Potential Titles: Defeat

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Removes the sorrowful mask of defeat - Daisy Aldan "He Has Entered Midnight"

When utter Defeat has gripped you fast - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"

Strives to wipe out his defeats - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"

And the drums of defeat before me - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Subside to fragments of defeat - Max Bodenheim "City Streets"

The defeated wisdom of a smile - Maxwell Bodenheim "Expressions on a Child's Face"

never defeated in battle - Lucille Clifton "the death of crazy horse"

Absolute and technical in victories and defeats - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Fears in Solitude"

Only one will not be defeated: the one that is still missing - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Comes to a winter of sure defeat - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"

Many bitter winters of defeat - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Even in victory there hides defeat - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

And every ivory bone defeated - Nikita Gill "Lamia to Scylla"

Between defeat and prayer - Mark Irwin "Nike of Samothrace"

Wins a defeat with victory - "It Still Moves" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Rocks that suffer not defeat - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Crow's Nest Pass"

Contemplate how to defeat our Hannibal - Tanque R. Jones "Scipio"

Divides prayer from absolute defeat - Carl Phillips "Next Stop, Arcadia"

Our souls rejected still defeat - Charles G.D. Roberts "Cambrai and Marne"

Or rob defeat of pain - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Hour of Most Desire"

Blameless catalyst of our defeat - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

All men are defeated equal - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"

Fierce as a bear in defeat - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"

Recorder of praised defeat - Edwin Torres "Waiting Outside the Cafe"

All that promise and defeat - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

Crowns his defeat with light - John Hall Wheelock "Disdainful Beauty"

The triumphant heart and the defeated - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

The gray defeat of age - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"

Of defeated dreams - W.B Yeats "The Secret Rose"

Inhaling the tears of the defeated - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 20" transl. by Katherine Silver


Lie spent in star-defeated sighs - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XV"


sticks and stains and leaves its undefeatable marks - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"


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