Potential Titles: Reach

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Where Death can never reach the bowers - A.L.O.E. "Gardener's Hymn"

By which you reach for revelation - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

Reaching the edge of forests infinite - Rasha Abdulhadi "Young Adult Catalogue"

Attempt an additional step after reaching the top - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"

Swimming up the sweet air to reach you - Kim Addonizio "Mermaid Song"

Never reaching to the end - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

To reach beyond the barriers - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"

When the first news of grief reaches them - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"

Insects, vessel-like roots reaching for foliage - William Archila "El Mozote"

I reached the border of every word - Jarid Arraes "Movement"

Reach out hungered arms to flowing change - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

Beyond the reach of mortal footstep - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

The dim reaches of a watchdog's yawn - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

As thinking reaches its dwindling end - Mary Jo Bang "The Trip"

Reached only by oaths and curses - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"

time was an eyeless reach - Elizabeth Bartlett "item: body found"

An eyeless reach across immensity - Elizabeth Bartlett "Item: Body Found"

who reach for the falling star - Elizabeth Bartlett "item: body found"

reach the storm's heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "search the wild wind"

Reached the moon, upborn by geese - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."

Forever trembling just past the reach of mind - William Rose Benét "The City"

Reach through our coats to count our vertebrae - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"

Reaching into the black space underneath - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Sword Converses with a Philosopher"

Reaches the suburbs of Eternity - Maxwell Bodenheim "To a Woman"

With little hope of reaching our destinations - Bruce Boston "Chess People"

New light waiting just out of reach - Russell Brakefield "Myth"

Reaching to the sky for an offering - William Brewer "West Virginia"

From your unfinished reach - Gwendolyn Brooks "A Street in Bronzeville"

Thorns form footholds by which to reach the rose - E.B.C. "Streck-Verse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

When anger reaches its iron tongue - Stephanie Cawley "Not"

Reaches for a bottomless depth - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"

Snow that never reaches fog - Youmna Chlala "Night Needs No Stars"

Before adolescence reached me - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"

The shadow of my reach - Leonard Cohen "Came so Far for Beauty"

Reach life's golden summit - Jamie Harris Coleman "Difficulties in Life"

Multiplied beyond the reach of numbers - "The Coral Island" [The Mirror of Literature v.10, no.279 (20 October 1827)]

Whisper of things beyond the Present's reach - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

down the singing reaches of my soul - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

Your voice reaching back to the mountains - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"

Lift enough smoke to reach you - Tyree Daye "No Ghost Abandoned"

To reach the cradle of the new-born day - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Released by the hand's reach - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"

The tempest does not reach her shade - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

Reaching for the ear of the sky - Diane DeCillis "Arranged Marriage"

Where roots travel and tendrils reach - Diane DeCillis "Postcards of Home and Homesick"

Reach for it but never in haste - Dom "Risking for a Sign"

a pause then to Parnassus reach - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Poet at Play"

Reaching into the lineaments of the sun - Chris Dombrowski "Get Up, John"

Reached arms to pluck the moon - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Thirsty reaching down for roots - Kathy Engel "It would be water"

Reaches down to the fifty Deep Seas - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle

Your scepter reaches heaven - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 37. E-Ablua, the Temple of Nanna in Urum" transl. by Sophus Helle

Cannot reach to steal that Titan fire - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1 (February 1923)"

Out of our common reach - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 4 (February 1923)"

Reaching out to the vast sky - Jennifer Franklin "Preparing for Residential Placement for My Disabled Daughter"

Touched by the extensive reach of mutation - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"

The fossils that drowned trying to reach us - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"

In the far backward reaches of time - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"

Watching those we can't reach - Rae Gouirand "Fig Suite"

No horns of daybreak reach your rest - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"

Nor lead nor steel shall reach him - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"

No power beyond the reach of leaves - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"

Strive by backward reachings to redeem - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

The whisper reaches its goal - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 2"

Have reached the end of my desire - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet I (from Farewell)"

Memories far high reaching as yon palled star - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Pre-Existence"

Branches reaching the planet heart - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

Reaching the planet heart by the billions - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

Reach a hand out the wilderness - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"

Reach every state mortals desire - John James Ingalls "Opportunity"

Across the unfurrowed reaches - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, The First Watch: Tired"

Reaching out towards the opal stool - Carly Inghram "Praise Poem"

And fractioned them apart before they could reach their destinations - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

From a height I had no business reaching - Fady Joudah "Libra"

The narrow road I hoped to reach - Mary Karr "The Century's Worst Blizzard"

Long in bitterness to reach the goal - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

That never a wind may reach - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

That abolition will remain out of reach - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Reach toward star and cloud - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"

Between reaching and touching - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"

Reach over and grasp the dark air - Christopher Kondrich "Schedule for Burning"

Took millennia to reach completion - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"

Reached on tiptoe to pull ripe pomelos from the dark - Edgar Kunz "Fixer"

Scattered so far beyond reach - Danusha Lameris "Nothing Wants to Suffer"

Beyond the reach of memories - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

Never utterly gone from reach - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VI: Is It Love? Is It Hate?"

