Potential Titles: Fate
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somethingdarkerWhen fickle fate against her turned - "Abroad"
Poor planning lets fate devour the happy story - Mary Alexandra Agner "Sleeping Beauty"
I've drunk from both the cups of Fate - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
He who rode on the fated mission - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Fate with the mangled wings - Grant Allen "Only An Insect"
Those dark clouds of fate on the horizon - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"
Joy of strife with life's wild fates - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"
The dark billows of the sea of fate - Benjamin West Ball "Agimur Fatis"
Waiting fate takes the form of Ariadne - Mary Jo Bang "Mask Photo"
The wan summons of a grieving fate - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
Fate and the furrow have cloven straight - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"
There's only two fates for muses, death or tree - Rebecca Bennett "Eurydice Stands with Attitude"
Fate points out our different ways - John Philip Bourke "The End of the Episode"
Drain fate's cup of joy - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"
For fate admits my soul's decree - Charlotte Bronte "The Wife's Will"
Ash tight fingers, the steel laws of fate - Paul Cameron Brown "Barbary White"
Unaccomplished fate - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXV in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
That fate had left me free - William Cullen Bryant "Green River"
The claws of sinister fate - Gerald Bullett "Mice"
Lock'd with a key which Fate keeps - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Their fate resembles mine - Robert Burns "Winter: A Dirge"
Their palms like a hundred hands of fate - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
Round the bastions of our fate - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Humming Bee"
The weird our fates had spun - W. Wilfred Campbell "The World-Mother"
With a fated spin of the wheel - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
Your rigid fates confine - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"
Adorned with richest fate - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Lynne Lawner
And suffered every civilization's fate - S. R. Compton "To Atlantis"
Condemn'd by Fate to way-ward Curse - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"
Better known by fate and name - Susan Coolidge "Eighteen"
From blows of fate or winds of care - Susan Coolidge "A Home"
kisses are a better fate than wisdom - E. E. Cummings "[since feeling is first]"
Fate's summons to this breaking - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"
Intent upon the dusky book of fate - Olive Custance "St. Anthony (The Engraving by Durer)"
Shorn of leaves by Fate - Russell W. Davenport "Poems VI"
Sorrow of an adverse fate - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Fate spans that gulf with mystic thread - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
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
Th' immutable decrees of fate are given - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
What Fate's unblotted page display'd - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
A paltry sanctuary from fate - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz [Untitled] transl. by Samuel Beckett
Forged for my fate upon an anvil dire - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Abandoned her chorus of fates and furies - Diane DeCillis "Childhood Revisited as a Musical"
Blamed the fate that fractured - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XXXV: Disenchantment"
Fate following behind us - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XLIX"
The flash and outbreak of my fate - Edward Dowden "The Divining Rod"
While careless fate allows - Edward Dowden "The Fountain"
So equal was their Fate - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
The fates that follow Adam's deed - Max Eastman "To the Flowers at Church"
My two fates are reflected in the glass - Aziz Isa Elkun "Clouds Hid the Moon" transl. by author
The balance-beam of Fate was bent - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Uriel"
Looking back on Fate's decree - Constance Fairbanks "Those Far-Off Fields"
The poet's shout to fate - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VII. In a Bar Room"
They who come faster than fate - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
Where hangs the fate of kings - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
May no fate willfully misunderstand me - Robert Frost "Birches"
Out of sorts with Fate - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
Earth is still our fate - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
From the reefs of Fate - Ellen Glasgow "Death-in-Life"
Meekly bear the stones of fate - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"
The droning choruses of Fate - Louis Golding "Down Tottenham Court Road"
Refuge from the storms of fate - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
The limits of a vulgar fate - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Let not a false fate bind - Grenville Grey "Write Thou Upon Life's Page"
Lift the eye of fate to worlds - Eliza Paul Gurney "Heaven and Earth"
From the Fate that limits us - Ivor Gurney "After Music"
Must bow as to established Fate - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"
For a glimpse of the scroll of Fate - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
As fate has lent it eyes to see - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVIII"
When fate bereaves life of old joys - F.W. Harvey "The Bond"
And break him in battle with fate - H.C. Harwood "Incompatibility"
What vengeance fate can wreak - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Waved on high the sword of fate - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Fate could yield to Valour's son - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"
Each relic utters Fate's decree - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"
The thieves of sad fate - Jennie Earngey Hill "The Meadowlark"
What dream has fate assigned to trouble you? - Horace "The Portent [Ode 20, Bk V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling
The true pathway of our fate - "Hours of Childhood"
Loud laughers in the hands of Fate - Langston Hughes "My People"
Catacombs that ancient fate had carved - Aldous Huxley "Mole"
The adverse walls of fate - Aldous Huxley "Out of the Window"
Whatever fate singes with fire - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"
Let me wed my fate - Jean Ingelow "Scholar and Carpenter"
Fate's unrelenting hand - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "When Shall We Meet Again?"
