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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