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No near escapes from certain disasters - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

Dreams of a certain coming bliss - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]

A certain kind of fix that falters precariously - William Archila "Spirits"

Rome's legacy recalled by certain barons in their failing days - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

A certain rhythm to the essentials - Charles Bukowski "too sweet"

A star whose bite is certain death - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"

Roses (you feel certain) will only smile - e.e. cummings ???

by certain foolish perfect hours - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IX)"

magical maybes of certainly - e.e. cummings "warped this perhapsy… (9)"

Doubt with certain wisdom - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"

A vow to complete certain tasks - Elisa Gabbert "The Bridge"

Know for certain that angels sing - Mona Gould "Small Christmas Tree (For F.G.)"

In the blank face of certain unknowns - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Scarlet still with love and certain doom - Katherine Hale " CalvÉ in Blue"

The certain dignity of death - Hazel Hall "Flash"

Feel a certain evolution in myself - Mary Hickman "Still Life with Rayfish"

When the faint but certain star of destiny burned clear - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

The faint but certain star of destiny - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

Man only has no certain destiny - Henry Clayton Hopkins "Quatrain"

A certain amount of nothing - Langston Hughes "Same in Blues"

Fixed and fleshless and certain - Brionne Janae "Child's Pose"

Since certainly it is mine - Amy Lowell "Lilacs"

Aligned again with certain kindly stars - Thomas Lynch "Michael's Reply to the White Man"

Cared for by certain objects - Diane Raptosh "Husband"

Certain misty yet tenable signs - James Whitcombe Riley "Albumania"

The certain knot of peace - Sir Philip Sidney "Sonnet"

The sign that's sure and certain - "A Sign of Spring" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Each a certain law - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"

Uncertain particles of the certain solid - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"

a certain rooftop not far from collapse - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

Bitter and certain of our ideas - Keith Taylor "In Spite of Myself"

Certain of its ancient ground - John Updike "Reality"

A certain blend of balefulness - Emily van Kley "Streak"

Clear-cut and certain they rise - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"

The full sweep of certain wave summits - William Carlos Williams "Berket and the Stars"

The certain precipice of sky - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver


Looking upward for more certainty - Julia Alvarez "Looking Up"

With the certainty of tides - Maya Angelou "Still I Rise"

Proves nothing save my certainty - Meg Day "Elegy in Translation"

When Plato was a certainty - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life: X In a Library"

A chant of rare, exultant certainty - Florence Earle "Morning" [Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1885]

Try to give up the certainty - Brionne Janae "Child's Pose"

But who owns any certainty - Joe Jimenez "Broken Retablo for Being on My Back, My Feet Bare & in the Air"

bruising the bones of every certainty - Camisha L. Jones "The Law of Motion"

Adrift on the seas of his certainties - Maureen N. McLane "From A Book of Hours"

The moon to reflect certainty - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

A bitter but desperate certainty - Pablo Neruda "Oh, My Lost City" transl. by Alastair Reid

Rivers of bitter certainty - Pablo Neruda 100 Love Sonnets LIV (trans. by Stephen Tapscott)

Runs deep enough to drown this certainty - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"

Trust a little less in certainties so fragile - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"

Our might against their glacial certainty - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"

Skitter away from certainties - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi


Hers by old certitude of use - Lola Ridge "Chinese Print (To E.A.K.)"


Uncertain.


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