Potential Titles: Sail

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That Sinbad once sailed to Gaza - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"

Loose without oars or sails - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"

Where great whales come sailing by - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

With silver moon rivers and sailing ships - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Before the zephyrs sail - Benjamin West Ball "Agimur Fatis"

Toward the throne of Saturn sailed - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Sailing on with our colors furled - Cora C. Bass "Sunshine"

Hope's tortured sails and doubts - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

Sail the sea of circumstance - Cora C. Bass "The Waves of Chance"

My spirit like a sail outspread - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Along the sullen twilight sail - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Sails in the bubbles ghostily - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "A Song on the Water"

Big cloud-ships with sails spread out - "A Big Playfellow" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Creep and run and sail and fly - "A Big Playfellow" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

To keep sailing and not land - Robert Bly "On the Oregon Coast"

Little ships that are too worn for sailing - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"

Laden to sail for ports of mystery - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "In Class"

The straining sails of unimpeded ships - Witter Bynner "Grieve not for Beauty"

I have seen the thin nautilus trimming her sail - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

Out we'll sail where the treasures lie - Frank Oliver Call "Hidden Treasure"

A sail full of indignation - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Homecoming Cistern Alien Vessel"

As he sails the seas of clover - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A More Ancient Mariner"

To sail Death's unexplored and open deep - Edward Carpenter "By the Mouth of the Arno"

To see fishes and frogs sail about in the air - Ellen C. Clayton "The Birds and the Fishes"

Of the future sailing outward - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"

Who bent his daring sail to untried winds - Rev. William Crowe "On the Death of Captain Cook"

That sailed the doubtful seas - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

For there your terror sails - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

And vanish with fairy sails - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XIII: The Sea of Sunset"

A threadbare sail nightwinds needle through - Chris Dombrowski "Boreal"

Sailed my name up high and free - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"

Swell with haste the perjured sails - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"

Sail your boat of sorrow to another shore - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

We sailed every ocean before we were through - Daniel Errico "The Island of Bum Bum Ba Loo"

A cradle with sails like angel's wings - Eleanor Farjeon "Dream-Ships"

Sail through my reflection - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"

Sail through other people's raptures - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XI"

If that small sailing cloud will hit or miss the moon - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"

With the sun for a sail - Zona Gale "Wind Song"

Sails out to sea at sunset-time - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "Little Sunset Ship of Dreams"

A sudden sail of amber flame - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Devil's Edge"

By twenty sail attended - Richard Glover "Admiral Hosier's Ghost"

Sailing with supreme dominion - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Slow shadow, sailing far on high - G.H. "The Blue Bird" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

I sailed a thousand rivers - Han-Shan "[I think of all the places I've been]" transl. by Burton Watson

The traverse of white sails - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXII"

Sailing in the dusty spiral of the Milky Way - Georgia Heard "Room of Mystery"

Waiting to sail out into unruly ocean - Stephanie Heit "Waiting Bay"

Two starlings sail down the wind - Conrad Hilberry "March Birthday"

Our story sails along inside oblivion - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"

But dream ships sail away - Langston Hughes "Water-Front Streets"

Sail up the silence - Emily Pauline Johnson "Marshlands"

It grieved my heart to see you sail - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Sailed a soul like a lit arrow to inhabit me - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

When once my sail is shadowed - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"

His sails were all of velvet - Charles Kingsley "Earl Haldan's Daughter"

A voyage to sail beyond the charted seas - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"

To sail my paper boats - Albert Lee "My Realm"

Clouds sailing in polished air - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

On soft-winged sails of meditation - Vachel Lindsay "The Boat with the Kite String and the Celestial Eyes"

Sailing cloud and soaring wing - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Gold"

Sailed for the ice drift and snow - Mrs Elizabeth A (MacQueen) MacLeod "Sieur de Maisonneuve, or The Founding of Montreal"

Necessary as sails and stars and harbors - Naomi Long Madgett "Arrival"

Might sail a million years in nothing - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

When the haughty Cleopatra sailed to meet her Roman Mars - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"

Sails to heaven above the storm - James E. McGirt "The Spirit of the Oak"

Shoreless, sown with fiery sails - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

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

Behold crystals of the sailing sun - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"

Sailing like soulful birds - Walter Dean Myers "Willie Arnold, 30, Alto Sax Player"

Like a sailing ship made of stone - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

A ship with sails as big as a lie - Angel Nafis "TarBaby Fly!"

Cut the engine and hoist the sails - Mark Nepo "Stopped Again by the Sea"

The blue stone of the sailing night - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Cloud-galleons with their sails of rose and snow - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"

Sailing out of his house of straw - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"

The rainbow sails of rainbow ships - Andre F. Peltier "The Ebullient Signpost"

To sail towards the wildest of screams and never return - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"

Hoisted up their sails of silk all on the golden mast - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Made of sorrow a sail - Sina Queyras "Mummy"

May sail on lakes of melody - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Interlude"

While sailing life's surprising ocean - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

Within the shadow of the sail - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"

May wound the water sailed - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"

Who sailed in a snake-prowed galley - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

Sailing on glass - Sonia Sanchez "5 Haiku"

The doom of worlds in those dark sails - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited

Sure some fate its sails will guide - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"

Sailing the path of the undenied - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Song"

My soul unfurls its sails - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"

Sail beyond the solar light - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"

Hoisted sail to all the winds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVII"

Sail overhead to the marshes of the west - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"

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

Myrtle wove itself into the sheets of sail - Frank Stanford "The Cape"

Thus sailed the brindled loon - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"

A tatter of sail in the wind - Arthur Stringer "Hill-Top Hours"

Whose tranquil orb resplendent sails the ethereal main - Alan Sullivan "A Question"

Silver sails all out of the west - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Sweet and Low"

A sail that wind takes wantonly - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

Slivers sail the wind - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Dead Branch"

Overhead in heavy stillness sail - Jones Very "The Clouded Morning"

Yellowed messages sailing down - Rosanna Warren "Boletus"

And ships with silver sails - F.E. Weatherly "The Old Picture-Book"

The pinnace needs a swifter sail - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"

That travels like light upon her sails - "The Wives of Brixham"

The tall thought-woven sails - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

That sailed from Tyre a thousand years ago - Francis Brett Young "The Dhows"


Lonely as a sailor left to drown - Mike Allen "Ascending"

Since Noah was a sailor - Ilya Kaminsky "When Momma Galya First Protested"

The beckoning stars which sailors call - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ackerman Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Sailors crying through the storm - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

But by the stars the sailor steers - Walter S. Percy "What Is Truth?"

A chant for the sailors of all nations - Walt Whitman "Song for All Seas, All Ships"


The surging wake of full-sailed summer - Richard Le Gallienne "Autumn"


And the top-sail dripping wine - Herbert Randall "Off"


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