Potential Titles: Dare
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somethingdarkerSaunters into the world daring us to stay - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"
Not a dead leaf dares to fall - Elizabeth Akers Allen "A Midnight Visitor"
And dares to claim the sun - Maya Angelou "Caged Bird"
Dare exhale the warm infinite incense - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
To dare hope for nothing - James Baldwin "Death is easy (for Jefe)"
A question we don't dare to ask - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Here fell the daring Icarus in his prime - Maurice Baring "Icarus"
Before a bluebird dared to sing - Clara Doty Bates "Gold-Locks' Dream of Pussie Willow" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
Who dares the hero's march - Park Benjamin "Press On"
What the hand dare seize the fire? - William Blake "The Tiger"
Dare its deadly terrors clasp - William Blake "The Tiger"
By daring wilder sorrow - Charlotte Bronte "Passion"
Mischief-making Time would never dare - Sterling A. Brown "Challenge"
Dared depart in utter scorn - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
Dares to climb with wounded feet - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
The courage to dare the world - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
No tongue shall dare to tell - Arthur Hugh Clough "Peschiera"
Dare not stand in the blast - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"
Dare not wait to parley with the Voice outside the gate - Albert Francis Cross "Let There Be Light" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.118-v.III, 3 April 1886]
Who bent his daring sail to untried winds - Rev. William Crowe "On the Death of Captain Cook"
Tidings of high daring - "The Cruiskeen Lawn" transl. by George Sigerson
With daring eyes of flesh and blood - T.A. Daly "To a Plain Sweetheart"
Kindling me to do and dare - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [My lady, and my sovereign, flower most rare]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Dared not meet the daffodils - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIV: In Shadow"
How dare the robins sing - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XII"
Sweet if the heart so dares - Dom "Risking for a Sign"
Only Sorrow's pencil would ever dare to sketch - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"
Some birds will dare to sing - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
In deeds of daring rectitude - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"
The awful daring of a moment's surrender - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
Not a soul would dare to sleep - J.T. Fields "The Captain's Daughter" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
I would not dare to change thee - Fanny Forrester "Not Beautiful!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.11-v.I, 15 March 1884]
That the utmost reward of daring should be still to dare - Robert Frost "The Trial by Existence"
Daring spirit and purpose high - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
What victim comes those frowns to dare? - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Daring me to demand the orchard - Andrea Gibson "Radio"
Hope herself scarce dared to-morrow - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
For the daring shall lead them to triumph - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Daring choices stained the clouds - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
To dare the splendour of the sky - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Daring each other at dusk - Conrad Hilberry "Crete: The Diktaean Cave"
All the winter bird dare try - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"
Bent grass dared not grow - Richard Hughes "Moon-Struck"
Who dared stare straight at the camera - Allison Joseph "Soul Train"
The flaming tower we all dared to jump from - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
To dare a wilderness of wrong - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
In presumption of the daring spirit - Fanny Kemble "The Prayer of a Lonely Heart"
Even the trees dared not move - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Erasure prologue"
Dared to scorn untoward chance - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"
Daring and friendly souls - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"
Dare not leave a place for her - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"
Double dares took root in night soil - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Against a day when they dare meet - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
The seed my heart had dared to sow - Naomi Long Madgett "Heart-Blossom"
asphyxiating anything that dares to crave oxygen - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"
Dare not question her bidding - Louis J. McQuilland "A Song of the Open Road"
Dare take Niagara leaps - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
So dares affront the great god Pan - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Had dared the direst dangers - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Missing" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.136-v.III, 7 Aug. 1886]
But don't dare say I went peacefully - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
Dared not look on the new moon's cup - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Dared not look on the sweet young rain - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Should you dare to introduce a lie - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
May never dare to ask return - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Found something that he dare despise - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Lavater's Warning" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
while you suffer with the fish bones you dared swallow - jo reyes-boitel "fish bones"
Dared mix beauty with courage - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
That dares and endures the crucible - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
And dare the sweeping storm - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Daring deeds and ancient border-glory - Henry W. Rockwell "Mohawk: IV"
A song that dares us to look inside - Sahar Romani "Sign"
Have dared with black envy - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
A failing candle I dare not extinguish - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"
The stories we do not dare to tell - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"
Sprang inventive from a daring mind - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
How dare the water belittle my thirst - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"
Can fly when it dares to - Eileen Spinelli "The Chase"
That must dare and endure and defy and survive - Arthur Stringer "The Meaning"
Dare not tell your heart what it has suffered - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
The dare and thrill of bliss - Arthur Sze "Lichen Song"
More daring than devout - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"
You dare to say with perjured lips - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"
Who dared in the dark eclipse - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"
The drawers you dare not open - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"
Dare to raise our Babel thro' forbidden aisles - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"
Daring the flame of the sun - Helen Hay Whitney "Prayers"
The last that dare to struggle - William Wordsworth "November, 1806"
Dare not disturb the wires of the underworld - Jenny Xie "Misconjugate"
Till the heart dare not move - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
