Potential Titles: Raise
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somethingdarkerThey raised an altar of abandoned tires - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"
Raised to a sorrow song - Meena Alexander "Central Park, Carousel"
Raised in a whistle-stop town - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Had I been raised by doves - Mary-Kim Arnold "Self-Portrait as Semiramis"
Raising a ruckus of dust - Mary Jo Bang "Sure, It's a Little Game. You, Me, Our Minds"
Vulgar black felt stapled in the raised flowerbeds - Ari Banias "Fountain"
The Angel's sinister trumpet raised - Charles Baudelaire "The Dance of Death" transl. not credited
Had thought and raised and poised its splendor - William Rose Benét "The City"
Years their shadows round us raise - G. Clifton Bingham "Sweet Day of Days" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.156, v.III, 25 Dec. 1886]
Raised a violin of hate - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
And raised my suppliant hands on high - Anne Bronte "Despondency"
The larks their matins raised - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"
Initiating the habit of the raised hand - Deborah Brown "Reprise"
Raise high the swine-like incubus - Ralph Chaplin "Salaam!"
There raise our banners in their very jaws - John Church, Jr. "The Fall of Jerusalem: Part I"
Clouds of the false world's raising - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"
While we raise the cup of bliss - Susan Coolidge "Flood-Tide"
And for one moment raise the mystic veil - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Eager eyes I might undazzled raise - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
Raise up my strength in death's respite - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Raised to the power of all the nerves in the human brain - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Raise up my faith in stone - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets I"
To raise contending passions in the heart - "The Druriad" [1798]
Power each one himself to raise - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
The seven flames that are raised high - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
Raise your head among the noble powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 35. E-Duba, the Temple of Zababa in Kish" transl. by Sophus Helle
To raise you like wings - Heid E. Erdich "The Visible Woman"
The circumstance which raised suspicion first - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Raise to the skies a festive sound - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Which raise the ocean's boisterous surges - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Brandished the spear and raised her Gorgon shield - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Those tardy feet raise from the ground - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The gods delight in raising up the low - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Made a miniature of me to witness the raising of the sea - Monica Ferrell "Subclinical"
Raise the veil of memory - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"
Raising the river's black dress - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"
Raise the veil from the shores of Time - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"
Gold raised the sword midst kith and kin - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And raised a mighty bantam crow - Grace Greenwood "Babie Annie to Cousin J--, acknowledging the Christmas-gift of a chain"
High his pillar of renown was raised - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
Belshazzar raised his eyes and saw - Frances E. Watkins Harper "The Jewish Grandfather's Story"
The Dragon that our Seas did raise - Robert Hayman "Of the Great and Famous Ever to Be Honoured Knight, Sir Francis Drake, and of My Little-Little Selfe"
To raise from earth a blighted flower - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
And raised its jealous veil between - F.A. Hillard "Two Mirrors" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.85, Jan. 1875]
Raised my eye and saw the stars had not moved - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"
Club and shield eternally raised - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
Raising a hand to the devil - Carly Inghram "The Detrimental Years of Becoming a Young Woman"
Morning twilight slowly raised its lids - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Enamored, Death raises a glass of forgiveness - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
I'll go one better in raising the wind - H.J. Kesson "The Legend of the Lincoln Imp"
Beyond pillars of salt raised in a dream - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Byzantine raised halos and bronze - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"
Raise a secret altar of the rich sea sod - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: X. Sleep"
Solemn spell to raise the unknown - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXII. Our Daily Bread"
Raised his riding-crop in golden greeting - Li Po "The Encounter" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Raised on poison oak and poppies - Ada Limon "Territory"
By noon you raise a sea of stars - Vachel Lindsay "The Dandelion"
Each raw saloon was raising Cain - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"
To raise such fabrics in the air - Frederick Locker-Lampson "The Castle in the Air"
Raze the world once and raise it twice - P. H. Low "Ode"
