Potential Titles: Torch

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What torches shall we lift above the crowd - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Undying faithful to light torches in the catacombs - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"

Dim his red nocturnal torch - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"

Hecate, a torch in each hand - Mary Jo Bang "& There He Kept Her, Very Well"

Our hearts shall be the torches - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of Lovers" transl. not credited

To unsheathe whatever torches they would - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"

The torches of memory shine - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"

If our hand extend a glimmering torch - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XLIII. The Impeachment of Night" transl. by John Addington Symonds

By tying torches to a wheel - Witter Bynner "The New World IV"

When the glowworm lights her torch - C.S. Calverley "Arcades Ambo"

The bright torches you stole from the sun - Will Carleton "Wealth"

Torch from hearth unknown - George Spencer Cautley "The Comet"

Their torches tossed a ladder of fire - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Fiery torches foreshadowing my night - Tiana Clark "Flambeaux"

Bring torches to dream ghosts - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

All the torches turned to ashes - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Answer"

With fire in his skull for torch - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"

Fill the torches cup by cup - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian

By guesswork with a failing torch for light - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"

Who saves the resin of the torch and the oil of the lamp - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

As a torch dips in the sea - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

The hated torch of vengeance to repair - Henry S. Hagert "The Sleep of the Dead"

Torches on each minaret's height - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

The torch upon her beacon-tower - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"

Those years a torch for tomorrow - Langston Hughes "The Negro Mother"

Trample out his torch's flame - Henry Johnstone "Love Penitent"

A windmill of torches - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Devil Comes on Horseback"

Whose clear torches kindle - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"

Under the amber torches of the sky - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

You burned your people like a torch - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"

Pits so deep a torch turns to a star - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

A frozen pond gleaming with agitated torches - Amy Lowell "Opal"

Not a sign of the torch in the blood - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Bearing torches, chanting vengeance - Claire Millikin "Prizewinners of the Apocalypse"

Stone torch posts mark her trail - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"

Torches at the kingdom's ukelele gate - Carol Muske-Dukes "After Skate"

Lit with torches of black snow - Pablo Neruda "Leviathan" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Lit the torch of hollyhock - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

close by each golden tent a golden torch - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

While the last torch spent its flame - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"

The dim torch that Zarathustra blew on - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

Torches spluttering silver fire - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

A torch blown along the wind - Lola Ridge "To the Others"

Torches flaming out like loosened hair - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Then in the face of the torch - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"

A million torches and spears of flaming wings - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"

Under the torched gown of sky - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-
Portrait 2"

Has put a torch to your heart - Sappho (transl. by Mary Barnard)

Take the torch and go wandering - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Unveil your brilliant torches - George Sigerson "Mo Cailin Donn"

As the oboe lights the pure torch - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"

The red torch of the day - Alfred B. Street "The Bell Owl"

Thy proudest torches yet shall be their names - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

With torch inverted and quenched - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist


Good citizen torch bearers out to set the night ablaze - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Ajax stands in the Trojan torchlight - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

That has run so many torch-lit races - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"

By torch-light and alone - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"


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