Potential Titles: Bear (endure or carry)
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somethingdarkerBears upon its rapid wing - A.L.O.E. "Never Forsaken"
I would rather bear fruit than fire - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."
Would agree to bear the margin's tedium - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"
Solemnly bearing my dead loves away - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"
Go hence bearing a talisman - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"
And the sea bears the reflection of the worlds - Lennox Amott "My Beauty's Home"
And no sleep renew his strength to bear it - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry X: Salutation of the Morning Star" transl. by Sir John Bowring
In the tavern bear the golden cup - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LIII: Mine Everywhere" transl. by Sir John Bowring
And the way back won't bear scrutiny - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"
To bear the red rose company - Anonymous ballad "Babylon"
Bear not one gem of all her store - George A. Baker "A Rosebud in Lent"
Colossal Power with overwhelming force bears down - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
All that bears the signature of ease - Maurice Baring "Mozart"
Bear the beauty of that much burning - Ellen Bass "This Was the Door"
That bears the sacred shield of Truth - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
How you bear this flourish - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Dysphoria"
Bearing up the balm upon their beating wings - "The Birth of the Lily" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.2, Sept. 1863]
Bearing her peace like a cup of blessed wine - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"
Bear the strife of little tongues and coward insults - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Bears the fruit of Deceit - William Blake "The Human Abstract"
Stands of trees bearing false oranges - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
Bearing the scent of their dying - Geoffrey Brock "The Man Outside"
If they bear the flowers of life or death - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"
And bear this fragile moment past - Gerald Bullett "Home"
Bearing fixed war through shifting victories - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Bearing alone the load of liberty - Tommaso Campanella "XXIX. To Venice" transl. by John Addington Symonds
The venomed dart shall bear its sure and speedy remedy - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Judge the tree by what it bears - Alice Cary "My Creed"
Their faith to bear it - Willa Cather "Fides, Spes"
Bearing the burden of damage - Tina Chang "Lion"
Could bear no voice, no face - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"
The boar bears your final card - May Chong "Catering"
Bearing both weapon and wound - Alba Cid "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or the Sacrifice of the Pfeilstorchen" (translated by Jacob Rogers)
Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly - John Clare "I Hid My Love"
Bear a load of snow upon their backs - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"
And bear your parts in the battle - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
Strong to bear times' wintry weather - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
And bear me out of the dark - Walter de la Mare "Mrs. Grundy"
Brooding on the doom I bear - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In this sad world have pity, my lady dear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Might bear you a gorgeous flower - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"
A word which bears a sword - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love X: Forgotten"
Bearing thither a world of dreams - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Three Ships"
Bearing indispensable news - Stephen Dunn "The Telling of Grandmother's Secret"
Whose shields bear bags of argent on a field of gold - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]
Bearing a dark star inside me - Susan Fawcett "Black Water Diving"
Bearing fish and paper messages - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"
Keep vigils long as flesh can bear - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
But they the sharpest thorns who bear - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Never to forget my lost bearings - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"
Bear them inch by inch toward death - Gwynne Garfinkle "Scenes from a Marriage"
One leaf left to bear witness - George Garrett "Or Death and December"
Bear it with thee as a spell - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"
Meekly bear the stones of fate - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"
Who bears the sword and handles the musket - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Bearing pleasant mead of hazel-nuts - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull
To bear creation's holy vesper prayer - Eliza Paul Gurney "The Alpine Horn"
A soldier bearing alien arms - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"
By bearing down the western road - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"
Stones bearing libraries of the winds - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"
Whirlwinds bear the dust of the plains - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
Grey pillars bear the stooping sky - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"
Each affliction bear a greater beauty - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
How bears the walnut tree - Lionel Johnson "Hill and Vale"
this earth can bear almonds - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"
The heavy part the music bears - Ben Jonson "Echo's Lament for Narcissus"
Bearing the weight of a whole self - Mary Karr "County Fair"
Bearing the burden of a shepherd song - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Bear no badge of roses or of rue - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
Who bear aloft the overflowing cup - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oh weary, weary world! how full thou art]"
Whose cheek bears pleasure's sleepless flush - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
The Greatest Plagues to bear - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"
One stalk of corn can't bear fruit - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"
