Potential Titles: Tall
Aug. 2nd, 2011 10:34 pmWhile angels wait with stars for tapers tall - Cecil Frances Alexander "The Burial of Moses"
A mammoth serpent winding through the tall grass - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"
Tall order but short notice - Julia Alvarez "Grand Baby"
Put my arms around a tall oak - Zeina Azzam "Hugging the Tree"
Twelve towers tall enough to pierce and hold - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"
The horn that shook the mountain tall - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
More fair than the tall cypress - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Tall as the ghosts of Heaven's battlements - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
The clouds' tall banners streamed - Stephen Vincent Benet "Rain after a Vaudeville Show"
Grows tall as a granite house - Julia Bouwsma "Feeble-Minded"
Where the tall turret rises high - Charlotte Bronte "Mementos"
Trees as tall as Tom Thumb - Paul Carroll "Song [To be able to walk along and see]"
Taller than this rain - Jennifer Chang "How to Live in an American Town"
leap tall buildings on a single paycheck - Gerald L. Coleman "Age of Villains" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Four tall stags at a green mountain - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
Tall foxgloves like sentinels - Arthur M. Forrester "The Old Boreen"
Pass six tall hollyhocks red and white - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Enchanted Tale of Banbury Cross"
Two tall elms were its sentinels - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"
The tall pink foxglove bowed his head - "Good-Night and Good-Morning" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
In the wet rice-swamps and canebreaks tall - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"
The tall kingdom over your shoulder - Seamus Heaney "Act of Union"
The flowering myrtle blows through tall arcades - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
The tall night trees between them - Brenda Hillman "Wood's Edge"
Curled round a bough of the cinnamon tall - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
Flints in the shade of tall nettles - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"
The blood-script of tall grass - Janet Kauffman "By the Time You Think Weaponry"
Tall brick buildings slipping into a ravine - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Like tall slim priests of storm - Archibald Lampman "In October"
Tall angels of darkness advancing steadily - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"
myrtle amid the tall wonders of juniper - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"
With mighty Cromwell and tall King Saul - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
Withered leaves upon the poplars tall - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"
From pride's tall roaring pyre in hell - Theodore Maynard "Pride"
The face that burned tall Troy - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"
Tall as the depth of noon - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf
From such tall eyries to the sea - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Lined with tall sentinel poplars - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"
Feed from this sadness and grow tall again - Stephanos Papadopoulos "The Station"
Tall smoke of his shadow - Kiki Petrosino "I Married a Horseman"
Tall crying in the willow reeds - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"
Apple blossoms buried in the tall grass - Richard Solomon "Spring Cleaning"
Tread wheels tall as vault doors - Brandon Som "Resistors"
Under the tall sky of hope - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney
Waiting in the tall reeds till the intruders pass - Su Tong po "Like a Cormorant" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Surrounded by tall stands of elm and cottonwood - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"
Sandhill cranes poised between the tall grass and oaks - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
Tall branches sweeping the azure sky - Ts'ao P'i "Lotus Lake" transl. by Burton Watson
Where hollyhocks stand tall - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell
Stand tall against the wind - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
The tall thought-woven sails - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Nothing here tall enough to pretend to reach - Kevin Young "Dog Star"
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A mammoth serpent winding through the tall grass - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"
Tall order but short notice - Julia Alvarez "Grand Baby"
Put my arms around a tall oak - Zeina Azzam "Hugging the Tree"
Twelve towers tall enough to pierce and hold - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"
The horn that shook the mountain tall - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
More fair than the tall cypress - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Tall as the ghosts of Heaven's battlements - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
The clouds' tall banners streamed - Stephen Vincent Benet "Rain after a Vaudeville Show"
Grows tall as a granite house - Julia Bouwsma "Feeble-Minded"
Where the tall turret rises high - Charlotte Bronte "Mementos"
Trees as tall as Tom Thumb - Paul Carroll "Song [To be able to walk along and see]"
Taller than this rain - Jennifer Chang "How to Live in an American Town"
leap tall buildings on a single paycheck - Gerald L. Coleman "Age of Villains" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Four tall stags at a green mountain - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
Tall foxgloves like sentinels - Arthur M. Forrester "The Old Boreen"
Pass six tall hollyhocks red and white - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Enchanted Tale of Banbury Cross"
Two tall elms were its sentinels - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"
The tall pink foxglove bowed his head - "Good-Night and Good-Morning" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
In the wet rice-swamps and canebreaks tall - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"
The tall kingdom over your shoulder - Seamus Heaney "Act of Union"
The flowering myrtle blows through tall arcades - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
The tall night trees between them - Brenda Hillman "Wood's Edge"
Curled round a bough of the cinnamon tall - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
Flints in the shade of tall nettles - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"
The blood-script of tall grass - Janet Kauffman "By the Time You Think Weaponry"
Tall brick buildings slipping into a ravine - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Like tall slim priests of storm - Archibald Lampman "In October"
Tall angels of darkness advancing steadily - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"
myrtle amid the tall wonders of juniper - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"
With mighty Cromwell and tall King Saul - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
Withered leaves upon the poplars tall - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"
From pride's tall roaring pyre in hell - Theodore Maynard "Pride"
The face that burned tall Troy - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"
Tall as the depth of noon - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf
From such tall eyries to the sea - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Lined with tall sentinel poplars - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"
Feed from this sadness and grow tall again - Stephanos Papadopoulos "The Station"
Tall smoke of his shadow - Kiki Petrosino "I Married a Horseman"
Tall crying in the willow reeds - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"
Apple blossoms buried in the tall grass - Richard Solomon "Spring Cleaning"
Tread wheels tall as vault doors - Brandon Som "Resistors"
Under the tall sky of hope - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney
Waiting in the tall reeds till the intruders pass - Su Tong po "Like a Cormorant" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Surrounded by tall stands of elm and cottonwood - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"
Sandhill cranes poised between the tall grass and oaks - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
Tall branches sweeping the azure sky - Ts'ao P'i "Lotus Lake" transl. by Burton Watson
Where hollyhocks stand tall - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell
Stand tall against the wind - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
The tall thought-woven sails - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Nothing here tall enough to pretend to reach - Kevin Young "Dog Star"
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