Potential Titles: Balance
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somethingdarkerwhen no body can shove you off balance - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"
Where one crow balances - Kim Addonizio "Salmon"
Each new cage designed to perfect the prime balance - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Sifts and proves and balances - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"
Under the great balanced day - Louise Bogan "Medusa"
The balance of culture and matter - Ana Bozicevic "Poem"
The answer that balances an equation - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"
To balance the power of yes - Connstynce Nduta Chege "To Get 2(54) You"
Such balancing monsters of love - Leonard Cohen "What Is a Saint"
Struggling for balance, juggling time - Barbara Crooker "In the Middle"
In reason's balance her best offers weigh - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
In other balance are our actions weighed - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
That bear the balance of the heart to Virtue's side - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Balance on a tangle of puzzled roots - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Nature"
These scales cannot be balanced - Rebecca Dunham "Black Horizon"
Balancing on orbs and light - Camonghne Felix "Statement on Being Lonely vs. Alone"
Remove myself from this balancing act - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Balance on spines of sunken giants - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Afterweather"
We have to use a spell to make them balance - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"
Would avarice and false applause weigh in the balance - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Balanced on the scales of thought - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"
Balances a mere pinpoint of consciousness - Thom Gunn "Human Condition"
To balance your side of the scale - Tom Hall "The American Slave"
The crows balance and rocking on the windy lines - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"
Balancing on a tightrope of sound - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
A promise of balance - Joy Harjo "Grace"
A world-tree of balanced stones - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"
As balanced by a spell - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
And still the scales balance - Jane Hirshfield "The Weighing"
Time balanced on a fish egg - Sy Hoahwah "Church for the Disliked"
The balance of living while dreaming - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
Balances uneasily upon its three-pronged roots - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
Acknowledges the tilted balance - Yoon Ha Lee "Equinox"
The temperate zeal that balances your brain - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
May balance the cost - George Martin "Lines"
Balance marbles on their fingertips - John Masefield "King Cole"
A grand piano balancing on the tip of a fishhook - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Because all equations balance - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"
Balance in front of blank time - Claire Millikin "Rooms Before Television"
At this balance of my destiny - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
A marriage of balance and taste - Grace Nichols "O Tea"
A proper balance of water, air and poetry - Lorine Niedecker "Nursery Rhyme"
By the false balance of delusive Trade - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
That weighs in her balance the spheres - John Pierpont "E Pluribus Unum" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Balanced like scales at nought - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
The grand balance of the dances - Ed Roberson "The Neighbor's Street Sirens Sing"
Balance their haloes on hatracks - Maurya Simon "Angels"
How I balance silence with thunder - Arthur Sze "Salt Song"
The balance of the year on her outspread palms - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
Balanced on a strand of swaying stone - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"
Balanced on a pinpoint of time - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"
A single hair balanced on a fingertip - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Balance of holy fire - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
Balanced, cantilevered, interlocked - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
The balance-beam of Fate was bent - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Uriel"
Acid imbalances that detonate - Carmen Gimenez "Redaction"
Beheld a phantom on unbalanced wings - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"
Hope was unbalanced by terror but lifted its banner anew - Harry Martinson "Aniara 68" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Through the bruised, unbalanced waves - J.D. McClatchy "Late Night Ode"
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Where one crow balances - Kim Addonizio "Salmon"
Each new cage designed to perfect the prime balance - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Sifts and proves and balances - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"
Under the great balanced day - Louise Bogan "Medusa"
The balance of culture and matter - Ana Bozicevic "Poem"
The answer that balances an equation - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"
To balance the power of yes - Connstynce Nduta Chege "To Get 2(54) You"
Such balancing monsters of love - Leonard Cohen "What Is a Saint"
Struggling for balance, juggling time - Barbara Crooker "In the Middle"
In reason's balance her best offers weigh - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
In other balance are our actions weighed - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
That bear the balance of the heart to Virtue's side - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Balance on a tangle of puzzled roots - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Nature"
These scales cannot be balanced - Rebecca Dunham "Black Horizon"
Balancing on orbs and light - Camonghne Felix "Statement on Being Lonely vs. Alone"
Remove myself from this balancing act - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Balance on spines of sunken giants - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Afterweather"
We have to use a spell to make them balance - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"
Would avarice and false applause weigh in the balance - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Balanced on the scales of thought - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"
Balances a mere pinpoint of consciousness - Thom Gunn "Human Condition"
To balance your side of the scale - Tom Hall "The American Slave"
The crows balance and rocking on the windy lines - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"
Balancing on a tightrope of sound - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
A promise of balance - Joy Harjo "Grace"
A world-tree of balanced stones - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"
As balanced by a spell - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
And still the scales balance - Jane Hirshfield "The Weighing"
Time balanced on a fish egg - Sy Hoahwah "Church for the Disliked"
The balance of living while dreaming - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
Balances uneasily upon its three-pronged roots - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
Acknowledges the tilted balance - Yoon Ha Lee "Equinox"
The temperate zeal that balances your brain - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
May balance the cost - George Martin "Lines"
Balance marbles on their fingertips - John Masefield "King Cole"
A grand piano balancing on the tip of a fishhook - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Because all equations balance - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"
Balance in front of blank time - Claire Millikin "Rooms Before Television"
At this balance of my destiny - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
A marriage of balance and taste - Grace Nichols "O Tea"
A proper balance of water, air and poetry - Lorine Niedecker "Nursery Rhyme"
By the false balance of delusive Trade - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
That weighs in her balance the spheres - John Pierpont "E Pluribus Unum" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Balanced like scales at nought - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
The grand balance of the dances - Ed Roberson "The Neighbor's Street Sirens Sing"
Balance their haloes on hatracks - Maurya Simon "Angels"
How I balance silence with thunder - Arthur Sze "Salt Song"
The balance of the year on her outspread palms - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
Balanced on a strand of swaying stone - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"
Balanced on a pinpoint of time - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"
A single hair balanced on a fingertip - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Balance of holy fire - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
Balanced, cantilevered, interlocked - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
The balance-beam of Fate was bent - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Uriel"
Acid imbalances that detonate - Carmen Gimenez "Redaction"
Beheld a phantom on unbalanced wings - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"
Hope was unbalanced by terror but lifted its banner anew - Harry Martinson "Aniara 68" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Through the bruised, unbalanced waves - J.D. McClatchy "Late Night Ode"
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
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