And bear no bloom for bees - Archibald Lampman "In October"
A load sharper to bear - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"
Such apples as these gardens bear - Andrew Lang "Lost in Hades"
Straggling orchard that bears no fruits - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
Bears a melody laden with spells - Henry S. Leigh "Bow Bells"
Wind bearing the voices of the world - Philip Levine "Waking in March"
Without bearing away my sorrow - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
All this skin that will never bear fruit - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"
Bear zones of tropic passion - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
Bears his part in that conflict dire - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
bear up beneath the change - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"
The wind's caress bears you along - Dorothea Mackellar "Seagull"
Martyrdom beyond his strength to bear - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"
Bears the seed of future years - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Bearing Lucifer's oriflamme - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
Red is the strangest pain to bear - Charlotte Mew "The Quiet House"
Bearing burdens not our own - Dante Micheaux "Center Ring"
Bearing torches, chanting vengeance - Claire Millikin "Prizewinners of the Apocalypse"
Who best bear his mild yoke - John Milton "Service"
Bears witness to the veiled truth of myth - N. Scott Momaday "The Dragon of Saint-Bertrand-De-Comminges"
Bearing you across a ridge of dreams - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
Bear dim relations to our common doom - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
To bear the hardness coming - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Mercy Beach"
That the sea bears in its hands - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Solitude bears no flowers - Pablo Neruda "The Invisible Man" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Bear all things evidence - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson
My compass taps out of bearing in circles - dg nanouk okpik "Anthropocene Years"
Easier to bear than sorrow - Carl Phillips "Electric"
Bear the symbol of his doom - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"
The closest and carefullest scrutiny bears - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Bearing strange symbols to the new dawn - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
Which gold and stone and spices bear - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"
Test what singleness can bear - Kay Ryan "That Will to Divest"
Broken snail shells bearing emptiness on their back - Nelly Sachs [Untitled] transl. by Michael Roloff
What blooms bears thorns - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Protocol"
Bearing fire & sharp obsidian - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"
A truth bitter past bearing - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
For invention bear amiss - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIX"
Myself will bear all wrong - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVIII"
The waves of Time may bear us - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"
Awake no winds but bear her dust - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
Bear with them broken promises of Spring - Muriel Stuart "In Memory of Douglas Vernon Cow"
Cannot bear the song of the cuckoo - Sun Yun-feng "The Trail Up Wu Gorge" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Bear the barbs of ridicule - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 220: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Bears the sword of vengeance unrelenting - J. Sylvester "Mercy and Justice" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]
Will always bear the beauty of chance - Arthur Sze "Under a Rising Moon"
A sweet wind bears it company - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
Boxes bearing the names of lost department stores - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
The owls were bearing the farm away - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Strike and bear the stroke - Edward Thomas "February Afternoon"
The valor of who bears a sword - Luis Lloréns Torres "Bolivar" transl. by Muna Lee
Vermilion blossoms bear no fruit - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
Trust these little waves to bear my message - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Where the history is harder to bear - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XVIII"
Bearing the same spark - John Hall Wheelock "Plaint"
Bearing our lost through the starlight above - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Condemn'd a load of infamy to bear - "The Whore"
Harbouring ill under a blithe bearing - "Wife's Lament" transl. from Old English by Kemp Malone
Argosies of earth their treasures bear - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"
Bear the spring's reiterated urgencies - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"
Bear witness to the absent fig leaves - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Bear the last trickling tear-drop - John Wright "The Wrecked Mariner"
Bear eons of indifference - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #6" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Not the bearable light - Lucie Brock-Broido "Self-Portrait as Kaspar Hauser"
Whose illusions were bearable - Tom Sleigh "Blueprint"
Good citizen torch bearers out to set the night ablaze - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Bearer of fire and space-invader - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"
Bearers of ghost that burns - John Masefield "King Cole"
Sometimes the bearer becomes the bad news - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
Unbearable.
Cup-bearer at feasts of God - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"
Felled their rich fruit-bearing orchards - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The meteor-bearer of our parting breath - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"
Watery pallbearers heading seaward - Carl Phillips "Swimming"
The standard-bearers of the future - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
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I would rather bear fruit than fire - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."
