Potential Titles: Brave

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Star-lit brows of the brave - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"

Braving the dead undergrowth together - Mouna Ammar "Daydream"

A brave and startling truth - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

To brave the pain of spring - Maya Angelou "In Retrospect"

Survived the same brave battle - Rae Armantrout "The Racket"

Brave enough to scale the skies - Maurice Baring "Icarus"

Brave as a lion at bay - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Poem"

Please none but the brave - Charles Baudelaire "The Dance of Death" transl. not credited

Braving the crags of ether - Stephen Vincent Benet "Winged Man"

With love and with compassion brave - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"

All the brave rhymes of an elder day - C.S. Calverley "Lovers, and a Reflection"

Brave monks & unbearable houses - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

Poverty must brave the storm - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

How sleep the brave - William Collins "Ode: Written in the Year 1746"

One faithful Abdiel may fearless brave unnumbered rebel foes - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Eight hundred of the brave - W. Cowper "Loss of the Royal George"

From each brave eye shall sprout a tree - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IX)"

Brave offspring of a disenchanted age - Coningsby Dawson "A Brave Life"

We were brave before memory - Toi Derricotte "In Knowledge of Young Boys"

The brave pure winds commingling - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"

Jewels of the brave old year - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Christmas in the Heart"

At the mercy of my own bravery - Camonghne Felix "Thank God I Can't Drive"

Cheap, choice, brave, and new - "Fine Knacks for Ladies"

Their hearts brave the Four Oceans - Fu Hsuan "Woman" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Anchor me brave, anchor me loving - Andrea Gibson "Boomerang Valentine"

Wear your tinsel bright and bravely - Mona Gould "Small Christmas Tree (For F.G.)"

Be brave when the joy departs - Edgar A. Guest "Let's Be Brave"

Horsemen brave in war's array - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

Two geraniums bravely in leaf - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"

Be brave, my child, the birds will sing again - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Birds Will Sing Again"

Brave thrushes did complete - F.W. Harvey "Song"

The melody the brave hear - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

To the island of the brave - Felicia Hemans "The Troubadour and Richard Coeur de Lion"

These truly are the brave - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"

John Brown was a hero undaunted, true and brave - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

The brave Music of a distant Drum - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Born by a brave Disdain - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

As had braved the winds of March - Letitia Elizabeth Landon "The Oak"

A brave hawk on high wings soaring - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson

Both brave and buried bones - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

The fiery roots of forests brave and far - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

And prison up the brave - John Masefield "King Cole"

The brave recurring dream of kingly cider - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"

And praised her tattered bravery - Theodore Maynard "For They Shall Possess the Earth"

Bring back a braver dawn - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Brave in her shape - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

For blasphemy so brave - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]

To brave the ocean's battling shock - Morna "Ianthe"

Coward shrinking from the brave - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"

As brave as any sparrow - George W. Ranck "The War of the Rats and Mice"

Nearer pace brave Hector, reckless Paris - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "The Venus of Milo"

Make brave sallies at the stars - Lola Ridge "Amy Lowell"

Standing in their brave array - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"

Which has braved a thousand storms - Frederick George Scott "Dion"

Heaven shield the brave Gallant - Sir Walter Scott "Cavalier Song"

The mandate which sent out their bravest and their best - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

And wear their brave state out of memory - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XV"

The hardiest herb that braves the frost - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Brave and water-clean - Anne Spencer "At the Carnival"

Life and death and the brave who walk between - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"

For ever braving the celestial gales - Alan Sullivan "A Question"

With our hearts in brave communion - "Sweet is the Fight" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Best charge and bravest retreat - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]

Best charge and bravest retreat in Cupid's fight - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]

Which bravely wait the charge of Winter's cavalry - Henry David Thoreau "The Fall of the Leaf"

When brave hearts bleed and faint ones break - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Are brave with the Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Healed"

For a brave, red wave of sound - Louis Untermeyer "In a Strange City"

The brave persistence of the grass - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Keeping step in brave communion - "Victory's Band" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Brave the passing wind of many winters - Henry Kirk White "Time"

Brave mists that waver and wane - Helen Hay Whitney "I Have Seen What the Seraphs Have Seen"

Who braved the polar frost - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

One thing braver than all flowers - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"

A name only the brave can say - Assetou Xango "Give Your Daughters Difficult Names"


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