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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-06-03 03:04 am

Potential Titles: Return

The dream of your choice will be returned to you - Duane Ackerson "The Dream Factory: Two Tours"

As if the nomad camels would return - Harold Acton "Conversations and Crumbling"

With grief upon grief returning - al-Khansa "[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful]" transl. by Reynold A. Nicholson

Returned from those hills of expectation - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"

To god with no return address - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"

The one whose kiss she chose to return - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

The rapture of seeing outside space returned - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

The Ibis yet returns - Duncan Anderson "Sport"

Softer than the voice of love returned - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"

Let hallowed dust return to dust - B. "Two Pictures: Love Celestial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Like ghosts of flowers returned - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"

On each tenth returning sunrise - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

From which none returns invulnerable - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"

how seasons are returned - Elizabeth Bartlett "lesson on five fingers"

return to old complaints - Elizabeth Bartlett "only this"

Must return them to the stars - Ellen Bass "Mammogram Callback with Ultrasound"

Had given a hundredfold return - Charles Baudelaire "The Corpse" transl. not credited

Returning, as always, to the past - Frank Bidart "California Plush"

Returning to the barren womb of nothing - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Wants doves returning at dusk - Robert Bly "Men and Women"

This journey of ours has no return - "The Book of Odes: No.167. We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns" transl. by Burton Watson

Like a saint returning trinkets - Ana Bozicevic "The Curse"

To our sorrowing hearth, return - Anne Bronte "Domestic Peace"

No intention but the possibility of light returning - Sue Budin "Reclamation"

And the day returns too soon - Byron "We'll Go No More a-Roving"

When the silver winds return - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Spring Song"

The cup is full for his day of returning - Willa Cather "Winter at Delphi"

Through the Strait of Violent Returns - Marianne Chan "Counterargument that Goes All the Way Around"

Capital scouring the earth for returns - Ken Chen "Fingernails"

Put by these unreturning gifts - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

My heart dreams of return - Henri Cole "Twilight"

mind filled with a light returning - Tyree Daye "The Lord's Corner"

Returning to silence - Julia de Burgos "Poem to My Death"

The return to psychogeography - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"

Still the pensive spring returns - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"

Though their currents yield return to none - John Donne "Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness"

The thieving of delight without return - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

In Time's great periods shall return to nought - William Drummond "Ah! Would 'Twere So"

Returning the gift of song - Lord Dunsany "The Return of Song"

A shape that keeps returning - Carolina Ebeid "Shape"

Travelling on the road of no return - Aziz Isa Elkun "Roses" transl. by author

Proudly with his spoil returning - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

New proof uncovered on every return - Summer Farah "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"

Waited for my life to return from the sea - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

My road along the river of return - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"

Centuries of preparation to return - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

When the fawn returned to the wolf's grave - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen m"

For a moment until time returns - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"

Until time returns - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"

Keep returning to the present - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"

The rogue returns anon - E. Foxton "The New Search After Happiness"

Returning from the midnight festival - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

What we bury will always return - Nikita Gill "Discoveries"

Never remembering how to return - Nikita Gill "Temporary"

The eager feet of the returning dreamers - Mona Gould "Answer Me!"

The siege returned to stalemate - Linda Gregerson "Half Light"

The ratcheting herons return - Linda Gregerson "Petrarchan"

But I have none to wish returned - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Learn to leave and return - Kimberly Grey "Invention"

Mere pain the price of the returning - Ivor Gurney "The Volunteer"

Return to roam the same ruins - Nathalie Handal "The City"

Love's winter ne'er returns to spring - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"

Thy kindling soul return - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

One stray emblem of returning spring - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Bit o' Cheer"

My empty suitcase and I returned - Jane Hirshfield "My Life Was the Size of My Life"

In return for a shadowed and comfortless past - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Returning from old understandings - Andrew Hudgins "A Flag of Honeysuckle"

Recall only the return - Brionne Janae "Child's Pose"

Stands watching day return - Elizabeth Jennings "Old Woman"

Whose birthright is to return to dust - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"

Only to return moondrunk, bramble-laden - Taylor Johnson "Nocturne"