Would agree to bear the margin's tedium - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"
Solemnly bearing my dead loves away - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"
Go hence bearing a talisman - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"
And the sea bears the reflection of the worlds - Lennox Amott "My Beauty's Home"
And no sleep renew his strength to bear it - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry X: Salutation of the Morning Star" transl. by Sir John Bowring
In the tavern bear the golden cup - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LIII: Mine Everywhere" transl. by Sir John Bowring
And the way back won't bear scrutiny - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"
To bear the red rose company - Anonymous ballad "Babylon"
Bear not one gem of all her store - George A. Baker "A Rosebud in Lent"
Colossal Power with overwhelming force bears down - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
All that bears the signature of ease - Maurice Baring "Mozart"
Bear the beauty of that much burning - Ellen Bass "This Was the Door"
That bears the sacred shield of Truth - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
How you bear this flourish - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Dysphoria"
Bearing up the balm upon their beating wings - "The Birth of the Lily" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.2, Sept. 1863]
Bearing her peace like a cup of blessed wine - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"
Bear the strife of little tongues and coward insults - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Bears the fruit of Deceit - William Blake "The Human Abstract"
Stands of trees bearing false oranges - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
Bearing the scent of their dying - Geoffrey Brock "The Man Outside"
If they bear the flowers of life or death - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"
And bear this fragile moment past - Gerald Bullett "Home"
Bearing fixed war through shifting victories - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Bearing alone the load of liberty - Tommaso Campanella "XXIX. To Venice" transl. by John Addington Symonds
The venomed dart shall bear its sure and speedy remedy - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Judge the tree by what it bears - Alice Cary "My Creed"
Their faith to bear it - Willa Cather "Fides, Spes"
Bearing the burden of damage - Tina Chang "Lion"
Could bear no voice, no face - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"
The boar bears your final card - May Chong "Catering"
Bearing both weapon and wound - Alba Cid "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or the Sacrifice of the Pfeilstorchen" (translated by Jacob Rogers)
Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly - John Clare "I Hid My Love"
Bear a load of snow upon their backs - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"
And bear your parts in the battle - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
Strong to bear times' wintry weather - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
And bear me out of the dark - Walter de la Mare "Mrs. Grundy"
Brooding on the doom I bear - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In this sad world have pity, my lady dear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Might bear you a gorgeous flower - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"
A word which bears a sword - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love X: Forgotten"
Bearing thither a world of dreams - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Three Ships"
Bearing indispensable news - Stephen Dunn "The Telling of Grandmother's Secret"
Whose shields bear bags of argent on a field of gold - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]
Bearing a dark star inside me - Susan Fawcett "Black Water Diving"
Bearing fish and paper messages - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"
Keep vigils long as flesh can bear - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
But they the sharpest thorns who bear - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Never to forget my lost bearings - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"
Bear them inch by inch toward death - Gwynne Garfinkle "Scenes from a Marriage"
One leaf left to bear witness - George Garrett "Or Death and December"
Bear it with thee as a spell - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"
Meekly bear the stones of fate - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"
Who bears the sword and handles the musket - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Bearing pleasant mead of hazel-nuts - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull
To bear creation's holy vesper prayer - Eliza Paul Gurney "The Alpine Horn"
A soldier bearing alien arms - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"
By bearing down the western road - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"
Stones bearing libraries of the winds - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"
Whirlwinds bear the dust of the plains - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
Grey pillars bear the stooping sky - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"
Each affliction bear a greater beauty - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
How bears the walnut tree - Lionel Johnson "Hill and Vale"
this earth can bear almonds - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"
The heavy part the music bears - Ben Jonson "Echo's Lament for Narcissus"
Bearing the weight of a whole self - Mary Karr "County Fair"
Bearing the burden of a shepherd song - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Bear no badge of roses or of rue - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
Who bear aloft the overflowing cup - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oh weary, weary world! how full thou art]"
Whose cheek bears pleasure's sleepless flush - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
The Greatest Plagues to bear - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"
One stalk of corn can't bear fruit - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"
And bear no bloom for bees - Archibald Lampman "In October"
