Potential Titles: Beat
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somethingdarkerDoes the movement stop when the beat pauses? - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"
Where the secrets beat in the heart - Linda Addison "Evolving"
The sullen beating of his seas - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
Sung like fire through beating veins - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
Heavy as honeyed pulses beat - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"
When Dionysian winds stop beating - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"
Time with a million beating wings - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Closest to the heart's timed beat - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"
Smote and beat upon by clutch and strain - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
The stressed beats of a tiny country I lost long ago - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Unstoppable beats fiery impact every time - Rae Armantrout "Lie"
Whose heart beats close to mine - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
Among a million beating hearts - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Beat the empty air - James Baldwin "The giver (for Berdis)"
Rational thought with an axe beating on the forest door - Mary Jo Bang "And As In Alice"
How the sea keeps beating up the boardwalk - Mary Jo Bang "Think of Jane and the Regency Era"
Marching to an easy puppet beat - Mary Jo Bang "When April Was Beginning, and End"
The watchman's rattle beats the time - Maurice Baring "A June Night in Russia"
Brain thin whips to beat you down - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"
Whose eyes can beat down lions' eyes - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Four hoofs of fire beat out refrain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
Bearing up the balm upon their beating wings - "The Birth of the Lily" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.2, Sept. 1863]
Beating barren twigs together - Arna Bontemps "Blight"
But I hear the beating of dead boughs - Arna Bontemps "Blight"
Beating a way for the rising sun - Arna Bontemps "The Day-Breakers"
A giraffe beats a lion's ass every day - Jericho Brown "Aerial View"
And beat his throne to dust - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn to Death"
Keeping the earth's heart beating - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"
Beats no drums to her battles - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Lazarus of Empires"
Beat mad so soon - Willa Cather "Fides, Spes"
Lights dancing to the beat of the ground - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Still beating through the snow - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"
Where the eternal surge beats time no more - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Clasp and beat wild, desolate hands - Ida Coolbrith "California"
On the dusty earth-drum beats - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "Rain Music"
With beating hearts and eager eyes - Richard Cox, Jr. "Happiness--A Sonnet"
Beat not the portal down - H.D. "Flute Song"
The cuckoos beat their brazen gongs - John Davidson "Down-a-down"
The heart of London beating warm - John Davidson "London"
How pity beat the wall of prudence down - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
In Time's smallest clock's minutest beat - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"
Repeal the beating ground - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXV"
Ocean drums his grand march beat - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
The sap goes beating to the sun - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Let the rude waves beat their sullen music - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
In fire the great boat beats the seas - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"
the rum barrel hollowed out and beaten into percussion - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
Sometimes I wander out of beaten ways - Robert Frost "An Encounter"
As a rain that beats all day - Theodosia Garrison "Two Brothers"
With courage beat your enemies down - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Close my ears to the beat of your tides - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"
In the long night when the black wings beat - Mona Gould "Nightmare"
The beating of moth wings and fairy dust - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"
Brisk notes in cadence beating - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Some parting of the beaten sky - Linda Gregerson "The Turning"
Beat their wings of aspiration - Louise Imogen Guiney "Brook Farm"
Romance, beating his distant magical drum - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"
Were beating up and down the dark - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"
The wild beating blows of the strong handed winds - Ben Hecht "Moods"
As we beat up the mile - Cicely Herbert "Horses of Tartary"
A bleeding heart can never beat as strong - Jennie Earngey Hill "Heartbloom"
By all that thrills the beating heart - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Dilemma"
Death is a drum beating forever - Langston Hughes "Drum"
Beat the drums of tragedy - Langston Hughes "Fantasy in Purple"
The beaten brass of the moon - Langston Hughes "A House in Taos"
A great drum beaten with swift sticks - Langston Hughes "Sport"
That beat Vesuvius out for sizz and spunk - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
A lamp-post race could beat me round the block - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Energy in the earth's arteries beating red - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Beating on the iron heart of sin - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"
Beat the world in falsehood - Ebenezer Jones "The Hand"
Sweet beats of jazz impaled - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
A black forest beating out of time - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"
Beating me out of this world - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"
His mast of beaten gold - Charles Kingsley "Earl Haldan's Daughter"
The drowsy beat of partridge wings - Archibald Lampman "April"
With the beat of midnight bells - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
to the shimmering beat of star twinkle pulses - Jessica Langer "Chaos"
Before my heart stops beating - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
Battered wreck by tempests beat - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"
