Potential Titles: Quiver
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With brittle wings aquiver - Francis Brett Young "Bete Humaine"
As quivers a humbird his honey to drink - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
From the golden quivers drawn - Benjamin West Ball "Athens"
Arrow drawn from Phoebus' quiver - Benjamin West Ball "To W.P.R."
The quiver inside each atom - Ellen Bass "Not Dead Yet"
Blunts the dart that from her quiver flies - "The Belles of Williamsburg"
And quiver in repeated change - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
When your last cracked and quivering note is sung - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
in trembling thirds of anguish quivers - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
In keen and quivering ratio - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"
A quiver full of possibilities - Katherine Edgren "Trails: Acorn Trail"
With quivering, quick blades of steel - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Leap quivering to the music of my effort - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Quivering on their silken threads - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Evening"
Dead clouds awoke and quivered - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"
With quivering wand of silver-white - Joyce Kilmer "Star o' Love"
Blood-lit veins on leaves left quivering - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
Quivers awake in the hot winds off the sun - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"
Quivered yet with savage hymns to Thor - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Waters meet and rushes quiver - Douglas Malloch "Inspiration"
The tides quiver and the galaxies tilt - Sally Wen Mao "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles"
Quiver in the frailest bone - Claude McKay "Baptism"
Three tipped arrows in a quiver - James Herbert Morse "Love's Hunting"
Quiver under a cover of locusts - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
The atmosphere quivers with the first word uttered - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
Your song quivers in the rain - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
The quiver of oil in a hot pan - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"
The white searchlight's quivering spires - Herbert E. Palmer "Air Raid"
And forth my quivering heart he drew - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen
Captive light in the goblets quivering - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Spread quivering spokes of gold - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Fades with faint quiverings - Arthur Rimbaud "Novel" transl. by Wyatt Mason
Knows the wounds that quiver unconfessed - George William Russell "The Place of Rest"
Met to watch the lights and shadows quiver - Arthur L. Salmon "By the River" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.127-v.III, 5 June 1886]
Soaring and quivering in the wings of sleep - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
Wakes and quivers with the strength of newborn rivers - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
Its ears of quivering stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Echo of Memnon"
A thousand moons will quiver - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "A Farewell"
Willows whiten, aspens quiver - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
Trying to quiver into place - Jean Toomer "As the Eagle Soars"
On their golden sheaves the quivering dew - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
By the quivering lid of an averted eye - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Where reed-beds start and quiver - Francis Brett Young "The Gift"
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With brittle wings aquiver - Francis Brett Young "Bete Humaine"
As quivers a humbird his honey to drink - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
From the golden quivers drawn - Benjamin West Ball "Athens"
Arrow drawn from Phoebus' quiver - Benjamin West Ball "To W.P.R."
The quiver inside each atom - Ellen Bass "Not Dead Yet"
Blunts the dart that from her quiver flies - "The Belles of Williamsburg"
And quiver in repeated change - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
When your last cracked and quivering note is sung - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
in trembling thirds of anguish quivers - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
In keen and quivering ratio - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"
A quiver full of possibilities - Katherine Edgren "Trails: Acorn Trail"
With quivering, quick blades of steel - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Leap quivering to the music of my effort - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Quivering on their silken threads - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Evening"
Dead clouds awoke and quivered - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"
With quivering wand of silver-white - Joyce Kilmer "Star o' Love"
Blood-lit veins on leaves left quivering - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
Quivers awake in the hot winds off the sun - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"
Quivered yet with savage hymns to Thor - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Waters meet and rushes quiver - Douglas Malloch "Inspiration"
The tides quiver and the galaxies tilt - Sally Wen Mao "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles"
Quiver in the frailest bone - Claude McKay "Baptism"
Three tipped arrows in a quiver - James Herbert Morse "Love's Hunting"
Quiver under a cover of locusts - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
The atmosphere quivers with the first word uttered - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
Your song quivers in the rain - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
The quiver of oil in a hot pan - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"
The white searchlight's quivering spires - Herbert E. Palmer "Air Raid"
And forth my quivering heart he drew - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen
Captive light in the goblets quivering - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Spread quivering spokes of gold - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Fades with faint quiverings - Arthur Rimbaud "Novel" transl. by Wyatt Mason
Knows the wounds that quiver unconfessed - George William Russell "The Place of Rest"
Met to watch the lights and shadows quiver - Arthur L. Salmon "By the River" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.127-v.III, 5 June 1886]
Soaring and quivering in the wings of sleep - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
Wakes and quivers with the strength of newborn rivers - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
Its ears of quivering stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Echo of Memnon"
A thousand moons will quiver - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "A Farewell"
Willows whiten, aspens quiver - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
Trying to quiver into place - Jean Toomer "As the Eagle Soars"
On their golden sheaves the quivering dew - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
By the quivering lid of an averted eye - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Where reed-beds start and quiver - Francis Brett Young "The Gift"
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