Potential Titles: Strike/Struck
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Need a wind to strike sharply - Maya Angelou "A Georgia Song"
The ghastly hunters unevaded strike - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"
Impartial lightning strikes the water - Mary Jo Bang "The Doctor's Monster Is Drowning"
Striking off the icy chain - Cora C. Bass "Who Is This So Loved of Yore?"
And shudder at the striking hour - Charles Baudelaire "A Madrigal of Sorrow" transl. not credited
When the air clenches its fist and strikes - Dan Beachy-Quick "Onta"
And fire to strike men blind - Stephen Vincent Benet "Campus Sonnet: 2. Talk"
In the hope of striking oil - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"
When the day strikes on the hearth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Acid wind strikes my eyes - Chou Pang-Yen "[Leaves fall, slanting sun lights the river]" transl. by Burton Watson
Or sorrows strike him - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Strike their inaudible hour - Susan Coolidge "Time to Go"
Strike lightning to the road - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"
Strike eastward on the narrow road - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Sand flaring in silence as the iron strikes - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"
And strike a sacred horror from the pit - John Dryden "Prologue: To the University of Oxford. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of 'The Silent Woman'"
Her venom strikes like the storm - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Dropped the third strike with two outs - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"
The clocks strike fairy-time - Eleanor Farjeon "Fairy-Time"
And the spindrift strikes the glass - Thomas Hardy "The Curtains Now Are Drawn"
Strike every thrilling chord - Felicia Hemans "Christmas Carol"
Strike the harp to Milton given - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Where newborn pieties spark and strike - Joan Houlihan "Turn of a Year"
Lilacs and lightning strike - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "jersey fems in the philly zoo"
While archangels strike the lyre - James Weldon Johnson "Christmas Carol"
Though your Witchcrafts strike my Ear - Anne Killigrew "A Farwel to Worldly Joys" [sic]
Hear the steel strike stone - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
The elephant bells striking slow - D.H. Lawrence "Elephant"
Release them when the hour strikes - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
And iron striking back - Philip Levine "Flowering Midnight"
Strike the hard edge of a thought - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"
Flints of sunlight strike against your skin - Naomi Long Madgett "Signature"
And strike stark Chaos from his throne - Don Marquis "The Comrade"
From dead things striking fire - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Wheels and bone strike - Airea D. Matthews "Sexton Texts a Dead Addict's Daughter During Polar Vortex"
Can strike for the stars at need - Louis J. McQuilland "The Ballad of Sir Kevin O'Keane"
Striking the leafless poplar boughs - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
How hammers strike the thinnest wires - Tyler Mills "'Mike' Test"
Striking across the centuries in stone - Pablo Neruda "The Blind Statue" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The drill that strikes like a condor - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
Striking the axis of symmetry - Pablo Neruda "Sexual Water" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A storm out of nothing strikes - Paul Park "Ragnarok"
Strike us as a reversal of sky - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"
In its talons the striking snake - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Rapt Isaiah strikes the heavenly lyre - George Santayana "King's College Chapel"
Strikes off the chains of Time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
That evaporate before they strike - Arthur Sze "Xeriscape"
Strike and bear the stroke - Edward Thomas "February Afternoon"
That strikes the mystic march of Time - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
All chains from limb and spirit strike - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Strike the earth with a kiss - Phillip B. Williams "Order of Events"
Sulfur match struck on vellum - Rasha Abdulhadi "Eleven Red Returns"
A little psalm in the moon-struck snow - Andres Cerpa "The Vault"
In the genesis of a struck flame - Rachel Eliza Griffiths "Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees"
Struck by thunder's omen - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
With ladder struck by lightning - Mark Irwin "What a Great Responsibility"
The hoofs of his horse struck fire - James Weldon Johnson "Go Down Death--A Funeral Sermon"
Echoes struck from thin glass - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"
Every struck chime unanswering - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Hanging"
Able to be struck by the earth - Sharon Olds "Not Once"
struck you with wonder - Sharon Olds "Song to Gabriel Hirsch"
By the sorrow-struck heart - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"
The altar where eternal bargains are struck - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
In an envelope of fire not yet struck to flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
Struck stars, met hurricanes - Lola Ridge "Two"
The moonlight when the hell struck twelve - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Struck them like a steel to flint - Kay Ryan "He Lit a Fire with Icicles"
Struck through by the dream - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Struck by a wind together - William Carlos Williams "Approach of Winter"
Authority flings a struck match in our direction - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Joystruck demon of rain - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"
Caught in the stormstrike - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of ash"
Some Titan still unstruck - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"
The desperation of unstruck piano keys - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
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The ghastly hunters unevaded strike - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"
Impartial lightning strikes the water - Mary Jo Bang "The Doctor's Monster Is Drowning"
Striking off the icy chain - Cora C. Bass "Who Is This So Loved of Yore?"
