Potential Titles: Rest

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While I starve for a second of rest - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

Where shadows of the dead have rest - William Allingham "Aeolian Harp"

Where eaglets rest their wings - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"

The lonely bench where lovers rest - Auguste Angellier "Eyes and Lips" transl. by Henry van Dyke

The theory rests on a tipping point - Mary Jo Bang "Catastrophe Theory II"

To rest his raptured wings - Cora C. Bass "The Lord Will Provide"

And only half-way doing the rest - Mrs. Clara Doty Bates "Dog Prince" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Herds at rest upon the sands - Charles Baudelaire "The Accursed" transl. not credited

A ruin where the jackals rest - Charles Baudelaire "The Eyes of Beauty" transl. not credited

Where the wood drake rests in his beauty - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"

The first rest of a thirstless journey - Maxwell Bodenheim "To a Woman"

Pain's derisive hand had given me rest - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"

Darkness sets adrift the rest - Marianne Boruch "After Supper in Madison, Wisconsin"

In silent night when rest I took - Anne Bradstreet "Verses upon the Burning of our House"

Rest me in this sheltered bower - Anne Bronte "The Arbour"

Where heart and soul may rest - Anne Bronte "Lines Written from Home"

Midnight rest may still be sweet - Emily Bronte "Self-Interrogation"

Revenge pursued beyond the final resting place - Paul Cameron Brown "Point Spread"

Chess pieces resting upon the jade mantle - Paul Cameron Brown "Pondicherry"

Whose place of rest is won - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Words of Rosalind's Scroll"

Streaked with the promise of rest - Sue Budin "Forgiveness Comes in Two Colors"

A seat for pain to rest in - Sue Budin "Healing with Shadows"

When we dream of perfect rest - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks

Seeking ports of rest - F.W. Butler-Thwing "The Tramp-Ship"

That nighttime brigade of ghosts now laid to rest - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"

Leaves no rest to the heart - Witter Bynner "Young Eden"

In coral dreams I rest - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

No rest-house for the heart - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

Whom destiny allows to rest - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

The cold Norns who pattern life and rest - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"

If their foundation rest on the sand - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

Rest awhile by its spirit gates - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Here where hungers rest - Leonard Cohen "Drank a Lot"

Teach old hearts to rest - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"

A hollow sweet to rest in - Hilda Conkling "Adventure"

The answer is not rest or peace - Susan Coolidge "Laborare Est Orare"

Too merry for a moment's rest - Benjamin Copeland "The Meadow Air Is Sweet"

Upheld her torch and warned the rest - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"

Here the dormant fury rests unsought - George Crabbe "The Library"

Chill from his rippling rest - Hart Crane "To Brooklyn Bridge"

Must have the tomb for rest - "The Cross by the Way (Kroaz ann Hent)" (Translation by Tom Taylor)

Mark the last sunbeams, while sinking to rest - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"

Where buried kings are tombed at rest - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"

And angels know the rest - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love VII: With a Flower"

The wizard-fingers never rest - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XII: Psalm of the Day"

A cuckoo sounds the hour of rest - Irving Sidney Dix "Twin Lake: In the Wayne Highlands"

Retires to rest with history - Dom "Year's End"

Rest your cheek on the shoulder of the mountain - Chris Dombrowski "Tablet"

Brittle leaves sketching their way to rest - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"

Half reluctance that sinks gradually to rest - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

An old relic at rest, after everything's done - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Some rock of rest - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Absence"

Sun-bright splendors on the noonday rest - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Hinting the sacred mystery of rest - Max Eastman "Hours"

Bloodroot and wake-robin rest in quiet slumber - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

Shady moments of rest - Margarita Engle "Sharing Peace"

The sun fell away and it rested a while - Daniel Errico "Night Hippos"

Immune to poison, apples, and the rest - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"

Your miller does not rest in her sanctuary - "First Hymn" transl. by Sophus Helle (per translator's note, this claims, internally, to be Enheduana speaking but references things not built until well after her probable dates)

Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

When all the rest were but puppets of the night - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

Pillars of the sky at rest - John Gould Fletcher "Snowy Mountains"

Watch for the rest of eternity as it blossoms - Sandy Florian "But This Is Ambiguous"

So hungry he went to his rest - "The Fox and the Geese"

A place of rest invisible at dawn - Robert Frost "Stars"

Some resting flower of yesterday's delight - Robert Frost "The Tuft of Flowers"

Gnawed by corruption, wanting rest - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

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

Thought it a region of sunshine and rest - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"

Ripeness that rests an hour in the fruit - Thom Gunn "Merlin in the Cave: He Speculates without a Book"

Rest till stars shall fall - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Whose wrath should mar his rest no more - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]

To rest in her grace - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Grace Andreacchi) "Of Great Love in High Thoughts"

Where rests the mighty one in sleep - 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]

Take my dreamless rest - Ruth Guthrie Harding "In a Forgotten Burying-Ground"

The shelter and rest of the Isle of Time - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"

That other dreamless sleep of rest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

Pausing at the gates of rest - Frances E.W. Harper "Truth"

In the haunted chambers rest - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Haunted House"

Where Untold Treasures hidden rest - Oliver Herford "Rudyard Kipling"

A rope ladder to the resting zone - Brenda Hillman "Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways"

Rest on the parching land - Robert Hogg "A Wish Burst"

But let the screaming echoes rest - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXV: The Oracles"

Resting by her carven fountain - Sade Iverson "Ten Square Feet of Garden"

Rested in the dignity of the Great Blue Heron - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

And rest content in wine and nectar - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"

Distiller of the balm of rest - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"

The rest was born as movement - Fady Joudah "Sirius"

So he who has sorrow shall have rest - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XVIII"

That border-land whose hills they rest upon - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VI" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]

Disturbs the tranquil rest of Ocean - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Then rest content with sorrow - Fanny Kemble "On a Musical Box"

Never faultless light or perfect rest - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

Not yet visible to the rest - Galway Kinnell "Conception"

The pewit's cry only makes deeper nature's rest - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

May the bird rest on its branch - Danusha Lameris "Let Rain Be Rain"

Restful as this quiet grass - Archibald Lampman "To the Cricket"

As I make my way in twilight now to rest - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"

Before the rest of time unfolds - Katy Lederer "Attention Deficit"

A shadow rests on earth and sky - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

All wilder thoughts at rest - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

Restful pastures by the flowing creek - Ida Lee "The Homestead"

The long shadows settle down to rest - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Garden"

Better to rest in the halls of the dead - E. Anna Lewis "The Orphan's Hymn"

Stars rest cold by shoals of cloud - Li Ho "For the Examination at Ho-nan-fu: Songs of the Twelve Months (with Intercalary Month)" transl. by Burton Watson

Wild ducks and geese at rest - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson

Tonight I long for rest - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Day Is Done"

Never home till the crows have gone to rest - Lu Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

Found no spot whereon to rest - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]

Rested his head on his pillow of stone - Charles Mackay "The Dream of Lord Nithsdale" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

Gray peaceful rest beside - Jeannette Marks "Gray Waters"

Resting in my brown upon earth - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"

Yield and leave us to restful dreams - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

Like the rest of us gusty apparitions - Adrian Matejka "October Sonnet"

Losing the rest of the pieces on purpose - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Like passion soothed to rest - Alexander M'Lachlan "Indian Summer"

Feasts on this banquet of rest - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Immigrant Motherhood"

The waters rise from infinite realms of rest - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"

Oblivion hides the rest - James Montgomery "The Common Lot"

This frail world our only rest - James Montgomery "Friends"

Resting on the hard secret of power - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Give your twilight rest - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

And bid them rest safe-anchored - E. Nesbit "The Island"

If such an hour goes by with all the rest - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

