Potential Titles: War
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What is war if not a waiting harvest - Lydia Abedeen "Birangona Song in a Walmart Parking Lot"
One glass of water that did not contain war - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"
War doesn't bother knocking - Leena Aboutaleb "Art Exhibition: West Bank Girl on Fire"
Told us this war would never end - Duane Ackerson "The War on Terror"
My skillet has gone to war - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"
Jove's electrical storms announce war - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
And all the land is red with war - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"
Convicts programmed for an unwelcome war - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Space went to war with itself at 8:20 - Mike Allen "Space War"
And the glade of roses scream war - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"
Until the ground groaned with war - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
The worst mind during the war deranged - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
Our war of mocking words - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"
A country whose sun is war - Fatimah Asghar "100 Words on 45' 100 Days"
Heritage of war seared in her tired heart - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
War on the hinge of a second - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Waged with Fortune an eternal war - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
Wheel for dim, celestial wars - Stephen Vincent Benet "Campus Sonnet: 1. Before an Examination"
Hector's sword is asleep from war - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
A turf war with time - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"
A steel smile that showed the teeth of war - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
War's trumpet sleeps unblown - Edward Blackadder "Annapolis Royal"
Resolved eternal war to wage - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"
Warring desires thus present themselves - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"
The war of winds and clouds - T.E. Brown "The Childhood of Kitty of the Sherragh Vane"
Bearing fixed war through shifting victories - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Yet the sands are stirred and wars increase - Francis Burrows "Egyptian"
Where the great war banners are furled - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"
And children born for fratricidal war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
Who wage a war with the invisible - Giosue Carducci "In a Gothic Church" transl. by Frank Sewall
Unthrottle the wolves of war - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The War-Song of Gamelbar"
Between war and my own luck - Tina Chang "Birth"
In war they drive you to the teeth of Death - Ralph Chaplin "The Red Feast"
Blend with the war drum's quick and angry beat - Ralph Chaplin "To France"
Whom the new wine of war sent wild - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
The war or its unending ending - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"
With booming war drums of bacchanalia - Tiana Clark "Flambeaux"
Scorned the fraternity of war - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
Desire's gale attempts new war - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Brenda Webster
The wave of war still rolls - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
Awaked to war the long-contending foes - George Crabbe "The Library"
Proof against the storm of war - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
The warring winds of heaven - Rev. William Crowe "Midnight Devotion. Written in the Great Storm, 1822"
whose warmest heart recoiled at war - E. E. Cummings "i sing of Olaf glad and big"
That war glazed their palms with gold - Kyle Dargan "The Robots are Coming"
Four elements with man proclaim the unequal war - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Lost at the precipice of a war - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
A perpetual tug of war - Monica de la Torre "Equivalent"
When the last echo of War's thunder dies - Geoffrey Dearmer "A Prayer"
Roused by the battling impotence of wars - Geoffrey Dearmer "The Sentinel: An Episode at the Evacuation of Gallipoli"
When away War's fiery storms had burn'd - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
The war I was born toward - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
Giant clouds like warring foes - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"
A war trots out of your chiaroscuro head - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"
Of shadows and their giant wars - Helen Parry Eden "Lullaby for a Little Girl"
A field of havoc and war - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"
Like a beacon flame of war - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"
Doubtful sanctuaries between wars - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Filled with the warring echoes of song - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
The deafening voice of the elements' war - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Sing all the songs of war - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"
Tally the casualties of war - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
Like soldiers in a useless war - Louise Gluck "Parable"
But if the war ask billions - "Go In and Win" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Old in the arts of peace and war - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Declared war on the sea - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"
Wars fought for paradise - James Roane Gregory "Nineteenth Century Finality"
If only we weren't a war - Kimberly Grey "A Reconstruction of Memory"
The seas where war and tempest brew - William Griffith "Litany of Nations: Great Britain"
Horsemen brave in war's array - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Wind about it wrapped and echoes of old wars - Katherine Hale "Cun-ne-wa-bum"
Now that war has swept us sunder - Thomas Hardy "Budmouth Dears"
In the center of a dream war - Joy Harjo "Nine Below"
A war against 500 lifetimes of submission - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"
Gather true wisdom from war's desolation - Robert M. Hart "The Patriot's Wish" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
To save the world for another war - Robert Hayden "Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves"