A benign and beating heart - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"
The virulent water beat my flame down to ash - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"
Illusions beating with their baffled wings - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"
Beats dead like a slackened drum - Amy Lowell "The Taxi"
The slow pulse which beats eternity - Amy Lowell "Venetian Glass"
The beat of kettles hurries the sinking moon - Lu Yu "Border Mountain Moon" transl. by Burton Watson
Beating upon the stars with my gold - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
The beating wings of the sun - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
Sparks from the anvil beaten - Louis J. McQuilland "Romance at Rest"
Of a fire beaten flat - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Bend beaten cheek to gravel - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Like a hundred beating drums - Clara A. Merrill "All Things Speak of God"
Ghostly drums that only seem to beat - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
Beat my soul into the highway dust - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Their pulses beat to fainter music - Charlotte Mew "On the Asylum Road"
Shine in beaten gold and glory - N. Scott Momaday "Death Comes for Beowulf"
Keeping the beat of burning rain - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"
My heart beating a breathless requiem - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
Bare to the beating of the whirlwind - Lewis Morris "Saint Christopher"
beats against the wall of the waterless - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"
The beat of daybreak like a drum - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Double Autumn" transl. by Mark Eisner
A delicate heart beats upon the snow - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Beat the drums of spring - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"
The universal heart in nature's bosom beating - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
Feel earth's pulses beating - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
Beat upon our hearts like showers of frozen hail - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
And heart of slower beat - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"
The heart's beat asserts control - Grace Paley "Night Morning"
Beat its blood through thin chambers - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"
Living in the beat of my veins - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Bomba"
Beating the black dome over a beach - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Late snow beats with cold white fists - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
That grim and gathering beat - Charles G.D. Roberts "To Shakespeare, in 1916"
Did the long miles fret or the red sun beat? - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Forget-Me-Not"
beats the page until knuckles singe - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"
Which asked no beat of answering pulse - Dorothy L. Sayers "Pygmalion"
Beaten by the envy of the black branches - Fritz Schnack "Echo" transl. by William Saphier
Clockwork hearts with crystal chips & atom beats - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"
Beats its noontide harmonies - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Beats out the breath from doom-gripped body - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
A little beat within the heart of Time - Robert W. Service "Just Think!"
Beating in the sky's eardrum - Deema K. Shehabi "Vista"
A fair table all of the beaten gold - Frederick Sheldon "Belted Will"
The distant beat of Spring's irrevocable feet - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: II. A Road Song in May"
Followed the close-heard beat of love's wide wings - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
And with vain hands beat idly at thy gate - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Hammered, beaten, seven times melted - Taras Shevchenko "On the Eleventh Psalm" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Mulberry bark that was beaten enough to braid - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"
Yet still thy bloodless heart doth beat - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Old Watch"
Their own river of beating hearts - Alison Swan "True Story"
The clock is peaceful with its quiet beat - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
Dreams beat against the inner eye - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"
Who haunts my path like a heart's missed beat - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"
With beating hearts of fire - Sara Teasdale "Stars"
And beat the twilight into flakes of fire - Alfred Tennyson "Tithonus"
Unable to beat the storm - Amber Flora Thomas "Headwind"
The drums of time beating against oblivion - Iris Tree "[How soundly sleepeth the fool]"
Our hearts with sadder pulses beat - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"
Beat with such bitter, restless pain - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
beat back whatever hordes come haunting - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"
Impossible beats possible - Edward van de Vendel "Impossible Beats Possible"
In prophecies beaten by the wheels of history - Afaa Michael Weaver "Midnight Air in Louisville"
Beat back the wild beasts of grief - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Then, They Came"
When Queen Ashtaroth beat at her lamp and fell - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"
While the devils beat the warlike drum - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"
Beaten spine still straight - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
And beat upon the bone - W.B. Yeats "Young Man’s Song"
Wear away with silent beat - Zitkála-Šá "Iris of Life"
The backbeat of a world of great machines - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"
An ocean brow-beaten by a river - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"
Makes hammer beat of drum beat - Langston Hughes "Migrant"
The drumbeat of a ghost - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"
On sleep's faint-beating wings - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"
Of the storm-beaten years - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Loud round my storm-beaten bark - S. Anna Lewis "The Unmasked"
Firm as the wave-beaten rock - Frank E. Smedley "The Enchanted Net"
Alone by the wind-beaten hill - Thomas Campbell "Exile of Erin"
Wingbeat.
