Potential Titles: Stretch
Jul. 15th, 2011 12:44 amTo stretch the stew to the end of the month - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
The skin stretched over lifedebts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"
No common stretch of sight - "Another Peep at the Links"
Embattled legions stretch their long array - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Ink stretches under midnight - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
Stretch but a claw toward the dream-voiced pipes - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
Stretched on a heap of poisoned arrows - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
Saw her stretch out to the gale - "The Boatman's Hymn" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
Stretched and curled like a meandering river - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 2: How not to drown in desire"
The emerald hunger stretches farther still - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Saw a pack of stretching weasels hunt - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
Radio dust stretched across the night sky - Russell Brakefield "The Perseids"
Shadows stretched into sylphs - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"
Stretched to call me out of dust - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"
The stretch of the world - Hilda Conkling "Snowstorm"
Stretching the world far beyond its modest capacity - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"
Stretches forth from shadowed places - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
To fill the empty stretch of hours between alms - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
As dawn stretched her blue shawl - Chris Dombrowski "To the First of the Getting-Longer Days"
The night stretching away thousands long behind - Annie Finch "Samhain"
Stretched away unto the edge of doom - Robert Frost "Into My Own"
A small, stretched canvas of time - Charles Ghigna "Early Evening"
Backing off for another stretch of melody - Conrad Hilberry "Divertimento 563"
Wreaths of streetlights stretching - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"
A cry stretching beyond its range - Jenny Johnson "Aria"
Empty arms stretching to embrace - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"
Stretched always toward the furthest limit - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"
thousands of particles stretched wide - Camisha L. Jones "In/Ability"
Stretching to the void of distance - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VII: A Reproach"
A single Tree stretched black on the moon - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"
Stretch our ghostly arms - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Acheron"
Stretched in never-ending line - William Wordsworth Longfellow "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Stretching ever to distant horizons - Amy Lowell "The Way"
Stretched his nerves of subtile wire - James Russell Lowell "Science and Poetry"
Dark stretched the array of war - Maria White Lowell "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle"
A stretching of the spirit's hand - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Bitter root not allowed to stretch - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
Stretched into a whale - Eve Merriam "Catch a Little Rhyme"
The infinite straight road stretching - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
Stretches equations toward zero or infinity - Claire Millikin "Shoes in Photographs"
Stretched out throughout histories - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
That stretch high beyond sight - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"
The only waves are shadows stretching darkly - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"
Stretches the scripture of the sea - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XIII" transl. by James Nolan
Stretching clipped wings - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"
Stretches out the thread between days - Naomi Shihab Nye "San Antonio Mi Sangre: From the Hard Season"
Ghastly Famine's bony hand was stretched - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Step across without stretching - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
The stretched canvas of belief - Carl Phillips "Self"
Down all the stretch of Carpetbaggers - Alexander Posey "The Fall of the Redskin"
Tents stretched on the border of the day - Alexander Posey "Tulledega"
Stretching above the silent palisade - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
Watch the stretch of burning sand - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"
Like a crazy quilt stretched on a line - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Time's singular city stretched below - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
And stretch vain hands to stars - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"
Night is stretched across the frame of the sky - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
To the utmost stretch the tether - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"
How it stretches a sunset - Janice Lobo Sapigao "There Will Be No Funeral"
Stretching weird and white - Clinton Scollard "Wild Geese"
Stretched a long periscope toward the multiplying horizons - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"
Stretching its spiral arms up the curve of my backbone - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
Across time stretching infinitely far - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
Twelve fingers stretching for the winter sky - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"
Chords that stretch and bend - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
Black festoons that stretch for miles - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Wads of silk stretched in lengths - Saheed Sunday "Fluorescence"
Stretches its arms towards perfection - Rabindranath Tagore "Gitanjali 35"
Stretch their straight lines unbent - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Silence" transl. by Alma Strettell
In wild stretch of days - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"
Stretching of strength beyond its bounds - "Wooing of Etain: What Is Love?" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A private galaxy that stretches on stubbornly - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Memories stretch the universe - Felicia Zamora "Universe Wide"
Outstretch.
