Potential Titles: King
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somethingdarkerAnd the foes of the King trembled to hear - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
To charge on the insolent frost king - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Veterans"
In my glass is blood of kings - T.H.W. Armstrong "Heritage"
Where ancient kings enchanted lie - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
The high-browed kings of thought - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"
Sent forth their mandates to dependant kings - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Heard the iron weeping of the King - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
A crownless king laid low - Ardelia Maria Barton "Man Defying the Dying Sun"
The convict's melancholy king - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
Armed like an angel, blazoned like a king - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
A wind to shuffle the kings to sand - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"
A feasting where mailed kings break bread - Stephen Vincent Benet "Sir John Rimbeck to the Princess of Acre"
For pence doled out by kings - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Magnificent gifts to a world-renowned king - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
We prize them as kings - Anne Carson "Pinplay" [selections]
Those greed-swayed kings of sugar - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"
Clay of the kings to come - Willa Cather "The Gaul in the Capital"
Pauper's cot and hall of kings - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
The holy kings ride down by Severn side - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
The secret stones of kings - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Crimson kings on battle-towers - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Stern and cunning are the Kings - G.K. Chesterton "A Christmas Carol"
Banana ghosts and handsome monkey kings - May Chong "Kamcia"
The king's knock right at heaven's door - May Chong "Catering"
As kings with all their luxury - John Clare "The Woodman"
A king of blazing splendour and of gold - H.D. "Projector"
To hide proud kings from common eyes - William H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"
A king whom valour served - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer
For fear to be a king - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XIV: Aspiration"
Sing to Boreas their mighty king - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"
Upon earth we're kings - John Donne "The Anniversary"
Bickering counsel of contending kings - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
As firm as Sparta's king - Sir Francis Hastings Doyle "The Private of the Buffs"
Captained by its unseen kings - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
At the advent of the Solar Kings - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
Conquering kings at eventide - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "I Watch the Ships"
And the kings asleep in the ground - "The Fort of Rathangan"
Where hangs the fate of kings - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
In worship before the poet kings - Louis Golding "Skylark Noon"
Shouting for King October's outing - Louise Imogen Guiney "Knights of Weather"
The dark king's fatal spear - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
That envious shadowy old king - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet III (from Farewell)"
Gaunt and pale remorseless king - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Kings mourn that promised praise - Horace "The Survival [Ode 22, Bk. V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling
While a king sat singing at the root - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
Wrought within the tombs of Egypt's kings - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Fair and fatal king - Lionel Johnson "By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross"
That kings might well dispense - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"
King of my beheaded kingdom - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"
Give Harlem's king one spoon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
What king must be abroad so late? - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Over three kingdoms my father was King - "The Knavish Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Of kings, fools, blood, and broken cities - Michael Lauchlan "Reading Herodotus"
Where I was king of all the shore - Albert Lee "My Realm"
Coming as no king of terrors - Henry P. Leland "Wounded" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Will make you a teacher of kings - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
And all the snails were kings - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"
King among omens - Cecilia Llompart "Omens"
The King in vain laid siege thereto - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
The brow of the King swelled crimson - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
An offering far beyond the wealth of kings - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
Prince of Play, King of Guile - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"
All hail the king of fire - Dorothea Mackellar "Burning Off"
The King who loved the lilies - Edwin Markham "The Desire of Nation"
Safe if she protects her king - Maya Marshall "Why Don't You Parent a Little?"
Defiance in the face of kings - George Martin "The Crisis"
Who speak to Kings as peers - John Masefield "The Khalif's Judgment"
King and prince and silver knight - Furnley Maurice "The Road of Now and Then"
Ghosts of tragic kings - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Wild passions sleeping like oblivious kings - Theodore Maynard "Dawn"
Kings and jeweled blood - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
Ate kings' bread in days of yore - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Dead Favourites"
And kings in the gutter - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
In the King's orchard close - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
My quarrelling with the six kings - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine
In beggars as in kings - Anonymous "Natural Comparisons with Perfect Love"
Kings and queens the color of amaranth - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XX" transl. by William O'Daly
Kings six cubits high with gryphon's wings - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
The uncrowned king of thought - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Old images of forgotten kings - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"
The riot-laugh of victor kings and trickster princes - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"
The king's instruments burn my hands - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
The king's stairs burn my feet - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
My life as the glass king - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
Like broken kings - Carl Phillips "Anyone Who Had a Heart"
Let kings and empires tremble - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"
Music and the mirth of kings - Francis Quarles "Good-Night"
And frogs obeyed a wooden king - George W. Ranck "The War of the Rats and Mice"
The wishful dream of a fairy king - Lola Ridge "Incognito (To P.C.)"
