Potential Titles: Round

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Round of applause for the sun - Francisco X. Alarcon "Tortilla"

That round our heart-strings twine - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"

A round breath of hope keeping cover - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Glides the shadow round the dial - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

Vapors round the sinking sun - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"

And hang fresh wreaths round Newton's awful brow - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Drift round my bed like thistledown - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"

To fold enchantment round their hearts - Charles Baudelaire "Beauty" transl. not credited

Set round with starry crystal rhymes - Charles Baudelaire "To a Madonna" transl. not credited

Where all the freezing stars go round - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Drew hearts round the keyholes - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"

Jonquils and pansies round her head - Laurence Binyon "Psyche"

Falling off the round, turning world - Elizabeth Bishop "In the Waiting Room"

While the beetle goes his round - William Blake "A Dream"

And fenced him round with cans - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Freezing mist round intellectual mirth - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Bold gnats that revel round my solitude - Edmund Blunden "The March Bee"

Rounding out the hundred rites - "The Book of Odes: No.220. When Guests First Take Their Seats" transl. by Burton Watson

Who come round our hearthstone - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"

With gray walls compassed round - Anne Bronte "Home"

The ice that gathers round my heart - Anne Bronte "Lines Written from Home"

Her riches round them spread - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

And scatter glories round - Anne Bronte "Views of Life"

A net was woven round my feet - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert II: The Parlour"

Those sad relics scattered round - Emily Bronte "Hope"

Round his feet three rivers ran - Emily Bronte "The Philosopher"

That creep round twilight corners - Rupert Brooke "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"

From the low earth round you - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Round the passage of the fire - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Shedding a nameless horror round - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"

The cormorant wheeled in circles round - William Cullen Bryant "Rizpah"

Round the bastions of our fate - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Humming Bee"

Fell round them into dust - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

Golden prospects round us rise - John Castillo "The Country Love Feast"

Rounding luminous its fair ellipse - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Turns round a stony face - Arthur Colton "When All the Brooks Have Run Away"

Wild goats sporting round the eagle's nest - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

A halo round our home - Eliza Cook "Song for the New Year"

A Heaven ringed round with Hell - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

To scorn the narrow round - James H. Cousins "To Algernon Charles Swinburne"

Geraniums and roses round me bloom - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Round Time's dial thronged the hours - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

As they orbit round her helmet - Jan Cronos "She Remains"

from huge trees drenched by a rounding moon - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

Cluster round the young heart's shrine - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Shining clusters round the silent dead - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"

Rounded by my own gravity - Meg Day "If You're Staying, I'll Stay Too"

Singing round the root - Walter de la Mare "Sleepyhead"

Half round the world of woe - Aubrey de Vere "Epitaph"

The round earth's imagined corners - John Donne "At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)"

Round his neck three chains of roses - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

Wreaths they twisted round his horns - Edward Dowden "Europa"

Who paces round the brink - Edward Dowden "The Pool"

The rounding distances expand - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

Impetuous round her axle rolls - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

A mighty halo round her silver throne - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

With an anchor round his neck - Michael Field "In the Sea"

As a tiger round a camp - Michael Field "Real Presence"

Round all the scarlet ring - "The First Hole at St. Andrews on a Crowded Day"

The sparrows quarrelling round the lilac - John Freeman "The Chair"

Sweeping round it with a flaming sword - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"

The swarm dilating round the perfect trees - Robert Frost "A Prayer in Spring"

Something fine weaving us round - Zona Gale "The Bureau"

With scarlet flannel round - Zona Gale "Violin"

Doing the rounds in a cement courtyard - Barbara Genova "One Year Before the Time Jump"

All my wanderings round this world of care - Oliver Goldsmith "Old Age"

Moths that round the taper wheel - S.G. Goodrich "Farewell to a Fashionable Acquaintance"

Girt round the feet with gorse - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"

That can keep horror bristling round the head - Robert Graves "A Child's Nightmare"

The round red sun is the door - Kate Greenaway "Which Is the Way to Somewhere Town?"

