Potential Titles: Sure
Jul. 16th, 2011 07:07 pmYet can they leave one sure delight - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
He refused the most sure sanctuary - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Who surely as the twilight falls, begin - Clara Doty Bates "A Bear-Story" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Never doubt what nobody is sure about - Hilaire Belloc "The Microbe"
What is sureness to the shoreless - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"
Sure that the Past is from the Future shut - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Whatever he did he was sure to regret - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
The venomed dart shall bear its sure and speedy remedy - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Rooted sure and slow - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"
Only the hydrofluorocarbons know for sure - S. R. Compton "The Leonids, 11/18, 2002"
His critic friends had surely cried - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
When I was young and sure of heart - Shutta Crum "The Highway of the Three Graces"
Comes to a winter of sure defeat - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
A little vial of sure malignancy - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"
This guilt must sure unmeasured be - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Only more sure of all I thought was true - Robert Frost "Into My Own"
Not sure of the paths & turns taken - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"
Sure of a surplus in the heart - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"
Both of them sure of their beginnings and ends - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Gazing on her hopes so surely shattered - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
The crew making sure nothing goes awry - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"
Make sure the orb is glowing before I return - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"
Wild creatures find their surest covert - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Slow, sure round upon the wheels of time - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Sure some fate its sails will guide - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales GrĂ¼nden]"
Those unborn hours that surely follow after - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
The sign that's sure and certain - "A Sign of Spring" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
To make their surer paradise of tears - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"
The subtle juniper assumed its sure command - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"
Leaves of sure obligation on our paths - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Not sure the breath I hold is mine - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
Sure as spring gives warning - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
As surely as words are pleasure - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"
Whatever the awful silence must surely have revealed - Jamie Wasserman "German Man Found Dead in Home 5 Years After He Died"
From loftier triumphs sure must spring - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Prepared their buds against a sure winter - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"
Unsure of the usefulness of inevitable things - Ada Limon "A Little Distantly, As One Should"
Unsure if I am jealous of the web or the fly - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Traveling the heart's way, alone, unsure - John Moncure Wettarau "[For Catherine, someday]"
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He refused the most sure sanctuary - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Who surely as the twilight falls, begin - Clara Doty Bates "A Bear-Story" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Never doubt what nobody is sure about - Hilaire Belloc "The Microbe"
What is sureness to the shoreless - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"
Sure that the Past is from the Future shut - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Whatever he did he was sure to regret - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
The venomed dart shall bear its sure and speedy remedy - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Rooted sure and slow - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"
Only the hydrofluorocarbons know for sure - S. R. Compton "The Leonids, 11/18, 2002"
His critic friends had surely cried - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
When I was young and sure of heart - Shutta Crum "The Highway of the Three Graces"
Comes to a winter of sure defeat - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
A little vial of sure malignancy - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"
This guilt must sure unmeasured be - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Only more sure of all I thought was true - Robert Frost "Into My Own"
Not sure of the paths & turns taken - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"
Sure of a surplus in the heart - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"
Both of them sure of their beginnings and ends - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Gazing on her hopes so surely shattered - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
The crew making sure nothing goes awry - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"
Make sure the orb is glowing before I return - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"
Wild creatures find their surest covert - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Slow, sure round upon the wheels of time - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Sure some fate its sails will guide - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales GrĂ¼nden]"
Those unborn hours that surely follow after - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
The sign that's sure and certain - "A Sign of Spring" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
To make their surer paradise of tears - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"
The subtle juniper assumed its sure command - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"
Leaves of sure obligation on our paths - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Not sure the breath I hold is mine - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
Sure as spring gives warning - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
As surely as words are pleasure - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"
Whatever the awful silence must surely have revealed - Jamie Wasserman "German Man Found Dead in Home 5 Years After He Died"
From loftier triumphs sure must spring - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Prepared their buds against a sure winter - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"
Unsure of the usefulness of inevitable things - Ada Limon "A Little Distantly, As One Should"
Unsure if I am jealous of the web or the fly - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Traveling the heart's way, alone, unsure - John Moncure Wettarau "[For Catherine, someday]"
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