The fate of the land is the fate of man - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"
Fixed and stern as fate's decree - Emily Pauline Johnson "Silhouette"
Fate's deadly contraband - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Calling Dreams"
A cold, corrupting, fate - Lionel Johnson "The Destroyer of a Soul"
Despite all dark fates - Lionel Johnson "Lines to a Lady upon Her Third Birthday"
Must become the action of my fate - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"
Who could predict the wrath of fate - Zilka Joseph "Once Upon a Shabbath"
Has fate taken its revenge? - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken
With Fate conspire to grasp - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
The yet unfolded Roll of Fate - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Willingly accept Cassandra's Fate - Anne Killigrew "Upon the saying that my Verses were made by another"
Love is mightiest next to fate - Archibald Lampman "A Ballade of Waiting"
Playthings in the hand of Fate - Archibald Lampman "To the Prophetic Soul"
Alike beneath the arias of Fate's hand - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Cynic's Fealty"
Questions not the justice of his fate - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Mother of Change and Fate - Emma Lazarus "1492"
Fate is whatever has already happened - Katy Lederer "That Everything's Inevitable"
Fate grant us again such a meeting - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."
Fate never fails to find a way - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
Knowing that it only hastens fate - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
The near approach of fate concealing - Giacomo Leopardi "Consalvo" transl. by Frederick Townsend
Sit in the stillness and stare at Fate - Amy Levy "In a Minor Key"
As the high Fates directed - Amy Levy "Medea"
Have fought with the Fates - Amy Levy "Medea"
And the keys were turned on fate - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"
With a heart for any fate - H.W. Longfellow "A Psalm of Life"
Are we or Fate the victors? - Amy Lowell "In Darkness"
Fate stuns as with a mace - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
Through all your various ranks and fates - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
With our Fate pick a quarrel - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"
If wayward Fate withhold his full consent - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"
Letting Fate to her fiddle - Kenneth MacLeod "Dance to your Shadow"
For fate is unkind to me yet - Arthur Macy "The Book Hunter"
Drinks the beaker offered by the fates - Douglas Malloch "Life"
Toward the magenta shroud of its fate - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie
Is over-ruled by fate - Christopher Marlowe "Hero and Leander"
Love and I laughed down the fates - Don Marquis "Across the Night"
Uncertainties concealed by Fates - George Martin "Marguerite"
By any breath of adverse fate - George Martin "Marguerite"
An eddy of fate, degreeless - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"
In order to depart through fate - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"
Fate so enviously debarrs [sic] - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"
Chance decides the fate of fleets - John Masefield "Philip the King"
Hiding in burrows of fate amid great cities - Edgar Lee Masters "Theodore the Poet"
Reads the fate-foretelling lines - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Plundered of her gold by pirate Fate - Theodore Maynard "The Ships"
Beneath Fate's wizard-wand of cruel magic - Theodore Maynard "Unwed"
Assume the changeable parts of fate - John McCarthy "At Six I Learned How to Cook"
Sing me her fate for a sign - John McCrae "The Song of the Derelict"
All seeking to unite their fates - James McIntyre "Birth of Canada as a Nation, July First, 1867"
Joy from the lees of fate - Orlando Ricardo Menes "El Rastro"
Should strange Fates withhold - George Meredith "Grace and Love"
The star of fate is on his brow - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
To baffle Fate in sheer serenity - Arthur Milliken "To--"
Gifted with the frequent fate of dusk-lit hope - William Moore "Expectancy"
It was not fate which overtook me - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
And struggle with a bitter fate - Morna "Ianthe"
Onto lake ice where fate met each - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"
The fate of the Olympus-stricken Niobe - "The Misanthrope"
From heartless empty fate - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (7)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Ruin and fallen parapets predict my fate - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (7)" transl. by Dennis Daly
That which Fate in me began - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen
Into the night of a thousand fates - Maggie Nelson "Zero"
Refuse the capricious gift of Fate - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
Wistful fated future tense - Hoa Nguyen "Ask About Language as if it Forgets"
Whom Fates deny answer - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Ignoring the truth of our fate - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"
What fate was shaping out betwixt us - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]
Accept fate today and cast it out tomorrow - Achy Obejas "Boomerang, After Aime Cesaire"
Desolate, bereft by bitter fate - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson
And heedless of their darkening fate - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
While dark Fate weaves your chaplet - Thomas O'Hagan "Sock it to 'Em"
One of fate's best arrows - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Prophecy and Fulfilment" [sic]
And justice dooms you to a culprit's fate - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
Fate stakes the final claim - Carl Phillips "And Love You Too"
Only three of the countless fates - Carl Phillips "The Way One Animal Trusts Another"
Asks a kindness of Fate - Po-Chu-i "Alarm at First Entering the Yang-Tze Gorges" (translated by Arthur Waley)
The vortex of a lightless fate - E.J. Pratt "Loss of the Steamship Florizel"
