Potential Titles: Nature

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A withdrawal into the nature of heat - Etel Adnan "Night"

With all that nature can bestow - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Nature's forces all in sweet subjection bend - Wm. Alexander "Sonnet.--Art" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The nature of his magic as yet unsculpted - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

Has paid the debt of nature - "Another Peep at the Links"

The manhandled grammar of nature - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

A thread in Nature's web - Ardelia Maria Barton "Nature's Plan"

The blessing kind nature bestows - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Poem"

Nature's honeyed chalice - Cora C. Bass "The Worker Bee"

Drinking deep pleasure from old Nature's wells - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

By the nature of connectivity - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"

Inhaling Nature's purest breath - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

All Nature's million mysteries - Emily Bronte "Anticipation"

To your weariness of nature - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Well has Nature kept the truth - William Cullen Bryant "The Rivulet"

Call on nature to collect and bind - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. First Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds

That only nature could explain - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Morning on Shinnecock"

Forgot the nature of dawn - Julie Byrne "Melting Grid"

Nature's mute and haughty horror - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

Death is the cook of nature - Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle "Nature's Cook"

Alone with nature's tricks - Onyedikachi Chinedu "Snail-Picking"

The riddle nature could not prove - John Clare "I Hid My Love"

A brood of nature's minstrels - John Clare "The Thrush's Nest"

The most proportioned wit to nature - John Cleveland "To the Memory of Ben Jonson"

See the Infinite through nature's magic glass - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Nature's self thy Ganymede - Abraham Cowley "The Grasshopper"

The frosts first silver Nature's hair - Arthur S. Cripps "The Seasons' Comfort"

Seeing nature's covered mysteries - Sir William Davenant "The Christian's Reply to the Philosopher"

And nature's self wear mourning - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"

As though escaped from Nature's hand - W.H. Davies "Days Too Short"

Nature forswears antiquity - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature II: May-Flower"

A pale dream of Nature mocking man - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

To tread the bounds of nature's stormy verge - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"

The acceptable cruelty of nature - Stephen Dunn "A Card from Me to Me"

Contains a vertical nature - Carolina Ebeid "Shape"

Sprouting to mark our vegetable nature - Chiyuma Elliott "I Guess it Must Be the Flag of My Disposition"

Best gems of Nature's cabinet - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

By nature taught to please - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Nature will gather like sleeping poppies - Carol Frost "Circus City"

The nature of light was incompleteness - Louise Gluck "The Story of a Day"

The mystic speech of nature - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

A yearning nature's strong appeal - Thomas Hardy "Dream of the City Shopwoman"

By nature's boundless charter - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

That nature's springs control - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Griefs for nature too intense - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"

The softest carpet nature weaves - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"

E'en Nature's smile a bitter mockery wore - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

These things nature furnishes - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"

Adept in the mysteries of my nature - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

Nature's violent graces waken - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

Nature's pride is now a withered daffodil - Ben Jonson "Echo's Lament for Narcissus"

The sweetest flower wild nature yields - John Keats "To a Friend who sent me some Roses"

So long shall Nature nourish us - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

The wreck of nature by my deeds prepared - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Sun-ripe Nature's million strings - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

Protected by mandates of good nature - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

And listening nature will breathless lie - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"

Paint field and flower in nature's hues - H.P. McKnight "Dedication"

And summoned Nature to her feud - George Meredith "Manfred"

Treat with Nature in official pacts - George Meredith "My Theme: Continuation"

The daze of nature's chlorophyll dynamos - Joanne Merriam "The Bather"

All a heartless Nature would provide - Michael Mesic "Tree"

Speak to the same want of nature's koan - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"

Jarred against Nature's chime - John Milton "At a Solemn Music"

Whom universal Nature did lament - John Milton "Lycidas"

And through sweet Nature's ruin trace her own - Robert Montgomery "Melancholy" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Nature had no miracles in her heart - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

The democratic nature of the shroud - Miller Oberman "Taharah"

Put into the hands of nature - Rowan Ricardo Phillips "Who Is Less Than a Vapor?"

Secret nature's treasure room - John Presland "To April"

Nature wooeth back no wanderer to her arms - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

In Nature's maternal keeping - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Spring Hopes: Song"

As if accounting nature's waste - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

The blood of nature's spilling - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"

Too coarse for Nature's fingers - George Santayana "Premonition"

Gifted nature with divinity to lift and link - Friedrich Schiller "The Gods of Greece" transl. not credited

Breathe the balm of Nature's stillness - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"

Nature is what you have done to it - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

The particular nature and tenor of the energy - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

This fortress build by Nature - William Shakespeare "Richard II"

Nature's bequest gives nothing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet IV"

Nature's changing course untrimm'd - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVIII"

With nature's own hand painted - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XX"

Where nature swings its wettest, coldest fist - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Shades by nature's pencill drawn - William Somerville "The Chase"

Just an iridescence doing what nature demands - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"

A nature of fire and feeling allied - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"

Woven of Nature's richest stuffs - Henry David Thoreau "Haze"

All the clothes which outward nature wears - Henry David Thoreau "The Inward Morning"

Earth and sky and the fair ministries of Nature - Henry van Dyke "Dulciora"

Pure nature in the night - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

The million laws of nature's realm - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours X" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

With lines of Nature's geometric signs - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

To weep is nature, but to weep is vain - Anna Williams "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"

Just as the nature of briars - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"


His five-fold complex-nature - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Shell"


Imbibes a tone of nature-nurtured truth - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"


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