Potential Titles: Thread

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Pull the thread of my hair - Rasha Abdulhadi "find me again"

The bobbins keep threading a mazy dance - "Abroad"

Calmly I rise with broken threads - Harold Acton "Conversations and Crumbling"

His poor thin thread of voice - Harold Acton "Trepak"

With pinpricks emitting memory's wavy threads - Rosa Alcala "You Rode a Loop"

A voice threaded through the whistling breeze - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

Thread my voice with lies - Maya Angelou "How Can I Lie to You"

Each thin thread tethered - William Archila "Spirits"

A gather of knuckles and thread - Taneum Bambrick "After Picasso's 'The Rape'"

Wrists twined with a red thread of electricity - Mary Jo Bang "The Ana of Bliss"

Leather cobbled by thread and nails - Mary Jo Bang "The What Within"

Flung to us a spark, a thread of fire - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"

And cutting the golden thread - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

Dreams whose thread she weaves - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"

Lingered over old threads of truth - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"

A thread in Nature's web - Ardelia Maria Barton "Nature's Plan"

Threading the world's delusive maze - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

Not the crystal acorn not the golden thread - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"

The empty sky in threads like glass - Stephen Vincent Benet "Going Back to School"

The keen precision of your words wove a silver thread - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Advice" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

No machines to thread us into the invisible world - Joshua Bennett "Summer Job"

Unravels us into our separate threads - Paul Bernstein "After Hours"

Like threads unraveling a celestial heritage - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Chaco and Olivia"

Weaves a black thread between white days - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

Lightly threaded with nimble feet - Laurence Binyon "The Little Dancers"

And threading all the mazes of the crowd - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Threaded with orderly shimmers of repentance - Max Bodenheim "Poem"

Relentless shredded threads - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"

Dull threads mingle life's woof between - John Philip Bourke "Till Day Is Done"

Thread the scented paths of pine - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

Who made the thread of flax and hemp - Francis Burrows "The Unforgotten"

Where glowworms dangled sticky threads - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"

Sticky threads to catch unwary insects - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"

Threading depths of pearl and rose - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"

As Sandhill cranes must thread the meadow - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"

Through gloomy caverns threads his way - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto II"

the thread running forever in shadow - Lucille Clifton "shadows"

Though every thread is torn - Leonard Cohen "Dance Me to the End of Love"

Six impeccable threads of scorn - Leonard Cohen "Homage to Morente"

A thread of light - Leonard Cohen "Show Me the Place"

If no grey threads are in our gold - Arthur Colton "Heirs of Time"

Who thread its tangled maze - Arthur Colton "Wordsworth"

Let grace in each gliding thread be hid - Barry Cornwall "The Weaver's Song" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]

All thy threads with magic art - William Cowper "To the Same"

Where threads of gold the sun enweaves - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

Follow a sequin thread of dead things - Cynthia Cruz "Final Performance"

Threaded on the wind - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"

Fate spans that gulf with mystic thread - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"

Thread the dews all night - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature IX: The Grass"

A thousand threaded images of flight - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"

Scarlet threads of sorrow - John Gould Fletcher "The Endless Lament"

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

Threads the river's mouth shut - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Catch"

Paint her border with a smoke's thread - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Painter"

With a smoke's thread - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Painter"

Threaded with crescent meaning - Tracy Fuad "Eclipse Season"

Berries to thread in golden strands - Rose Fyleman "Alms in Autumn"

Thread the silence with a lute - Zona Gale "To a Poet"

Threads of doubt, unwinding spools - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

The threads are so fine you can hardly see - "Grandmamma Spider" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]

Threads our hair with the loam of night - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"

Divide & twine a scarlet thread - torrin a. greathouse "Medusa with the Head of Perseus"

Some silver thread of sound - Ivor Gurney "Old Martinmas Eve"

When time threaded earth and sky - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"

With silver thread of dew - Alfred Hayes "My Study"

Confiding in our threads of life unspun - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"

What thread of Ariadne leads me - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

To lift the threads of life - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Breath of Life"

And thread the path whereon the lightnings play - Mary E. Hewitt "I Follow" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

