Potential Titles: Race

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As the dashboard races to a waiting disaster - Mary Jo Bang "Before the Absolute Perfection Dying Achieves"

The strife that ever waits upon the race for gold - Charles H. Barstow "On the Coast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.34-v.I, 23 Aug. 1884]

race the lightning out to sea - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"

Raced the chestnuts into bloom - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Song of Spring"

Witness of life’s race - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXXIX in Sonnets from the Portuguese"

To race propriety and prudence out of breath - Edward Carpenter "The Great Peepshow"

Racing through intricate lattices - Cyrus Cassells "Altitude"

The particles racing through the accelerator ring - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

And then with wild and rapid race - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"

To the chanting of the races of the sea - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh

Where Time's whirlwinds race - Coningsby Dawson "Dreamland Love"

To watch this alias of a race - Jay Deshpande "Wanting a Child"

In the race for light - Anthony Euwer "The Douglas Fir"

That has run so many torch-lit races - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"

Would change places with sons of clay and human races - John Gay "Fable III: Mother, Nurse, and Fairy" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Arguing about the finish line of the space race - Libby Graham "Space Worm Poem" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2025]

Your taxi must be racing through the town - Katherine Hale "Sign to Trespassers"

Splintering their heads in a furious race - Ben Hecht "Moods"

The scampering races of mice - William Dean Howells "Forlorn"

A lamp-post race could beat me round the block - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Salmon race up into the freshet - Robinson Jeffers "Salmon-Fishing"

A race with flying clouds and tossing gulls - Emily Pauline Johnson "Erie Waters"

A noble company of celestial race - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Sixth: Uma's Espousals" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Named great planets in their orbits race - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

Racing the writing brush - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson

The comet in its wheeling race - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"

racing childhood to the pier's edge - David Maduli "alameda point"

Touched with racing light - Jeannette Marks "Only Your Name"

Race with the brooks in the glens - Beverly Moore "Vacation" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Our voices race to the towers - Sharon Olds "Voices"

Raced by each blind-folded street - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"

Racing full toward the bright horizon - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"

Flung from a broken star on its mad race - Amy Redpath Roddick "A Scientific Puzzle"

Round the sun to fly in endless race - Friederich Schiller "Fantasie--To Laura" transl. not credited

Shall welcome every child of Hydra's race - Ann K. Schwader "Mother's Night"

Those who matched me in the race - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

water and sun race every infinite evening - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"

When Israel's race from bondage fled - Charles Sprague "An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City"

Race with the brook till my breath is gone - "A Spring Song" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

And it laughs at me as it races on - "A Spring Song" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Rabbits' feet shod with racing rhyme - John B. Tabb "Hare-Bells"

Raced through the house of high hay - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

With autumn gales my race is run - Henry David Thoreau "Nature's Child"

The racing of brown rabbits on the hill - Iris Tree "To My Mother"

My heart was racing through the generations - John Trudell "Living in Reality/Oklahoma Song"

The continents race headlong - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"

All the dust eaten by cyclists in meaningless races - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

Race evening birds back into this valley - Wang An-Shih "Thoughts Sent on My Way Home from River- Serene, After Stopping to Gaze at Samadhi-Forest Monastery" transl. by David Hinton

That medical care is an endurance race - Izzy Wasserstein "Come Back Wrong" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]

And the dead planets race unlighted - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"

The space of the spent atom's race - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"

Race instead against the almost rain - Kevin Young "For the Confederate Dead"

A race outrunning the stormcloud - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 6" transl. by Katherine Silver


A minnow down some wild mill-race - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VIII: To a Forgotten Triton"


Outraced the latest hour of midnight - Mary Jo Bang "The Head of a Dancer"

Time out-racing thought and will - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: II. Penumbra"

Outracing the stormwind - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wild Ride"

Could outlast horse and outrace hound - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"


Useless for gift wrapping and relay races - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]


Loud-voiced and reckless as the wild tide-race - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Cities: Melbourne"


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