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The silver obol I must drop in the grim ferry-man's hand - Richard Aldington "Hermes-of-the-Dead" [The Little Review, Mar. 1917, v.3, no.9]

The grim Bear courts thy skill - Duncan Anderson "Sport"

Grim display of rain and hail - Cora C. Bass "Sea and Cliff"

Time, the grim and eager foe - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Rushing steeds grim Terror guides - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

The grim destiny of the hour - Edmund Blunden "Sheet Lightning"

To supply the grim deficit found in our days - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

Beyond the wolf's grim protocol - Roger Casement "Hamilcar Barca"

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

Anger a grim substitute for song - Brittney Corrigan "Vanishing"

The grim shapeless weight of erosion - Jim Daniels "Treaty"

The grim pendulum of life and death - Geoffrey Dearmer "The Sentinel: An Episode at the Evacuation of Gallipoli"

The beautiful geometry of Mendel's peas and their grim logic - Rita Dove "Family Reunion"

Roared from Russian ramparts grim - William Hodgson Ellis "When You and I were Young, Adam"

When need and grim hunger come by - "The Flower of Nut-Brown Maids" transl. by Eleanor Hull

The grim machinations of the beautiful - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Launched this grim parade of exits - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Casa"

Grim apostle of stress and strain - C. L. Graves "Ballade of Free Verse"

That she can hear, beyond November grim - Susan Hartley "October" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.12, Oct. 1886]

Crammed up in cities grim and grey - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

With grim Satan's fires we play - Henry J. Horn "Comedian's Poetry: Rollicking Song"

Haunting grim boulders on the frowning coast - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

Naught save the grim, grey pyramid - Edward Smyth Jones "The Sylvan Cabin"

The harshness of grim Proserpine - Jan Kochanowski "Laments II" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Who said November's face was grim? - Lucy Larcom "November"

Grim, earth-dank persistence - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"

Lapse into utter and grim despair - Henry S. Leigh "Weatherbound in the Suburbs"

Hostile ranks, in their grim array - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Primal powers in grim convulsion grand - James Allan Mackereth "The Soul and the Sea"

Once grim with sacrificial fires - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"

Shut with you in this grim garden - Charlotte Mew "Jour des Morts (Cimetiere Montparnasse)"

The grim wolf with privy paw - John Milton "Lycidas"

Grim roots like monstrous talons - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Enlarges the grim coasts of utter darkness - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

To aid us in our grim and ghostly quest - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Missing" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.136-v.III, 7 Aug. 1886]

Speeding toward the grim unknown - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Q&A: Insurance"

Into the maw of the grim black night - John Oxenham "The Hungry Sea"

Some grim comfort has come my way - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"

The world's grim shadow glooms between - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"

Like grim wolves howling - Alexander Pushkin "A Winter Evening" (translated by Martha Dickinson Bianchi)

Grim in the light of dawn - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Cloud and the Mountain"

That grim and gathering beat - Charles G.D. Roberts "To Shakespeare, in 1916"

Empty mouths of craters, grim and cold - Richard F. Searight "The Dead World" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]

White quiet sails from the grim icy coasts - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]

In the grim serenity of stone - Clark Ashton Smith "Image"

Hold in awe their grim persistence - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

A worship of a grimmer kind - George Sterling "The New Kings"

With his grim eyes watching the course - Arthur Stringer "The Pilot"

Grim Surprise wondered that she should weep - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

No keening women in grim dresses - Amie Whittemore "Spell for the End of Grief"

The grim tyrant stalks full panoplied in power - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

These grim anchors - Kevin Young "Eulogy"


Robber-bands of grim-faced years - Annie Fellows Johnston "Banditti"


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