Who out upon Fate did call - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"
Our quest for the good that Fate has given - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Stand secure on sliding fate - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Splendid Spur"
The gleaming edges of Fate's sharpest knife - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Scar"
Of timeless years and iron fate - Theodore H. Rand "In the Cool of the Day"
Resistless fate and iron destiny - Theodore H. Rand "Resistless Fate"
To bask in the light of a loftier fate - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
To wrestle with the strength of fate - John Reade "Pictures of Memory"
Come fate with her darkest, her gloomiest band - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
High with the fate of game - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Toward some reef of Fate - Cale Young Rice "All's Well"
To escape the common fate - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Fate is coming to power tomorrow - Ariana Reines "Beauty"
With fate on either hand - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Origins"
From out the silence of their unknown fate - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
Fate's sharpest stroke is kind - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"
Time put by a myriad fates - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"
Sick with struggles against fate - Saadi "Guardians" transl. by E.B. Eastwick
Sure some fate its sails will guide - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"
Fate gazes back imperishable blue - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"
Drinks whispers strange of fate and fear - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"
The relentless abacus of fate - Alexandra Seidel "Three Visions Seen from Upside-Down"
I fumbled fortune, flouted fate - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
Ere Fate writes Finis to the tome - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
I cannot suffer the same fate twice - Brenda Shaughnessy "Nachtraglichkeit"
We struggle on with Fate - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Unknown Ideal"
The chain of fate by which her limbs are pressed - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Orphan"
Wielded the scissors of fate - Charles Simic "Paradise"
Love and fate crossed out - Charles Simic "Story of My Luck"
And follow through the maze of Fate - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
Comprehending not their fate - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Join alliance with the hosts of Fate - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Had baffled Time and Fate - George Sterling "A Mood"
Who shake off our fates to grasp again at life - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
That's our upside-down fate - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 178: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
For death is one, and the fates are three - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
As elementary as Fate's wild raving - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"
Flame will live, defying Fate's alarm - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"
But Fate is careless and will let us go - Carmen Sylva "The Gnat"
The fate his fondest hopes had met - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Eavesdropping on fate or furious nothing - Sonya Taaffe "Radio Banquo"
Fate is a wind - Sara Teasdale "Did You Never Know"
Made weak by time and fate - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"
By the decrees of fate from year to year - Henry David Thoreau "Friendship"
Though all the Fates should prove unkind - Henry David Thoreau "Lines [Though all the Fates should prove unkind]"
The promise of Fate's rebound - Iris Tree "[Old woman forever sitting]"
Out of the range of time and fate - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"
And you abandoned the wrong Fate - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
The unfortunate fate engulfing me - Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes "Placido's Farewell to His Mother" transl. by James Weldon Johnson
Calm in an accomplished fate - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
Took the final arms of fate - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"
Who fronted the waves of fate - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"
Listens at Fate's door - William Watson "Night on Curbar Edge, Derbyshire"
Whom fate can never surprise - Walt Whitman "Song for All Seas, All Ships"
Unconscious martyrs to their fate - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
All the gauds that Fate bestows - Helen Hay Whitney "Amor Mysticus"
Fate idly throws these alms - Helen Hay Whitney "Flowers of Ice"
The tangled skein of will and fate - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
In smiling at fate - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"
Nor my woven fate unravelled - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Spread out thy fateful wings - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Raven in a White Chine"
Sheltered the fateful fires - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Insects of my fateful handwriting - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid
And tip with fateful coals the prophet's tongue - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Four fateful years of mortal strife - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
To survive the fate-rained slaughter - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"
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Poor planning lets fate devour the happy story - Mary Alexandra Agner "Sleeping Beauty"
I've drunk from both the cups of Fate - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
He who rode on the fated mission - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Fate with the mangled wings - Grant Allen "Only An Insect"
Those dark clouds of fate on the horizon - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"
Joy of strife with life's wild fates - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"