A thread snipped out of the design - Conrad Hilberry "Pelican"

Nor think life's brittle thread to sever - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Hope On--Hope Ever" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Quivering on their silken threads - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Evening"

In silver thread and diamond notes - Langston Hughes "Flatted Fifths"

A thread of shaken silver - Aldous Huxley "Points and Lines"

A thread of ice penetrating the human sciences - Lucy Ives "First Husband"

With thread and the threat of leaving - Marlin M. Jenkins "Self Portrait as Fear of the Dark"

Any breath works as thread - Joe Jimenez "Broken Retablo for Being on My Back, My Feet Bare & in the Air"

No thread of bow or moon - Charles Bertram Johnson "A Song of Hope"

Like network threads of fire - Emily Pauline Johnson "Nocturne"

Use wax, and thread, and awl - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]

Thin threads of breath beginning to fray - Douglas S. Jones "A Tuesday Night"

Unequivocal as crystal thread - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

A silken thread of my own hand's weaving - John Keats "I Had a Dove"

Smoke threads the afternoon - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

Sunlight climbing a thread of spider's silk - Ted Kooser "A Glint"

The platinum thread beyond them - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

Regrouping thread by thread - Maxine Kumin "The Zen of Mowing"

Each thread of memory snapt - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

Wavering threads of silver - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"

Threaded with filigree silver, and uncanny cold - D.H. Lawrence "The Bride"

Silver-like thread the tarantula weaves - Ida Lee "The Forest King's Lament"

Each thread a highway to its charge - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Strung with threads of purple fire - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

A screeching thread, sharp and cutting - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"

Control with gossamer threads wide-flown - James Russell Lowell "The Dancing Bear"

A bright thread through the spreading ashes - Mario Luzi "Las Animas" transl. by Dana Gioia

Threading an outlandish void of sound - Harry Martinson "Aniara 8" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

As I imagine threads of starlight - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)

Made of stardust and spider thread - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm of Departure"

That his thread of years is a life more blest - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]

The threading of breath and blood - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Sweet with the golden threads - Claude McKay "Flame-Heart"

An ancient wheel spinning a knotted thread - George Meredith "Bellerophon"

String threads of grass and slender rye - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Threads of old sound heard - W.S. Merwin "Remembering"

Keeping time with the thread of light - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Slips red thread around its spool - Janice Mirikitani "For a Daughter Who Leaves"

Spins her thread from the spool of her heart - Janice Mirikitani "For a Daughter Who Leaves"

Thread from the spool of her heart - Janice Mirikitani "For a Daughter Who Leaves"

Threading the points of needles - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"

a gymnast on a thin thread of the horizon - Valzhyna Mort "Belarusian I"

Knots tying threads to everywhere - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"

Joined the threads of my blood - Pablo Neruda "Epithalamium" transl. by Donald D. Walsh

Threads of all untidy happenings - Pablo Neruda "Memory" transl. by Alastair Reid

Knitted with threads of twilight - Pablo Neruda "Ode to a Pair of Socks" transl. by Mark Strand

Spinning the threads and strands of destiny - Pablo Neruda "Ode to an Aged Poet" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

The hard thread that will uphold the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Ascending from one living spiral thread - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"

Catches the thread of all sorrows - Naomi Shihab Nye "Kindness"

Thread space with our irregular journeys - Naomi Shihab Nye "Necessity Is Only 8 Miles Away"

Stretches out the thread between days - Naomi Shihab Nye "San Antonio Mi Sangre: From the Hard Season"

Tugging black thread of tunnel - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: The Parade"

Life's threads all sorely tangled - John Oxenham "All's Well!"