The urge to reach for your sorrow - Gerri Leen "Final Resting Place"

The true summit of Eloquence reach'd - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"

Reaches the zenith of a very small hill - Keith Leonard "Abecedarion on the Good Father"

Reach for the next outcropping of rock - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

Their last words reach us in the language of light - Philip Levine "Waking in March"

Reaching into unforeseen sweetness - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Reached the wilder shores - J. Patrick Lewis "Christopher Columbus"

We reach our disparate endings - Marissa Lingen "The Plural of Apocalypse"

A pinprick of light just out of reach - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"

Past the reach of moth and rust - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"

My reaching fingers glitter with their gift - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Horror walks their shingled reaches - Don Marquis "Sea Changes III: Moonset"

Reaching out three thousand miles ahead - John Masefield "A Ballad of Cape St. Vincent"

Reaching hands that never met - John Masefield "King Cole"

After we've reached the ends of darkness - Khaled Mattawa "Now That We Have Tasted Hope"

Though the fountain reached my throat - Claude McKay "December, 1919"

Pushing it aside to reach the light - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"

Fathering desire of fire to reach fire - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

So far the eyes of eagle could not reach - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ackerman Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Orbiting just out of reach - Kamilah Aisha Moon "What Is Believed In Is True"

And joy of that last mile before I reach the sea - William Moore "Expectancy"

Reaching into the scorching sun and burning - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"

A little blind reaching - Rusty Morrison "in the flood"

Night reaches out to night - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

Reaches toward undying truths - Marilyn Nelson "Studio"

Until I reach the jaws of gold - Pablo Neruda "Elegy" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Who reached the last edge of the knife - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Where the last wave reached her - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

As my blue love reaches for what's left - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

Outside the reach of light - Tim Newcomb "Unlight"

In beauty reached the divine - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)

In the thousand streets beyond reach - Naomi Shihab Nye "Wind and the Sleeping Breath of Men"

My son reaches into the sky - January Gill O'Neil "The Rookie"

Lotus blossoms reach out and unfurl - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson

But never reach the freedom shore - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"

Reach for yet another fistful of straw - Carl Phillips "The Steeper the Fall"

Reached my hands in eager quest - Alexander Posey "To My Wife"

On all her curses reach - Jack Prelutsky "The Witch"

Where storms cannot reach him - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: King and Slave"

A mind reaching back into the dark - Camille Rankine "Inheritance"

Her many hands reaching - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open"

Clouds an arm's reach away - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

And reach his arms out to the night - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

The beeches reaching towards the birches - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"

Beyond the reach of the elephant - Rumi "The Wisdom of the Weak" transl. by E.H. Whinfield

Reaching daylight less alive - Sam Rush "Sonnet for what ages and does not"

Voices reaching for the hear of the world - Carl Sandburg "Mask"

Roads reach to strife - Margaret E. Sangster "Preface"

Upon the stark sand reaches - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Change"

Where my impulses reach across - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"

And only we should reach her mercy-seat - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"

Her anchor of a heart reaching - Safiya Sinclair "Hands"

And grief could not reach me - "The Soul (From 'The Black Book of Caermarthen.')" (translated by ??)

One with the reaches of infinity - George Sterling "Duandon"

Reach past the departed sun - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"

Above the reach of vulgar flight - Benjamin Stillingfleet "Sonnet"

Scarcely reached her gates of woe - Charles Strong "Thrasymene"

Until it reached those barriers Elysian - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"

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

Out of reach of the road's dust - Edward Thomas "Two Houses"

To place my gains beyond the reach of tides - Henry David Thoreau "The Fisher's Boy"

Reaching through the face of every forest - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"

Thorns in the part of memory you cannot reach - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"

Reached the haven of love's wayward tide - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The odor of flowers that reaches a scream - Maximilian Voloshin "The Birth of a Poem" transl. by A. S. K. [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Dark trees reaching for far stars - Judy Patterson Wenzel "New Found Land"

Beyond the humble reach of every day - Edith Wharton "Heaven"

Reach to the verge of doom - John Hall Wheelock "Legend"

Reach the last verge and limits - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"

Reaches the gulf below - John Hall Wheelock "The Secret One"

When holy twilight reaches the sleeping cedar - Humbert Wolfe "V.D.F. (Ave atque Vale.)"

Where we know the light will never reach us - Charles Wright "April Evening"

The uncompromising reaches of the earth - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"

Reach out toward the margin's white hand - Wendy Xu "Praxis"

A ghost beyond her own reach - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Reach the cadence of their song - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"

Nothing here tall enough to pretend to reach - Kevin Young "Dog Star"


They sit high in unreachable trees - Julie Babcock "Philomel"


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