The dark billows of the sea of fate - Benjamin West Ball "Agimur Fatis"
Waiting fate takes the form of Ariadne - Mary Jo Bang "Mask Photo"
The wan summons of a grieving fate - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
Fate and the furrow have cloven straight - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"
There's only two fates for muses, death or tree - Rebecca Bennett "Eurydice Stands with Attitude"
Fate points out our different ways - John Philip Bourke "The End of the Episode"
Drain fate's cup of joy - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"
For fate admits my soul's decree - Charlotte Bronte "The Wife's Will"
Ash tight fingers, the steel laws of fate - Paul Cameron Brown "Barbary White"
Unaccomplished fate - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXV in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
That fate had left me free - William Cullen Bryant "Green River"
The claws of sinister fate - Gerald Bullett "Mice"
Lock'd with a key which Fate keeps - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Their fate resembles mine - Robert Burns "Winter: A Dirge"
Their palms like a hundred hands of fate - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
Round the bastions of our fate - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Humming Bee"
The weird our fates had spun - W. Wilfred Campbell "The World-Mother"
With a fated spin of the wheel - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
Your rigid fates confine - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"
Adorned with richest fate - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Lynne Lawner
And suffered every civilization's fate - S. R. Compton "To Atlantis"
Condemn'd by Fate to way-ward Curse - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"
Better known by fate and name - Susan Coolidge "Eighteen"
From blows of fate or winds of care - Susan Coolidge "A Home"
kisses are a better fate than wisdom - E. E. Cummings "[since feeling is first]"
Fate's summons to this breaking - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"
Intent upon the dusky book of fate - Olive Custance "St. Anthony (The Engraving by Durer)"
Shorn of leaves by Fate - Russell W. Davenport "Poems VI"
Sorrow of an adverse fate - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Fate spans that gulf with mystic thread - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
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
Th' immutable decrees of fate are given - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
What Fate's unblotted page display'd - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
A paltry sanctuary from fate - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz [Untitled] transl. by Samuel Beckett
Forged for my fate upon an anvil dire - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Abandoned her chorus of fates and furies - Diane DeCillis "Childhood Revisited as a Musical"
Blamed the fate that fractured - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XXXV: Disenchantment"
Fate following behind us - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XLIX"
The flash and outbreak of my fate - Edward Dowden "The Divining Rod"
While careless fate allows - Edward Dowden "The Fountain"
So equal was their Fate - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
The fates that follow Adam's deed - Max Eastman "To the Flowers at Church"
My two fates are reflected in the glass - Aziz Isa Elkun "Clouds Hid the Moon" transl. by author
The balance-beam of Fate was bent - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Uriel"
Looking back on Fate's decree - Constance Fairbanks "Those Far-Off Fields"
The poet's shout to fate - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VII. In a Bar Room"
They who come faster than fate - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
Where hangs the fate of kings - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
May no fate willfully misunderstand me - Robert Frost "Birches"
Out of sorts with Fate - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
Earth is still our fate - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
From the reefs of Fate - Ellen Glasgow "Death-in-Life"
Meekly bear the stones of fate - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"
The droning choruses of Fate - Louis Golding "Down Tottenham Court Road"
Refuge from the storms of fate - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
The limits of a vulgar fate - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Let not a false fate bind - Grenville Grey "Write Thou Upon Life's Page"
Lift the eye of fate to worlds - Eliza Paul Gurney "Heaven and Earth"
From the Fate that limits us - Ivor Gurney "After Music"
Must bow as to established Fate - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"
For a glimpse of the scroll of Fate - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
As fate has lent it eyes to see - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVIII"
When fate bereaves life of old joys - F.W. Harvey "The Bond"
And break him in battle with fate - H.C. Harwood "Incompatibility"
What vengeance fate can wreak - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Waved on high the sword of fate - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Fate could yield to Valour's son - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"
Each relic utters Fate's decree - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"
The thieves of sad fate - Jennie Earngey Hill "The Meadowlark"
What dream has fate assigned to trouble you? - Horace "The Portent [Ode 20, Bk V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling
The true pathway of our fate - "Hours of Childhood"
Loud laughers in the hands of Fate - Langston Hughes "My People"
Catacombs that ancient fate had carved - Aldous Huxley "Mole"
The adverse walls of fate - Aldous Huxley "Out of the Window"
Whatever fate singes with fire - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"
Let me wed my fate - Jean Ingelow "Scholar and Carpenter"
Fate's unrelenting hand - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "When Shall We Meet Again?"