Bend to your cast that a king may die - Lloyd Roberts "A-Fishing"
As with spilt blood of kings - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"
Wishes, wolves, and flower kings - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
We are kings for all our wanderings - George William Russell "The Divine Vision"
Between the King and Queen of Swords - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"
Sets up knaves and murders kings - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"
When kings pass and perish - D.L. Sayers "For Phaon"
King of nightmare and responsibility - Philip Schultz "Enthrallment"
That king whose tattered mantle beckons from the dark - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
Queens of the Dreams, and Kings of the Shadows - Adi K. Sett "Roshanara"
Violated tombs of shrunken kings - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Beauty"
Though I have known the fellowship of kings - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Lays his icy hand on kings - James Shirley "The Same"
Entering the crypts of kings - Charles Simic "Windy Evening"
The wide desire of kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Overlord of many kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
The Titans gathered round their king - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Each elder tree a king - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
The undying kings, Silence and Death - George Sterling "The Moth of Time"
Standing on the dust of kings - George Sterling "Romance"
To ride with the Bandit King and his highwaymen - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
As greatest kings might die to gain - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Appears in the raiment of kings - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 150: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The king of water and fish and things - Gretchen Tessmer "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
Their kings a broken brood - Francis Thompson "Lilium Regis"
Kings demanding another story - Paul Tran "Terroir"
Where Folly is king of midnight - Iris Tree "[When at a masquerade I meet thee]"
Gifted keepsakes by their kings - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
The King himself bore up the bier - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Praise to the king of the wildwood ring - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
King of the seas, king of the storms - "Wildlife Encounter"
An injured Juno roused against Heaven's King - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"
Before the thief who would be king - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"
Kings and clowns together - Margaret L. Woods "Gaudeamus Igitur"
In the kitchen of the dragon king - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
In the ultraviolet palace of the Mermaid King - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Great kings of the sky - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Cousins of Clouds"
The beggar-king, November, frets - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Whilst the forest-king strikes high and deep - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
Thus the Frost-King lost his kingdom - Louisa May Alcott "The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love"
At the chilly touch of the Frost-king - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"
The kingbird and the pensive thrush are fled - Archibald Lampman "September"
Fiercest of the kingly brood - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"
As in rain of a kingly storm - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"
Kingly eagles wheeled alone their flights - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
The brave recurring dream of kingly cider - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"
Salt-king on the shore - Yehuda Amichai "O Lord Full of Mercy" (translated by Glenda Abramson)
Their Shadow-King in silence leads them - Miriam Clark Potter "The March of the Shadows"
Our spiritual solar-kings - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"
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To charge on the insolent frost king - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Veterans"
In my glass is blood of kings - T.H.W. Armstrong "Heritage"
Where ancient kings enchanted lie - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
The high-browed kings of thought - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"
Sent forth their mandates to dependant kings - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Heard the iron weeping of the King - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
A crownless king laid low - Ardelia Maria Barton "Man Defying the Dying Sun"
The convict's melancholy king - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
Armed like an angel, blazoned like a king - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
A wind to shuffle the kings to sand - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"
A feasting where mailed kings break bread - Stephen Vincent Benet "Sir John Rimbeck to the Princess of Acre"
For pence doled out by kings - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Magnificent gifts to a world-renowned king - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
We prize them as kings - Anne Carson "Pinplay" [selections]
Those greed-swayed kings of sugar - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"
Clay of the kings to come - Willa Cather "The Gaul in the Capital"
Pauper's cot and hall of kings - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
The holy kings ride down by Severn side - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
The secret stones of kings - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Crimson kings on battle-towers - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Stern and cunning are the Kings - G.K. Chesterton "A Christmas Carol"
Banana ghosts and handsome monkey kings - May Chong "Kamcia"
The king's knock right at heaven's door - May Chong "Catering"
As kings with all their luxury - John Clare "The Woodman"
A king of blazing splendour and of gold - H.D. "Projector"
To hide proud kings from common eyes - William H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"
A king whom valour served - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer
For fear to be a king - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XIV: Aspiration"
Sing to Boreas their mighty king - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"
Upon earth we're kings - John Donne "The Anniversary"
Bickering counsel of contending kings - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
As firm as Sparta's king - Sir Francis Hastings Doyle "The Private of the Buffs"
Captained by its unseen kings - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
At the advent of the Solar Kings - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
Conquering kings at eventide - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "I Watch the Ships"
And the kings asleep in the ground - "The Fort of Rathangan"
Where hangs the fate of kings - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
In worship before the poet kings - Louis Golding "Skylark Noon"
Shouting for King October's outing - Louise Imogen Guiney "Knights of Weather"
The dark king's fatal spear - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
That envious shadowy old king - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet III (from Farewell)"
Gaunt and pale remorseless king - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Kings mourn that promised praise - Horace "The Survival [Ode 22, Bk. V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling
While a king sat singing at the root - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
Wrought within the tombs of Egypt's kings - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Fair and fatal king - Lionel Johnson "By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross"
That kings might well dispense - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"
King of my beheaded kingdom - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"
Give Harlem's king one spoon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
What king must be abroad so late? - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Over three kingdoms my father was King - "The Knavish Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Of kings, fools, blood, and broken cities - Michael Lauchlan "Reading Herodotus"
Where I was king of all the shore - Albert Lee "My Realm"
Coming as no king of terrors - Henry P. Leland "Wounded" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Will make you a teacher of kings - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
And all the snails were kings - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"
King among omens - Cecilia Llompart "Omens"
The King in vain laid siege thereto - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
The brow of the King swelled crimson - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
An offering far beyond the wealth of kings - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
Prince of Play, King of Guile - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"
All hail the king of fire - Dorothea Mackellar "Burning Off"
The King who loved the lilies - Edwin Markham "The Desire of Nation"
Safe if she protects her king - Maya Marshall "Why Don't You Parent a Little?"