The blackbirds raise songs of triumph - Frederic Manning "Blue and Gold"
As raised by demons' knotted whips - George Martin "The Drunkard"
In dread ecstatic all souls raised their knell - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The frantic mobs their chorus raise - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]
Raised a brood of eagles - Edgar Lee Masters "Albert Schirding"
Raised to a mouth emptied - Charlene McClure "Caretaker"
Arid froth raising boundless mist - Meng Chiao "Laments of the Gorges 9" transl. by David Hinton
Raises its foundation of ancestral eminence anew - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Raised clear horns on a transforming sky - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Raise lilies to the skyfields - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
By the powers that raised you - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
And the afternoon wind raises welts of sunlight - Joseph Millar "Job"
In the visions the arch-enchanters have raised - "The Misanthrope"
Raise millions to slaughter - Carlos Montezuma "Civilization"
Whom fraud or force has rais'd to pow'r - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "Needwood Forest: Part, IV"
The shrines I have raised in the clefts of my heart - Sarojini Naidu "My Dead Dream"
Raising hours to the light - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Raised its coral branches of poison - Pablo Neruda "Minerals" transl. by Jack Schmitt
When she raised her arm undaunted - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Raising a carnival of butterflying kites - Grace Nichols "Atlantic"
The torrent to raise the river - Lorine Niedecker "Wilderness"
Raised his hand against the roaring ocean - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"
Raising a throne of diamonds in its midst - Kostes Palamas "Epiphany" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Raised by the great sea's breath - Kostes Palamas "Idyl" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Spectred horrors from the graves of vengeance raised - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
As my soul's eye raised the shadows - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Your garden raises only weeds - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Haunted Tree"
Each arm a branch raised in offering - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Throwing a Dinner Party While the City Burns"
Raise a poem to justice - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"
Our ignorant hearts to raise - Alice Wellington Rollins "Among Those Joys for Which We Utter Praise"
With her tearful eyes raised high - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dreamers"
To raise ambition from the ground - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
We raise up our hands into laceworks of lightning - M. Bartley Seigel "Manitou"
Omens that raise their cloudy heads and roar - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Radiant Psyches raised from the dead - Stagnelius "Kaspar's Song in Varda" transl. by Rudyard Kipling [Traffics and Discoveries]
Can raise a hundred phantoms - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
Raised a cloud of dusty gold - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"
Instead of standing mute he raised our voice - John Trudell "Baby Boom Che"
Raised my arms to the clouds - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"
A rag tag cosmology we can raise and wave - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Raised above the Morning's eye - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
That Hell would raise a double heat - G.B. Warren "Jansen's Curse"
The skunk cabbage raising bursting violet spheres - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"
The soldier I was raised to be - Simone White "the intimacies of what will be called our sacred alliance without history"
Raise the present on the past - Walt Whitman "For Him I Sing"
Dare to raise our Babel thro' forbidden aisles - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"
Had no voice been raised against injustice - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"
No riches now can raise me - George Wither "I Loved a Lass"
The paragon of paltriness upraised for all to see - Ralph Chaplin "Salaam!"
What throne can dawn upraise - Winifred Welles "Exile"
Rise.
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Raised to a sorrow song - Meena Alexander "Central Park, Carousel"
Raised in a whistle-stop town - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Had I been raised by doves - Mary-Kim Arnold "Self-Portrait as Semiramis"
Raising a ruckus of dust - Mary Jo Bang "Sure, It's a Little Game. You, Me, Our Minds"
Vulgar black felt stapled in the raised flowerbeds - Ari Banias "Fountain"
The Angel's sinister trumpet raised - Charles Baudelaire "The Dance of Death" transl. not credited
Had thought and raised and poised its splendor - William Rose Benét "The City"
Years their shadows round us raise - G. Clifton Bingham "Sweet Day of Days" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.156, v.III, 25 Dec. 1886]
Raised a violin of hate - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
And raised my suppliant hands on high - Anne Bronte "Despondency"
The larks their matins raised - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"
Initiating the habit of the raised hand - Deborah Brown "Reprise"
Raise high the swine-like incubus - Ralph Chaplin "Salaam!"
