck "The Red Poppy"

Calling the hunger out of ourselves - Natalie Goldberg "Home"

When that call came down the wind - Mona Gould "So Fair a Season"

When I sound the fairy call - Robert Graves "Cherry-Time"

Heard the bitterns call from ruined palace-wall - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"

In heaven to be called upon - Linda Gregerson "My Father Comes Back from the Grave"

I would call back every hope and fear - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The task which calls for full endeavors - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"

Call like tongues of dread - Ivor Gurney "Omens"

Insomniac for a high noon called midnight - Raquel Gutiérrez "Would It Kill Me to Be a Nicer Guy?"

Vainly you call on the bluebird - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson

Call on the bluebird to deliver your passionate pleas - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson

When friendly summer calls again - Thomas Hardy "Summer Schemes"

Call off your eyes from care - Thomas Hardy "A Young Man's Exhortation"

Who hears the hungry lion's call - Frances E.W. Harper "The Sparrow's Fall"

If the wicked call from the other side - Yona Harvey "'I worked hard so my girls didn't have to serve nobody else like I did except God'"

Of whatever grief calls itself - Terrance Hayes "Twenty Measures of Chitchat"

At Fancy's potent call - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

And call each wayward passion - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Call on the watchers of the land to rise - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Calling his dooms to the Winds - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"

Calls me from my dreaming - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Friend"

Larger cadences call in the sea - Conrad Hilberry "Music"

Wake to my name called from nowhere - Krysten Hill "Nothing"

Will make you a special loan called Time - Tony Hoagland "Marriage Song"

The trumpet that shall never call retreat - Julia Ward Howe "Battle-Hymn of the Republic"

I call you home tomorrow - LeAnne Howe "1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed"

{too sacred to call it home} - fahima ife "a street in hollygrove"

her laughter calling to the orioles - Gary Jackson "Fly"

This is the storm we call progress - John James "Klee's Painting"

the premeditated activities you call life - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"

Calling through the seas and silence - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Trail to Lillooet"

A spectre men call Duty - James Weldon Johnson "Helene"

Call back to my silent memories - Lionel Johnson "Renegade"

Memory calls me to the earth's opening - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Can call a rainbow close - Susan Katz "Rainbow Lorikeets"

Silenced shrill blizzard voices' call - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Endurance"

The ghost snare of a gray whale's call - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

Buried the names you once were called - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Called down wind to shatter - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"

In the subtext called our lives - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Called for thunderbolts three - Rachel Kolar "Frankenstein Had a Marvelous Mind"

Calling through swirling birch - Christopher Kondrich "Caedmon"

Like homeless ghosts are calling - Archibald Lampman "Storm"

Whom Rome called vicious - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"

Follow where his Juliet calls - Richard Le Gallienne "Cor Cordium"

Though the sun calls and gentle zephyrs plead - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"

With silent hearts now call - Frances Ledwidge "In September"

Called upon the tide to come - Albert Lee "My Realm"

The power of earth called up into the ragged air - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

when dawn calls to daybreak - Michael Leong "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"

And stilled the panther's call - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, I: My Fathers Came from Kentucky"

Called up the dragons by name - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The dry hot wind called Science - Vachel Lindsay "The Scientific Aspiration"

Calls back the robin's song - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"

Up before the rooster calls - Lu Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

Old battle calls at night - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Adventure calls with every dawn - Sidney Royse Lysaght "New Horizons"

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

Call to book a hotel in hell - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

Heard a voice in the calling wind - Don Marquis "Haunted"

The echo calling fossil back to name - J. Michael Martinez "White"

The angels called from deep to deep - John Masefield "Christmas Eve at Sea"

Like April calling to the seed - John Masefield "King Cole"

A silver call that had a chain of gold - John Masefield "An Old Song Re-Sung"

The call of the running tide - John Masefield "Sea-Fever"

Call up a swamp in this desert - Farid Matuk "from 'For a Daughter/No Address'"

To bend and barter at desire's call - Claude McKay "Harlem Shadows"

That sings and calls but not for you - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

Driving forth with a resounding call - Alice Meynell "The Roaring Frost"

The beckoning stars which sailors call - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ackerman Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Where loneliest the shrilling cricket calls - Adam Mickiewicz "Baktschi Serai" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Where chill-winged curlews dip and call - Adam Mickiewicz "Tschatir Dagh (The Pilgrim)" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Call my name, leviathans - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"

Hear that whisper call you back - Rajiv Mohabir "Give Me a Boat That Can Carry Two"

because I called down blood rains - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

This unseen force that some called wind - Mark Nepo "Stopped Again by the Sea"

What to call this sharpest desire - Mary Oliver "Something"

Send distress calls to the stratosphere - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"

Call to the seas and mountains - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"

Crying and calling to me out of the trees - Seumas O'Sullivan "The Twilight People"

Appeared in our dreams calling - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"

The one in the mind called doubt - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

Those hydrangeas that I call forgiveness - Carl Phillips "Permission to Speak"

This song I also call mystery - Carl Phillips "The Same in Sun as It Felt in Shadow"