The fate of the land is the fate of man - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"
Fixed and stern as fate's decree - Emily Pauline Johnson "Silhouette"
Fate's deadly contraband - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Calling Dreams"
A cold, corrupting, fate - Lionel Johnson "The Destroyer of a Soul"
Despite all dark fates - Lionel Johnson "Lines to a Lady upon Her Third Birthday"
Must become the action of my fate - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"
Who could predict the wrath of fate - Zilka Joseph "Once Upon a Shabbath"
Has fate taken its revenge? - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken
With Fate conspire to grasp - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
The yet unfolded Roll of Fate - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Willingly accept Cassandra's Fate - Anne Killigrew "Upon the saying that my Verses were made by another"
Love is mightiest next to fate - Archibald Lampman "A Ballade of Waiting"
Playthings in the hand of Fate - Archibald Lampman "To the Prophetic Soul"
Alike beneath the arias of Fate's hand - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Cynic's Fealty"
Questions not the justice of his fate - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Mother of Change and Fate - Emma Lazarus "1492"
Fate is whatever has already happened - Katy Lederer "That Everything's Inevitable"
Fate grant us again such a meeting - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."
Fate never fails to find a way - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
Knowing that it only hastens fate - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
The near approach of fate concealing - Giacomo Leopardi "Consalvo" transl. by Frederick Townsend
Sit in the stillness and stare at Fate - Amy Levy "In a Minor Key"
As the high Fates directed - Amy Levy "Medea"
Have fought with the Fates - Amy Levy "Medea"
And the keys were turned on fate - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"
With a heart for any fate - H.W. Longfellow "A Psalm of Life"
Are we or Fate the victors? - Amy Lowell "In Darkness"
Fate stuns as with a mace - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
Through all your various ranks and fates - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
With our Fate pick a quarrel - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"
If wayward Fate withhold his full consent - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"
Letting Fate to her fiddle - Kenneth MacLeod "Dance to your Shadow"
For fate is unkind to me yet - Arthur Macy "The Book Hunter"
Drinks the beaker offered by the fates - Douglas Malloch "Life"
Toward the magenta shroud of its fate - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie
Is over-ruled by fate - Christopher Marlowe "Hero and Leander"
Love and I laughed down the fates - Don Marquis "Across the Night"
Uncertainties concealed by Fates - George Martin "Marguerite"
By any breath of adverse fate - George Martin "Marguerite"
An eddy of fate, degreeless - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"
In order to depart through fate - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"
Fate so enviously debarrs [sic] - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"
Chance decides the fate of fleets - John Masefield "Philip the King"
Hiding in burrows of fate amid great cities - Edgar Lee Masters "Theodore the Poet"
Reads the fate-foretelling lines - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Plundered of her gold by pirate Fate - Theodore Maynard "The Ships"
Beneath Fate's wizard-wand of cruel magic - Theodore Maynard "Unwed"
Assume the changeable parts of fate - John McCarthy "At Six I Learned How to Cook"
Sing me her fate for a sign - John McCrae "The Song of the Derelict"
All seeking to unite their fates - James McIntyre "Birth of Canada as a Nation, July First, 1867"
Joy from the lees of fate - Orlando Ricardo Menes "El Rastro"
Should strange Fates withhold - George Meredith "Grace and Love"
The star of fate is on his brow - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
To baffle Fate in sheer serenity - Arthur Milliken "To--"
Gifted with the frequent fate of dusk-lit hope - William Moore "Expectancy"
It was not fate which overtook me - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
And struggle with a bitter fate - Morna "Ianthe"
Onto lake ice where fate met each - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"
The fate of the Olympus-stricken Niobe - "The Misanthrope"
From heartless empty fate - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (7)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Ruin and fallen parapets predict my fate - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (7)" transl. by Dennis Daly
That which Fate in me began - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen
Into the night of a thousand fates - Maggie Nelson "Zero"
Refuse the capricious gift of Fate - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
Wistful fated future tense - Hoa Nguyen "Ask About Language as if it Forgets"
Whom Fates deny answer - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Ignoring the truth of our fate - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"
What fate was shaping out betwixt us - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]
Accept fate today and cast it out tomorrow - Achy Obejas "Boomerang, After Aime Cesaire"
Desolate, bereft by bitter fate - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson
And heedless of their darkening fate - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
While dark Fate weaves your chaplet - Thomas O'Hagan "Sock it to 'Em"
One of fate's best arrows - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Prophecy and Fulfilment" [sic]
And justice dooms you to a culprit's fate - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
Fate stakes the final claim - Carl Phillips "And Love You Too"