And shudder at the striking hour - Charles Baudelaire "A Madrigal of Sorrow" transl. not credited
When the air clenches its fist and strikes - Dan Beachy-Quick "Onta"
And fire to strike men blind - Stephen Vincent Benet "Campus Sonnet: 2. Talk"
In the hope of striking oil - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"
When the day strikes on the hearth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Acid wind strikes my eyes - Chou Pang-Yen "[Leaves fall, slanting sun lights the river]" transl. by Burton Watson
Or sorrows strike him - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Strike their inaudible hour - Susan Coolidge "Time to Go"
Strike lightning to the road - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"
Strike eastward on the narrow road - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Sand flaring in silence as the iron strikes - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"
And strike a sacred horror from the pit - John Dryden "Prologue: To the University of Oxford. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of 'The Silent Woman'"
Her venom strikes like the storm - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Dropped the third strike with two outs - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"
The clocks strike fairy-time - Eleanor Farjeon "Fairy-Time"
And the spindrift strikes the glass - Thomas Hardy "The Curtains Now Are Drawn"
Strike every thrilling chord - Felicia Hemans "Christmas Carol"
Strike the harp to Milton given - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Where newborn pieties spark and strike - Joan Houlihan "Turn of a Year"
Lilacs and lightning strike - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "jersey fems in the philly zoo"
While archangels strike the lyre - James Weldon Johnson "Christmas Carol"
Though your Witchcrafts strike my Ear - Anne Killigrew "A Farwel to Worldly Joys" [sic]
Hear the steel strike stone - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
The elephant bells striking slow - D.H. Lawrence "Elephant"
Release them when the hour strikes - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
And iron striking back - Philip Levine "Flowering Midnight"
Strike the hard edge of a thought - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"
Flints of sunlight strike against your skin - Naomi Long Madgett "Signature"
And strike stark Chaos from his throne - Don Marquis "The Comrade"
From dead things striking fire - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Wheels and bone strike - Airea D. Matthews "Sexton Texts a Dead Addict's Daughter During Polar Vortex"
Can strike for the stars at need - Louis J. McQuilland "The Ballad of Sir Kevin O'Keane"
Striking the leafless poplar boughs - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
How hammers strike the thinnest wires - Tyler Mills "'Mike' Test"
Striking across the centuries in stone - Pablo Neruda "The Blind Statue" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The drill that strikes like a condor - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
Striking the axis of symmetry - Pablo Neruda "Sexual Water" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A storm out of nothing strikes - Paul Park "Ragnarok"
Strike us as a reversal of sky - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"
In its talons the striking snake - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Rapt Isaiah strikes the heavenly lyre - George Santayana "King's College Chapel"
Strikes off the chains of Time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
That evaporate before they strike - Arthur Sze "Xeriscape"
Strike and bear the stroke - Edward Thomas "February Afternoon"
That strikes the mystic march of Time - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
All chains from limb and spirit strike - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Strike the earth with a kiss - Phillip B. Williams "Order of Events"
Sulfur match struck on vellum - Rasha Abdulhadi "Eleven Red Returns"
A little psalm in the moon-struck snow - Andres Cerpa "The Vault"
In the genesis of a struck flame - Rachel Eliza Griffiths "Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees"
Struck by thunder's omen - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
With ladder struck by lightning - Mark Irwin "What a Great Responsibility"
The hoofs of his horse struck fire - James Weldon Johnson "Go Down Death--A Funeral Sermon"
Echoes struck from thin glass - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"
Every struck chime unanswering - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Hanging"
Able to be struck by the earth - Sharon Olds "Not Once"
struck you with wonder - Sharon Olds "Song to Gabriel Hirsch"
By the sorrow-struck heart - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"
The altar where eternal bargains are struck - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
In an envelope of fire not yet struck to flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
Struck stars, met hurricanes - Lola Ridge "Two"
The moonlight when the hell struck twelve - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Struck them like a steel to flint - Kay Ryan "He Lit a Fire with Icicles"
Struck through by the dream - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Struck by a wind together - William Carlos Williams "Approach of Winter"
Authority flings a struck match in our direction - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Joystruck demon of rain - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"
Caught in the stormstrike - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of ash"
Some Titan still unstruck - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"
The desperation of unstruck piano keys - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
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