There raise our banners in their very jaws - John Church, Jr. "The Fall of Jerusalem: Part I"
Clouds of the false world's raising - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"
While we raise the cup of bliss - Susan Coolidge "Flood-Tide"
And for one moment raise the mystic veil - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Eager eyes I might undazzled raise - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
Raise up my strength in death's respite - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Raised to the power of all the nerves in the human brain - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Raise up my faith in stone - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets I"
To raise contending passions in the heart - "The Druriad" [1798]
Power each one himself to raise - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
The seven flames that are raised high - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
Raise your head among the noble powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 35. E-Duba, the Temple of Zababa in Kish" transl. by Sophus Helle
To raise you like wings - Heid E. Erdich "The Visible Woman"
The circumstance which raised suspicion first - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Raise to the skies a festive sound - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Which raise the ocean's boisterous surges - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Brandished the spear and raised her Gorgon shield - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Those tardy feet raise from the ground - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The gods delight in raising up the low - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Made a miniature of me to witness the raising of the sea - Monica Ferrell "Subclinical"
Raise the veil of memory - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"
Raising the river's black dress - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"
Raise the veil from the shores of Time - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"
Gold raised the sword midst kith and kin - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And raised a mighty bantam crow - Grace Greenwood "Babie Annie to Cousin J--, acknowledging the Christmas-gift of a chain"
High his pillar of renown was raised - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
Belshazzar raised his eyes and saw - Frances E. Watkins Harper "The Jewish Grandfather's Story"
The Dragon that our Seas did raise - Robert Hayman "Of the Great and Famous Ever to Be Honoured Knight, Sir Francis Drake, and of My Little-Little Selfe"
To raise from earth a blighted flower - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
And raised its jealous veil between - F.A. Hillard "Two Mirrors" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.85, Jan. 1875]
Raised my eye and saw the stars had not moved - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"
Club and shield eternally raised - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
Raising a hand to the devil - Carly Inghram "The Detrimental Years of Becoming a Young Woman"
Morning twilight slowly raised its lids - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Enamored, Death raises a glass of forgiveness - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
I'll go one better in raising the wind - H.J. Kesson "The Legend of the Lincoln Imp"
Beyond pillars of salt raised in a dream - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Byzantine raised halos and bronze - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"
Raise a secret altar of the rich sea sod - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: X. Sleep"
Solemn spell to raise the unknown - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXII. Our Daily Bread"
Raised his riding-crop in golden greeting - Li Po "The Encounter" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Raised on poison oak and poppies - Ada Limon "Territory"
By noon you raise a sea of stars - Vachel Lindsay "The Dandelion"
Each raw saloon was raising Cain - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"
To raise such fabrics in the air - Frederick Locker-Lampson "The Castle in the Air"
Raze the world once and raise it twice - P. H. Low "Ode"
The blackbirds raise songs of triumph - Frederic Manning "Blue and Gold"
As raised by demons' knotted whips - George Martin "The Drunkard"
In dread ecstatic all souls raised their knell - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The frantic mobs their chorus raise - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]
Raised a brood of eagles - Edgar Lee Masters "Albert Schirding"
Raised to a mouth emptied - Charlene McClure "Caretaker"
Arid froth raising boundless mist - Meng Chiao "Laments of the Gorges 9" transl. by David Hinton
Raises its foundation of ancestral eminence anew - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Raised clear horns on a transforming sky - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Raise lilies to the skyfields - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
By the powers that raised you - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
And the afternoon wind raises welts of sunlight - Joseph Millar "Job"
In the visions the arch-enchanters have raised - "The Misanthrope"
Raise millions to slaughter - Carlos Montezuma "Civilization"
Whom fraud or force has rais'd to pow'r - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "Needwood Forest: Part, IV"
The shrines I have raised in the clefts of my heart - Sarojini Naidu "My Dead Dream"
Raising hours to the light - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Raised its coral branches of poison - Pablo Neruda "Minerals" transl. by Jack Schmitt
When she raised her arm undaunted - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Raising a carnival of butterflying kites - Grace Nichols "Atlantic"
The torrent to raise the river - Lorine Niedecker "Wilderness"
Raised his hand against the roaring ocean - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"
Raising a throne of diamonds in its midst - Kostes Palamas "Epiphany" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Raised by the great sea's breath - Kostes Palamas "Idyl" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Spectred horrors from the graves of vengeance raised - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
As my soul's eye raised the shadows - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Your garden raises only weeds - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Haunted Tree"
Each arm a branch raised in offering - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Throwing a Dinner Party While the City Burns"
Raise a poem to justice - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"
Our ignorant hearts to raise - Alice Wellington Rollins "Among Those Joys for Which We Utter Praise"
With her tearful eyes raised high - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dreamers"
To raise ambition from the ground - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
We raise up our hands into laceworks of lightning - M. Bartley Seigel "Manitou"
Omens that raise their cloudy heads and roar - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Radiant Psyches raised from the dead - Stagnelius "Kaspar's Song in Varda" transl. by Rudyard Kipling [Traffics and Discoveries]
Can raise a hundred phantoms - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
Raised a cloud of dusty gold - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"
Instead of standing mute he raised our voice - John Trudell "Baby Boom Che"
Raised my arms to the clouds - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"
A rag tag cosmology we can raise and wave - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Raised above the Morning's eye - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
That Hell would raise a double heat - G.B. Warren "Jansen's Curse"
The skunk cabbage raising bursting violet spheres - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"
The soldier I was raised to be - Simone White "the intimacies of what will be called our sacred alliance without history"
Raise the present on the past - Walt Whitman "For Him I Sing"
Dare to raise our Babel thro' forbidden aisles - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"
Had no voice been raised against injustice - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"
No riches now can raise me - George Wither "I Loved a Lass"
The paragon of paltriness upraised for all to see - Ralph Chaplin "Salaam!"
What throne can dawn upraise - Winifred Welles "Exile"
Rise.
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