Potential Titles: Nerve
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somethingdarkerThe dreadful diagrams of his nerves - William Archila "Beyond Bruegel's Shore"
Ten times the nerve, which is stitching darkness - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
His blighted sinews nerved and strung - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"
A torture in each nerve - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
Between nerve and the crime it loves - Tommye Blount "Lycanthropy"
Weird, tiny knives of nerves and wits - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"
Those long-frayed endings of every nerve tingling - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Till nerve and force are spent - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto VI. Dyscomfyture"
Nerves of lightning - Rosario Castellanos "Three Poems"
Every nerve and sinew tell on ages - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"
Revealed such nerve and matchless power - Palmer Cox "The Brownies at Archery"
Wrought every nerve to ecstasy - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
He tried his nerve on a song he knew - Waring Cuney "The Death Bed" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Raised to the power of all the nerves in the human brain - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Setting a nation's nerves on edge - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Of sensation and nerve - Stephen Dunn "Split:1962"
All her roads are nerves of noble thought - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
There is no empire in nerve - Tracy Fuad "Eclipse Season"
A net of empire sewn with nerve - Tracy Fuad "Eclipse Season"
A twist of nerves and brittle gears - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"
Nerved with the strength of wild despair - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Unearthly bliss each thrilling nerve attunes - Thomas Gent "Poems"
Nerves that vibrate in unfolding chains - Thomas Gent "Prometheus"
The nerve at the center of the bone - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"
Breathe vigor through each nerve - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"
To mount the tempest-cloud with nerve unfailing - Mary E. Hewitt "I Follow" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
To sense that phantom tap on my nerves - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]
That once grew into our nerves and veins - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
And the nerve of the hunter is steady - Chas. G. Leland "The Wolf Hunt" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
Rude-nerved as bears - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Stretched his nerves of subtile wire - James Russell Lowell "Science and Poetry"
Our heirlooms of shot nerves - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"
An arm all nerve and a heart all fire - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Startling the nerves of canines - Cate Marvin "The Truth"
Made of nerves and steel springs - John Masefield "Right Royal"
The nerve I had to fold time - Farid Matuk "When I Look at Pictures"
Stitch together bone and sinew, muscle and nerve - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"
Your hungers from their nerve - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
My last nerve's lucid music - Harryette Mullen "Page 1/Sapphire's lyre styles"
Every morsel with nerve enough to be - Angel Nafis "Angel's Heart Clowns the Ocean"
No more than a filigree of nerves - Pablo Neruda "The South" transl. by Alastair Reid
Monsters made of stone and nerve - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Shining in our net of nerves - Kiki Petrosino "This Is How We Feed the Animals"
Gnawing at the endings of your nerves - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"
The nerves of a bird and the nightmares of a dog - Adrienne Rich "Apology"
Where the deadened nerves so soon forget - Edward Shanks "The Return"
Loss which bared the utmost shivering nerve - Edward Shanks "The Return"
Where dauntless nerve and intellect combined - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
Had numbered all the nerves of pain - George Sterling "The Swoon"
A needle on the nerves of sight - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
A nerve of the cosmos - Jean Toomer "As the Eagle Soars"
Nerves quelled by a dry wind - Jenny Xie "Present Continuous"
Offering the nerves of a future - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
While nerves of metal vibrate beneath asphalt - Jenny Xie "Le Temps Mort"
Deep in the nerve - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"
The nerve endings of tendons are fueled by the sun - Rodrigo Toscano "Habilitas"
Inviting the nerveless to feel - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
Nervous.
Neural/Neuron.
Let never Sloth unnerve the arm - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
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Ten times the nerve, which is stitching darkness - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
His blighted sinews nerved and strung - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"
A torture in each nerve - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
Between nerve and the crime it loves - Tommye Blount "Lycanthropy"
Weird, tiny knives of nerves and wits - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"
Those long-frayed endings of every nerve tingling - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Till nerve and force are spent - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto VI. Dyscomfyture"
Nerves of lightning - Rosario Castellanos "Three Poems"
Every nerve and sinew tell on ages - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"
Revealed such nerve and matchless power - Palmer Cox "The Brownies at Archery"
Wrought every nerve to ecstasy - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
He tried his nerve on a song he knew - Waring Cuney "The Death Bed" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Raised to the power of all the nerves in the human brain - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Setting a nation's nerves on edge - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Of sensation and nerve - Stephen Dunn "Split:1962"
All her roads are nerves of noble thought - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
There is no empire in nerve - Tracy Fuad "Eclipse Season"
A net of empire sewn with nerve - Tracy Fuad "Eclipse Season"
A twist of nerves and brittle gears - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"
Nerved with the strength of wild despair - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Unearthly bliss each thrilling nerve attunes - Thomas Gent "Poems"
Nerves that vibrate in unfolding chains - Thomas Gent "Prometheus"
The nerve at the center of the bone - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"
Breathe vigor through each nerve - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"
To mount the tempest-cloud with nerve unfailing - Mary E. Hewitt "I Follow" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
To sense that phantom tap on my nerves - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]
That once grew into our nerves and veins - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
And the nerve of the hunter is steady - Chas. G. Leland "The Wolf Hunt" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
Rude-nerved as bears - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Stretched his nerves of subtile wire - James Russell Lowell "Science and Poetry"
Our heirlooms of shot nerves - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"
An arm all nerve and a heart all fire - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Startling the nerves of canines - Cate Marvin "The Truth"
Made of nerves and steel springs - John Masefield "Right Royal"
The nerve I had to fold time - Farid Matuk "When I Look at Pictures"
Stitch together bone and sinew, muscle and nerve - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"
Your hungers from their nerve - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
My last nerve's lucid music - Harryette Mullen "Page 1/Sapphire's lyre styles"
Every morsel with nerve enough to be - Angel Nafis "Angel's Heart Clowns the Ocean"
No more than a filigree of nerves - Pablo Neruda "The South" transl. by Alastair Reid
Monsters made of stone and nerve - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Shining in our net of nerves - Kiki Petrosino "This Is How We Feed the Animals"
Gnawing at the endings of your nerves - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"
The nerves of a bird and the nightmares of a dog - Adrienne Rich "Apology"
Where the deadened nerves so soon forget - Edward Shanks "The Return"
Loss which bared the utmost shivering nerve - Edward Shanks "The Return"
Where dauntless nerve and intellect combined - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
Had numbered all the nerves of pain - George Sterling "The Swoon"
A needle on the nerves of sight - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
A nerve of the cosmos - Jean Toomer "As the Eagle Soars"
Nerves quelled by a dry wind - Jenny Xie "Present Continuous"
Offering the nerves of a future - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
While nerves of metal vibrate beneath asphalt - Jenny Xie "Le Temps Mort"
Deep in the nerve - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"
The nerve endings of tendons are fueled by the sun - Rodrigo Toscano "Habilitas"
Inviting the nerveless to feel - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
Nervous.
Neural/Neuron.
Let never Sloth unnerve the arm - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
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