Potential Titles: Dread

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Nor dreads the Hound's loud bark - Duncan Anderson "Sport"

And whispered fears, creating what they dread - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Dread calcifying into prophecy - Desiree C. Bailey "Woman in Dub"

Dreadful as consuming fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The General Public"

To frolic on eternity's dread brink - Robert Blair "The Grave"

With horoscopic dread - Howard Futhey Brinton "Breaking In"

Flip off this lightbox and its scroll of dread - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Before that dread apocalypse of soul - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Soul's Expression"

Madness alone of evils do I dread - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"

Vibrant with uttermost dread - May Byron "Sea-Ghosts"

Crumbled at thy dread command - H.C. "Lines to Death" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

To promulgate that dread decree - Tommaso Campanella "XLVI. The Year 1603" transl. by John Addington Symonds

To join the dreadful revelry - Thomas Campbell "Hohenlinden"

Object of their ancient dread - Giosue Carducci "Roma" transl. by Frank Sewall

In dread solitude of soul amid the faithless - Edward Carpenter "Beethoven"

The dread arrows of the clouds - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

The dread watch-tower of man's absolute self - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "To a Gentleman"

Grim rocks of dread and doubt - Susan Coolidge "Ebb and Flow"

Dread oracle of eons - Benjamin Copeland "Niagara"

This dread will one day stand in this soil - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"

Of Death's dread company - Coningsby Dawson "The Hill-Tower"

Whose dread sword the fate of empire sway'd - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Obedient to the dread command - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

My dream and my dread are of her - Vidame de Chartres "April" transl. by Algernon Charles Swinburne

When the dreaded day draws nigh - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Drowning with words sublime the dreaded thunder - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

My soul the dread assault sustain - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Since, O my Love, I may behold no more]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

And never dread to strike a wall - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"

Dreaded that first robin so - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIV: In Shadow"

Pronounce the dread condemning word - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"

On whose dread Altar breath'd - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

Forgetful of December dread - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"

Mileposts on that road of dread - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: V. Portrait of the Incomparable John Cowper Powys, Esq."

Not all his dread artillery could breach - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

An insurmountable dread - Noah Eli Gordon "Out of Touch Screen"

Call like tongues of dread - Ivor Gurney "Omens"

The hour of thy dread passion - Ivor Gurney "To the Poet Before Battle"

On their dread Sabbath prophesied - Henry S. Hagert "The Sleep of the Dead"

The tender dread of parting - Alfred Hayes "My Study"

The dread loneliness of sea and skies - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

The dread volcano's burning trace - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"

At the precipice past dread or Thursdays - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

With spells and ghouls more dread by far - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

With spells and ghouls more dread - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Deep dread but heightened your mirth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

The herds of the dread sea horse to view - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"

Dread not the tempest bold - James Weldon Johnson "The Passionate Lover"

Backbone rigid from dreadful expectation - Tanque R. Jones "Metamorphosis"

Refuge in his hour of dread - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Dread opener of the mysterious doors - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Toiling in these caverns dread - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Dread the Winter's threatenings - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"

Then why should the dread spoiler come - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

With dread fantastic spells - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

Has heaven's strength to dread - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"

A shrinking dread of an unearthly morrow - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things II: Song" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

No more they dread the wind - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: I: Shilric, Vinvela"

A ship hurled upon dread quicksand - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen

A ship hurled upon dread - José Martí "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)

Your Etna, your senate of dread - Donna Masini "Anxieties"

Through hours of soulful dread - Claude McKay "One Year After"

Jets of a dreadful fire within - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Like rumours of dreaded news - M.S. Merwin "Ill Wind"

Dread the dawn's recurrent light - Dorothy Parker "Symptom Recital"

Dread of making another tombstone - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 2. Book"

And instinct dreads surprise - Isaac Rosenberg "A Girl's Thoughts"

That Kronos' dreaded scythe was shivered - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"

For ten long hours of doubt and dread - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

Down the dread current hurled - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

Witness to this dread and wonder - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"

Dread the harpy's song - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

My constant banner of dread - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

Dangling his guillotine of dread - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

Recoiled at my knotted thorns of dread - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

Nursed dark by decades of dread - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

Closes the soul in a crypt of dread - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"

Our inheritance of dread - Richard Solomon "Ode to Zingerman's Pulled Pork Sandwich"

Beyond the struggling lines that push his dread designs - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

A dread and pitiless flowering - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

Shocked by Jove's dread thunder - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"

Some dread sky rocket of Eternity - Tso-le-oh-woh "What an Indian Thought When He Saw the Comet"

With impalpable winds of dread - John Updike "Endpoint"

Wraps my soul in dread repose - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

Bright lightnings of dread - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Who in old times endured this dread - Elinor Wylie "Atavism"

The traceries of dread just visible - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"


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