Only three of the countless fates - Carl Phillips "The Way One Animal Trusts Another"
Asks a kindness of Fate - Po-Chu-i "Alarm at First Entering the Yang-Tze Gorges" (translated by Arthur Waley)
The vortex of a lightless fate - E.J. Pratt "Loss of the Steamship Florizel"
Who out upon Fate did call - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"
Our quest for the good that Fate has given - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Stand secure on sliding fate - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Splendid Spur"
The gleaming edges of Fate's sharpest knife - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Scar"
Of timeless years and iron fate - Theodore H. Rand "In the Cool of the Day"
Resistless fate and iron destiny - Theodore H. Rand "Resistless Fate"
To bask in the light of a loftier fate - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
To wrestle with the strength of fate - John Reade "Pictures of Memory"
Come fate with her darkest, her gloomiest band - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
High with the fate of game - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Toward some reef of Fate - Cale Young Rice "All's Well"
To escape the common fate - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Fate is coming to power tomorrow - Ariana Reines "Beauty"
With fate on either hand - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Origins"
From out the silence of their unknown fate - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
Fate's sharpest stroke is kind - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"
Time put by a myriad fates - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"
Sick with struggles against fate - Saadi "Guardians" transl. by E.B. Eastwick
Sure some fate its sails will guide - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"
Fate gazes back imperishable blue - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"
Drinks whispers strange of fate and fear - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"
The relentless abacus of fate - Alexandra Seidel "Three Visions Seen from Upside-Down"
I fumbled fortune, flouted fate - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
Ere Fate writes Finis to the tome - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
I cannot suffer the same fate twice - Brenda Shaughnessy "Nachtraglichkeit"
We struggle on with Fate - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Unknown Ideal"
The chain of fate by which her limbs are pressed - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Orphan"
Wielded the scissors of fate - Charles Simic "Paradise"
Love and fate crossed out - Charles Simic "Story of My Luck"
And follow through the maze of Fate - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
Comprehending not their fate - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Join alliance with the hosts of Fate - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Had baffled Time and Fate - George Sterling "A Mood"
Who shake off our fates to grasp again at life - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
That's our upside-down fate - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 178: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
For death is one, and the fates are three - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
As elementary as Fate's wild raving - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"
Flame will live, defying Fate's alarm - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"
But Fate is careless and will let us go - Carmen Sylva "The Gnat"
The fate his fondest hopes had met - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Eavesdropping on fate or furious nothing - Sonya Taaffe "Radio Banquo"
Fate is a wind - Sara Teasdale "Did You Never Know"
Made weak by time and fate - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"
By the decrees of fate from year to year - Henry David Thoreau "Friendship"
Though all the Fates should prove unkind - Henry David Thoreau "Lines [Though all the Fates should prove unkind]"
The promise of Fate's rebound - Iris Tree "[Old woman forever sitting]"
Out of the range of time and fate - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"
And you abandoned the wrong Fate - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
The unfortunate fate engulfing me - Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes "Placido's Farewell to His Mother" transl. by James Weldon Johnson
Calm in an accomplished fate - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
Took the final arms of fate - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"
Who fronted the waves of fate - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"
Listens at Fate's door - William Watson "Night on Curbar Edge, Derbyshire"
Whom fate can never surprise - Walt Whitman "Song for All Seas, All Ships"
Unconscious martyrs to their fate - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
All the gauds that Fate bestows - Helen Hay Whitney "Amor Mysticus"
Fate idly throws these alms - Helen Hay Whitney "Flowers of Ice"
The tangled skein of will and fate - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
In smiling at fate - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"
Nor my woven fate unravelled - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Spread out thy fateful wings - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Raven in a White Chine"
Sheltered the fateful fires - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Insects of my fateful handwriting - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid
And tip with fateful coals the prophet's tongue - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Four fateful years of mortal strife - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
To survive the fate-rained slaughter - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"
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