Potential Titles: Ride/Rode

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The rocking horse dreams of riding the carousel - Duane Ackerson "Various Horses"

Riding the waves without comment - Duane Ackerson "Various Horses"

Riding through my place in time - Linda Addison "Evolving"

Ride winged steeds to distant lands - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"

The earth that rides upon his neck - "Alexander the Great"

Riding the inverse surge of gravity - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

A ghost ride down the corridor of the city - Alise Alousi "Skip"

That ride time's hurricane - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"

Riding over galleries of air - James Arthur "Wind"

Ride the lightning, answer the thunder, penetrate the whirlwind - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Debts you're saddled with and debts you ride - Ari Banias "Tribute"

To outride wind, tide and stars - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sailor's Story"

what ergot saddles we ride - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"

Who ride the hurricanes of fire - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Where the gallant navy rides the deep - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

A flame that can ride water - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"

Riding the wild horse of the mind - Max Bodenheim "Compulsory Tasks"

Flashing witchcraft that rides on thunderclaps - Max Bodenheim "Topsy-Turvy"

A wild bird riding the wind and screaming bitterly - Arna Bontemps "Homing"

And ride to the heron-marsh - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

Bike riding across insecure cement - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

And these ride high in history - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

The holy kings ride down by Severn side - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

Ride through the silent earthquake lands - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

Riding his dragon chariot - "The Ch'u Tz'u: The Lord Among the Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson

A carnival ride in the rain - Gabrielle Civil "Three of Cups"

The woman riding a stampede of seahorses - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"

The slender moon to her mooring rides - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

Death may be riding the wings of the wind - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Delicate riders of the storm - Hart Crane "Praise for an Urn"

The shining champions each did ride - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

Riding the echo down into the silver dawn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Riding the mountain down into the silver dawn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Bring my ship in honour's port to ride - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [My lady, and my sovereign, flower most rare]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Rolling battleships at anchor ride - Geoffrey Dearmer "The Dardenelles, from 'W' Beach"

Rider of the shining sword - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Proud as an eagle riding to the sun - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Grief will ride in on the smallest of bodies - Camille T. Dungy "Notes on what is always with us"

Ride misery through the night - Cornelius Eady "The Train (Miss Look)"

Riding a tangle of syntax - Carolina Ebeid "Punctum/Metaphor"

Riding on seven great lions - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Rides the same unexpected waves - Heid E. Erdich "The Deep"

My thoughts catch rides with passing airplanes - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "My First Love"

Spectres of the foam riding the summer gales - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

To ride forth at evening from the wells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

But no one riding out - Douglas Florian "The Anteater"

Through her silver ocean rides a thousand fathoms deep - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Wee Willie Winkie"

Now from having ridden out desire - Robert Frost "Blue-Butterfly Day"

Riding the backs of the Trojan Women - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Riding winds to the corners of the earth - Theodora Goss "The Bear's Wife"

Emerge covered with pollen, riding a bee - Theodora Goss "Thumbelina"

Cry to the stars that love rides by - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

Riding upon the Lightning's wing - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

Wild Valkyries ride the wind - Arthur Guiterman "The Twilight of the Gods"

The dreamer riding homewards - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Honeymooning from the Country"

That rides the glorious Cherubim - Robert Herrick "God Unsearchable"

Without a rein or a riders - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"

Letting your hunger ride a ten-foot span - Conrad Hilberry "Pelican"

That rides upon the barbed, jagged hills - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Riding the cab of an iron dungeon - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

The yellow weeds you used to ride - Nora Hopper "The Wind Among the Reeds"

And far with the brave I have ridden - A.E. Housman "Last Poems VI: Lancer"

And thirty singing furies ride - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

And thirty singing furies ride to split the sky - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

This blade I ride on - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Estrella @ Noon"

As knights ride by to meet the foe - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "A Ballade of Old Romance"

Hitch a ride to your future - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

Naked on the Air of Heaven ride - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Pan rides the foremost one - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

Rides a shadow at daybreak - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Devil Comes on Horseback"

Tried to ride the buses without paying - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"

Rides through the carpet of fallen blossoms - Li Po "Laughter in the Thicket" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Wait for a yellow crane to ride - Li Po "River Song" transl. by Arthur Waley

The storm of scorn I ride - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"

Riding the shadows of conquering air - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"

Rider between thought and dream - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"

Who rides on that meteor of fire - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: III"