Defiance in the face of kings - George Martin "The Crisis"
Who speak to Kings as peers - John Masefield "The Khalif's Judgment"
King and prince and silver knight - Furnley Maurice "The Road of Now and Then"
Ghosts of tragic kings - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Wild passions sleeping like oblivious kings - Theodore Maynard "Dawn"
Kings and jeweled blood - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
Ate kings' bread in days of yore - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Dead Favourites"
And kings in the gutter - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
In the King's orchard close - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
My quarrelling with the six kings - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine
In beggars as in kings - Anonymous "Natural Comparisons with Perfect Love"
Kings and queens the color of amaranth - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XX" transl. by William O'Daly
Kings six cubits high with gryphon's wings - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
The uncrowned king of thought - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Old images of forgotten kings - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"
The riot-laugh of victor kings and trickster princes - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"
The king's instruments burn my hands - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
The king's stairs burn my feet - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
My life as the glass king - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
Like broken kings - Carl Phillips "Anyone Who Had a Heart"
Let kings and empires tremble - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"
Music and the mirth of kings - Francis Quarles "Good-Night"
And frogs obeyed a wooden king - George W. Ranck "The War of the Rats and Mice"
The wishful dream of a fairy king - Lola Ridge "Incognito (To P.C.)"
Bend to your cast that a king may die - Lloyd Roberts "A-Fishing"
As with spilt blood of kings - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"
Wishes, wolves, and flower kings - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
We are kings for all our wanderings - George William Russell "The Divine Vision"
Between the King and Queen of Swords - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"
Sets up knaves and murders kings - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"
When kings pass and perish - D.L. Sayers "For Phaon"
King of nightmare and responsibility - Philip Schultz "Enthrallment"
That king whose tattered mantle beckons from the dark - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
Queens of the Dreams, and Kings of the Shadows - Adi K. Sett "Roshanara"
Violated tombs of shrunken kings - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Beauty"
Though I have known the fellowship of kings - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Lays his icy hand on kings - James Shirley "The Same"
Entering the crypts of kings - Charles Simic "Windy Evening"
The wide desire of kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Overlord of many kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
The Titans gathered round their king - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Each elder tree a king - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
The undying kings, Silence and Death - George Sterling "The Moth of Time"
Standing on the dust of kings - George Sterling "Romance"
To ride with the Bandit King and his highwaymen - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
As greatest kings might die to gain - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Appears in the raiment of kings - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 150: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The king of water and fish and things - Gretchen Tessmer "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
Their kings a broken brood - Francis Thompson "Lilium Regis"
Kings demanding another story - Paul Tran "Terroir"
Where Folly is king of midnight - Iris Tree "[When at a masquerade I meet thee]"
Gifted keepsakes by their kings - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
The King himself bore up the bier - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Praise to the king of the wildwood ring - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
King of the seas, king of the storms - "Wildlife Encounter"
An injured Juno roused against Heaven's King - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"
Before the thief who would be king - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"
Kings and clowns together - Margaret L. Woods "Gaudeamus Igitur"
In the kitchen of the dragon king - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
In the ultraviolet palace of the Mermaid King - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Great kings of the sky - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Cousins of Clouds"
The beggar-king, November, frets - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Whilst the forest-king strikes high and deep - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
Thus the Frost-King lost his kingdom - Louisa May Alcott "The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love"
At the chilly touch of the Frost-king - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"
The kingbird and the pensive thrush are fled - Archibald Lampman "September"
Fiercest of the kingly brood - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"
As in rain of a kingly storm - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"
Kingly eagles wheeled alone their flights - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
The brave recurring dream of kingly cider - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"
Salt-king on the shore - Yehuda Amichai "O Lord Full of Mercy" (translated by Glenda Abramson)
Their Shadow-King in silence leads them - Miriam Clark Potter "The March of the Shadows"
Our spiritual solar-kings - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"
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