Potential Titles: Limb

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Lend their limbs to massacre - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Rising on phoenix limbs from black smoke - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"

Till the leafless limbs be clothed again - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"

Flooding his limbs with unquenchable fire - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Imagery"

Of great limbs gone to chaos - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

Our limbs transforming into ferns and orchids - Desdamona "Once and Future"

And gashed their shadowy limbs of wind - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Limbs lost among the skyscrapers - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Through a bridge of tree limbs - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Remnant"

A scathed yew-tree's wither'd limb, to mark the spot - Jesse Hammond "Cross Roads" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10, no.273, 15 Sept. 1827]

Weave a bed of reeds and willow limbs - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The power my rooted limbs to start - James Weldon Johnson "Before a Painting"

Catching my limbs in sequels and spoofs - Fady Joudah "The Poem as Epiphyte"

In whose limbs the parrots sleep - Ida Lee "The Bush Fire"

While my limbs still sing steel - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"

Potent a giant's limbs to bind - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

The spruce's fair free limbs - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"

Limbed with the lightning - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

Surrounds its limbs with spears - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Necessarily, the camp is the border"

Nests in the crooks of their granite limbs - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

The chain of fate by which her limbs are pressed - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Orphan"

Each one the other's phantom limb - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

Even your limbs become invention - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"

Nor turn your lips away from Phryne's silver limbs - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

Hang across the sky like solid limbs of night - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

Each branch and limb of oak was a prayer - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"

All chains from limb and spirit strike - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Sulfur on the pines' crooked limbs - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"


Silver-limbed and crescent-crowned - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"


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