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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-02-03 08:53 pm

Potential Titles: Near

Nearly severed from his star - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

Dance near every edge - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"

Matches near bone-dry trees - Alise Alousi "Lynndie's Other Voice"

Other anniversaries of near misses - Julia Alvarez "Death Days"

No near escapes from certain disasters - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

Near music-haunted springs - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.V--To a Wild Flower"

Frogs are croaking near the mill - Maurice Baring "A June Night in Russia"

fears no nearer to relief than tears - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"

When crowded in the mouths of those near it - Billy-Ray Belcourt "NDN Homopoetics"

Near the river but not the railroad - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Evergreen"

As we draw near the gallows-tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

When grey trouble looms so near - Paul Bewsher "The Star"

Draws near to the witching time of night - Robert Blair "The Grave"

But I saw a glowworm near - William Blake "A Dream"

Narrowed the span between the near and the far - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Venus Nell" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]

Near the edge of your mystery - Julie Byrne "I Live Now as a Singer"

the cattails grew so high that the longing nearly subsided - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"

As they circled and rattled near the monster - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

Nor ruder love than mine be near - Professor Campbell "To the Lily of the Valley" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Nearer to the cypress than the rose - Arthur Colton "The Poet and the Fountain"

Among the stars, soft gardens near the sun - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Soft gardens near the sun - Stephen Crane "Untitled"

A flickering light near spent - Adelaide Crapsey "Angelique"

How near the heavens lie - Adelaide Crapsey "My Birds that Fly No Longer"

Treasure spilled near the shrub-pines - H.D. "Sea Poppies"

Nor far nor near is comfort found - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Near that narrow field of bones - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

And sang as they neared us - Mary Mapes Dodge "Nell and Her Bird"

Our souls were near allied - John Dryden "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham"

The near edge of the purple horizon - Camille T. Dungy "Ars Poetica Apocalyptica"

At the near edge of the belligerent horizon - Camille T. Dungy "Ars Poetica Apocalyptica"

No nearer in death's dream kingdom - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

While earth is parched more near - John Gould Fletcher "In Exile"

Nearly smothered with heat and with smoke - "The Fox and the Geese"

Interlude of nearly translucent slices - Erica Funkhouser "My Father's Lunch"

Is binding on the nearest flower - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"

Choosing far stars to check near objects by - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Lie too near the sky - Charles Bertram Johnson "Snow"

Of distance, of nearness, of now - Janet Kauffman "The Blur of"

Fades past the near meadows - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Every step more near the end - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Art thou already weary of the way?]"

On the weary grass that grows near your heart - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"

Nearer Mischiefs does conspire - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Forsaking nearly everything but God and science - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"
Stars burned out near the beginning of time - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

Nearly merged in the darkness - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Hunting the King 1792"

The near approach of fate concealing - Giacomo Leopardi "Consalvo" transl. by Frederick Townsend

No nearness of phoenixes winging - Li Shang-yin "[Last night's planets and stars]" transl. by Burton Watson

Nearer to morning's fountains - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

For nearer joys should pray - Thomas MacDonagh "Wishes for My Son"

Heirs of all things near and far - George MacDonald "Christmas Day and Every Day"

Veteran of sheer drops and near misses - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

How near and kind the heavens - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Dead Bride"

A heaven so instant and near - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Little Brown Bird"

Who are never near - Donna Masini "A Gate"

Velvet near a laced up tree - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"

Near the face of dawn - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Solitude walks one heavy step more near - Harold Monro "Solitude"

Far and near silence grows populous - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"

When the footstep of death is near - Thomas Moore "A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp"

When the footstep of death is near - Thomas Moore "The Lake of the Dismal Swamp"

But we're nowhere near done - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"

Left home to drift near a deeper home - Mark Nepo "Stopped Again by the Sea"

A flame that has blown too near - Grace Fallow Norton "Love Is a Terrible Thing"

Nearer than the sirens' speech - Frank O'Hara "For James Dean"

Seems nearer and more bright - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."

Standing near the spitting fire - Paul Park "Ragnarok"

When eternity's trial is found to be near - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

The eagle builds his eyrie nearest to the fervid skies - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

A thousand tales of near escapes - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

Near its stones and chapel doors - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"

Fleeing women nearing the abyss - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"

Above the nearest summit's crest - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Before Dawn: Malvern"

Nearer pace brave Hector, reckless Paris - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "The Venus of Milo"

People so near nothing - Carl Sandburg "Anywhere and Everywhere People"

The zombies are already near - Tim Seibles "Zombie Blues Villanelle"

More wisdom than near tongues can make - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Distant Voices"

The sky places an arm on the near hills - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

As candle-flames that near the socket - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"

A curtain near a candle - A.E. Stallings "Accident Waiting to Happen"

Whose slow, annuling tide creeps nearer - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"

One day nearer to the sea - Ruth Sterry "Salutation"

Sacred nymphs from temples near - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"

Gentle footsteps wandered near to mine - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

By the frost nearly fired - Sara Teasdale "Places"

A yard or two nearer the living air - Edward Thomas "Digging"

Nearly equal measures of hope - Matthew Thorburn "Forgotten Until You Find It"

Nearly ripe for worms - Jean Toomer "Face"

Thought it not safe near such Justice to stay - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"

The marrow of his dreams sucked nearly dry - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Dreaming"

The working of instinct near water - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"

I am near enough my roots - Sanna Wani "Tomorrow is a Place"

Emissaries drawn from near and far - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"

Nearer than my flesh yet distant as a star - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Cradled near the setting sun - John Wilson "The Evening Cloud"

Near no accustomed hand - W.B. Yeats "A Dream of Death"


Nearby I take your words to water - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

Sketched by moths holding to nearby stones - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"


Moonlight's near-sighted courtesy - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"

Indistinguishable from nearsightedness - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

the blinding mirror image of near-sighted dreams - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"


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