Closed our war with Time - William H.C. Hosmer "My Study"
When the warring voice of the storm is heard - William H.C. Hosmer "Requiem" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The ravens feasted far about the open house of war - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXVIII"
The simple gesture of a holy war - Carly Inghram "Nature Adapted to Live on the Rock"
War makes people disappear like chess pieces - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
To war with visions in their eyes - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"
From a vision red with war - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"
A war burns at the edge of the map - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"
Winners of the wars against breathing - June Jordan "Roman Poem Number Thirteen"
That little fence against the war with dark - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
Warring factions agreed up the date and final form - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
A warring machine flexes, exploding - Janet Kauffman "A Warring Machine"
All the wars she harboured in her heart - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Vengeance"
The rampart of a land at war - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Every sound of war triumphant - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"
On the other side of the war - Suji Kwock Kim "Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border"
Fine dust from wars that poets wage - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
To the warring of our haggard years - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Clock-Tower Bell"
Speaks from a world of accidents and wars - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
War's red and lurid planet - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"
All the men that war has summoned - Li Po "Autumn of All Good Things" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Wars most Americans never know are happening - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Yet Judith, till her war was won - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"
Not to be won with engine of war - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Dark stretched the array of war - Maria White Lowell "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle"
How a war can be waged forever - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
May never War awake this bell - Charles Mackay "The Founding of the Bell"
We never talked about the war - Mack W. Mani "Sanctuary"
Here is pillage worth a war - Edwin Markham "In Poppy Fields"
Clamor warring wastes of flood - Don Marquis "A Nightmare"
Through the flaming clouds of war - George Martin "The Crisis"
When by the dark of war its dawn was scattered - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The wars which light forever wages on the fierce dark's might - Harry Martinson "Aniara 62" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A star in a riot of war - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"
Warring gods vying for last words - Airea D. Matthews "Psyche on Prozac"
War took our prayers - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
The triumphs of the cosmic wars - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"
The million living fathers of the War - Alice Meynell "A Father of Women"
Ere I opened all the thunders of my war - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
To war with stern misfortune's storm - Morna "Ianthe"
A storm of warring passions - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"
The fruit of the people's war - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope III: Sending to the War"
That hold your ancient wars in trust - Sarojini Naidu "The Royal Tombs of Golconda"
Does the leopard wage war? - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: VII" transl. by William O'Daly
Sun and fog waged war - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Laziness" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Of war and sun and cruel dew - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
War's red rose sprang blooming - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Amid war's furnace flame - Meredith Nicholson "In Ether Spaces"
The wind and its mad, warring tone - Meredith Nicholson "October"
It takes the world's eternal wars - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"
From joining ocean's war - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"
At war with gravity - Grace Paley "Suddenly There's Poughkeepsie"
Villainous fellows for War's regalia - Herbert E. Palmer "The Bushrangers"
By war and tempest to be borne along - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
When war forces our hands - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"
A thin war of metal - Ezra Pound "A Song of the Degrees"
The dark and purple stain of war - James Whitcombe Riley "The Silent Victors"
Knows never an end of the harrowing war - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Indian Paint Brush"
Scenting the heels of war - Theodore Roberts "The Spears of Kan-Mar"
And the rocks are at war with the waters - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
In which the wars of time shall cease - George William Russell "Three Counsellors"
Above a war we hope mattered - Kay Ryan "The Material"
Unsubdued in war of winds and waters - Arthur L. Salmon "Solitude"
Undeclared war echoed from my step - Ann K. Schwader "Medusa, Becoming"
And fresher thunders wake the war - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Sweets with sweets war not - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"
Destined an eternal war to wage - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
a war always claims casualties - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
With all your wasting passions' war - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
The ruin of all the wars of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The prophecy of wars renewed - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Scrubbed clean of war - Patricia Smith "Giving Birth to Soldiers"
Again the trumpet blast of war is blown - "Sonnet.--To Denmark" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]
Enthralled by war in distant lands - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"
Where Titan hosts have warred - George Sterling "At the Grand Canyon"
From crimson victories of war - George Sterling "Duandon"
On ancient roads of war - George Sterling "England, August 1914"
