Potential Titles: Trace

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Traced in each callus on his hands - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

No trace of where I've been - Tutsungul Abdullah "I Lost Myself" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Bones of song tracing lines of flight - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

Trace a silvery circumference of sky - Joan Aiken "Π in the Sky"

My wings tracing infinity - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"

Earth's philosopher traced with his golden pen - Cecil Frances Alexander "The Burial of Moses"

Never left any traces behind - Aygul Alim (Tamche) "We Have Not Met" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Afterwards you can remove all traces of reality - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

Tracing bloom to departure - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"

To keep the traces of buried experiences intact - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

Can trace a conqueror's hymn - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"

Requires no prophet's skill to trace - "Another Peep at the Links"

Traced her silhouette with moonlight - Atticus "Magic in Her"

Traced with most infinite skill - Ardelia Maria Barton "Life's Plan"

To trace the secrets of the skies - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Trace ownership in treaties and deeds - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"

Wanting to trace your laughter - Richard Blanco "Three Unendings"

Trace this trail of quartz - Julia Bouwsma "I Walk My Road at Dusk"

Traces scars cut deep into the dreamwood - Russell Brakefield "Mackinaw Island"

Tracing split rails in the snow - Sue Budin "After the Blizzard"

To trace the hidden spell's dark origin - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

A mighty Empire's bounds to trace - "Cor Unum, Via Una: God Bless Our Native Land!" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Misery still delights to trace - William Cowper "The Cast-Away"

In all the kindred vices trace - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

Bridges without a trace of threnody - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Strange constellations tracing his steps - Chris Dombrowski "Like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade"

Visible only in traces - Timothy Donnelly "Habitable Nebula"

Trace these scribbles of old gold - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Science"

Tracing on the ancient screen of night - Max Eastman "X Rays"

Trace a pattern of old sugar - Nava EtShalom "At the Jerusalem Hotel"

Trace back the paths that I've chosen - Ashanti Files "Ripples"

Each time your traces come past the shadows - Annie Finch "Final Autum"

Left no trace but the cellar walls - Robert Frost "Ghost House"

Trace the secret transits of our joy - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"

Traced a story on my face - Leah Naomi Green "Engagement"

The dread volcano's burning trace - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"

Traced in sunbeams on the soul - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

The trace of fear marks out our arteries - Conrad Hilberry "Explosions at 4:00 A.M."

Moonbeams falling, gently trace - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Sleighing Song"

Tracing gray skin around the unsayable - Brenda Hillman "The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice"

When beauty's trace is worn away - George Moses Horton "Memory"

Where many a wavering trace appears - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

The grey dew keeps no traces - Elinor Jenkins "The Lovers' Walk"

Tracing the backslopes of deer in the yard - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"

Trace the dwindled edgings of its brim - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Visions Hope's bright finger traces - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet ['Twas but a dream! and oh! what are they all]"

Where the Promethean spark has left no trace - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Not a footprint or any other trace - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"

The spectral traces of lightning bugs - Joseph O. Legaspi "Childhood Elegy"

To trace some horrible semblance - Henry S. Leigh "The Vision of the Alderman"

That distant lands his steps might trace - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]

Blank faces traced in constellations - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

What his ghost finger traced - Louise Mathias "What If the Invader Is Beautiful"

The tracing by which spaces are unlocked - John McCarthy "The Key"

Trace back spring's tattered weather - Claire Millikin "Medicine for Broken Dolls"

The tree's traces of changing shade - Tyler Mills "House of Pere Lacroix"

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]

Fragments of a broken alphabet traced in snow - Jim Moore "So Be It"

Trace the cadence of that blue smudge - Angel Nafis "I Know I'm Pretty Cuz the Boys Tell Me So"

They left a trace in my days - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"

To trace the way by inches - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Traces of the past showing through - Linda Pastan "Thanksgiving Ghost"

In younger truth is traced - Walter S. Percy "The Old Moon in the Arms of the New"

Can't trace the arc of my tears - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"

A ledger traced in salt - Xan Forest Phillips "A Fruit We Never Tasted"

A trace of absences - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 5. Photograph"

Tracing shapes of void from starlight - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"

To follow out and trace its labyrinths - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Make essay to trace its glimmerings - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

The fitful tracing of a portal - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

The mood traced in shadow - Wallace Stevens "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"

Contrails tracing messages to bear-cubs and insects - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

Scarce one trace of its deep burning - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"

The trace of blood on the thorn - Perhat Tursun "The Heart" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Tracing flakes in shades of dark - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Lichens"

Toward Canaan's blue traced golden paths - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Trace flame-flicker in the grain of yellow birch - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"

And traces his sad horizons - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"

Slow tracing down the thickening sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Eyes alone leave no trace - Katie Willingham "Terrifying Robot Update"

Tracing a pigeon's god to Abraham - Keith S. Wilson "I Find Myself Defending Pigeons"

To trace down your ancestors' name - Huldah Lucile Winsted "In the Land of Dakota"

No trace of a ferocious air - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"

And countless feelings leave no trace - Yu T'ung "Autumn Night" (translated by A.M. Juster)


Retraced the broad arc of our years - Geoffrey Brock "Mundane Comedies. II. Leaving Kansas"

Retrace her silent footsteps - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As in a Rose-Jar"

On paths that memory retraces - George Sterling "Mirage"


The benefit of its traceless disappearance - Jim Daniels "Birth Marks"


Ornate with worm-trail tracery - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

What pinnacles of silver tracery - Theodore Maynard "Apocalypse"

No mere skill of subtle tracery - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

A tracery of dreams invented by bureaucracies - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"

Weaving vast traceries out on the fringes of Night - Arthur Stringer "Life-Drunk"

Falter up and down a tracery of years - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

The traceries of dread just visible - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"


A spell for becoming untraceable - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen B"


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