Potential Titles: Shed

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Shedding rainbows in his wake - Duane Ackerson "The Blind Man"

Shedding confinements of skin and shadow - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

He shed the Harlequin's chequered skin - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

For their fenceless acres shed - Benjamin West Ball "The Forgotten"

Sheds the glory of its spell - Benjamin West Ball "The Indian Summer"

Bright tears may Envy shed - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"

The hidden moon shed thievish light - Robert Bridges "I Never Shall Love the Snow Again"

Shed not the tear of acrid gall - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

Winter sheds its grief in snow - Emily Bronte "Sympathy"

Shedding a nameless horror round - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"

To friends a shadow shedding stars - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"

When sad Autumn sheds abroad the stillness of decay - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

That o'er our doom sheds undivided radiance - Edward Carpenter "Death"

The salted earth sheds dust - Wo Chan "the shoes"

Shed the clothes of our doubting - Leonard Cohen "Slowly I Married Her"

Conscious of the tears I shed - William Cowper "Lines on Receiving His Mother's Picture"

Shedding white rings of tumult - Hart Crane "To Brooklyn Bridge"

Shed no beams upon my weak heart - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Dear companion of my heart's shed blood - Adelaide Crapsey "White Rose"

Shed another season - Kyle Dargan "Daily Conscription"

Shed these wools of my first winter in Upstate New York - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"

The Sacred Hazel's blooms are shed - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

To shed fragrance and light where'er I tread - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Morning"

The untaught strain that sheds beauty on the rose - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

Only as immense as what we shed in the dance - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"

Did not shed a stone tear - Vievee Francis "The Bone Boiler"

An unlearned melody has shed - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

Fragrance shed on the desert air - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

Autumn sheds her latest leaf - Manmohan Ghose "Mentem Mortalia Tangunt"

That the moon shed curses on his face - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Flying through sheds and airy quadrants - Janet Kauffman "Instead of Flying in Water"

The bitterest tears we shed - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

Long-term resident predator of outer sheds - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

The dark vines shed their splendid clusters - Emma Lazarus "Harvest" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.32, Nov. 1873]

The lace the sultry copperhead sheds - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"

Amorphous and black, shedding tears - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"

Shed brightness on each coming year - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"

The thistle sheds its royal robes - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

Slow to shed my ornaments - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Night comes and, drowsy with drink]" transl. by Burton Watson

Shedding light like feathers - Ada Limon "The Bird Knows He Is Going to Die and Wishes Not To"

Shedding the skin that everyone fears - Tariq Luthun "Ode to Brown Child on an Airplane for the First Time"

Where the shadow of my sorrow sheds its dark - Harry Martinson "Aniara 34" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Sheds her light with a more bewitching cheer - D.M. Matheson "Indian Summer"

Sheds floods of light - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"

Shedding desire's heavy robes - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Disbelief"

Black sorrow sheds an eclipse on our glory - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Such tears of anguish now she sheds - C.L.P. "Tidings of Victory" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

End like a spring leaf shed - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"

And chased the tear that sorrow sheds - E.C.S. "The Encaged Bird to His Mistress" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]

Shed the ashes of my silence on their snows - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Petals unfurled, shedding glory all around - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Ten thousand tears all shed in vain - E.M. Smith-Dampier "Ballad of the Traitor's Head"

The light from either's memory shed - Algernon Swinburne "Discord"

Shed no more celestial bliss - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut

Sheds something of herself - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Bear"

Shed plums and nuts into the lap of want - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"

Thought sheds its language skin - Noah Warren "Shuttle"

Whose wings shed terror and a plague - William Watson "The Russ at Kara"

A lasting light along her pathway shed - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"

A tear for keener anguish shed - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Where symmetry sheds perfect grace - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Malignant stars their influence shed - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Shed her dews of inspiration on the humblest - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"

The curling paper serpent sheds his printed skin - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Weary weight of tears unshed - Amy Levy "A Greek Girl"

With soft spun verses and tears unshed - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Unshed tears that lie like stones upon it - Carmen Sylva "Sadness"


Thought all bloodshed would be pastel - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"


Through the wild watershed of history - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych i. Drawing You In"


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