Where our baby birds may safely rest - "Nesting Time" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]

And leaves with me the rest of the unsleeping sea - Ae.P. "Love Unsung" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.742, 16 March 1878]

At rest in a wind's disruption - Carl Phillips "Crossing"

Nor might they under thy roof find any rest - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)

So could Corruption's phalanx rest composed - Philo "The Tribute"

Where the air rests sweet on meadows of clover - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"

The watchword there is Rest - Miriam Clark Potter "Twilight Town"

Crow whose one wing rests on the evening - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

The rest is a sea of chaos - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"

The room's shadow hid the rest - Anne Proctor "Verse: A Legend of Provence"

Creeps away to dream and rest - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"

Where lapwings float at rest - Herbert Randall "The Angelus of Plymouth Woods"

Swinging the hyacinth-bells to rest - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Song of the Little Winds"

Less weight than resting moonlight - Lola Ridge "Adelaide Crapsey"

Rest easily in the shadow - Lynn Riggs "The Hollow"

Restful as a dream - James Whitcombe Riley "An Old-Timer"

I unresting through a world at rest - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]

That sang to rest old bones of warriors - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Dark Hills"

Whose dim foreknowledge is at rest - Rennell Rodd "In Chartres Cathedral"

Restful beauty on the restless tide - Alice Wellington Rollins "Serenity"

Earth's fell tyrants who ne'er dream of rest - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]

To sleep with rest and spice and balm - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

And gives my sense her rest - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"

I am one with their hearts at rest - George William Russell "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

Fragments of rest angled in - Kay Ryan "Sharks' Teeth"

To rest in the shade of the metal raintrees - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"

And dream the rest - Percy Bysshe Shelley "When Passion’s Trance Is Overpast"

At rest or afloat on life's far-sounding river - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

Rested to view the ruins - Gary Soto "How I Got to Walk Down Six Thousand Feet Barefoot"

Under crowding stars to rest - Ssu-k'ung Shu "The Rebellion Over, I See Off a Friend Who Is Returning North" transl. by Burton Watson

Taste of the rest that the weary crave - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"

Rest perilously on the bank of time - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 180: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Rest, forget, be reconciled - Algernon Swinburne "Not a Child"

As rest forbids the cruel dawn to break - Carmen Sylva "Rest"

I cannot rest from travel - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"

That peace was resting there - F.W. Thomas "A Slighted Woman"

The tides from seas of rest - Priscilla Jane Thompson "Song of the Moon"

Which rests awhile on earth and sinks unseen - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VIII. The Lery"

The rest stern Time effaces - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

The rest will surely follow one by one - Aleksey Konstantovich Tolstoy "The Wolves" transl. by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi

With doubts that will not let me rest - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

The year rests between Mulberry and Elm - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson

Birds at rest on the water - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson

Fields where my happy heart had rest - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"

Time smiles at us, and rests his heels - Mark Van Doren "Three Friends"

To rest in the lee of the high hill land - Henry van Dyke "Turn o' the Tide"

In search of more restful altitudes - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

Thy soldier hand and heart at rest - Charles William Wallace "Good-Night: Youth"

Our tasks without chance of resting - Jo Walton "When We Were Robots in Egypt"

All these years without a rest - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "Montauk"

The hours of the harness know little rest - Arthur Waugh "The Toilsome Goat"

In the nooks and crannies of the rest of your life - Thomas White "After"

Rest from all bitter thoughts - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Cadence, measure, rest, inflection - Adolf Wolff "Immortality"

Somewhere to rest the weight of yourself - Janet S. Wong "Low Crow"

Who found not rest in hallowed earth - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

Deep twilight of rest - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"

All things longing for rest - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"

A box of ash, a handshake, and the rest is your problem - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"

And never rest shalt know - "Young Svejdal" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier


Looking upon the never-resting earth - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

Never-resting time leads summer on - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"


Found a resting-place for laughter - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"


Restless.

Unrest.


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