Potential Titles: Tell/Told

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Tell me something about the dandelion - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"

Telling the light to stay outside - Etel Adnan "Night"

To tell the dirt it belongs to you - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

The stories we hadn't planned to tell - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"

Damned souls had never much to tell - Stephen Vincent Benet "Prohibition"

Wake without an alarm telling them - Jericho Brown "'N'em"

As if telling their sorrows - Sue Budin "'Passport, 1954'"

Sky knows more than Earth will tell - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"

And the reckless wind is telling now - E.W.C. "November" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

Tell me fifty thousand things - C.S. Calverley "Lines on Hearing the Organ"

If one arise to tell this truth - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Till the rocket tells the star - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"

One mighty blaze shall tell - Roger Casement "The Triumph of Hugh O'Neill"

Five teeth tell the sunburst story - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"

Could tell the meaning of that hidden charm - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

And tell him the history of his skin - Tina Chang "Fury"

the saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves - Lucille Clifton "1994"

No tongue shall dare to tell - Arthur Hugh Clough "Peschiera"

Every nerve and sinew tell on ages - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"

Telling time by rain and candles - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

Tell me quiet things - Hilda Conkling "Tell Me"

To tell where a rose has been - Susan Coolidge "Embalmed"

No more tongue to tell of the poppy - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Since my unequal pen essayed to tell - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Tell wider prophecies to me - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Axe of the Pioneer"

No one had to tell the devil - Tyree Daye "Don't Say Love Just Signal"

Shown the truth I shrank from telling - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Torment more than I can tell - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

And what will we tell anyone who asks - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

Who tells his need to Sunday bells - E.C. Dickinson "A Child's Voice"

Tell me the story of surrender - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"

Tell how they labored to deceive - Anthony Euwer "The Long Bet"

All the words the signpost tells - "Fairy's Album: V. Fairy's Dream"

But what can you tell me of sorrow - Tarfia Faizullah "Your Own Palm"

May not tell the change of time - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"

Luck is not my weather to tell - Jameson Fitzpatrick "Divorce Song"

Tell me no tale how Romans built - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

Tell of hearts you've sadly broken - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"

Tell of love dead and unspoken - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"

Who see so little they tell no tales - Robert Frost "Pan with Us"

The monoliths tell me everything - Gwynne Garfinkle "Scenes from a Marriage"

Tell my bones that they are each a lamb remembered - Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake "Someday I'll Love--"

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

Tell deep secrets to the Flower - Hafiz "The Divan XL" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Backstreet truth teller - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"

Cannot tell presence from memory - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"

Do tell why love must die - Jennie Earngey Hill "Song of the Brook"

Who can tell you not to mourn the dust? - Brenda Hillman "Porcelain Musician in a Child's Bedroom"

From lonely hearths too gray to tell - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Her cold volcanoes tell - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part I."

I have risked the chrysalis of my brother by telling you this - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Tells a rosary of death - Lionel Johnson "Parnell"

A saxophone that tells on me - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"

Tells no one except the sycamore - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

To tell the future what to be - Fady Joudah "[...]"

Tell you what I know - Ilya Kaminsky "Firing Squad"

Telling of joys that come no more - Frances Lamartine "Thistle-Down" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Leaving nothing to tell me who they are - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Could tell the truth of the future - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"

A sundial telling no time - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Modern Fiction"

Tell me of your wrath-built Babel - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]

an ancestor telling you to rise up - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"

No song can tell it all - Edwin Markham "Joy of the Morning"

Clothes have a way of telling stories - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

Tell your golden tale - Jeannette Marks "Ravello"

The frogs would tell you if they could - Don Marquis "In the Bayou"

Tell my sorrows to the winds of dawn - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

To the oars the sea will tell - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Kiss Refused" transl. by John Pollen

Tell the truth and sow the seeds of songs - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

To tell time in the cold - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"

Tell you your eyes are mirrors - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"

Tell you your eyes are windows - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"

The storm-seers failed to tell us - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

Telling journalists they are looking into it - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"

A family that did not tell the story - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"

I could tell of the splintered sun - N. Scott Momaday "Prayer for Words"

And can not tell what waits us at the brink - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"

Tell me what color I should wear to a funeral - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"

And tell me our love is remembered - Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "At the Mid Hour of Night"

Return to tell Egypt the story - Thomas Moore "Sound the Loud Timbrel"

To tell foeman from brother - William Morris "The Pilgrims of Hope II: The Bridge and the Street"

Can't tell Gethsemane from the Garden of Eden - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"

Wanting the oracle to tell me first - Hoa Nguyen "Revenge Poem"

