Potential Titles: Wind (verb)

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Rewind to the seconds of its resurrection - Janine Joseph "Oh, I'm Dying, I'm Dying"

How many times must we rewind - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Laments Her Reincarnation"

Never known a law to rewind a bullet - Tariq Luthun "Al-Bahr"

Rewinds the mind's clock - Jenny Molberg "After Twenty Junes"


Up the winding pathway I hurried on - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

A mammoth serpent winding through the tall grass - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"

The winding note of horns remote - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Sleep's Serenade"

Thick doorways which confronted narrow winding stairwells - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

The winding paradise of old loves - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"

Dark winding from the bright abodes - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"

Swallows check their winding flight - John Clare "Summer Evening"

Her turning shoulders wind the hours - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

Wind the months in balls - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love VI"

Followed a path of winding white grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen A"

The lowing herds wind slowly - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Now the rich stream of music winds - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Counterclockwise wind in their mouths - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

A labyrinth to winding wonders - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"

By winding weeds embraced - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Noon"

To wind your gossamer about my soul - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "Spring Music"

Wind up the wandering breeze - Robert Hogg "Oh, What Are the Chains of Love Made Of?"

Wind through the dreaming fire - Emily Pauline Johnson "Moonset"

Forever winding to purple dreaming - Fenton Johnson "Revery"

Wind the hot gnaw of hunger into a tight spool - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

That thrill about the sensuous windings of her thought - Else Lasker-Schüler "Sphinx" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

When vespers soar through the winding stairs - Ida Lee "The Fish-Girl's Song"

Down the winding stair of love - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

The platform winding down - Keith Leonard "Museum"

Shadows thronged the winding stair - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Traversing the winding maze of streets - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

All the winding caverns of my sleep - Theodore Maynard "Viaticum"

The gray-fly winds her sultry horn - John Milton "Lycidas"

On roads that wind around the foothills - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

When the clock winds down to nothing - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"

Upward in a winding spiral - Pablo Neruda "To Don Asterio Alacaron, Clocksmith of Valparaiso" transl. by Alastair Reid

Winding between the huge Plutonian walls - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

In its own winding purgatory - Linda Pastan "Marking Time"

The field lays down its winded swords - Carl Phillips "Capella"

A longhorn winding its bells through the Field of Reeds - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

Roland's ghost winding a silent horn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"

Spools of fire wind - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

In the silver silence wind his horn - Duncan Campbell Scott "Frost"

Pursued the windings of the cavern - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Followed the angler's winding path - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower"

All the winding pathways of our thought - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XII" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Wind and waver, glide and glance - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XIV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Winding the garlands of May - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Grave"

Swim the winding flame - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"

Winding rivers seeking distant homes - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"

Wind the copper through the black - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"

Wind a lariat of leaves - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks I: Metaphysick for the New Year"


The winder of consequence - Mary Jo Bang "The Blank of Reason Produces Blank: After Goya"


For usages of 'Wound' that indicate injury or that are ambiguous see: Wound. The sorting is erratic.

Like clocks wound for a thousand years - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

Portent wound in corridors of shells - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"

Then whispers wound into my ears - Cynthia Hogue "The Daughter"

Wound itself in spools of linen - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"

Self-spun cocoon of prudence wound - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Petals wound with snakes - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

The road wound upward, to the hill of sleep - Miriam Clark Potter "Little Sister of the Moon"

Our hair with marigolds was wound - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Pine roots wound down into the black, black mud - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Only the night is wound up tight - Charles Wright "Time Is a Graceless Enemy, but Purls as It Comes and Goes"


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