Potential Titles: Bend/Bent

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The pines would bend the knee - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Nature's forces all in sweet subjection bend - Wm. Alexander "Sonnet.--Art" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

A wave where time and space bend - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"

Crossed by shadows of the bending fern - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"

Sadly bends the stricken Year - Benjamin West Ball "L'Envoi"

Bend a road where you trespass - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"

When distant mountains bend - Elizabeth Bartlett "Time Will Tell"

While even seraphs bend the knee - Cora C. Bass "Old Year, Adieu"

That breaks your back and bends you to the earth - Charles Baudelaire "Be Drunk" transl. by Louis Simpson

The chords on every bending bough - Park Benjamin "Sonnet [Loved of my soul! I seek in vain for thee]"

The mathematics of bending trees - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"

Bends with helpless messages - Max Bodenheim "Baby"

We lean towards letters that do not bend - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"

Nor the tempests bend - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet II in Sonnets from the Portuguese

The hilltop trees still bend like dancers - Joseph Bruchac "Tutuwas"

Words bending thoughts like light - Anthony Butts "Mist and Fog"

A blow that bends the wind - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"

Where the golden harvest bends - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Bend down from starry heights above - Hugh Conway "The Mother's Vigil" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.110-v.III, 6 Feb. 1886]

Bend them to my wish - H.D. "Circe"

Deeper bends the heart of me - Fannie Stearns Davis "Wind"

Where sweet wind-flowers bend before the breeze - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]

While the sweet swallow bends her wings - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

Habitats don't bend to our aftermaths - Oliver de la Paz "Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions"

The cuckoo's voice on bending branch - "Deirdre's Farewell to Scotland" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Bending over gladioli in the field - Toi Derricotte "A Note on My Son's Face"

By bending boughs and tangled vines - David W. Edwards "The Hidden Cabin"

Trained to bend and grovel from the first - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Grain bends before your roar - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Bends the flora to her spells - Megan Fernandes "In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife"

Bend down to what the sky has sent us - Annie Finch "Changing Woman"

The end was always just around the bend - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"

Little orange willow switches hardly bending - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"

The morning round the bend - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"

All memory bends to fit - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"

Bending over you in the darkness - Ben Hecht "My Island"

Lingers in the shade of bending willows - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"

No tough arm bends the springing yew - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Bend my life to bridge the tide - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"

With wild olives bending down to drink - Mark Jarman "Spell for Encanto Creek"

Bends the skies to me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"

Upon Saturn's bended neck - John Keats "Hyperion"

Practices bending to the wind - Vandana Khanna "Why Sita Is Chosen"

night bending through a stairwell - Ruth Ellen Kocher "She Manifests Her Own Ineffable"

Because neither would bend their letters - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

When the moon bends low - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

The nine-bend stream of time - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"

By sea's bend, sky's border - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Year after year in the snow]" transl. by Burton Watson

Iron and steel will bend and bow - "London Bridge"

Inheriting the dowers of bending sky - Amy Lowell "To an Early Daffodil"

Bends to no control - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Fragile enough to feel the time bend in your hold - Wes Matthews "Immortality"

To bend and barter at desire's call - Claude McKay "Harlem Shadows"

Bend beaten cheek to gravel - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

The wind bending the reeds westward - N. Scott Momaday "Prayer for Words"

Mimicking the river's bends - Tim Newcomb "Upper Sacramento River Valley"

Bending over to claw at the surface of the ice - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"

Together they bend and together are broke - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Bend to your cast that a king may die - Lloyd Roberts "A-Fishing"

Chaos lifts the heavy sea and bends the hollow sky - Lloyd Roberts "The Madness of Winds"

Who bend to us from fear - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Face"

Enchantment round each hidden bend - V. Sackville-West "Song: Let Us Go Back"

Who bend before Apollo's shrine - "Sequel to The Belles of Williamsburg"

Within his bending sickle's compass come - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"

