Potential Titles: Keen

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His eyes are two keen blades - "Alain the Fox" (translated by F.G. Fleay)

The blade of touch grows too keen - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"

the immediate future is keen - Jarid Arraes "Movement"

An agony too keen for reason - Elizabeth Bartlett "Voluntary, Exile"

When the keen mildew desolates the field - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

Whets to keenest eagerness his cravings - Robert Blair "The Grave"

The keening of dust on hardwood - Julia Bouwsma "Upon Opening Another Folded Day"

With keen and accurate advance - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

Beneath the keen full moon - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

Hell's keen fires still for revenge athirst - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

His ax shone keen and grey - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

In keen and quivering ratio - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"

Swift song keening against granite - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

And higher the keen stars - Edward Dowden "Prometheus Unbound"

Plant a warder keen and pure - Edward Dowden "To a Child Dead as Soon as Born"

A glittering thicket of keen swords - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Transmuted at the keen moon's cost - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"

A keen knife of spirit stabbing - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Keen January with cold eyes and clear - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"

Keen as the ancient drift of sleep - Louise Imogen Guiney "Borderlands"

Hard glances of keen despite - Ivor Gurney "The Poplar"

Keen with health, and strong for struggling - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Is death's scythe not keen enough? - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLV"

Keen as the song of the winter stars - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"

And keen for snows - Jean Ingelow "Laurance"

Keenness of fire - Amy Lowell "The Giver of Stars"

Keen as an acid for an alkali - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Cupid's keenest arrow - Charles Henry Luders "A Kiss"

Famished to keenness - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"

As keen for a kiss as a crime - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"

His bent bow and his arrows keen - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"

The bonfire's keen disclosures - Pablo Neruda "San Martin (1810)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The keen wind robs the flowers - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

A keen longing which shadows forth regret - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Returned -- "Missing" (Five Years After)"

Fear the keen confronting sun - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"

Nipped by sudden frosts and keen - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet V"

And the stars are rapier keen - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIX"

Out of the distance a faint, keen breath - Edward Shanks "The Halt"

With kisses keen as snow - Clark Ashton Smith "Beauty Implacable"

Urged on by hunger keen - William Somerville "The Chase"

Keen, clear, flashing teeth of steel - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

As keen as the heart of Mars - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Dreams that smote with a keener dart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Where the east wind gallops keen - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: IX. The Sands"

The moonlit skater's keen delight - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Between the shores of keen delights and pains - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

A tear for keener anguish shed - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"


His keen-tipped lance of lightning - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus


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