A load sharper to bear - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"
Such apples as these gardens bear - Andrew Lang "Lost in Hades"
Straggling orchard that bears no fruits - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
Bears a melody laden with spells - Henry S. Leigh "Bow Bells"
Wind bearing the voices of the world - Philip Levine "Waking in March"
Without bearing away my sorrow - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
All this skin that will never bear fruit - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"
Bear zones of tropic passion - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
Bears his part in that conflict dire - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
bear up beneath the change - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"
The wind's caress bears you along - Dorothea Mackellar "Seagull"
Martyrdom beyond his strength to bear - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"
Bears the seed of future years - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Bearing Lucifer's oriflamme - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
Red is the strangest pain to bear - Charlotte Mew "The Quiet House"
Bearing burdens not our own - Dante Micheaux "Center Ring"
Bearing torches, chanting vengeance - Claire Millikin "Prizewinners of the Apocalypse"
Who best bear his mild yoke - John Milton "Service"
Bears witness to the veiled truth of myth - N. Scott Momaday "The Dragon of Saint-Bertrand-De-Comminges"
Bearing you across a ridge of dreams - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
Bear dim relations to our common doom - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
To bear the hardness coming - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Mercy Beach"
That the sea bears in its hands - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Solitude bears no flowers - Pablo Neruda "The Invisible Man" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Bear all things evidence - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson
My compass taps out of bearing in circles - dg nanouk okpik "Anthropocene Years"
Easier to bear than sorrow - Carl Phillips "Electric"
Bear the symbol of his doom - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"
The closest and carefullest scrutiny bears - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Bearing strange symbols to the new dawn - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
Which gold and stone and spices bear - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"
Test what singleness can bear - Kay Ryan "That Will to Divest"
Broken snail shells bearing emptiness on their back - Nelly Sachs [Untitled] transl. by Michael Roloff
What blooms bears thorns - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Protocol"
Bearing fire & sharp obsidian - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"
A truth bitter past bearing - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
For invention bear amiss - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIX"
Myself will bear all wrong - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVIII"
The waves of Time may bear us - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"
Awake no winds but bear her dust - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
Bear with them broken promises of Spring - Muriel Stuart "In Memory of Douglas Vernon Cow"
Cannot bear the song of the cuckoo - Sun Yun-feng "The Trail Up Wu Gorge" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Bear the barbs of ridicule - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 220: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Bears the sword of vengeance unrelenting - J. Sylvester "Mercy and Justice" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]
Will always bear the beauty of chance - Arthur Sze "Under a Rising Moon"
A sweet wind bears it company - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
Boxes bearing the names of lost department stores - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
The owls were bearing the farm away - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Strike and bear the stroke - Edward Thomas "February Afternoon"
The valor of who bears a sword - Luis Lloréns Torres "Bolivar" transl. by Muna Lee
Vermilion blossoms bear no fruit - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
Trust these little waves to bear my message - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Where the history is harder to bear - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XVIII"
Bearing the same spark - John Hall Wheelock "Plaint"
Bearing our lost through the starlight above - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Condemn'd a load of infamy to bear - "The Whore"
Harbouring ill under a blithe bearing - "Wife's Lament" transl. from Old English by Kemp Malone
Argosies of earth their treasures bear - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"
Bear the spring's reiterated urgencies - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"
Bear witness to the absent fig leaves - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Bear the last trickling tear-drop - John Wright "The Wrecked Mariner"
Bear eons of indifference - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #6" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Not the bearable light - Lucie Brock-Broido "Self-Portrait as Kaspar Hauser"
Whose illusions were bearable - Tom Sleigh "Blueprint"
Good citizen torch bearers out to set the night ablaze - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Bearer of fire and space-invader - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"
Bearers of ghost that burns - John Masefield "King Cole"
Sometimes the bearer becomes the bad news - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
Unbearable.
Cup-bearer at feasts of God - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"
Felled their rich fruit-bearing orchards - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The meteor-bearer of our parting breath - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"
Watery pallbearers heading seaward - Carl Phillips "Swimming"
The standard-bearers of the future - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Navigation Links:
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