Potential Titles: Tie

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Money pretending that its hands are tied - Rae Armantrout "Money Talks"

Tied with twine of invisible hue - Mary Jo Bang "Given to Believe"

By every tie that binds the soul endeared - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

The ties of summer are ended - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"

Wind tied to a tree - Tina Chang "Wonder Cabinet"

Tied fast to nothing - Henri Cole "Toxicology"

Seek to link again our broken ties - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

The last knot that love could tie - Richard Crashaw "An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, Who Died and Were Buried Together"

Tie the strings to my life - Emily Dickinson "Tie the Strings to my Life, My Lord"

Tie my hands to the wind - Chelsea Dingman "Here, the Sparrows Were, All Along"

Tongues of fire tied together - Carolyn Forche "Alfansa"

Rhythm of tied together time - brian g. gilmore "chicago (for haki)"

Tied together with bows of light - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"

Held by the ties of space - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"

A tale of severed ties to break the bleeding heart - Eliza Paul Gurney "Heaven and Earth"

Tie my body to the floor - Jane Huffman "On Moving"

Only tie me in this zombie form - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

Tied up her sleeves with ribbons of silk - "King Erik and the Scornful Maid" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Having tied all the loose ends - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

Tied to everyone before and after me - Alexis LaMantia "Waiting"

A thousand, thousand tender ties - Norman MacLeod "Farewell to Fiunary"

I have no ties to bind me - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

A nest of jittery ties - Donna Masini "Anxieties"

Untwisting all the chains that tie - John Milton "L'Allegro"

Tie knots around the heads of weeds - Naomi Shihab Nye "Feather"

And tied themselves to stars - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Tie a red flannel string around your waist - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

Having knit, untie the knot - John Presland "A Villa on the Bay of Naples"

Tears tied knots in my throat - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "I Went to You Last Night"

Oleanders and stacked railroad ties - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"

Their silk ties and their secret economies - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"

One endeared by Friendship's strongest ties - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Not tied to our bodies' weight - Arthur Sze "Sleepers"

A parcel of vain strivings tied by a chance bond - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"

Tie the boat to the willow-trees - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough

By all our severed ties - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"


Tying down the wind with rope or chain or tackle - Bruce Boston "Wind People"

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

Tying knots in the daffodil stalks - Katie Ford "Breaking Across Us Now"

By tying together its hands of gold - Robert Frost "I Will Sing You One-O"

One spider is rapidly tying me here - Marilyn McCabe "Web"

Knots tying threads to everywhere - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"

Tying the shoelace to the stone - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Secret"

Only the sky tying the universe together - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Grandmother in the Stars"

Stars wedded to earth in some grand cosmic tying - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"


To tie-back or prune branches is useless - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"


Do not press my tongue-tied patience - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXL"


Untie my tangled places - Rachel Barenblat "Untie"

Untie or break that knot again - John Donne "Batter my heart, three person'd God (Holy Sonnet 14)"


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