Potential Titles: Stir

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What conjuring stirs up this earth - Elmaz Abinader "Falling into the Ocean"

Absolute zero is stirring in the President's head - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

Dead winds above us stir - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

From beneath Gehenna stirred - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

A handful of murmur and stir - Mary Jo Bang "An Individual Equinox Suitable for Framing"

The stir of something red - Elizabeth Bartlett "Afternoon of a Journey"

Till liquid sweetness stirs the air - Cora C. Bass "A Song to the Zephyr"

Became a stir among corruption - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"

The Sphinx stirred, shaking the drifted moonlight - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Plumage stirred by golden air - Park Benjamin "Audubon's Blindness"

At every shut door in the stirring city - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

Which scarcely stir the growing grain - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"

Born in the stirring midnight's sigh - Edmund Blunden "The Watermill"

Upon a mountain stirring a surmise of floods - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

Drowsy heart stirs from the cistern - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

A passionate music stirs without her walls - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"

A restless presence stirring with the light - Caris Brooke "March Violets"

Never stirred by rain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

All the green herbs are stirring - William Cullen Bryant "Summer Wind"

Yet the sands are stirred and wars increase - Francis Burrows "Egyptian"

Night stirs but wakens not - A.Y. Campbell "Animula Vagula"

The squirrels stirred in dusty dreams - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

With mystery and iron laughter stirred - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

Stirred by the newborn wish to conquer - William Cory "Amavi"

Cities that stir in a dream - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"

Fields of stars that strangely stir - Walter de la Mare "Beware!"

With solemn echoing stirs - Walter de la Mare "Music"

Dimly stirred by tropic hint - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XII: Psalm of the Day"

variations stirred in quandary - LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs "suffering soccotash"

When the silver hazels stir - James B. Dollard "Song of the Little Villages"

Stir a little sawdust - Chris Dombrowski "Elegy with Fall's Last Filaments"

A wind that stirs the torn tickets - Chris Dombrowski "Hear them all"

To stir your appetite for cruelty - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"

Stirrings and murmurings of the underground - Edward Dowden "The Divining Rod"

With stirrings of the Spring - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

Stirred by some soft-footed breeze - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

Parched silence without stir - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

Stir the dark weeds with the turn of the tide - Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Murdered Lover"

A sea stirred to wildfire - Rebecca Dunham "To Walk on Air"

To move when trouble stirs the air - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"

Elfin dreams in its branches stir - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"

Stirred by the silver oars of poems - John Gould Fletcher "The Heavenly Poetesses"

To stir the fruited bough of the juniper - Robert Frost "Pan with Us"

Rose-rumours steal and stir - Zona Gale "Ballade of Old Perfumes"

The secret stir of nameless dead - Zona Gale "A Meeting"

an eternity of nothing stirring - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

Stirring beneath the dust and embers - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

Never flush of copper stir - Louis Golding "Jack of April"

To stir the sleeping fountain - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

Stirred the hoarded hate of years - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

But forbear to stir the ashes - Henry S. Hagert "The Sleep of the Dead"

The indomitable stirring of folded hands - Hazel Hall "The Circle"

Splashed in its tumbling stir - Thomas Hardy "The Dream Is--Which?"

To stir like a battle-cry - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Songs for the People"

Lightnings stir the darkest lairs - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XV"

Stir in the dark of the stars unborn - Richard Hovey "The Death Song of Taliesin"

That history is a stirring in our bones - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

Salt stirs up blood - Allison Eir Jenks "Underwater Grave"

Whose golden silences are stirred - Annie Fellows Johnston "Bob White"

Scarce stirred beneath its burden rare - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Scarce stirred within their azure caves - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Save the wind's secret stir - Archibald Lampman "In November"

Sage leaves stripped, stirred into stew - Susan Landgraf "What's Left"

Whose magic stirs the seeds - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Stirs with tentative song - Denise Levertov "Early"

Stir the fire with my hairpin of jade - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall

A stirring, impertinent devil of yeast - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

Stirring the remorses of your tomorrow - Mina Loy "The Dead"

Stirred by this hallowed mirage - E.M. "Part IV. The Vision Glorious"

Which stirs the wave of memory - J.C. McCabe "First Love"

To stir my fluent blood - Claude McKay "Absence"

The dust stirs on the rafters - Mei Yao-ch'en "At Night, Hearing Someone Singing in the House Next Door" transl. by Burton Watson

Had stirred oblivion's darkest springs - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "A Forest Scene"

And feel solidity's foundation stir - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

Stir the ashes of our altars - E.J. Pratt "Ode to December, 1917"

Stirred in tender dreams - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Moon's Message"

To stir the deep forgotten heart - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Winter on the Zuyder Zee"

Stir the attar of unused air - Lola Ridge "Dedication"

Out of spent particles stirring - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

That stirred with rapture of delight - Alice Wellington Rollins "Charm"

Stirred by apple-scented wind - Clara Shanafelt "Fantastic"

Stirred by Passion's stormy wave - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Where fallen roses stir - Clark Ashton Smith "Autumnal"

Blossoms stirred by wings of eidolons - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

Buy wooden spoons to stir the spirits - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"

In the place where nothing stirs - James Stephens "The Goat Paths"

Crouching down where nothing stirs - James Stephens "The Goat Paths"

The shaken stars of midnight stir - George Sterling "Nora May French"

Where light and roses stir - George Sterling "To My Sister"

Stir beneath June's magic kiss - Muriel Stuart "The Seed Shop"

Whose new twigs stirred the woods awake - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"

Not stir a flower without troubling of a star - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

Not stirred from sleep - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Bear"

Stirred from the golden quilt of memory - Iris Tree "[Long ago we walked together in a garden]"

That stirs to meet the sunrise - Tertius van Dyke "Love of Life"

Trying to stir a storm - A. Van Jordan "A Tempest in a Teacup"

The glades with mingled music stir - Mary Webb "Green Rain"

Faintest breath of flowers stirred - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"

The dust of time is stirred - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

No wind stirring on a soundless sea - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"

Stirs the worship of absence - Jay Wright "Kumu"

Stirred by the tendons of the wind - Jenny Xie "Distance Sickness"

The squirrels go to stir up their old quarrels - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Stirring the bitter taste of solitude - Zheng Min "My Oriental Soul #4: Snow, It can't be White" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Lives by noise unstirred - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert I: The Garden"

Sleeps unstirred by any storm - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Stream"

Lies unstirred at summer's heart - Clark Ashton Smith "The Winds"


That jeer from out the wind-stirred tapestries - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"


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