Before returning to its sticky jigsaw - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

Where my wandering spirit will return - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

My wandering heart returned to stay - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

To which our footsteps never shall return - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

Returning again and again to the steady heart - Ted Kooser "In a Light Late-Winter Wind"

Hope ever to return to day's dominion - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Return with the year's return - Chaman Lall "Departure"

The voices of returning birds - Archibald Lampman "Good Speech"

The glamours of the gods return - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"

A difference from the denial of return - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"

Returned to our future - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"

Because I've returned to the afterlife - Sammy LĂȘ "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"

No returning to the future you once inhabited - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"

Where run the tidings of return - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

The hen returned into the road - Giacomo Leopardi "Calm After Storm" transl. by Frederick Townsend

Still my journey knows no return - Li Po "Sent to My Two Little Children in the East of Lu" transl. by Burton Watson

When I return to the garden - M.L. Liebler "Another Ah Sunflower!"

Without condition of return - Naomi Long Madgett "Without Condition"

Returning the swallow to the sky - Shara McCallum "History Is a Room"

Returned to the reservoir of the mind - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

Returns the angels to the ground - Medbh McGuckian "Garden Homage"

And the kisses you returned - Frank J. Medina "'Twas Not to Be"

At Memory's touch returns again - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Make sure the orb is glowing before I return - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"

The desert we return to - Jane Miller "Memory at These Speeds"

Dark bodies of song return - Rajiv Mohabir "Why Whales Are Back in New York City"

Till cormorants returned my eyes - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

Return to tell Egypt the story - Thomas Moore "Sound the Loud Timbrel"

Returning an empty dream to a bitter pasture - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Chastity returns from the foam - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Ironing" transl. by Mark Eisner

Walking the roads made for returning - Pablo Neruda "San Martin (1810)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Without returning any kind of sun - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"

Breathed like a returning music - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The promise of atonement in your return - Achy Obejas "Volver"

A truth burgled, tarnished, but returned - Brandon O'Brien "Quiet and Fragile Try on the Same Romper"

As spent pilgrims returning - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

return your breath as liquid silver - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

Return upon the world - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"

Fears no law of diminishing returns - Gregory Pardlo "Atlantic City Sunday Morning"

Thy exiled sons returning - Fanny Parnell "After Death"

May never dare to ask return - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

To return shadows into the river - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"

Dream against dream's return - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"

With evening shades, return no more - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"

Time died so that it could return home - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "In arrival, feet flutter like dying birds"

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

To write their return to nothing from nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"

Everything hidden returns in force - Charles Rafferty "Resumption"

Yet more bright shall return - Henry Scott Riddell "We'll Meet Yet Again"

And the flocks to the valley return - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"

Confessed the dry return of his regret - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Discovery"

Returning the shards to flame - Karen A. Romanko "The Glass Blower"

The peculiar joy of returning to earth - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"

if my plans include returning home - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"

Return to earth in prayer - Sonia Sanchez "10 Haiku (for Max Roach)"

What unearthly spell returns - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

By those swift messengers return'd - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"

Till on these rocks the waves returning break - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"

Two images returning to the same darkness - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

To return us like fossilized roses - Maurya Simon "Angels"

Return and dance to this world's tune - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 230: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Returning for what is ours - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Returns at last to the empty road - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson

Great horned owls have not returned to the heron rookery - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"

Until herons returned in spring to claim their place - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"

Can return and not be afraid - Sara Teasdale "Water Lilies"

Returning on thy silver wheels - Alfred Tennyson "Tithonus"

Life is but a dream whose shapes return - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

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

A process of depletion, return, depletion - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"

Then return as the seasons return - Walt Whitman "On Journeys Through the States"

To bide the seas return - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"

From sunken graves returned - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"

Rails forever parallel return on themselves - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"

Ignore what returns to the ocean - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"

Clarity of occurrence returning to hold us close - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie IV"

The linear zipper of return - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

When the negatives return in double exposure - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Can't go back and return - Javier Zamora "To Abuelita Neli"


Immortal migrants, the ever-returning stars - Cale Young Rice "Passage"


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