Potential Titles: Bar

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Strung the cords of existence on the bars of time - Mike Allen "Pulse"

Forging the bars of some enormous jail - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

With a jangle of glass bars - Stephen Vincent Benet "Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room"

A terrible symphony rolled through crashing bars - William Rose Benét "The City"

I clung to the bars of the dream - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"

The flame at the hotel bar - John Bosworth "A Boy Can Wear a Dress"

Hollow nor height his going bars - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"

Entry barred by the paws of tigers - Ana Bozicevic "The Fall of Luci"

With iron bars over her windows and doors - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

If Day burst sudden from the bars of Night - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Set a bar to strangers - Witter Bynner "The New World I"

The cloudy bars of nebulae - Joseph Campbell "The Shepherd"

Through the bars of twilight rifted - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"

Bars accumulating like compound interest - Gabrielle Civil "Three of Cups"

Bars they can hardly lift - Hilda Conkling "Hills"

I the wall which barred the way - Susan Coolidge "At the Gate"

In vain the merchant bars his door - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"

Your doors barred from within - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"

Fills the empty vault of Night with shimmering bars - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"

To bar its progress through the realms of Night - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]

Relax in the Alibi Bar - Katherine Edgren "Found Town"

The bars of the rainbow's rim - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"

Through the veranda's black iron bars - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"

Pounding our stubborn hearts on freedom's bars - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oriflamme"

Checked the tide with golden bars - Michael Field "Another Leadeth Thee"

Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

The slanted gold bars of the day - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"

Only ghosts at the bar - Dana Gioia "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"

All the steel of its containing bars - Louis Golding "To A.L.O."

Bound my mind to counted bars - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"

Watch true brews slide down that mahogany bar - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

Well barred by every chain - Helen Hunt Jackson "Dreams"

Barred at the threshold till we cleaned the tar - Mark Jarman "The Mermaid"

The bolts that bar his heart - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Cry for the bars that encage me - Amy Levy "Captivity"

Knocking at the brazen bars of Death - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"

When prison locks and iron bars will fail - H.P. McKnight "A Prisoner's Thanksgiving"

That bars me from the future - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

Wrought your baser dross to bars of golden thought - George L. Moore "Keats"

A gibbering goblin that bars the way - Marianne Moore "My Lantern"

When obstacles happened to bar the path - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"

A silver pathway over the bar where the sea sings - William Moore "Dusk Song"

In a maze of bars invisible I wander far from the feast - William Moore "Dusk Song"

The bars at the entrance to Fairy Land - Sarah Noble-Ives "By Coach"

Smote the sky in tremulous bars of doom - Thomas O'Hagan "In the Trenches"

By vain wishes bar my claim - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"

These two hands to bar the wind - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"

Crashing blows on the icy bar - Frank L. Pollock "The Trail of Gold"

All through the pasture bars of sleep - Miriam Clark Potter "The Flock of Dreams"

From night's crystal bars - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"

Cages of words have dissolving bars - Charles Rafferty "Words"

Investigators conspire to bar us from shadows - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"

Dust of stars beyond the bars - Lloyd Roberts "The Kill"

White bars against the dark ochre matting - David St. John "Beeches"

The frozen and adamantine bars of oblivion fall - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Eyes imprisoned behind crimson bars of light - Tobias Seamon "Halos"

Each trifle under truest bars to thrust - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVIII"

And meet you at the bar of doom - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "To a Pupil Leaving School"

Bar the awful avenues of Space - Ezra Hurlburt Stafford "The Last Orison"

Whom all the swords of sunset bar - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"

With anvil, chain, and iron bar - Alfred B. Street "The Smithy" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Caging the sun in rusted prison bars - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

A sullen bar of light athwart the darkness - Helen Hay Whitney "The Days"

Glimpsing the iris gateway barred ahead - Helen Hay Whitney "A Dream in Fever"

That burned behind the bars of evening - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

The burning eyes of a tiger barred - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


'Til the Barkeep's out of ice - W.E. Christian "Pay Day"


Through Bastile-bars it sought communion with the free - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Laura Bridgman"


Grapple with crowbars - Derek Walcott "Roseau Valley"


From earthly hopes debarred - Sir Nizamat Jung "VII: The Sublime Hope"

Fate so enviously debarrs [sic] - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"


A whole sandbar full of herons - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson


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