Potential Titles: Set

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i set my love out over an ocean of space - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

Fill it with straw and set it on fire - Kaveh Akbar "Ways to Harm a Thing"

Set it off for the colonies with only some books - Kaveh Akbar "Ways to Harm a Thing"

When the winter wild sets in - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Apple-Gathering"

Diamonds were set in the roof for stars - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

From the palace window looked forth at set of sun - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Set on some precipice's perilous edge - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Set olive twigs in my hair - Meena Alexander "Central Park, Carousel"

Burn a page to set the mixture boiling - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

Set in mysterious perfection - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

Set its cadence to my thoughts - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Will set their stones and ribbons at your door - Ruth Awad "Reasons to Live"

No sepia set of nostalgic names - Mary Jo Bang "A Boy at Play Is an Actor in a Tragedy"

From winter's yoke so glad to be set free - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]

Tides set in motion by light - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Trap"

Set small fires to prevent larger ones - Ennis Rook Bashe "How to Hallucinate Your Zombie Lover"

A grassy couch with pebbles set - Charles Baudelaire "The Corpse" transl. not credited

Set round with starry crystal rhymes - Charles Baudelaire "To a Madonna" transl. not credited

Set upon the scented Lotus flower - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Scenting the shadows at set of sun - James C. Bayles "In the Gloaming"

May share the same sun setting - Esther Belin "I hope to God you will not ask"

Lethe is for no man set - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

Until the sun sets you are safe - John Berryman "The Possessed"

Setting star fields in motion - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"

Set my mind babbling with visions - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"

A night set on edge - Brian Blanchfield "One First Try and then Another"

A labor of tears, set against joy's undoing - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"

Pitted fruits set forth - "The Book of Odes: No.220. When Guests First Take Their Seats" transl. by Burton Watson

Darkness sets adrift the rest - Marianne Boruch "After Supper in Madison, Wisconsin"

Sets a trap, picks a spot, begins the vigil - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

Set the rose-shrouded sundial in shadow - Louise Morey Bowman "Green Apples"

Sets the impatient spirit free - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"

Fire set by the staccato of man's rhythm - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"

Set in crystal air - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Monumental statue set in everlasting watch - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Grief"

My lost diamond, who only needed a setting - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"

Till my last sun shall set - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"

This wilderness set out for me - Anthony Butts "Before Autumn"

Long enough for discord to set in - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"

Set a bar to strangers - Witter Bynner "The New World I"

To set in such a starless night - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"

Set the sky on blue fire and shook the ground - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

Set him conundrums to guess - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Still set against the stream - Willa Cather "A Likeness"

And set the prisoned light of heaven free - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"

Grey fields gone behind the set of sun - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Terror and theft set free - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

Chrysanthemums newly set out - The Buddhist Priest Chiao-jan "Looking for Lu Hung-chien but Failing To Find Him" transl. by Burton Watson

An eastern star set like a pearl atop a steeple - Nicholas Christopher "Lake Como"

Good citizen torch bearers out to set the night ablaze - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Set my periscope on breath of dreaming - CAConrad "Neptune.4"

Set an empty cup in the storm - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"

Set our ringing discords against celestial song - Susan Coolidge "The Better Prayer"

Hold a pitchfork and set the forest on fire - Dorsey Craft "Rainy-Day Games with Kyle"

How we watched the sun set, and criticized the sky - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"

Roses have set the borders on fire - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"

More set with sparks to slay - H.D. "Fragment Sixty-eight"

Gold apples set with silver apple-leaf - H.D. "Lais"

Set some seal on my bitter heart - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"

Soon the last warm sun will set - Danske Dandridge "Indian Summer"

Set the wild air humming for rot - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"

The dry brush set aflame by your truth - Kwame Dawes "Eat"

Set the blue-bells ringing - Coningsby Dawson "The Once Sung Song"

And set a careless mind aflame - Walter de la Mare "The Remonstrance"

The primrose sets the seal - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"

Since in love only is set my happiness - Christine de Pisan "[Very God of Love, who art of lovers Lord]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Set up exhibits in the cafeteria - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"

Setting a nation's nerves on edge - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

The flame in the heart of a ruby set - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Three Ships"

Before I set foot in life's forest - Hemantabālā Dutt "Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy" transl. by Miss Whitehouse

And set the flints with flowers - Helen Parry Eden "Lines Written for D.E."

