Potential Titles: Ice

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Last winter's kisses, like salt on black ice - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"

Froze with terror's icy bolts - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Seas of white and turquoise ice - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"

Woe to the cock who strutteth on ice - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

With the draught of an icy decline - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

Bestows her summer ices and her winter rose - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

The iced remorseless vapours of the snow - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"

Drenched in medicine bottles and ice - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Duplex for the Sick & Tired"

Out of the mist and the ice - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

Striking off the icy chain - Cora C. Bass "Who Is This So Loved of Yore?"

Kisses as icy as the moon - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited

A bad dream's ice to choke you - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

With the evil ice of his freezing heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Lift the air that weighs like ice - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Trying to walk on mysterious ice - Maxwell Bodenheim "Boarding-House Episode"

The ferocious lies of ice - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

A xylophone jingle of the ice - Jaswinder Bolina "Make Believe"

In a land of ice and mirth and explicit premise - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"

Wide shoes to fool the ice - Elizabeth Bradfield "A Grim Place for Ponies"

Conducted by wave and ice - Elizabeth Bradfield "Wilson's Specimens"

archipelagos drowned by the melting of ice - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]

To hear ice recite The Iliad - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"

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

Let me triangulate icy shuffling under snow - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

As pure, as metallic as ice - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"

When icy chains the streams have bound - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Futile as those icy-fingered winds - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

Sharp explosions of the cracking ice - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

Winter had thrown his icy chain - "The Cascade"

Foul corruption's ice blight - Walter Richard Cassels "Gone"

In mirrors of ice and night - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Sends him forth to face fire and ice - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

The monster abandoned on the ice and left to die - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

From dark and icy caverns called - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

A voice like ice and velvet - Hilda Conkling "Little Papoose"

Mends the broken hedge with icy thorn - George Crabbe "The Village"

Mile upon mile of snow, ice, burning sand - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

I will bathe in waters of ice - Adelaide Crapsey "The Lonely Death"

This sleeve of ice worn by a branch - James Crews "Awe"

Broken by ice, smoothed by water and time - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Pours disappointment's icy tears - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

In solid cages of white ice - William H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"

Ice where the lily bloomed - Walter de la Mare "Down-Adown-Derry"

All in an icy quiet, forlorn - Walter de la Mare "Snow"

Shoveling muddy snow or heaving ice - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"

In the blind white grip of ice - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Your icy peninsula of glamour - Denise Duhamel "Delta Flight 656"

No icy jackhammer pneumatics - Carolina Ebeid "Relapsing/Remitting"

Icy in unfinished colors - Carolina Ebeid "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick and Mum Petals"

Slow rafts of ice - Elaine Equi "Trenton Local"

The ice takes a bite - Heid E. Erdich "How We Walk"

Bites thorn and ice - Heid E. Erdich "Thrifty Gene, Lucky Gene"

Imprints of his icy fingers - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"

A skater marking perfect figures on perfect ice - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

Water ices reacted with lava flows - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"

To know that for destruction ice is also great - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"

Ice and snow, dead weeds and unmated birds - Robert Frost "Wind and Window Flower"

The plain grammar of ice - Tess Gallagher "Souvenir"

Chill with icy sleet and rain - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"

Intolerant mountains of iron and ice - Louis Golding "The Quest"

A margin of ice - Linda Gregerson "The Burning of Madrid as Seen from the Terrace of My House"

The self-same knots of air and ice - Linda Gregerson "Spring Snow"

Fashions the ice crystals into semblances - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Ice that wolves trample silently - Myronn Hardy "Solemnity"

An ice horse galloping into fire - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: IV. Ice Horses"

Carved of ebony and ice - Joy Harjo "White Bear"

Ice in long slow nights - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"

Ice no axe or book will break - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"

Ice of Archangelic strength - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"

Ice of this hard two-faced month - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"

Ice like Dante's in deep hell - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"

Till fire runs in the maples and ice goes out - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "January Thaw"

Fill the ocean with melted ice - Arden Eli Hill "None of the Star Trek Ships Are Named After Confederate Generals"

Ice is astonished by water - Jane Hirshfield "Mosquito"

Even ice was not silent - Linda Hogan "Map"

Poisonous rivers make poisonous ice - Jackson Holbert "Landscape"

Breaks the last jigsaw of ice - Jackson Holbert "Letter from Nine Mile"

In skins of molten ice - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Through their reins in ice and fire - A.E. Houseman "A Shropshire Lad, XXX"

A thread of ice penetrating the human sciences - Lucy Ives "First Husband"

Melting ice and brown islands of bulrush - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"

A mosaic of opaque green ice - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"

Always had a heart something like ice - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Where the ice plants glow - Gabriel Jesiolowski "Entry for Not an Island"

The steely soul of ice - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"

Have mounted every step of ice - G.H. Johnstone "Ipse Ego..."