Unto the ever hopeful future tell - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

Tell it to the wondering flowers - Meredith Nicholson "A Secret"

Do not hasten but pause to tell - Meredith Nicholson "Whereaway"

Tell the woods of their danger - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Not telling a lie for anyone - Sharon Olds "Suddenly"

A heartbeat telling stories in the dark - Matthew Olzmann "Astronomers Locate a New Planet"

Whoever does the telling - Soham Patel "Mixed with always"

Whoever does the telling stops time - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"

Not a stone tell where I lie - Alexander Pope "Ode on Solitude"

Telling the heart of their truth - Ezra Pound "Dum Capitolium Scandet"

Like a psalm of green days telling - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"

But who shall tell the dream? - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

what this city of smoke & blood has to tell - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"

I'm scared of telling the truth - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"

May tell us how our flax and wheat arise - Friedrich Schiller "The Simple Peasant"

Telling myself something sweet and something sacred - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #98"

A song's sweet strains to tell - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)

Tell our tales of plasma waves - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"

Tell the tale of tears - Clinton Scollard "The Little Creek Coonana"

The stories we do not dare to tell - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

The waves have a story to tell - Robert W. Service "The Three Voices"

Telling you my particular troubles - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Fortune to brief minutes tell - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIV"

Telling me to go toward myself - Danez Smith "it won't be a bullet"

Tell the past the truth about itself - Maggie Smith "Joke"

Shall I tell philosophy's fortune? - Marin Sorescu "Seneca" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Tell Zeal it wants devotion - Anonymous "The Soul's Errand"

Only the brook can tell - George Sterling "After the Storm"

Never tell of sorrowed things - George Sterling "The Peace of the Hills"

The twilight tells not which - George Sterling "Remorse"

The sands telling golden hours - Muriel Stuart "Boys Bathing"

The ruin in telling the truth - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"

Dare not tell your heart what it has suffered - Carmen Sylva "Rest"

Tell my sorrows to the Moon - Abdikheyir Khelil Tawakkul "Sharing My Sorrow" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

To hear bold seraphs tell - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"

To walk in the telling of things - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"

Depending on what I can never tell - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

We care not what old Homer tells - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

Telling wonders from the sky - Isaac Watts "A Cradle Hymn"

No need to tell our errand - Arthur Weir "Pere Brosse"

Tell them that light is never a metaphor - Charles Wright "Shadow and Smoke"

Tell them the shadows are already gone - Charles Wright "Shadow and Smoke"

Tell the waves stay back - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"

No use telling the dead - Kevin Young "Ledge"

Inside me a need to tell the truth - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "Amto remembers Hussein, Aljibbayn 1983"

In the bedtime story she tells herself - Timothy Yu "Chinese Dream 61"

Our knees tell truths - Javier Zamora "On a Dirt Road outside Oaxaca"

That never aches when I tell the truth - Matthew Zapruder "Haiku"


Will realize that I foretell their doom - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

By prophets long foretold - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"

Conscious of the thing foretold - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"

As a spark foretells a flame - Sara Teasdale "From the Sea"


Throwing stars and fortune tellers - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"


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

Told and retold to a highest bidder - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"


Told us this war would never end - Duane Ackerson "The War on Terror"

Half-truths told and entire lies - Maya Angelou "In a Time"

All the lies I should have told - Geoffrey Brock "Orpheus Variations. 2 In Which He Turns Inward"

Of higher hopes and prouder promise told - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Stories too painful to be told twice - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"

Told in shadows on the grass - Benjamin Copeland "The Larger Life"

Tales told in dim Eden - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"

They told me Pan was dead - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"

Told their secrets to the trees - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Told you right off this was a dream - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"

The sundial told in silence - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"

The facts were told not to speak - Jane Hirshfield "On the Fifth Day"

Be told by tears - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

A shawl of sparks over a story I have never told - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"

Told old stories to the night - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Told by the sound of bells - Lawrence Joseph "A Fable"

Told by Homer once - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"

Six hundred years twice told - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

The swan's black vanguard told it - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"

Old secrets of the landscape told - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"

Told on rosaries of drops of snow - Meredith Nicholson "Before the Fire"

Told time by the sun's position - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"

And told how Lethe's banks are filled - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems II: An Afternoon Soliloquy"

What the wind told the trees - Tim Seibles "Unmarked"

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 tales the sparrows told - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Was told women must swallow sand - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"

What the fog told them not to see - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Our salts can't forget what water told them - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Told and retold to a highest bidder - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"


Tremulous with pathos of a half-told tale - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"


All those mistold stories for destiny - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"


Untold.


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