With what blood of wars divine - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
They that supped with War - George Sterling "Tidal, King of Nations"
Take up the mantle but beware the war - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
Who led the iron-throated harmonies of war - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
Behold the stars at moral wars - "Tom o' Bedlam"
Form the sulphurous grain of war - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
While at war in my mind, I went farther - Paul Tran "Eros"
The bloody words of ruffian war - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Whose flag was spread in more tremendous wars - Emile Verhaeren "The Monks" transl. by T.M. Kettle
A countryside plowed by war, outside the city walls - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
As another war coppers the sky - Ocean Vuong "Anaphora as Coping Mechanism"
When our wars were happier - Derek Walcott "A Letter from the Old Guard"
Pluck the bitter fruit of war - "War and Peace: War" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
The sulphurous clouds of war dyed red in lurid light - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Have the same quality for warring - Simone White "the intimacies of what will be called our sacred alliance without history"
Not desiring to offer war - "XV: Tezozomoctli ic Motecpac | The Reign of Tezozomoctli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
No reason for logic in war - Emily Jungmin Yoon "An Ordinary Misfortune"
The chains postwar empire was reforming - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"
The howling wind is their war-cry - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "The Band of Gideon"
Till time, and life, and warfare end - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Morning"
That we must forth to warfare go - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Skilled in toils of stormy warfare - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
The warfare of kingdoms divide them no more - Charles Mackay "The Dream of Lord Nithsdale" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
Bewildered warfare in the gloom - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"
Scars of plunder, time and warfare - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "I never knew of such a place]"
War-god banners lead us - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"
Where many a warlike trophy hung - Ione "The Songs of Our Fathers" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
While the devils beat the warlike drum - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"
The sins of all war-lords burn his heart - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
yesterday I was warpath and daydreams - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
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Echoes of war-songs - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XI--Sunset"
To change the war-song's pealing note - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Concise as a wartime telegram - Marcus Jackson "Letting the Emptiness Become My Government"
Not with the war-voice of our elder clay - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
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What is war if not a waiting harvest - Lydia Abedeen "Birangona Song in a Walmart Parking Lot"
One glass of water that did not contain war - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"
War doesn't bother knocking - Leena Aboutaleb "Art Exhibition: West Bank Girl on Fire"
Told us this war would never end - Duane Ackerson "The War on Terror"
My skillet has gone to war - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"
Jove's electrical storms announce war - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
And all the land is red with war - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"
Convicts programmed for an unwelcome war - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Space went to war with itself at 8:20 - Mike Allen "Space War"
And the glade of roses scream war - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"
Until the ground groaned with war - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
The worst mind during the war deranged - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
Our war of mocking words - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"
A country whose sun is war - Fatimah Asghar "100 Words on 45' 100 Days"
Heritage of war seared in her tired heart - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
War on the hinge of a second - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Waged with Fortune an eternal war - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
Wheel for dim, celestial wars - Stephen Vincent Benet "Campus Sonnet: 1. Before an Examination"
Hector's sword is asleep from war - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
A turf war with time - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"
A steel smile that showed the teeth of war - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
War's trumpet sleeps unblown - Edward Blackadder "Annapolis Royal"
Resolved eternal war to wage - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"
Warring desires thus present themselves - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"
The war of winds and clouds - T.E. Brown "The Childhood of Kitty of the Sherragh Vane"
Bearing fixed war through shifting victories - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Yet the sands are stirred and wars increase - Francis Burrows "Egyptian"
Where the great war banners are furled - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"
And children born for fratricidal war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
Who wage a war with the invisible - Giosue Carducci "In a Gothic Church" transl. by Frank Sewall
Unthrottle the wolves of war - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The War-Song of Gamelbar"
Between war and my own luck - Tina Chang "Birth"
In war they drive you to the teeth of Death - Ralph Chaplin "The Red Feast"
Blend with the war drum's quick and angry beat - Ralph Chaplin "To France"
Whom the new wine of war sent wild - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
The war or its unending ending - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"
With booming war drums of bacchanalia - Tiana Clark "Flambeaux"
Scorned the fraternity of war - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