Black ice and squid ink - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

A sheen of ice clarifies a gravel bed - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

Ice plates stack and cantilever - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

Splints the ice water saws right through - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"

Green ice in blue water - Janet Kauffman "The Knife in the Fish"

With Ice united meet - Anne Killigrew "The Fourth Epigram: On Galla"

Broken out of ice - Yusef Komunyakaa 'from "The Last Bohemian of Avenue A"'

Ice cubes projecting memory - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"

A ruin of fallen columns bedded on ice - Ted Kooser "The Celery Heart"

Shattering green bones on cliffs of ice - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

A room inside an icy moonlet - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

Grass completely enrobed in ice - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"

In the ice and the earth - Megan Levad "Foundling"

The heart of ice is fire waiting - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

The ice of all the ages - Amy Levy "A Dirge"

The air of icy centuries of night - Amy Lowell "To Elizabeth Ward Perkins"

Flower with surfaces of ice - Amy Lowell "The Weather-Cock Points South"

Chilled their hearts with his icy touch - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Sailed for the ice drift and snow - Mrs Elizabeth A (MacQueen) MacLeod "Sieur de Maisonneuve, or The Founding of Montreal"

Iron ice bound all the bitter seas - Don Marquis "Dickens"

Trapped in a sheet of ice - JoAnne McFarland "Jersey"

Bending over to claw at the surface of the ice - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"

Divide about an icy star - George Meredith "Archduchess Anne"

Ice feathers across the biodome - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"

Wings like iced hope on her back - Joanne Merriam "Werepenguin"

Slow-danced with the ice - M.S. Merwin "Oak Time"

An icy message to every wave and rill - Viola Meynell "The Frozen Ocean"

The stellar streaking horse of the ice - Pablo Neruda "Chile's Seas" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Across the shirt of the icy firmament - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Seagull" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

With arrows like an icy ghost - Pablo Neruda "Rider in the Rain" transl. by John Felstiner

Of fractured stars like ice - Pablo Neruda "Rider in the Rain" transl. by John Felstiner

Blasted with ice and fire - E. Nesbit "The Old Dispensation"

Onto lake ice where fate met each - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"

Who guards me from long ice needles - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Follow her in the knowledge of ice - dg nanouk okpik "Inupiaq Women"

The lonely sound of ice - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Hearing My Name"

In the merciless iced east winds - Wilfred Owen "Exposure"

Awakened by the rumble of the ice - Andre F. Peltier "Those Hexagonal Corals"

Crashing blows on the icy bar - Frank L. Pollock "The Trail of Gold"

Sad lagoons to bathe the icy stars - Magda Portal "Film Vermouth: Six O'Clock Show" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver

With her manicure of ice - Lynn Powell "Alberta Clipper"

Fields of ice unbounded - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"

Falls in love with those icy eyes of chaos - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"

hope on ice sharpened days and nights - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Grief-blind on ice - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Feet of fire on banks of ice - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"

With a saving drink of iced Nepenthe comes - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

We'll smooth your icy pillow - Deborah Ruddell "Penguin's Lullaby"

To learn that ice would burn - Kay Ryan "He Lit a Fire with Icicles"

A land of ice and fire beneath ether shores - Alexandra Seidel "Give Me Pluto"

Clutched in hollow hand of ice - Robert W. Service "The March of the Dead"

And crowns of starry ice - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Like weights of icy stone - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

Bathing your shadow in ice water - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

Lays his icy hand on kings - James Shirley "The Same"

The dragon orders an iced caramel mocha - Cislyn Smith "Hot"

That weep with tears of ice and crystal - Clark Ashton Smith "Eidolon"

In icy deserts of the sky - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

And clad with icy azures - Clark Ashton Smith "Psalm"

A hundred feet down a filigree of ice - Richard Solomon "Writing Itself"

The stars squeezing their icy light - Gary Soto "Professional Goals"

A thousand shocks of ice - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Shocks of ice and seething horrors - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

My heart is sister of ice - George Sterling "The Princess on the Headland"

Icy philters brim with scarlet foam - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

It still is ice - Wallace Stevens "Poesie Abrutie"

The junipers shagged with ice - Wallace Stevens "The Snow Man"

Cruel dawn, with icy, deathlike eyes and hollow voice - Carmen Sylva "Rest"

Tolling kelp-clappered watches of brash ice - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

The sky is bursting to black ice - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"

Hopes that clash like ice and fire - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Poem without a Category, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson

Protected by seven months of cold and ice - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

The pulse of summer in the ice - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

Till fields of ice her course confine - Henry David Thoreau "Lines [Though all the Fates should prove unkind]"

Listening to ice become water - TC Tolbert "felo-de-se-- Melissa"

Of cynic ice and sudden white blasts - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

The ice axe of memory - Emily van Kley "You Aren't Sure & I May Not"

Welded in ice - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

Language drilled through ice - Allison Benis White "Description of Symptoms"

A black tree trunk icily resplendent - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"

Ice caps don't choose to melt - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"

Left his throne of ice and snow - Huldah Lucile Winsted "The Deluge"

The secret's in the extra ice - Allan Wolf "Saturn: And the Winner for Best Wardrobe Is..."

Tormented creature of fire and ice - Francis Brett Young "104 Fahrenheit"

Under the appalling rending of glacier ice - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

With pillars of swirling ice - Ray Young Bear "In Pine, Arizona"



Our ship is fueled by a deuterium iceball - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"


Icicle tears from the ice-bound years - Louise Morey Bowman "The Dead Violin"

The sky with an icebound sun - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "History" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman


Like a tent about the ice-capped stars - Lola Ridge "After Storm"


Naught save the harsh sea and ice-cold wave - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound


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On the ice-edge of starvation - Emily van Kley "Birches --for A & D VK"


From the ice-fanged polar jaws - Louis Golding "The Advent of Mars"

The spitting foam and the ice-fanged caves - Marian Thanhouser "Home"


Tower of the secret icehouses - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly


Ice-packed in dreams of freezing - Adrienne Rich "Rauschenberg's Bed"


An icepick of hunger - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"


Let the ice-plains echo - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"


Solar wind strokes the ice-wall into light - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"


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