Who flings her royal radiance round me - Grace Greenwood "A Lay" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

The night-wind trembling round the rose - Grace Greenwood "A Lay" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

The ritual sacrifice of round birds - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

The morning round the bend - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"

When the wind raved round the land - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"

While round them shadows gathered faster - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Flung their troubles round my door - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Parting Rosary"

And roses tumbling round - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "My Old House and the Weather"

Gather the warm affections round - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"

Hung aloft the rounding moon - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"

Curled round a bough of the cinnamon tall - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"

In my round sea of tinfoil - Arno Holz "Phantasus" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

Round his mind a bright horizon threw - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

With serpent folds entwining round the stem - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

With ballast of round thunder - Richard Hughes "The Rolling Saint"

The lamps round pool of gold - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"

A cloud wrapped with ivy round - "I Saw a Peacock"

Cares which hovered round my brow - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Wreath her chain round us - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "When Shall We Meet Again?"

Turning round with face unscathed - Ebenezer Jones "When the World is Burning"

Dark velvet edges them round - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Spun round in sable curtaining - John Keats "Hyperion"

Far round the horizon's crystal air - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

The rounding noon hangs hard and white - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"

The ceaseless round of a gigantic harmony - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

The rounds of glare and shadow - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"

Round a white hearth of desert - D.H. Lawrence "Men in New Mexico"

At the round-turning mill - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"

Round pools within a wood to catch the stars - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

Fevered fancies round me throng - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

Turns round to face each post-apocalyptic dawn - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"

Sent round his cards for aesthetics and tea - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"

Round a plantation of Old Nick's - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

With your round guillotine of a mouth - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"

Loud round my storm-beaten bark - S. Anna Lewis "The Unmasked"

Whirl round ten thousand rocks - Li T'ai-Po "The Perils of the Shu Road" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Wonders spreading round you like flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"

In the perpetual round of strange mysterious change - Longfellow "Rain in Summer"

The round, grey stones of the market-place - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"

And wreathe my hearthstone round - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Rounds the sharp knobs of character - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"

And rounded with dead glitter - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

Gray thoughts stalk round me - Jeannette Marks "Too Late"

Splendors round my spirit wheel - George Martin "Aspiration"

Shark teeth round her neck - John Masefield "Mother Carey"

Brace the arms that help the winches round - John Masefield "Spunyarn"

Spaces brought round for viruses - Farid Matuk "My Daughter Among the Names"

Softly buckled round their toes - Furnley Maurice "Barter"

Round about the attic stair - Furnley Maurice "A Whisper Song"

Crowd round this lifted heart - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"

The emissary eglantine break wave round - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Round you Death his shadows dense - George Meredith "To a Friend Lost (T. T.)"

Rimmed round by steel-built battleships - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"

The chaplet round the brow of Fame - "The Misanthrope"

Round the dark fringes of the storm - Dugald Moore "Lucy's Grave"

As coils a serpent round the escaping deer - Lewis Morris "Clytaemnestra in Paris"

gathering round our hunger - Angela Peñaredondo "harvest"

And glisten round him in a silver blaze - Philo "The Tribute"

Taught them to bloom round my bower - Henry Scott Riddell "The Bower of the Wild"

Gather round the angry clouds - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"

Though worlds are trembling round me - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Calm that Comes with Years"

Enchantment round each hidden bend - V. Sackville-West "Song: Let Us Go Back"

Aware of silence heaped round him - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"

When the wheel of time goes round - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

Doomsday-storms rage round about - Friedrich Schiller "The Peasants"

The north wind round my ears - Clinton Scollard "A King in Kerry"

Three times round with kisses seven - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Chafing sighs hew my heart round - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Stinging thistles round a haunted charnel - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]

Weave a chaplet round the brow of Spring - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

The Titans gathered round their king - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Dance out a round on the dreamt eye of water - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

The Present lay like Eden round us - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

My crescent faith clings round the promise - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

A single shawl wrapped tightly round - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"

Waking breezes round the casement pipe - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

Mirrors the harsh, round sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 16: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

In a sea of grief flow round me - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Ringed round with cliffs and moors - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

The round Zion of the water bead - Dylan Thomas "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"

Moving light spreads round earth a mantle bright - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"

Thrice turn round and shut your eyes - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"

Builded round with diamond walls - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"

The luxury of neatness round - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)

Curtains all the horizon round - Jones Very "The Clouded Morning"

My psyche can turn you round - Wa Wa Chaw "My Psyche and Wassaja"

Smother her round scream - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"

Bring the light clasped round you - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"

The dust of Hell lies round our feet - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"

Hangs heaven's echoes round her footsteps - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"

Slow rounding into calm - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Fling ourselves round with dust lilies - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

Pensive round his sable shrine - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

All round the garden are ghosts - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"



the roundtable turned square - jessica Care moore "She Was"


Daft, round-the-world steampunk wagers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"


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