Desire's gale attempts new war - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Brenda Webster
The wave of war still rolls - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
Awaked to war the long-contending foes - George Crabbe "The Library"
Proof against the storm of war - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
The warring winds of heaven - Rev. William Crowe "Midnight Devotion. Written in the Great Storm, 1822"
whose warmest heart recoiled at war - E. E. Cummings "i sing of Olaf glad and big"
That war glazed their palms with gold - Kyle Dargan "The Robots are Coming"
Four elements with man proclaim the unequal war - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Lost at the precipice of a war - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
A perpetual tug of war - Monica de la Torre "Equivalent"
When the last echo of War's thunder dies - Geoffrey Dearmer "A Prayer"
Roused by the battling impotence of wars - Geoffrey Dearmer "The Sentinel: An Episode at the Evacuation of Gallipoli"
When away War's fiery storms had burn'd - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
The war I was born toward - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
Giant clouds like warring foes - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"
A war trots out of your chiaroscuro head - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"
Of shadows and their giant wars - Helen Parry Eden "Lullaby for a Little Girl"
A field of havoc and war - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"
Like a beacon flame of war - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"
Doubtful sanctuaries between wars - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Filled with the warring echoes of song - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
The deafening voice of the elements' war - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Sing all the songs of war - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"
Tally the casualties of war - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
Like soldiers in a useless war - Louise Gluck "Parable"
But if the war ask billions - "Go In and Win" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Old in the arts of peace and war - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Declared war on the sea - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"
Wars fought for paradise - James Roane Gregory "Nineteenth Century Finality"
If only we weren't a war - Kimberly Grey "A Reconstruction of Memory"
The seas where war and tempest brew - William Griffith "Litany of Nations: Great Britain"
Horsemen brave in war's array - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Wind about it wrapped and echoes of old wars - Katherine Hale "Cun-ne-wa-bum"
Now that war has swept us sunder - Thomas Hardy "Budmouth Dears"
In the center of a dream war - Joy Harjo "Nine Below"
A war against 500 lifetimes of submission - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"
Gather true wisdom from war's desolation - Robert M. Hart "The Patriot's Wish" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
To save the world for another war - Robert Hayden "Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves"
Closed our war with Time - William H.C. Hosmer "My Study"
When the warring voice of the storm is heard - William H.C. Hosmer "Requiem" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The ravens feasted far about the open house of war - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXVIII"
The simple gesture of a holy war - Carly Inghram "Nature Adapted to Live on the Rock"
War makes people disappear like chess pieces - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
To war with visions in their eyes - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"
From a vision red with war - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"
A war burns at the edge of the map - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"
Winners of the wars against breathing - June Jordan "Roman Poem Number Thirteen"
That little fence against the war with dark - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
Warring factions agreed up the date and final form - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
A warring machine flexes, exploding - Janet Kauffman "A Warring Machine"
All the wars she harboured in her heart - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Vengeance"
The rampart of a land at war - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Every sound of war triumphant - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"
On the other side of the war - Suji Kwock Kim "Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border"
Fine dust from wars that poets wage - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
To the warring of our haggard years - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Clock-Tower Bell"
Speaks from a world of accidents and wars - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
War's red and lurid planet - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"
All the men that war has summoned - Li Po "Autumn of All Good Things" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Wars most Americans never know are happening - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Yet Judith, till her war was won - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"
Not to be won with engine of war - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Dark stretched the array of war - Maria White Lowell "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle"
How a war can be waged forever - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
May never War awake this bell - Charles Mackay "The Founding of the Bell"
We never talked about the war - Mack W. Mani "Sanctuary"
Here is pillage worth a war - Edwin Markham "In Poppy Fields"
Clamor warring wastes of flood - Don Marquis "A Nightmare"
Through the flaming clouds of war - George Martin "The Crisis"
When by the dark of war its dawn was scattered - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The wars which light forever wages on the fierce dark's might - Harry Martinson "Aniara 62" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A star in a riot of war - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"
Warring gods vying for last words - Airea D. Matthews "Psyche on Prozac"
War took our prayers - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
The triumphs of the cosmic wars - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"