To my tears shall bend - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Bramble bending backward for us - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

Chords that stretch and bend - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

The promise of rhyme bending my ear - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "When You're Away, I Consider Form"

Bend the lances of the mirrored pines - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

If you bend a listening ear - "A Summer Holiday" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

That no bitterness can bend - Sara Teasdale "August Moonrise"

Under the branches bending - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

Give me back my bended bow - William Walker, Jr. "[Oh, give me back my bended bow]"

Bend light into new angles - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Come Shaker Life"

Bend gravely and resume their silences - Humbert Wolfe "The Dancers"

To bend a syllable into a home - Assetou Xango "Give Your Daughters Difficult Names"

A bend is a way of leaving - Jordan Zandi "A Lesson in Botany"


Where spined and shelled imps bent to their work - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

Bent towards the warmth of the scorching sun - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجار"

Bent on being perpetual - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "In the glad hours of morning"

While a bent hook holds back the last - Mary Jo Bang "Three Trees"

On the chokesome cherry bent - Henry A. Beers "Ye Laye of ye Woodpeckore"

Bent with duty's measured pull - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"

Bent on a tarnishing scythe - K.A. Campbell, Jr. "About It and About"

Too heavily bent by burden of the snow - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

No evidence cannot be bent - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan

Bent beneath a tyrant yoke - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"

Superscription of bent foam and wave - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

Who bent his daring sail to untried winds - Rev. William Crowe "On the Death of Captain Cook"

Bent against the angle of the Earth - Shutta Crum "Mausoleums"

As a reed bent to the water - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XX"

Surrounded by stems bent by their seeds - Chris Dombrowski "Swale"

The balance-beam of Fate was bent - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Uriel"

The brain's bent fugue - Santee Frazier "Hyperacusis"

Weak foliage that is blown upon and bent - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"

That bent and broke my heart - Theodosia Garrison "A Ballad of Halloween"

Bent upon vast beginnings - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Bent grass dared not grow - Richard Hughes "Moon-Struck"

Have bent double in the glittering frost - Mark Jarman "My Parents Have Come Home Laughing"

Bent on bullets and bloodshed - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Cattle Thief"

Bent bare beneath a ruthless sun - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

The ruby sun feel from a cloud's bent claws - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

By hard compulsion bent - John Keats "Hyperion"

Iron left men bent so close to the earth - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

Bent beneath their harvests fair - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway I: The Shadow on the Shore"

When the clouds bent over - Lee Young-ju "Pillow" transl. by Jae Kim

Hell bent on spawning a moon - Hailey Leithauser "Romance"

And bent toward the afternoon continuum - Ada Limon "Spring, 1989"

Bent against their fatal gravity - Thomas Lynch "I Felt Myself Turning"

The eagle's bent beak at the throat - Joaquin Miller "At the Calend's Close"

His bent bow and his arrows keen - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"

Bent her gentle knee to earth - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

The shriveled garlic and the bent bean - Naomi Shihab Nye "Half-and-Half"

body charmed, spell bent, toward progressing - Porsha Olayiwola "Twerk Villanelle"

Not worth a bent penny - Mary Oliver "West Wind 2"

Our earth bent dustward forsworn to decay - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Bent as light, as wind - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open"

Eyes of awed imagination inward bent - Cale Young Rice "Submarine Mountains"

Bent by the same wintry fever - Dylan Thomas "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower"

Have bent my heart to their decree - Mrs. E.R.B. Waldo "Faith" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]

Bent on acts of malice - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"

Bent to making clumsy prayer - John Moncure Wettarau "Wally's Poem"

The heavy jackfruit bent with the weight of gravity - James F. Yockey "What If"

The bent shadows late in the day - Kevin Young "Halter"

The rain sluices down the bent azaleas - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

Bent like a blighted elm - Paul Zimmer "Suck It Up"


Hellbent on election - John Updike "To Two of My Characters"

A riverbend dredged of impossible children - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"


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