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The skin stretched over lifedebts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"
No common stretch of sight - "Another Peep at the Links"
Embattled legions stretch their long array - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Ink stretches under midnight - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
Stretch but a claw toward the dream-voiced pipes - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
Stretched on a heap of poisoned arrows - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
Saw her stretch out to the gale - "The Boatman's Hymn" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
Stretched and curled like a meandering river - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 2: How not to drown in desire"
The emerald hunger stretches farther still - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Saw a pack of stretching weasels hunt - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
Radio dust stretched across the night sky - Russell Brakefield "The Perseids"
Shadows stretched into sylphs - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"
Stretched to call me out of dust - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"
The stretch of the world - Hilda Conkling "Snowstorm"
Stretching the world far beyond its modest capacity - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"
Stretches forth from shadowed places - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
To fill the empty stretch of hours between alms - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
As dawn stretched her blue shawl - Chris Dombrowski "To the First of the Getting-Longer Days"
The night stretching away thousands long behind - Annie Finch "Samhain"
Stretched away unto the edge of doom - Robert Frost "Into My Own"
A small, stretched canvas of time - Charles Ghigna "Early Evening"
Backing off for another stretch of melody - Conrad Hilberry "Divertimento 563"
Wreaths of streetlights stretching - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"
A cry stretching beyond its range - Jenny Johnson "Aria"
Empty arms stretching to embrace - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"
Stretched always toward the furthest limit - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"
thousands of particles stretched wide - Camisha L. Jones "In/Ability"
Stretching to the void of distance - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VII: A Reproach"
A single Tree stretched black on the moon - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"
Stretch our ghostly arms - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Acheron"
Stretched in never-ending line - William Wordsworth Longfellow "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Stretching ever to distant horizons - Amy Lowell "The Way"
Stretched his nerves of subtile wire - James Russell Lowell "Science and Poetry"
Dark stretched the array of war - Maria White Lowell "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle"
A stretching of the spirit's hand - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Bitter root not allowed to stretch - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
Stretched into a whale - Eve Merriam "Catch a Little Rhyme"
The infinite straight road stretching - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
Stretches equations toward zero or infinity - Claire Millikin "Shoes in Photographs"
Stretched out throughout histories - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
That stretch high beyond sight - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"
The only waves are shadows stretching darkly - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"
Stretches the scripture of the sea - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XIII" transl. by James Nolan
Stretching clipped wings - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"
Stretches out the thread between days - Naomi Shihab Nye "San Antonio Mi Sangre: From the Hard Season"
Ghastly Famine's bony hand was stretched - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Step across without stretching - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
The stretched canvas of belief - Carl Phillips "Self"
Down all the stretch of Carpetbaggers - Alexander Posey "The Fall of the Redskin"
Tents stretched on the border of the day - Alexander Posey "Tulledega"
Stretching above the silent palisade - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
Watch the stretch of burning sand - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"
Like a crazy quilt stretched on a line - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Time's singular city stretched below - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
And stretch vain hands to stars - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"
Night is stretched across the frame of the sky - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
To the utmost stretch the tether - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"
How it stretches a sunset - Janice Lobo Sapigao "There Will Be No Funeral"
Stretching weird and white - Clinton Scollard "Wild Geese"
Stretched a long periscope toward the multiplying horizons - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"
Stretching its spiral arms up the curve of my backbone - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
Across time stretching infinitely far - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
Twelve fingers stretching for the winter sky - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"
Chords that stretch and bend - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
Black festoons that stretch for miles - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Wads of silk stretched in lengths - Saheed Sunday "Fluorescence"
Stretches its arms towards perfection - Rabindranath Tagore "Gitanjali 35"
Stretch their straight lines unbent - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Silence" transl. by Alma Strettell
In wild stretch of days - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"
Stretching of strength beyond its bounds - "Wooing of Etain: What Is Love?" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A private galaxy that stretches on stubbornly - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Memories stretch the universe - Felicia Zamora "Universe Wide"
Outstretch.
Navigation Links:
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