The million living fathers of the War - Alice Meynell "A Father of Women"
Ere I opened all the thunders of my war - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
To war with stern misfortune's storm - Morna "Ianthe"
A storm of warring passions - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"
The fruit of the people's war - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope III: Sending to the War"
That hold your ancient wars in trust - Sarojini Naidu "The Royal Tombs of Golconda"
Does the leopard wage war? - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: VII" transl. by William O'Daly
Sun and fog waged war - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Laziness" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Of war and sun and cruel dew - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
War's red rose sprang blooming - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Amid war's furnace flame - Meredith Nicholson "In Ether Spaces"
The wind and its mad, warring tone - Meredith Nicholson "October"
It takes the world's eternal wars - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"
From joining ocean's war - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"
At war with gravity - Grace Paley "Suddenly There's Poughkeepsie"
Villainous fellows for War's regalia - Herbert E. Palmer "The Bushrangers"
By war and tempest to be borne along - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
When war forces our hands - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"
A thin war of metal - Ezra Pound "A Song of the Degrees"
The dark and purple stain of war - James Whitcombe Riley "The Silent Victors"
Knows never an end of the harrowing war - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Indian Paint Brush"
Scenting the heels of war - Theodore Roberts "The Spears of Kan-Mar"
And the rocks are at war with the waters - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
In which the wars of time shall cease - George William Russell "Three Counsellors"
Above a war we hope mattered - Kay Ryan "The Material"
Unsubdued in war of winds and waters - Arthur L. Salmon "Solitude"
Undeclared war echoed from my step - Ann K. Schwader "Medusa, Becoming"
And fresher thunders wake the war - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Sweets with sweets war not - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"
Destined an eternal war to wage - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
a war always claims casualties - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
With all your wasting passions' war - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
The ruin of all the wars of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The prophecy of wars renewed - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Scrubbed clean of war - Patricia Smith "Giving Birth to Soldiers"
Again the trumpet blast of war is blown - "Sonnet.--To Denmark" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]
Enthralled by war in distant lands - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"
Where Titan hosts have warred - George Sterling "At the Grand Canyon"
From crimson victories of war - George Sterling "Duandon"
On ancient roads of war - George Sterling "England, August 1914"
With what blood of wars divine - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
They that supped with War - George Sterling "Tidal, King of Nations"
Take up the mantle but beware the war - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
Who led the iron-throated harmonies of war - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
Behold the stars at moral wars - "Tom o' Bedlam"
Form the sulphurous grain of war - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
While at war in my mind, I went farther - Paul Tran "Eros"
The bloody words of ruffian war - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Whose flag was spread in more tremendous wars - Emile Verhaeren "The Monks" transl. by T.M. Kettle
A countryside plowed by war, outside the city walls - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
As another war coppers the sky - Ocean Vuong "Anaphora as Coping Mechanism"
When our wars were happier - Derek Walcott "A Letter from the Old Guard"
Pluck the bitter fruit of war - "War and Peace: War" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
The sulphurous clouds of war dyed red in lurid light - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Have the same quality for warring - Simone White "the intimacies of what will be called our sacred alliance without history"
Not desiring to offer war - "XV: Tezozomoctli ic Motecpac | The Reign of Tezozomoctli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
No reason for logic in war - Emily Jungmin Yoon "An Ordinary Misfortune"
The chains postwar empire was reforming - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"
The howling wind is their war-cry - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "The Band of Gideon"
Till time, and life, and warfare end - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Morning"
That we must forth to warfare go - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Skilled in toils of stormy warfare - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
The warfare of kingdoms divide them no more - Charles Mackay "The Dream of Lord Nithsdale" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
Bewildered warfare in the gloom - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"
Scars of plunder, time and warfare - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "I never knew of such a place]"
War-god banners lead us - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"
Where many a warlike trophy hung - Ione "The Songs of Our Fathers" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
While the devils beat the warlike drum - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"
The sins of all war-lords burn his heart - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
yesterday I was warpath and daydreams - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
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Echoes of war-songs - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XI--Sunset"
To change the war-song's pealing note - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Concise as a wartime telegram - Marcus Jackson "Letting the Emptiness Become My Government"
Not with the war-voice of our elder clay - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
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