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Where the secrets beat in the heart - Linda Addison "Evolving"
The sullen beating of his seas - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
Sung like fire through beating veins - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
Heavy as honeyed pulses beat - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"
When Dionysian winds stop beating - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"
Time with a million beating wings - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Closest to the heart's timed beat - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"
Smote and beat upon by clutch and strain - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
The stressed beats of a tiny country I lost long ago - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Unstoppable beats fiery impact every time - Rae Armantrout "Lie"
Whose heart beats close to mine - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
Among a million beating hearts - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Beat the empty air - James Baldwin "The giver (for Berdis)"
Rational thought with an axe beating on the forest door - Mary Jo Bang "And As In Alice"
How the sea keeps beating up the boardwalk - Mary Jo Bang "Think of Jane and the Regency Era"
Marching to an easy puppet beat - Mary Jo Bang "When April Was Beginning, and End"
The watchman's rattle beats the time - Maurice Baring "A June Night in Russia"
Brain thin whips to beat you down - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"
Whose eyes can beat down lions' eyes - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Four hoofs of fire beat out refrain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
Bearing up the balm upon their beating wings - "The Birth of the Lily" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.2, Sept. 1863]
Beating barren twigs together - Arna Bontemps "Blight"
But I hear the beating of dead boughs - Arna Bontemps "Blight"
Beating a way for the rising sun - Arna Bontemps "The Day-Breakers"
A giraffe beats a lion's ass every day - Jericho Brown "Aerial View"
And beat his throne to dust - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn to Death"
Keeping the earth's heart beating - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"
Beats no drums to her battles - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Lazarus of Empires"
Beat mad so soon - Willa Cather "Fides, Spes"
Lights dancing to the beat of the ground - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Still beating through the snow - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"
Where the eternal surge beats time no more - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Clasp and beat wild, desolate hands - Ida Coolbrith "California"
On the dusty earth-drum beats - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "Rain Music"
With beating hearts and eager eyes - Richard Cox, Jr. "Happiness--A Sonnet"
Beat not the portal down - H.D. "Flute Song"
The cuckoos beat their brazen gongs - John Davidson "Down-a-down"
The heart of London beating warm - John Davidson "London"
How pity beat the wall of prudence down - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
In Time's smallest clock's minutest beat - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"
Repeal the beating ground - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXV"
Ocean drums his grand march beat - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
The sap goes beating to the sun - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Let the rude waves beat their sullen music - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
In fire the great boat beats the seas - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"
the rum barrel hollowed out and beaten into percussion - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
Sometimes I wander out of beaten ways - Robert Frost "An Encounter"
As a rain that beats all day - Theodosia Garrison "Two Brothers"
With courage beat your enemies down - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Close my ears to the beat of your tides - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"
In the long night when the black wings beat - Mona Gould "Nightmare"
The beating of moth wings and fairy dust - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"
Brisk notes in cadence beating - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Some parting of the beaten sky - Linda Gregerson "The Turning"
Beat their wings of aspiration - Louise Imogen Guiney "Brook Farm"
Romance, beating his distant magical drum - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"
Were beating up and down the dark - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"
The wild beating blows of the strong handed winds - Ben Hecht "Moods"
As we beat up the mile - Cicely Herbert "Horses of Tartary"
A bleeding heart can never beat as strong - Jennie Earngey Hill "Heartbloom"
By all that thrills the beating heart - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Dilemma"
Death is a drum beating forever - Langston Hughes "Drum"
Beat the drums of tragedy - Langston Hughes "Fantasy in Purple"
The beaten brass of the moon - Langston Hughes "A House in Taos"
A great drum beaten with swift sticks - Langston Hughes "Sport"
That beat Vesuvius out for sizz and spunk - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
A lamp-post race could beat me round the block - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Energy in the earth's arteries beating red - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Beating on the iron heart of sin - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"
Beat the world in falsehood - Ebenezer Jones "The Hand"
Sweet beats of jazz impaled - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
A black forest beating out of time - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"
Beating me out of this world - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"
His mast of beaten gold - Charles Kingsley "Earl Haldan's Daughter"
The drowsy beat of partridge wings - Archibald Lampman "April"
With the beat of midnight bells - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
to the shimmering beat of star twinkle pulses - Jessica Langer "Chaos"
Before my heart stops beating - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
Battered wreck by tempests beat - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"
A benign and beating heart - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"
