Potential Titles: Babylon

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Destroyed before the birth of Babylon - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"

Beyond Babylon its ways were regal - William Rose Benét "The City"

By the rivers dark in Babylon - Leonard Cohen "By the Rivers Dark"

By Babylon's river languishing - Walter de la Mare "Dust to Dust"

Before the chime for Babylon - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets II"

Athens and Babylon I breathe upon the night - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

In Babylon, you see what is possible - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"

Weeping for lost Babylon - Robert Graves "Babylon"

Never lonesome in Babylon - James Weldon Johnson "The Prodigal Son"

The cry of the exiles of Babylon - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

And mocked the strength of Babylon's haughty wall - "The Lesson of War" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.1, Jan. 1862]

That broke the nights of Babylon - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"

In the purple of Babylon - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

When may we leave for Babylon? - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Whose wings roofed Babylon - Isaac Rosenberg "The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Hordes"

Old Babylon etched on the night - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

The fallen towers of Babylon - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

In the grapevine of Babylon - Bruce Smith "Garden"

Motions gracious as reeds by Babylon - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Rifle in Babylon rifles in Sumer - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"

My throne is empty in Babylon - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"

And all the stars are gone in Babylon - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"

Vast as towered Babylon - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


The same sky the Babylonians scanned - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"


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