Potential Titles: Street

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Walking onward, through streets we can't see - "Abroad"

Up the electric street - Dorothy Keeley Aldis "Spring"

The creative tempest of the Paris streets - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

Green-faced violin players guarding vertical streets - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

Streets of wine and wandering - Maya Angelou "Lady Luncheon Club"

My shadow in the street - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"

In the world's most crowded streets - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"

The street with its zebra crossing - Mary Jo Bang "Night After Night"

Your soldiers singing in the street - Maurice Baring "Russia"

See frightened ghosts on the streets - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog"

through streets of mirrors - Elizabeth Bartlett "mood on a string"

The dry wind through stony streets - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Refugees"

The problem of a street game - Samiya Bashir "You're really faithful to your abusers, aren't you?"

The dusty passion of the streets - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

Until her darkest streets ran weltering fire - William Rose Benét "The City"

Counterfeiting you on street-corners - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"

Steal pity from city streets - Maxwell Bodenheim "More About Captain Simmons"

Streets and buildings in constant flux - Bruce Boston "Dream People"

Through gray streets beneath an ashen sky - Bruce Boston "Gray People"

Realism hastening down that leaden street - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gathering of Dead Wood"

Shadow spilling out onto the street - Sue Budin "City"

Through the great sinful streets - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

The parade flooded the streets with sea wreckage - Alicia Cole "Once, I Was a Mermaid"

Shout and whistle in the street - John Davidson "Thirty Bob a Week"

Shadowing the dizzied street - Walter de la Mare "The Two Houses"

Beyond that length of lazy street - Salomon de la Selva "Tropical Town"

Streets where the wind talked to us - Diana Marie Delgado "They Chopped Down the Tree I Used to Lie Under and Count Stars With"

Lost the right to sing in the street - Toi Derricotte "Blackbottom"

The stony sermons of the street - Austin Dobson "Prologue"

On the wintery streets of this imagination - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

Veiled walks in twilight streets - Jeanne d'Orge "The Sealed Package"

The street of our fathers - r. erica doyle "Where Is She ::: Kote Li Ye"

Hoarse with crying gospels in the street - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

The pride of custom and the gossip of the street - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

The street held in a lunar synthesis - T.S. Eliot "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"

Bid the dusty streets adieu - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Then blood gurgled down the corners, the streets and the rivers - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"

Cross streets become strangers - Maggie Farren "Palms"

A maze of cuneiform streets - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

Vortex streets of cylindrical sound - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen i"

Streets of heaped glass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"

The secret music of the street - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"

When the rain comes to erase the streets - Suzanne Gardinier "Stammering translated sonnet in which the poet sends the rains of Havana to her love in New York"

In her eyrie above the dark street - Mona Gould "The Old Lady and the Cat!"

Down dirty streets in stench and smoke - Robert Graves "Oh, and Oh!"

Twisted stones of shaken street - Bartholomew F. Griffin "The Other Army"

Quiet street and the friendly door - Edgar A. Guest "When Day Is Done"

Backstreet truth teller - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"

Every street with snares is spread - Frances E.W. Harper "Save the Boys"

Down in the anywhere streets - Robert Hayden "Soledad"

Charge through dead end streets - Stephanie Heit "The Shock Machine: Neuromodulation Master"

Mists still haunt the stony street - William Ernest Henley "In Hospital I. Enter Patient"

Screaming out to an empty street - Jenny Johnson "Spaces"

Then decades crashed to the street - Saeed Jones "Skin Like Brick Dust"

Who tread the jewelled streets - Joyce Kilmer "Chevely Crossing"

Death is a one way street - Kim Unsong "One Way Street"

The hieroglyph of its streets and rails - Michael Lauchlan "Detroit Pheasant"

The glaring streets of brick and stone - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Erupting out of the shadows into the burning streets - Angela Liu "The Witches Are Without Work"

A wilderness of sad streets - Amy Lowell "From One Who Stays"

Through travail of ignoble midnight streets - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"

Memories of heroes pave the ancient streets - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"

In the street, standing in the dust - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)

Traversing the winding maze of streets - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

To grace a triumph in the streets of Rome - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The streets of a forgetting city - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

The smoke of every sullen street - Theodore Maynard "Cecidit, Cecidit Babylon Magna!"

Unclot and flow in the streets of spring - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"

Through a Gethsemane of city streets - Bernard M'Evoy "A Photograph in a Shop Window"

Around the tossing park and down the softened street - Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"

The oracle of the street - Dante Micheaux "Center Ring"

Through streets of sheeted May - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"

Streets greased with whiskey - Maggie Nelson "Wish Fulfillment"

The threadbare music of your streets - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

Streets of sea and wind - Pablo Neruda "To Don Asterio Alacaron, Clocksmith of Valparaiso" transl. by Alastair Reid

Broken glass fallen in a bitter street - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

Driving his parched streets - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"

In the thousand streets beyond reach - Naomi Shihab Nye "Wind and the Sleeping Breath of Men"

Three wild turkeys crossing the street - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"

Who can sing amid this roar of streets - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Blown down in the streets of Jericho - Andre F. Peltier "At the Grave of Little Sadie"

Rained wrath upon the streets - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"

And fall on bleeding streets - Willie Perdomo "The Making of a Harlem Love Poem"

Iron fences line the streets - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"

A house on the street of broken dreams - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Street of Broken Dreams"

Guarding a house on the street of broken dreams - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Street of Broken Dreams"

To weave a web across the street - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Georgetown, U.S.A."

From one dark street to another - Charles Reznikoff "Rhythms (Section I)"

Raced by each blind-folded street - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"

Rimming vistas of mean streets - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

In a thousand streets unfurled - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Knight" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Ceaseless winds that eddy down to whip the iron street - Lloyd Roberts "The Winter Harvest"

A heart graffitied fuchsia on the street - Sahar Romani "Sign"

Mystery and fury of a midnight street - Muriel Rukeyser "Reading Time: 1 Minute 26 Seconds"

Deserted streets of marble halls - Carroll Ryan "Malta"

The next enchanted cross street - Gilbert Saenz "Mystic Avenues"

Upon the pebbles of her streets - Frederick George Scott "Dion"

Down the scarlet glittering street - Robert W. Service "The March of the Dead"

Heavy and slow in the streets of ruined cities - Gilbert Sheldon "St. Anthony's Township"

Streets so bare they grow voices - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"

Whose streets with tears are wet - George Sterling "The New State"

The chance romances of the streets - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"

Brought me blood from the sliced streets - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

Idling in streets and thoroughfares - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson

Poured through the soot in the street cracks - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"

Each grey street mourns - Iris Tree "[The caravans of spring are in the town]"

A gutter down the white-hot streets of Hell - Iris Tree "Flame"

Faery glitter in the streets of chance - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"

The darkness cannot light the street - Perhat Tursun "The Night" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

The street with its pitiless eyes - Louis Untermeyer "Any City"

Still selling to the empty streets - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"

Could go nowhere that required a street - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: ii) Godzilla in Shakespeare"

The street's dead dust and factory's frown - William Watson "The Glimpse"

Where high walls shade the steep old streets - Mary Webb "Market Day"

Through the dense-crowded streets - Arthur Weir "Pilot"

Streets where the weary may walk without fear - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"

Walk through the abandoned streets - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"

Borne along the street by captive leopards - Elinor Wylie "August"

Enduring streets where dreams were bought and sold - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"

O Socrates of the streets - Zheng Min "Student" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung


Streetlight/Streetlamp.


Street-smart hip-hop of starling song - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "starling"


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