The virulent water beat my flame down to ash - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"
Illusions beating with their baffled wings - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"
Beats dead like a slackened drum - Amy Lowell "The Taxi"
The slow pulse which beats eternity - Amy Lowell "Venetian Glass"
The beat of kettles hurries the sinking moon - Lu Yu "Border Mountain Moon" transl. by Burton Watson
Beating upon the stars with my gold - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
The beating wings of the sun - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
Sparks from the anvil beaten - Louis J. McQuilland "Romance at Rest"
Of a fire beaten flat - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Bend beaten cheek to gravel - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Like a hundred beating drums - Clara A. Merrill "All Things Speak of God"
Ghostly drums that only seem to beat - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
Beat my soul into the highway dust - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Their pulses beat to fainter music - Charlotte Mew "On the Asylum Road"
Shine in beaten gold and glory - N. Scott Momaday "Death Comes for Beowulf"
Keeping the beat of burning rain - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"
My heart beating a breathless requiem - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
Bare to the beating of the whirlwind - Lewis Morris "Saint Christopher"
beats against the wall of the waterless - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"
The beat of daybreak like a drum - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Double Autumn" transl. by Mark Eisner
A delicate heart beats upon the snow - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Beat the drums of spring - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"
The universal heart in nature's bosom beating - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
Feel earth's pulses beating - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
Beat upon our hearts like showers of frozen hail - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
And heart of slower beat - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"
The heart's beat asserts control - Grace Paley "Night Morning"
Beat its blood through thin chambers - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"
Living in the beat of my veins - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Bomba"
Beating the black dome over a beach - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Late snow beats with cold white fists - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
That grim and gathering beat - Charles G.D. Roberts "To Shakespeare, in 1916"
Did the long miles fret or the red sun beat? - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Forget-Me-Not"
beats the page until knuckles singe - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"
Which asked no beat of answering pulse - Dorothy L. Sayers "Pygmalion"
Beaten by the envy of the black branches - Fritz Schnack "Echo" transl. by William Saphier
Clockwork hearts with crystal chips & atom beats - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"
Beats its noontide harmonies - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Beats out the breath from doom-gripped body - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
A little beat within the heart of Time - Robert W. Service "Just Think!"
Beating in the sky's eardrum - Deema K. Shehabi "Vista"
A fair table all of the beaten gold - Frederick Sheldon "Belted Will"
The distant beat of Spring's irrevocable feet - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: II. A Road Song in May"
Followed the close-heard beat of love's wide wings - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
And with vain hands beat idly at thy gate - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Hammered, beaten, seven times melted - Taras Shevchenko "On the Eleventh Psalm" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Mulberry bark that was beaten enough to braid - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"
Yet still thy bloodless heart doth beat - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Old Watch"
Their own river of beating hearts - Alison Swan "True Story"
The clock is peaceful with its quiet beat - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
Dreams beat against the inner eye - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"
Who haunts my path like a heart's missed beat - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"
With beating hearts of fire - Sara Teasdale "Stars"
And beat the twilight into flakes of fire - Alfred Tennyson "Tithonus"
Unable to beat the storm - Amber Flora Thomas "Headwind"
The drums of time beating against oblivion - Iris Tree "[How soundly sleepeth the fool]"
Our hearts with sadder pulses beat - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"
Beat with such bitter, restless pain - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
beat back whatever hordes come haunting - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"
Impossible beats possible - Edward van de Vendel "Impossible Beats Possible"
In prophecies beaten by the wheels of history - Afaa Michael Weaver "Midnight Air in Louisville"
Beat back the wild beasts of grief - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Then, They Came"
When Queen Ashtaroth beat at her lamp and fell - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"
While the devils beat the warlike drum - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"
Beaten spine still straight - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
And beat upon the bone - W.B. Yeats "Young Man’s Song"
Wear away with silent beat - Zitkála-Šá "Iris of Life"
The backbeat of a world of great machines - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"
An ocean brow-beaten by a river - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"
Makes hammer beat of drum beat - Langston Hughes "Migrant"
The drumbeat of a ghost - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"
On sleep's faint-beating wings - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"
Of the storm-beaten years - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Loud round my storm-beaten bark - S. Anna Lewis "The Unmasked"
Firm as the wave-beaten rock - Frank E. Smedley "The Enchanted Net"
Alone by the wind-beaten hill - Thomas Campbell "Exile of Erin"
Wingbeat.
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