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Losing 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"

That bright line of flame-lipped masters - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

Master the map of never - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"

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"

And only the Master shall blame - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

A goddess in a world mastered by repetition - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

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"

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"

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)


Unmastered still by disbelief - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"


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