Among the darkling trees set back - Helen Parry Eden "A Suburban Night's Entertainment"

Snares he set on every path - "The Enchanted Maiden" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

From vain pursuits and vainer meeds set free - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"

Set down into this new atmosphere - Kristina Erny "Abduction"

Set into motion a new solar system - Charlie Espinosa "Sunflower Astronaut"

Setting flares for tomorrow - Nava EtShalom "Inheritance"

Let the moon and the Pleiades set - Henry Farnan "How to Make Contact with a Lost Star System"

Set in the cold where the old seasons belong - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

Lilies plucked and set like stars - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "The Ancient Sacrifice"

Set for the protection of infinity - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

Set forth upon my track to overtake me - Robert Frost "Into My Own"

An oath of towns that set the wild at naught - Robert Frost "The Line-Gang"

Set my heart replying and jangling - Wilfrid Gibson "The Parrots"

The sun never sets on your nostalgia - Dana Gioia "Map of the Lost Empire"

Of that blaze set always between - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

One set of bootprints back where two had come - Lore Graham "Absence"

Only see the great gulf set between us - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

By the poor guard of danger set about - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Every heart sets up its separate Dagon - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Set on weatherproof interdependence - Tara Hardy "Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor)"

Set the moth's tongue toward tomorrow - francine j. harris "feeder"

Set the seal of his death on you - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 3"

Your laughter like suns that are set - H.C. Harwood "Incompatibility"

A myriad suns have set and shone - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"

the second hand a steel jaw I have set in the snow - Jim Heston "In the Time of Lycanthropy"

Apples set on coals to back - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

New minutes set in past danger - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"

Set down your flammable colors - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"

My soul baptized and set apart - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

Set upon sorrow's edge - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"

And sets thy hidden stars on fire - George Moses Horton "Memory"

Set my lips to your full cup - Victor Hugo "More Strong Than Time" transl. by Andrew Lang

Burns up another set of firsts - Allison Hutchcraft "Though from Here I Can't Smell the Smoke"

Changeful fancies set afloat - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Poet in His Youth, and the Cuckoo-Bird"

And set our answer free - Jean Ingelow "Winstanley"

A perfect catastrophe set into lines - John James "Klee's Painting"

An agitation in the falling water of creatures set to glowing - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"

Arson is hardly required to set your body burning - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"

Setting aside the endless to-do lists - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Kaōnōn"

Hand-sewn and set to memory - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"

And another day set free - Emily Pauline Johnson "Day Dawn"

Stars in their stations set - Lionel Johnson "By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross"

A fair pearl set in richest coral - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The thief has set his trap - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken

To set in memory the landslide you just dreamed - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Sets for a fruitless still life - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"

On their stalks set like vestal primroses - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Armfuls of spices to set at the banquet - Henry Kendall "Achan"

Setting bloom where curse is planted - Henry Kendall "Christmas Creek"

When I set my ears into the wind of the hall - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

Set against an infinite backdrop of space - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"

Breezes that set the soul awhirl - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

Quiet winter grinding like teeth set in sleep - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

Long arcs between sets of plunge - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"

The setting midnight sun - J. Patrick Lewis "The European City Song"

Who set out without the protection of darkness - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"

Set a thousand guards upon her - Anonymous "Love's Enterprise"

Set our slow old sap aflow - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

Setting out across a field of spears - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

That sets the stream alight with burn and glitter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "kingfisher"

Set thick with moss-grown boulders - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

Who set snares with roses - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

Tricksters that set traps in paradise - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

Where poachers set their wires - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"

Who set the floundered axle straight - John Masefield "King Cole"

Sets the well-stitched void - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

The rudder in the stern set fast - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "Who Was He? A Story of Peter the Great" transl. by John Pollen

Into a final set of parenthesis - Michael McGriff "Men Keep on Dying"

Plans on which the heart is set - H.P. McKnight "Dreams"

Where Life is at her grindstone set - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

A fleet of bells set sail - Alice Meynell "Chimes"

Faint fires of the setting stars - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Set afire by a secret ruby - Pablo Neruda "Ode to a Stamp Album" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Jewel set in a ring of earth - Pablo Neruda "Swan Lake" transl. by Alastair Reid

To set down the wine's scripture - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

Set the yarrow by the river side - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Only wanted to set something free - Caroline Harper New "The Elephant Mother"

Set the route due north - dg nanouk okpik "Anthropocene Years"