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Not a dead leaf dares to fall - Elizabeth Akers Allen "A Midnight Visitor"
And dares to claim the sun - Maya Angelou "Caged Bird"
Dare exhale the warm infinite incense - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
To dare hope for nothing - James Baldwin "Death is easy (for Jefe)"
A question we don't dare to ask - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Here fell the daring Icarus in his prime - Maurice Baring "Icarus"
Before a bluebird dared to sing - Clara Doty Bates "Gold-Locks' Dream of Pussie Willow" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
Who dares the hero's march - Park Benjamin "Press On"
What the hand dare seize the fire? - William Blake "The Tiger"
Dare its deadly terrors clasp - William Blake "The Tiger"
By daring wilder sorrow - Charlotte Bronte "Passion"
Mischief-making Time would never dare - Sterling A. Brown "Challenge"
Dared depart in utter scorn - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
Dares to climb with wounded feet - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
The courage to dare the world - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
No tongue shall dare to tell - Arthur Hugh Clough "Peschiera"
Dare not stand in the blast - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"
Dare not wait to parley with the Voice outside the gate - Albert Francis Cross "Let There Be Light" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.118-v.III, 3 April 1886]
Who bent his daring sail to untried winds - Rev. William Crowe "On the Death of Captain Cook"
Tidings of high daring - "The Cruiskeen Lawn" transl. by George Sigerson
With daring eyes of flesh and blood - T.A. Daly "To a Plain Sweetheart"
Kindling me to do and dare - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [My lady, and my sovereign, flower most rare]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Dared not meet the daffodils - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIV: In Shadow"
How dare the robins sing - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XII"
Sweet if the heart so dares - Dom "Risking for a Sign"
Only Sorrow's pencil would ever dare to sketch - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"
Some birds will dare to sing - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"
In deeds of daring rectitude - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"
The awful daring of a moment's surrender - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
Not a soul would dare to sleep - J.T. Fields "The Captain's Daughter" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
I would not dare to change thee - Fanny Forrester "Not Beautiful!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.11-v.I, 15 March 1884]
That the utmost reward of daring should be still to dare - Robert Frost "The Trial by Existence"
Daring spirit and purpose high - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
What victim comes those frowns to dare? - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Daring me to demand the orchard - Andrea Gibson "Radio"
Hope herself scarce dared to-morrow - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
For the daring shall lead them to triumph - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Daring choices stained the clouds - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
To dare the splendour of the sky - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Daring each other at dusk - Conrad Hilberry "Crete: The Diktaean Cave"
All the winter bird dare try - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"
Bent grass dared not grow - Richard Hughes "Moon-Struck"
Who dared stare straight at the camera - Allison Joseph "Soul Train"
The flaming tower we all dared to jump from - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
To dare a wilderness of wrong - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
In presumption of the daring spirit - Fanny Kemble "The Prayer of a Lonely Heart"
Even the trees dared not move - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Erasure prologue"
Dared to scorn untoward chance - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"
Daring and friendly souls - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"
Dare not leave a place for her - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"
Double dares took root in night soil - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Against a day when they dare meet - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
The seed my heart had dared to sow - Naomi Long Madgett "Heart-Blossom"
asphyxiating anything that dares to crave oxygen - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"
Dare not question her bidding - Louis J. McQuilland "A Song of the Open Road"
Dare take Niagara leaps - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
So dares affront the great god Pan - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Had dared the direst dangers - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Missing" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.136-v.III, 7 Aug. 1886]
But don't dare say I went peacefully - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
Dared not look on the new moon's cup - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Dared not look on the sweet young rain - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Should you dare to introduce a lie - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
May never dare to ask return - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Found something that he dare despise - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Lavater's Warning" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
while you suffer with the fish bones you dared swallow - jo reyes-boitel "fish bones"
Dared mix beauty with courage - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
That dares and endures the crucible - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
And dare the sweeping storm - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Daring deeds and ancient border-glory - Henry W. Rockwell "Mohawk: IV"
A song that dares us to look inside - Sahar Romani "Sign"
Have dared with black envy - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
A failing candle I dare not extinguish - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"
The stories we do not dare to tell - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"
Sprang inventive from a daring mind - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
How dare the water belittle my thirst - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"
Can fly when it dares to - Eileen Spinelli "The Chase"
That must dare and endure and defy and survive - Arthur Stringer "The Meaning"
Dare not tell your heart what it has suffered - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
The dare and thrill of bliss - Arthur Sze "Lichen Song"
More daring than devout - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"
You dare to say with perjured lips - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"
Who dared in the dark eclipse - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"
The drawers you dare not open - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"
Dare to raise our Babel thro' forbidden aisles - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"
Daring the flame of the sun - Helen Hay Whitney "Prayers"
The last that dare to struggle - William Wordsworth "November, 1806"
Dare not disturb the wires of the underworld - Jenny Xie "Misconjugate"
Till the heart dare not move - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
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