A lost bird riding out the night - Jeannette Marks "Dragon"

The foeman's dreadnoughts ride - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"

The Ghost of a Gargoyle riding his night colored mare - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Death rides the burning blast - George Martin "The Crisis"

Where the remote Bermudas ride - Andrew Marvell "Bermudas"

And ride that terrible train homeward - Cate Marvin "Oracle"

On which the dust of custom rides - Edgar Lee Masters "Victor Rafolski on Art"

Riding souls of men to night - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

The horse riding out to the pasture of death - Joseph Millar "One Day"

Rides of grace and penitence - Claire Millikin "Carnal"

With an elephant to ride upon - Marianne Moore "Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight"

Riding a gradient invisible - Howard Nemerov "Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry"

Who ride the West winds - Tim Newcomb "Everything Happens in the Columbia Gorge"

Riding her horses of need - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

Riding shadows on the wall of death - Hoa Nguyen "The Flying Motorist Artist"

Heard a fierce wind riding by - Meredith Nicholson "October"

Didn't pick the rider as carefully as the horse - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"

Ride the beautiful long spine of grammar - Mary Oliver "Gratitude"

Ride on the darkening flood - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

Inertia rides and riddles me - Dorothy Parker "The Veteran"

Riding music out of sight - Linda Pastan "Listening to Bob Dylan, 2005"

Bid terror to the battle ride - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]

Shalt now backwards ride to the earth - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)

A swift white ship in which to ride - Miriam Clark Potter "A Ballad of Three"

And the Prince of the Wind comes out to ride - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"

Out in the dark the wind rides past - Miriam Clark Potter "Tea Time"

Ride backward into memory - D.A. Powell "Passing Through"

What dark road will they ride together? - Paisley Rekdal "Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348"

Levitating into the night sky riding the polished lenses - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

Nickel to ride to the zigzag stars - Lola Ridge "Phyllis"

Would follow the white gulls or ride them - Rihaku "The River Song" transl. by Ezra Pound

The ghostly galleys ride out - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

A long ride to the deep - Sonia Sanchez "Sonku"

A solar wind too strong to ride - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"

This year's jinx rides us apart - Anne Sexton "All My Pretty Ones"

Permit the basest clouds to ride - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIII"

Rides upon the whirlwind - Virna Sheard "The Shells"

As eagles of destruction ride - George Sterling "The House of War"

Invitation to a plunging ride over the edge of night - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

To ride with the Bandit King and his highwaymen - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

To ride a whim beyond the term of Truth - William Wetmore Story "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem"

Riding home on the back of an ox - Sun Yun-feng "The Trail Up Wu Gorge" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

The forest where the owl rides - Alison Swan "Lake Effect"

And home with the rovers we ride - John B. Tabb "A Cavalcade"

Have I not ridden as an immortal rides? - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXXII: The Sum of Things to Another Woman"

Riding the dark surge silently - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"

Meeting Death riding in from the hollow seas - W.J. Turner "Death"

Riding comets bareback through cosmic alleys - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

The fog riding out at day - Oswaldo Vargas "Mister"

Truth rides upon us - Margaret Walker "Delta"

Pain rides itself through - Jay Wright "[Song into holiness]"

Riding a bicycle towards the ceiling - John Yau "Music from Childhood"

From the starry Temple gates Death rides - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Winter Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

Will ride the horses made of straw - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

Riding off into the moonlessly blue chaparral - Dean Young "Bird-Shaped Cliff"


Circuit-rider of the endless skies - Irving Sidney Dix "The Comet"


Ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"


He that would outride the storm - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]


Raised his riding-crop in golden greeting - Li Po "The Encounter" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]


All night I rode where hearts were clear - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"

He who rode on the fated mission - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Pierced infinity as we rode - Elizabeth Bartlett "Ship of Earth"

Where Angels rode in fiery guard - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"

His life-bark rode on Fortune's flood - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [My first is often caught in church]"

Rode flame-like to the rhythm of the gale - Katherine Hale "Stony Lake"

Scores of iron horsemen rode - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

And goblins rode on bears - Edwin C. Ranck "Why the Mole Is Blind"

Who rode on what shoulders - Adrienne Rich "Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot"

And the wild god rode on the storm - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

And we both rode off together - "Sledburn Fair"

When he rode to blast with the lightning - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]

Rode red hordes of anger - Louis Untermeyer "Sunday"


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