Potential Titles: Conquer/Conquest

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In a hurry to conquer the world - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"

Which conquers death and gravity - Daisy Aldan "Vertical Is Our New Sight"

Conquering wind and marking mist - Raymond Antrobus "After Reading 'Deaf School' by the Mississippi River"

The fearless rush to conquer - Cora C. Bass "Dead on the Field of Battle"

Conquered heaven in spirals of pride - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien

Whose dead sceptre conquers time - Craven Langstroth Betts "In Memorium"

Forth came the conquering sun - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Who by a life heroic conquers - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"

Has conquered dragons of old pain - Louise Morey Bowman "A Portrait"

Conquered first by bedlam - William Brewer "West Virginia"

The conquering steps of day - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"

Conquering flesh and sense - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"

Shall conquer every hate-born breath - Evelyn Gage Browne "Faith"

Conquer me gently - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Have conquered by evil - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Has sleep conquered love? - [Annie Winifred Ellerman] Bryher "In Exile"

We conquer but to save - Thomas Campbell "The Battle of the Baltic"

Patiently conquered - Yvonne Caroutch

And turned him to a conquered land - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

Who wish to conquer pain - Leonard Cohen "Avalanche"

Stirred by the newborn wish to conquer - William Cory "Amavi"

Through which to conquer ache and pain - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"

When we strive so hard to conquer - Danske Dandridge "Wings"

In a conquered monarch's tent - Sir William Davenant "The Dream"

A world we did not conquer - Desdamona "Once and Future"

Conquering kings at eventide - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "I Watch the Ships"

And sink to silence, conquered by the storm - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]

What silence I can't conquer - Camonghne Felix "Grocery"

Who dwell in a conquered sphere - George Blackstone Field "Men of the Line"

For custom conquers fear and shame - John Gay "Fable XIII: The Tamed Fawn" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Leave behind to conquer time - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"

A deadlier terror conquering awe - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 4"

The conquering lance and shield - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Clothed with conquering power - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Each step of Edward's conquering host - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

My soaring spirit conquered at thy feet - Henry B. Hirst "Sonnets: Ianthe" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

But brighter for conquering - Ellen Hopkins "By Some Stroke of Heaven"

Decked with the spoils of conquered foes - William H.C. Hosmer "Triumphs of Peace" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]

Then roused him to conquer or to fall - Ione "The Songs of Our Fathers" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

Know that the worm had conquered all - Edwin R. Johnson "Who Knows?" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Language conquers from within - Fred L. Joiner "Sovereignty"

Quenched by the conquering light - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fourth: Rati's Lament" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

In the eyes of conquering Jove - John Keats "Hyperion"

Whose conquering sails o'ershadow every sea - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

Mighty waters conquering sweep - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [By the pure spring, whose haunted waters flow]"

Sternly strive to conquer grief - Jan Kochanowski "Laments I" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Hostile hymns and conquering faiths - Archibald Lampman "Favorites of Pan"

Its conquering joy possessed me - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"

Wrestles with and conquers Time - Walter Savage Landor "To Wordsworth"

Riding the shadows of conquering air - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"

Pangs at the sight of conquering crime - Henry Lushington "To the Memory of Pietro d'Alessandro"

Before their conquering word - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Survey the conquered golden plains - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

Narrowly conquering death at the expense of glimpsing any heaven - Wes Matthews "Immortality"

Between what warming seas and conquering skies - Alice Meynell "The Roaring Frost"

Warm from recent kisses of the conquering sun - Harold Monro "Lake Leman" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]

Alexander's conquering star - Lewis Morris "Odatis"

A voiceless captive to my conquering song - Sarojini Naidu "The Poet's Love-Song"

Sworn to conquer kings, self-conquer'd fell- "Napoleon" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

Mollusks who conquered the sea - Pablo Neruda "Modestly" transl. by William O'Daly

Must conquer the rings of Saturn - Pablo Neruda "Night XCVII" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Conquered Doubt and faced a thousand alarms - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"

Only to be conquered by it - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"

Swept the conquering flood - John Jerome Rooney "Mississippi"

Conquer where the fiend would reign alone - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]

To conquer the insults of the moon - Carl Sandburg "Long Guns"

Into the conquered darkness - Fritz Schnack "Blooming Sunlight" transl. by William Saphier

A heart of steel to conquer - Frederick George Scott "In Via Mortis"

Conquering legions marched behind - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"

Through rains of doom that conquer brassy towers - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XLVIII: Comfort II"

My face without the conquering light - Iris Tree "[Sometimes I look into the glass]"

Not one with the conquering year - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"

Like a conquering army through my blood - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Holding the stubborn hope of conquering - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Life" transl. by Alma Strettell

Watching the menial clouds of conquered day - Humbert Wolfe "Caesar and Anthony"


Can trace a conqueror's hymn - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"

To the conqueror's feast - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

The conqueror's sceptre broke - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"

Tyrants and conquerors bow your heads - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Usher in the Conqueror - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Conqueror of half the world - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

With a conqueror's scornful eye - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Let me hail death as a conqueror - Sheila Kaye-Smith "A Prayer"

May drive our conquerors to mourn - John Keats "Hyperion"

That conquerors cannot feel - John Masefield "King Cole"

The conqueror's prize is dust - John Masefield "Pompey the Great"

Jagged with the previous conquerors' teeth - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"

Would see your conqueror's decree - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Rose before the silent conqueror - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Apparelled for a conqueror's reign - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet IV"

Peace to the dust of the conquerors - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"

And be worn in the conqueror's hall - G.P.T. "Thaptopsis" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]


The royal conquest of the dawn - Cora C. Bass "'Mid Eternal Snow"

Incredible conquests till the whole world reels - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

Waiting for the conquest of words - Maxwell Bodenheim "Cry, Naked and Personal"

For as long as conquest holds - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"

Devise new realms of peaceful conquest - Edward Carpenter "Genoa"

Nor conquests fabulous nor actions vain - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

A conquest doomed to perish - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz [Untitled] transl. by Samuel Beckett

And firm feet making conquest - Edward Dowden "A Day of Defection"

Sense of conquest stern and high - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Binds together conquest with forgotten fear - Holly Easton "In the Age of Dreams" [Strange Horizons 21 July 2025]

Erecting trophies to Jove the author of our conquest - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

just part of the conquest - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins

To make your conquest more sweet - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

I cannot leave my fatal conquest - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Speaking of the great theater of conquest - Philip Levine "For the Country: The President"

Girt with the glamor of conquest - Don Marquis "Early Autumn"

To obtain the bays of conquest - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

Has disdained her ancient conquests - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

The better part of conquest - Carl Phillips "The Wedding"

The wheedling ways of conquest - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Strode in strength and conquest on the earth - Vita Sackville-West "A Masque of Youth (A Mock-Heroic Poem)"

The coward conquest of a wretch's knife - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXIV"

Of all the tides of conquest - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"

Public conquests of a private world - Joshua Weiner "The Not-Yet Child"

The sword that gleams on Conquest's track - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]


Flowers on the conquistador's tongue - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"


Sworn to conquer kings, self-conquer'd fell- "Napoleon" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]


For one time-conquering soul - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"


Unconquered/Unconquerable.


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