Potential Titles: Master
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somethingdarkerLosing isn't hard to master - Elizabeth Bishop "One Art"
Became a master of the art of running - John R. Bolles "The Story of Two Bulls"
Master both invisible and notoriously slow to act - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 3: A psalm of Isaak, whispered mid the Philistines, beneath the breath"
Driven by our demon master - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"
Master of this ruined house - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"
By these marching arrogant masters - Willa Cather "The Gaul in the Capital"
Mastered distance by living too close - Jennifer Chang "Pastoral"
Masters of many talents render account to me - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
If for a day joy masters me - Countee Cullen "Confession"
Master of shrines and gateways - H.D. "Projector"
The sullen masters of a mangled world - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Carries the eagles, and masters the sword - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
That bright line of flame-lipped masters - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Master the map of never - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"
How servants wound a master's name - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
That wreak on foes their masters' will - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Desert paths which have no masters - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
To serve one master in the night, another in the day - Ernest Hemingway "Chapter Heading"
To master this mosaic of air - Conrad Hilberry "Music"
A master at the art of being broken - Tony Hoagland "In the Waiting Room with Leonard Cohen"
Master of human destinies - John James Ingalls "Opportunity"
was made from the hands of an ungodly master - Ashley M. Jones "HOLYHEADHARRIET"
With master hands I despoil all - T.M. Kettle "Sowing (Written in 1899)"
And only the Master shall blame - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"
A goddess in a world mastered by repetition - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
The insidious mastery of song betrays me - D.H. Lawrence "Piano"
Masters of the ever-ready storm - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"
The master Artisan in fair Eden's holy shrine - D.M. Matheson "Mother Love"
Master thunder on the field - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Master the magic of curiosity - Dante Micheaux "Funhouse"
Which can't be ordered by my master will - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "An Interrupted Worker's Revelation"
His master gardener dispensed perfection - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"
By a mighty master's sway - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To Miss R. B."
Learning has no constant master - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
All those days for mastery - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Study Guide Toward Naturalization of the Mouth"
Once loyal to a cruel master - Carl Phillips "That Part in the Music"
Master of names - Emilio Porta
Have mastered this language of loss - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
Sonatas from the throats of master birds - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
And master of all splendor - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
A herald soul before its master's flying - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"
Served one master ill - Edward Thomas "An Old Song"
Rooms full of master's Egos - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"
A dark-abyss master grown old - Wang An-Shih "At the Shrine-Tower of Ch'an Master Lumen-Serene" transl. by David Hinton
This emotion that somehow slipped past the masters - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]
Mastered by fear of dark compulsions - Joshua Weiner "Psalm"
Master of the black and green darkness - John Yau "Russian Letter"
Master of the still stars and of the flaming door - W.B. Yeats "The Valley of the Black Pig"
Such a master of avoidance - C. Dale Young "Annunciation"
Sweeps in one all-mastering flood - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
In the garden under the masterful Sun - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"
Masterful negation and collapse - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Rushed masterless, by tower and town and wood - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece - Shakespeare "Macbeth"
Played the makings of a masterpiece off-key - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"
Towards a mastery of disappearance and creation - Russell Brakefield "Shutter, Lag"
Of soul and body lose the mastery - Po-Chu'i "The Harper of Chao" (translated by Arthur Waley)
And the truck-master's pail holds unmystified milk - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
Unmastered still by disbelief - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
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Became a master of the art of running - John R. Bolles "The Story of Two Bulls"
Master both invisible and notoriously slow to act - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 3: A psalm of Isaak, whispered mid the Philistines, beneath the breath"
Driven by our demon master - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"
Master of this ruined house - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"
By these marching arrogant masters - Willa Cather "The Gaul in the Capital"
Mastered distance by living too close - Jennifer Chang "Pastoral"
Masters of many talents render account to me - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
If for a day joy masters me - Countee Cullen "Confession"
Master of shrines and gateways - H.D. "Projector"
The sullen masters of a mangled world - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Carries the eagles, and masters the sword - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
That bright line of flame-lipped masters - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Master the map of never - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"
How servants wound a master's name - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
That wreak on foes their masters' will - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Desert paths which have no masters - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
To serve one master in the night, another in the day - Ernest Hemingway "Chapter Heading"
To master this mosaic of air - Conrad Hilberry "Music"
A master at the art of being broken - Tony Hoagland "In the Waiting Room with Leonard Cohen"
Master of human destinies - John James Ingalls "Opportunity"
was made from the hands of an ungodly master - Ashley M. Jones "HOLYHEADHARRIET"
With master hands I despoil all - T.M. Kettle "Sowing (Written in 1899)"
And only the Master shall blame - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"
A goddess in a world mastered by repetition - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
The insidious mastery of song betrays me - D.H. Lawrence "Piano"
Masters of the ever-ready storm - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"
The master Artisan in fair Eden's holy shrine - D.M. Matheson "Mother Love"
Master thunder on the field - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Master the magic of curiosity - Dante Micheaux "Funhouse"
Which can't be ordered by my master will - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "An Interrupted Worker's Revelation"
His master gardener dispensed perfection - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"
By a mighty master's sway - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To Miss R. B."
Learning has no constant master - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
All those days for mastery - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Study Guide Toward Naturalization of the Mouth"
Once loyal to a cruel master - Carl Phillips "That Part in the Music"
Master of names - Emilio Porta
Have mastered this language of loss - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
Sonatas from the throats of master birds - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
And master of all splendor - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
A herald soul before its master's flying - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"
Served one master ill - Edward Thomas "An Old Song"
Rooms full of master's Egos - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"
A dark-abyss master grown old - Wang An-Shih "At the Shrine-Tower of Ch'an Master Lumen-Serene" transl. by David Hinton
This emotion that somehow slipped past the masters - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]
Mastered by fear of dark compulsions - Joshua Weiner "Psalm"
Master of the black and green darkness - John Yau "Russian Letter"
Master of the still stars and of the flaming door - W.B. Yeats "The Valley of the Black Pig"
Such a master of avoidance - C. Dale Young "Annunciation"
Sweeps in one all-mastering flood - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
In the garden under the masterful Sun - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"
Masterful negation and collapse - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Rushed masterless, by tower and town and wood - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece - Shakespeare "Macbeth"
Played the makings of a masterpiece off-key - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"
Towards a mastery of disappearance and creation - Russell Brakefield "Shutter, Lag"
Of soul and body lose the mastery - Po-Chu'i "The Harper of Chao" (translated by Arthur Waley)
And the truck-master's pail holds unmystified milk - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
Unmastered still by disbelief - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"
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