With the ghost I call failure - Carl Phillips "Snow Globe"

A call to dream so nothing occurs - Xan Forest Phillips "Black Heroism is Unskilled Labor"

My voice in anguish calls - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"

Who out upon Fate did call - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"

The call of quails across the desert - John Presland "The Deluge"

Called forth mercy for the fallen throng - Alexander Pushkin "A Monument" transl. by John Pollen

Until Apollo calls the Bard - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen

Calls the Bard to share the holy sacrifice - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen

Makes willing answer to Love's call - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"

Answer when the wild winds call - Herbert Randall "Feel of the Wander-Lure"

Then calls forth her sentinel band - Sam C. Reid, Jr. "Summer's Night"

Make a house called tomorrow - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"

For the honeysuckle calls you - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Spiritual Love"

And hear the skylarks calling to a heart that's growing old - Lloyd Roberts "The Homesteader"

His name the thunder of a battle call - Rennell Rodd "Une Heure Viendra Qui Tout Paiera"

each cell being called to the center - Giovannai Rosa "a force is a push, or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america)"

Will call to light the chastening light - Joshua Ross "On a Lady's Eyes"

Calling us all out into the waves - Mark Rudolph "Threnody at Sea"

Call up a hundred phantoms - Rumi "I Well Cherish the Soul" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

Where startled Echo rarely calls - Carroll Ryan "Malta"

would have been my name, if you didn't call me so - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"

What St. Francis called a mystery - Ira Sadoff "The Soul"

Slides by on a high wind calling - Carl Sandburg "Potomac Town in February"

Night calls its dogs - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

The web that we call truth - D.L. Sayers "Sympathy"

Never heard the call to shelter - Ann K. Schwader "Flash Specters"

Those poisoned claws called justice - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah V: Through Certain Angles"

And hear the sparrows calling - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"

The wilds where the caribou call - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"

Call not me to justify the wrong - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIX"

Call the ghost to my fragile table - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"

Would call him with false names - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

The bird called tomorrow - Frank Sherlock "It's Time"

Savage and mesmerized by my siren's call - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"

My siren's call to the vast and aching wild - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"

Build me a city and call it Jerusalem - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"

Called for the evening to come - Charles Simic "The Book of Magic"

trying to find a warmth to call home - Danez Smith "juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet"

Listen to the love calls of wild geese - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"

Every bird calls your name - Richard Solomon "Heaven's Gate"

Call me up to the attic again - Richard Solomon "Spring Cleaning"

Calls the river line to attention - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"

A sorrow you call teeth - A.E. Stallings "Two Nursery Rhymes: Lullaby and Rebuttal"

What golden people call it home? - George Sterling "The Last Island"

The seas of shadow call - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"

Calls thy thread misspun - Benjamin Stillingfleet "Sonnet"

My heart called out for some befriending face - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"

The call of the ages whispers and the countless ghosts awaken - Arthur Stringer "If I Love You"

Out of their dust they will call to us yet - Arthur Stringer "Some Day, O Seeker of Dreams"

Wake in a labyrinth called Monday - Chad Sweeney "Prophecy of a Monday"

Neglect not dreams nor call them worthless - Carmen Sylva "Night"

Till the night calls forth the moon - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"

To do battle and call the angels, like comrades, by name - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"

Chickens call from the tops of mulberry trees - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

As an orphan calls his vanished brother - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

I call the tides - Priscilla Jane Thompson "Song of the Moon"

To call your distant soul their own - Henry David Thoreau "The Atlantides"

Deep enough in the ground to be called roots - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [I wish you]"

looking for an orbit to call its own - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"

And call their pit a throne - John Updike "New York City"

The call of a long journey echoing across - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"

In some brighter dreams call to the soul - Henry Vaughan "The World of Light"

Call the far-sighted foxes - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"

The light of his strange calling - Derek Walcott "Eulogy to W.H. Auden"

The small range of wavelengths called the visible - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"

A call that made the life-blood leap - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "The First American Alliance"

Called his warriors by their name - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "King Philip (Pometacom)"

Where nothing wakes or calls - Charles Weekes "Dreams"

A sister calls the western gale - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Also called ghosts - Katie Willingham "Artifact (Disambiguation)"

Call out in the dark - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Pattern Recognition"

Fourteen faithful moons to call your own - Allan Wolf "The Moons of Neptune: Roses Are Red, Neptune is Blue"

The call of the perilous margins - Humbert Wolfe "The Well"

Words that called up the lightning - W.B. Yeats "Maid Quiet"

Found his singular calling - C. Dale Young "Portrait in Graphite and Ornamental Hagiography"

The earth's call to the scouring wind - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"


My body for a calling-card - Stephen Vincent Benet "P. P. C.--Madam Life"

No calling cards await - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"


All callsign and codename - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

Into the violence of our callsign - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"


Hide from the magic of my flute-call - Sarojini Naidu "The Snake-Charmer"


Owl-calls over its empty track - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"


An arrangement of uncalled-for words - Janet Kauffman "Uncalled-For"


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