Potential Titles: Shut
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somethingdarkerHunting for the gate she desperately held shut - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
The clusters of her eyes pressed shut - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
A demon has sewn your lips shut - Mary Jo Bang "The Dead of Winter"
Day shutting its windows - Mary Jo Bang "The Electric Eventual"
Night shuts the door of the train - Mary Jo Bang "Elegy for Two"
At every shut door in the stirring city - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
The old forge and mill are shut and done - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"
Shut the doorways of their souls - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"
The hands that shut the sun - Emily Bronte "To a Wreath of Snow"
Another door the world slams shut - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"
Through eyelids shut - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Purple shut in gold - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Shut me from the earth - H.D. "Circe"
Gone forth and shut the gates - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"
Mouth painted shut on the answer - Louise Erdrich "The Sacraments"
In the garden of Shut-eye Town - Eugene Field "The Sugarplum Tree"
Shut as a spice in precious stone - Michael Field "Relics"
Threads the river's mouth shut - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Catch"
Under tide burrowing shut - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 13"
Her never-singing lips shut fast - John Freeman "The Chair"
Shut away within the night - Angelina Weld Grimké "To Joseph Lee"
Unseal the shut, the hidden places - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
The door shut on our heaven - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--I Will Forget"
Once our skulls shut up their nasty talk - Mary Karr "Country Fair"
All the doors slammed shut at the end of the world - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"
Shut the road through the woods - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"
the heat current shutting down - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"
The years have swung shut behind me - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Shut with you in this grim garden - Charlotte Mew "Jour des Morts (Cimetiere Montparnasse)"
The way a sky shuts with rain - Claire Millikin "Escalator"
Shutting itself like an injured fan - Marianne Moore "The Fish"
Eyes stony smooth shut in moonlight - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
Shut tight, without dreams - Mary Oliver "Now comes the long blue cold"
Shut up a burnt-out heart - Karolina Pavlova "To Madame A. V. Pletneff" transl. by Paul Schmidt
Shut within earth's jaws - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Your body sealed shut in the light - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"
Shut up with long forgotten ways - Alexander Posey "Tulledega"
Things they see with their eyes shut - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"
Shut my eyes to the edicts - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
His eyes blinded shut with night and stars - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"
The seam of its mouth glued shut - Diane Seuss "Toad"
A magic potion to seal their eyes shut - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"
Shuts me in with my dreams - Jean M. Snyder "Remembering (Locheven)"
The keepers of the roses have shut the garden-gate - Richard Henry Stoddard "A Winter Scene"
Though my leaves shut before the sunflower - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Shut my bramblewood door - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.2" transl. by Burton Watson
Thrice turn round and shut your eyes - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
And shut the fingers of wind upon the rushes - Iris Tree "[Shall we be christened poets]"
Shutting our lips upon a jest - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: Midnight"
Shut down and opened wrong - Jean Valentine "To Ireland"
And clouds shut out the view - William Watson "The Blind Summit"
Shut his rusty valves the tighter - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
The doors to the mountain remain shut - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie V"
Shuts out the sunshine of truth - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
The eye of the world opens and shuts - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
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The clusters of her eyes pressed shut - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
A demon has sewn your lips shut - Mary Jo Bang "The Dead of Winter"
Day shutting its windows - Mary Jo Bang "The Electric Eventual"
Night shuts the door of the train - Mary Jo Bang "Elegy for Two"
At every shut door in the stirring city - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
The old forge and mill are shut and done - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"
Shut the doorways of their souls - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"
The hands that shut the sun - Emily Bronte "To a Wreath of Snow"
Another door the world slams shut - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"
Through eyelids shut - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Purple shut in gold - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Shut me from the earth - H.D. "Circe"
Gone forth and shut the gates - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"
Mouth painted shut on the answer - Louise Erdrich "The Sacraments"
In the garden of Shut-eye Town - Eugene Field "The Sugarplum Tree"
Shut as a spice in precious stone - Michael Field "Relics"
Threads the river's mouth shut - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Catch"
Under tide burrowing shut - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 13"
Her never-singing lips shut fast - John Freeman "The Chair"
Shut away within the night - Angelina Weld Grimké "To Joseph Lee"
Unseal the shut, the hidden places - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
The door shut on our heaven - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--I Will Forget"
Once our skulls shut up their nasty talk - Mary Karr "Country Fair"
All the doors slammed shut at the end of the world - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"
Shut the road through the woods - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"
the heat current shutting down - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"
The years have swung shut behind me - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Shut with you in this grim garden - Charlotte Mew "Jour des Morts (Cimetiere Montparnasse)"
The way a sky shuts with rain - Claire Millikin "Escalator"
Shutting itself like an injured fan - Marianne Moore "The Fish"
Eyes stony smooth shut in moonlight - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
Shut tight, without dreams - Mary Oliver "Now comes the long blue cold"
Shut up a burnt-out heart - Karolina Pavlova "To Madame A. V. Pletneff" transl. by Paul Schmidt
Shut within earth's jaws - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Your body sealed shut in the light - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"
Shut up with long forgotten ways - Alexander Posey "Tulledega"
Things they see with their eyes shut - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"
Shut my eyes to the edicts - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
His eyes blinded shut with night and stars - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"
The seam of its mouth glued shut - Diane Seuss "Toad"
A magic potion to seal their eyes shut - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"
Shuts me in with my dreams - Jean M. Snyder "Remembering (Locheven)"
The keepers of the roses have shut the garden-gate - Richard Henry Stoddard "A Winter Scene"
Though my leaves shut before the sunflower - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Shut my bramblewood door - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.2" transl. by Burton Watson
Thrice turn round and shut your eyes - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
And shut the fingers of wind upon the rushes - Iris Tree "[Shall we be christened poets]"
Shutting our lips upon a jest - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: Midnight"
Shut down and opened wrong - Jean Valentine "To Ireland"
And clouds shut out the view - William Watson "The Blind Summit"
Shut his rusty valves the tighter - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
The doors to the mountain remain shut - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie V"
Shuts out the sunshine of truth - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
The eye of the world opens and shuts - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