Thread a needle against time - Dorothy Parker "Parties: A Hymn of Hate"

If your dreams were thread to weave - Dorothy Parker "To a Much Too Unfortunate Lady"

To follow a thread of song - Dorothy Parker "A Well-Worn Story"

To thread the trackless, distant sea - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"

The four threads of the compass - E.J. Pratt "The Fog"

Take the threads of faith apart - E.J. Pratt "In Retreat"

Keep just one thread of doubt - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: A Warning"

They walk on a thread of dust or water - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"

The cold perfection threaded through with rage - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"

A spindling thread unraveling silver - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"

Threads of tortured silver - Lola Ridge "Electrocution"

Hanging by a thread of light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"

Picking up the slipped threads - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

As a fierce red spider on a burning thread - Lola Ridge "Jude"

Threads her fingers through the moss - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"

A web threaded with fading fire - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"

Life's nervous thread with care to twist - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

Full often thorns upon the thread - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

Threat to break the thread by force - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

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

The future draws its crimson thread - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"

That weave their thread with bones - Shakespeare "Twelfth Night"

A black thread before the mystery - Charles Simic "First Thing in the Morning"

Thy threads of wonder deep-entangled - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"

All the threads of earth wear to the breaking - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

The thread and weaving of his way - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Twisting of the threads of years - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Though the thread too is air - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

Threaded with lightning and hurt - Patricia Smith "Voodoo VIII: Spiritual Cleansing & Blessing"

Slip along the endless thread of thought - Susan M. Spalding "At Friends' Meeting" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]

Spinning her wild white thread - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"

to thread my sternum through to you - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"

Like a bead along the thread of light - George Sterling "The Glass of Time"

A stellar pallor that hangs on the threads - Wallace Stevens "Lebensweisheitspielerei"

Every fairy wheel and thread - Robert Louis Stevenson "The House Beautiful"

Bulwarked with a thread of foam - Trumbull Stickney "At Sainte-Marguerite"

Calls thy thread misspun - Benjamin Stillingfleet "Sonnet"

This slenderest thread of one thin pulse - Arthur Stringer "The Life on the Table"

I have threaded narrows, and I have passed through perils - Arthur Stringer "Protestations"

Twisting bright swift thread on airy looms - Muriel Stuart "The Thief of Beauty"

Threading woods, tangling rocks - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson

Scarlet needle threaded with birdsong - Alison Swan "After an Elder Was Found in the Woods, Dead from a Self-Inflicted Gunshot"

Pull an invisible thread through - Arthur Sze "Rock Paper Scissors"

Minds unraveling like threads - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"

Lightly threaded with stars - Sara Teasdale "Afterwards"

On golden threads of hope and fear - Rose Terry "Then"

The frigid threads of doubt and dark - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

Through the black threads that defined me - Russell Thorburn "Scars"

The wind threads its needles through skin - Russell Thorburn "Tracking the Wolf"

Each delicate, rival thread - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

A firefly threading the darkness - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson

Threading of bullets in muscle and bone - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"

The threads of yesterday - John Updike "Song of Myself"

Thread the labyrinth with flying feet - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

A prestigious thread of saffron - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"

Molasses threads descending toward devotion - Ocean Vuong "Devotion"

Turning dew into threads - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"

Caught the threaded echoes of the breeze - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"

What threads the fatal sisters spun - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Whiter than silk and redder than thread - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"

Makes a needle and thread of itself - L. Ash Williams "Red Wine Spills"

Into a vague melody of harsh threads - William Carlos Williams "Trees"

Blind as a thread of water - Yvor Winters "The Moonlight"

See that never thread lie wrong - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]

Along a thread of sun - Jenny Xie "Chinatown Diptych"

To scrub away the silk threads of pain - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

Before the thread began - W.B. Yeats "His Bargain"

With thread made of memory - Matthew Zapruder "Come On All You Ghosts"

To turn my blood into thread - Matthew Zapruder "Little Voice"

Losing the red thread - Matthew Zapruder "Luna My Captive"

Threading time's slit-eye needle - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History: III. The Gone World"

Each hour a gilt thread spool - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Those breezes that hang from a thread - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 3" transl. by Katherine Silver


In her hand her gold-threaded slippers - Li Yu "[Blossoms bright, the moon dark]" transl. by Burton Watson


The tether-thread coiled around her wrist - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"


Threadbare.


Ringing of threadwork and carpet - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"


Unthreading through the blue eucalyptus - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"


A golden woof-thread of circumstance - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"


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