Potential Titles: Keen
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somethingdarkerHis 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'"
Round these the blast blows keen and fierce - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
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"
Glittering and keen as the song of the winter stars - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
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"
And drown her keener silence, silver-sharp - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
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"
Before I am keen to your cues and calls for help - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
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"
Keenly blows the northern blast - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]
Where the east wind gallops keen - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: IX. The Sands"
Keenly, coldly, the north winds blow - Florence Tylee "Bird Notes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.125-v.III, 22 May 1886]
No keening women in grim dresses - Amie Whittemore "Spell for the End of Grief"
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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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'"
Round these the blast blows keen and fierce - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
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"
Glittering and keen as the song of the winter stars - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
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"
And drown her keener silence, silver-sharp - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
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"
Before I am keen to your cues and calls for help - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
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"
Keenly blows the northern blast - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]
Where the east wind gallops keen - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: IX. The Sands"
Keenly, coldly, the north winds blow - Florence Tylee "Bird Notes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.125-v.III, 22 May 1886]
No keening women in grim dresses - Amie Whittemore "Spell for the End of Grief"
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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