Setting traps out for darkness - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Setting up an idol all of earth - Robert Owen "A Prayer" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Setting slowly over the cusp of the "new world" - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"

Who set rich wine upon the lees - Gilbert Parker "Their Waving Hands"

Our table set only with memories - Linda Pastan "The Burglary"

Set forth their eloquent curses - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Our New Horse"

Where fevered lamps are set to stare - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"

In despite of all vigils set - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"

The right dance sets me free - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

And set the echoes ringing in a room - Miriam Clark Potter "The Dolls"

Spread with the round moon set for a dish - Miriam Clark Potter "Dreams for Three"

Sets a mirror at our feet - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"

Set ourselves on fire looking for infinity - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"

Set paper boat songs alongside egrets and geese - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

The gates are ivory set with pearls - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Johnny's By-Low Song"

Morning is a bird set for flight - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 3: Lullaby"

Sets hard at its heart - Rainer Maria Rilke "Pieta"

Be set free from the stone - Rainer Maria Rilke "Song of the Statue" transl. by Jessie Lemont

A jewel set to shine adown Time's misty ways - D.J. Robertson "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.144-v.III, 2 Oct. 1886]

Set the mark of his inscrutable necessity - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Beyond where any suns of yours have set - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"

Wonders to sweet music set - Rennell Rodd "Une Heure Viendra Qui Tout Paiera"

A summer-sun sets ere one half is seen - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"

And sets the seal celestial on all mortal things - George William Russell "Symbolism"

Set the course of the seven Stars - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe: Measurements of the Universe" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Sets up knaves and murders kings - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

Set to detonate into an unknown future - Lorraine Schein "Merlin"

To set a form upon desired change - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXIX"

Hostile elegies in solitary settings - Prageeta Sharma "Glacier National Park and the Elegy"

Still bewilderment set between - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"

Each one in heart is setting snares - Taras Shevchenko "On the Eleventh Psalm" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

knows nothing of the work that sets you free - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

Narrow miracles and answers set to stone - Jake Skeets "Anthropocenic"

As greyhound from the leash set free - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"

Set as guards above the prison - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"

History is a ship forever setting sail - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"

Setting the stars alight to wonder at the moon - James Stephens "The Shell"

Set shining foot on temple roof - Robert Louis Stevenson "To Will. H. Low"

We foxes can set the night afire - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Set wisdom beyond my reach - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 148: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A passion of thought set free - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

Traverse an infinite set of paths - Arthur Sze "Traversal"

Clock set on your four different geographies - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

Set the wild echoes flying - Alfred Tennyson "The Splendor Falls"

Setting no store by harvest - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

On the stage life's self did strive to set - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XI"

And set each star to blazing - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"

To set aside the tryst with Death - "The Tryst After Death" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Our return is different from our setting out - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough

Were set to labour hard and long - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]

Set back the clock a thousand years - Henry van Dyke "Lights Out"

The bridge he's set to repeat - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"

Dreaming to be set free - Enrique Villasis "Birds in Flight, 1965"

Then in love set each one free - Myra Viola Wilds "Thoughts"

Set in ruby rays serene - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"

Setting sumac hedge aflame - Julia Carter Welch "Fall"

Set his throne in splendor - John Hall Wheelock "October Moonlight"

Enough pain to set fires - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"

Not set on fighting - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Greater Britain"

Set a lock upon his lips - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

The set pieces of your faces - William Carlos Williams "Apology"

Sets spinning on waxen wings - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

The grave your magic sets - Humbert Wolfe "An Accusation"

Routes and rivers set ablaze - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

A set of moving mirrored shadows - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"


Somewhere in the blank spaces of the data-set - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"


From sun far-set or moon unrisen - Edward Dowden "By the Window"


And drive away the hell-set dreams - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]


For the onset of eternity - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LVII: Called Back"

The onset of this terrible thirst - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"

Trumpet and drum of onset and attack - T.M. Kettle "Reason in Rhyme"

Then, the bright unholiness of onset - Arianna Monet "I'm rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time"


The pinprick that resets the elements - Mary Jo Bang "A Ballet Based on the Number Three"

To reset the orb of gravity - Carmen Gimenez "Post-Identity"

The old equipment resets itself and loops - Janine Joseph "Circuitry"

To reset eternity's clock to the far side of midnight - Charles Wright "Little Elegy for an Old Friend"


Setting Sun.


Ordering the setups and scenes - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"


Buds unset by mortal hand - "Flora: a Vision"


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