Potential Titles: Thief

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Theft.


The thieves that each priest has cursed - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

A thief at darkest midnight - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"

Like the thief of fire from heaven - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"

Thieves of a guise remotely fair - Walter de la Mare "The Honey Robbers"

A thief of payment for no service done - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

No thief so politic - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"

Two kinds of jewels, a vision for thieves - Robert Frost "Blueberries"

The thief's prerogative - Tess Gallagher "Thieves at the Grave"

The thieves of sad fate - Jennie Earngey Hill "The Meadowlark"

Wander like thieves into windows - Allison Eir Jenks "After the Parade"

Will carry you perfectly as a thief - Allison Eir Jenks "Old Soldiers"

The thief has set his trap - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken

The last black anguish of the thief - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"

Where thieves abound and murderers appear - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

To teach philosophers the thirst of thieves - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

While lurking like a thief - Allan Munier "R. H. -- A Portrait"

Keeping a kind of thieves' kitchen - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"

The copious coffer of thieves - Pablo Neruda "Alvarado" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Of thanes and thieves and kin - Shivanee Ramlochan "Witch Hindu"

Thieves in the mind - Kay Ryan "Thieves"

The prey of every vulgar thief - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVIII"

Proves thievish for a prize so dear - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVIII"

These heavy-winged thieves - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

One to the thief of Versailles - Taras Shevchenko "To the Goddess of Fame" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

These two eyes are very nimble thieves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 78: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A brazen thief never charged - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"

Thieves and robbers dwell therein - Jeremy Taylor "Hymn for Advent; or Christ's Coming to Jerusalem in Triumph"

This is the hour when the thief will come - Keith Taylor "Statue of the Blind Girl"

God's curse is on the thief - Louis Untermeyer "A Voice from the Sweat-Shops"

Before the thief who would be king - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"

That thief already scheming to break free - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi


Flaunt the winnings of your thieveries - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"


The thieving of delight without return - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Before the thieving ravens evicted them - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"

Bliss at having thieved identities - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"

To thieve speech and sense - Jesus I. Valles "Barnes & Noble, 1999"


An itch thief-walking the coral of the brain - Rickey Laurentiis "I Saw I Dreamt Two Men"


The hidden moon shed thievish light - Robert Bridges "I Never Shall Love the Snow Again"

Time's thievish progress to eternity - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVII"


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