Potential Titles: Battle

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Battalion.


Distracts us from the battle - Rasha Abdulhadi "El Condor y El Toro"

The endless battle between my immune system & embedded phosphorus - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

Battling to flatten the violence, the vileness - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Survived the same brave battle - Rae Armantrout "The Racket"

Will be a watchword and a battle hymn - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"

A perfect edge and a battling edge are battling - Mary Jo Bang "One Could Say the Train Is Resting"

In the tempest of the battle's strife - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

Sea-girt shrines of battle and of song - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

The roar of thunder joining battle - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

And share the battle's spoil - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"

Ideals twain, on battle height flaming - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

To battle fierce came forth - Thomas Campbell "The Battle of the Baltic"

The battle and the breeze - Thomas Campbell "Ye Mariners of England"

Beats no drums to her battles - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Lazarus of Empires"

A Titan slain in some desperate battle - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

Battles are fought on greens - Anne Carson "Short Talk on Pain"

The mirror won the battle - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Friendships]"

The heart of the locked battle - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

never defeated in battle - Lucille Clifton "the death of crazy horse"

And bear your parts in the battle - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"

Battle's loud-lunged shout - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

The battle song of tears - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"

Battle, dance, and song - "The Dance of the Sword" (Translated by Tom Taylor)

In smoke of battle lost - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"

A part of yourself lost battling the shark - Alda do Espirito Santo "The Same Side of the Canoe" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver

Our battle with the gods to wage - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

What gods have met in battle - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Fierce battles between sorrow and hope - Aziz Isa Elkun "Clouds Hid the Moon" transl. by author

Opens the door of battle - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 40. E-Ulmash, the Temple of Inana in Akkad" transl. by Sophus Helle

The Squire's blade wins the battle - Eleanor Farjeon "The Quest"

For one more battle passage yet - Robert Frost "In Equal Sacrifice"

Have marked the battle's tide - Ieuan Glan Geirionydd "The Strand of Rhuddlan" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

To coat their battle scars with gin - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Sons"

With battle murder at my heart - Robert Graves "The Shadow of Death"

That battles with the passions hand to hand - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Death on his charger in battle is bounding - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

March toward battles red - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLIV"

Battling the waves' recurrent shock - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Hills of Doon"

Like pipes of battle calling - F.W. Harvey "The Bugler"

And break him in battle with fate - H.C. Harwood "Incompatibility"

How sin does battle - Terrance Hayes "Liner Notes for an Imaginary Planet"

Rise to the battle and the chase - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"

The solid bastion in the middle of battle - Nicolás Heredia y Mota "The American Flag" transl. by Edgar Peguero y Heredia

But the battle is raging northward - "Holger Danske and Stout Didrik" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Fight the battle in my heart - James Weldon Johnson "Helene"

Makes note of battles - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"

Into hot battles' hell-lit fires - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"

Should the battle end by fire - Tanque R. Jones "Scipio"

A battle worthy of our weapons - Ilya Kaminsky "Lullaby"

The battle that John Brown begun - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Scream of battling eagles - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Ready to resume the battle - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sister Mary of the Plague"

With the tornado of battle stunning - Henry P. Leland "Wounded" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

No trade but battle and carnage - Li Po "Fighting" transl. by Arthur Waley

Battling over the places my body lands - Tariq Luthun "Finding Myself in the Direct Messages of Someone I Do Not Know Is in Kuwait"

Where the battle's smoke have obscured the day - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Old battle calls at night - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Reaped the battle together - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: VII"

When the line of battle passed - Douglas Malloch "The Chickamauga Oak"

To the cannons that hunger in battle - Edwin Markham "The Toilers"

A gray heron battling up against the wind - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

No battle for the stricken earth - Theodore Maynard "Ave Atque Vale!"

Bright with battle flame - John McCrae "The Warrior"

Showing eager teeth of battle - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

The battle of the antidote - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

This battle and this peace - Alice Meynell "The Unknown God"

And wake the world with battle shot - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"

Her checkerboard of battle squares - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"

The battle over disputed territories - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

To brave the ocean's battling shock - Morna "Ianthe"

Battling moon and twilight - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A battle as long as time - Pablo Neruda "House" transl. by Gary Soto

Beneath all its soft battles and sinews - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

We live with our battle scars - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"

Battle for the pastured sky - Sebastian H. Paramo "The Tejano Considers Seeds"

From battle grounds of memory - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Drew the breath of battle - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Field of Glory"

And he came from a hundred battles - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

Only the battle between man and earth - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

As if death were the hardest battle - Effie Smith "The Test"

From the lion's mouth of battle - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

Of phantom ships and battle - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"

The battle of contending skies - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

Frowns black to the battling storm - Alfred B. Street "The Storm Mountain"

The lost battle and the ruined shrine - Muriel Stuart "Words"

All the old scars of former battles bleed - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"

To do battle and call the angels, like comrades, by name - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"

Go where the battle clarions blare - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Drunk delight of battle - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"

Where the pebbles and inrushing sea battle - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VII. Ripples"

When the battle's thunder, crashed along our ranks - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Five sons gone to distant battle - Tso Yen-Nien "Call to Arms" transl. by Burton Watson

The impartial sun laughs down upon the battle - Henry van Dyke "The Fall of the Leaves"

Drunk with the great human battle of wills - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Life" transl. by Alma Strettell

That gild the battle's crimson tide - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Our gallant army in line of battle drawn - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Unloose their dead to battle on the height - O.I. Victor "The Phantom Field"

Brings the wrong items to battle - Katie Willingham "Red, Save!"

Doing battle with its inclination - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"

The ashes of battle - Nancy Wood "Shaman's Circle"

And the night fell on our battle - Francis Brett Young "On a Subaltern Killed in Action"


His name the thunder of a battle call - Rennell Rodd "Une Heure Viendra Qui Tout Paiera"


To stir like a battle-cry - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Songs for the People"


Battlefield.


Once I saw Mountains angry, and ranged in battle-front - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"


For the hour of the red battle-harvest - Gilbert Frankau "A Song of the Guns"


Saw black trees on the battle-height - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"


Battlement.


Cry unto the night their battle-name - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"


A battle-shout from Marathon - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]


Stand uncovered, torn and battle-spent - Walter S. Percy "When I Survey"


Gilding the battle-storm, rolling in wrath - "The Star-Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]


The clouds of battle-tempest - Arthur M. Forrester "The Red-Heart Daisy"


With names of battle-thunder - George Sterling "Altars of Victory"


Crimson kings on battle-towers - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"


Embattle.


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