Potential Titles: Better
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somethingdarkerBetter grasp the red-hot steel, than touch another's gold - A.L.O.E. "Ragged Boy's Hymn"
Better than the waste of time's devices - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Never a better the Queen might wear - "Agnes and the Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Better than all the books relate it - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
The better for the ripple in your smile - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"
Some things are better off unnamed - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
Better dwell with youth upon the mountains - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXX: Youth and Age" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Paid better attention to drought - Tacey M. Atsitty "River Sonnet"
Better to keep your breath cold - Attar "Looking for Your Own Face" transl. by Coleman Barks
Kissed better than the champagne - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Heroes born in better days - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"
that the oceans have known better universes - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"
Luminous is a better word than translucent - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"
No better cloister from the bickering hours - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Better sometimes than itself - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"
Born under better auspices - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. Second Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds
As fair a tribute to the better part - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
clockwise back to a better self - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
Who better to define freedom - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"
Of better mettle made - John Castillo "Old Sam! or the Effects of the Gospel"
Sparkless for lack of knowing better - Jennifer Chang "Sonogram"
Better known by fate and name - Susan Coolidge "Eighteen"
Far better than honor or gold - Jamie Harris Coleman "Dove of Peace"
kisses are a better fate than wisdom - E. E. Cummings "[since feeling is first]"
Better to taste of frost - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"
Two better hemispheres without sharp north - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"
The face of better luck - Cornelius Eady "Revenge (Running Man)"
In minds made better by their presence - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"
Better than the language of galaxies - Martin Espada "Of the Threads that Connect the Stars"
Mothers with secrets know better - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"
And having perhaps the better claim - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"
Of joys that seem better forgot - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
And Lucifer just threw better parties - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"
Better than the rue - Walter Everette Hawkins "Ask Me Why I Love You"
Better without a heart - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"
Old ill fortune of better men than I - A.E. Housman "Last Poems II"
The better for the embittered hour - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LXII"
Better than Years with Ibsen spent - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
A new bird better than a phoenix - Jennifer Jean "Inspiration Point"
Better to clear keep of ev'ry brawl - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]
Hope for better winters - Patricia Spears Jones "Jim"
The death-blow of Oppression in a better time and way - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Better things than picking lentils out of the hearth - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
I'll go one better in raising the wind - H.J. Kesson "The Legend of the Lincoln Imp"
Because they like you better lonely - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 2"
Ere the better Moon arose - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Reduce the Year to better reckoning - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Needed a better mirror for her pursuits - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Some better strings in my weak heart - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"
Gave her the better of the fray - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
Better to rest in the halls of the dead - E. Anna Lewis "The Orphan's Hymn"
Better to ask what man is not - Nabila Lovelace "The S in 'I Loves You, Porgy'"
Better than a life of caves - James Russell Lowell "Pessimoptimism"
Better to leave them for the silverfish to eat - Lu Yu "Harp Song--To Send to Chi-ch'ang Shao-ch'ing" transl. by Burton Watson
But memory is the better poet - Anthony Madrid "Stepping Crow"
The hinge of a better life - Randall Mann "A Better Life"
You'd better leave your plaid suitcase - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
Better than stars or water - Harold Monro "Overheard on a Saltmarsh"
Rebuilding our house in a better glory - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"
Only weeds by a better name - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"
The better part of conquest - Carl Phillips "The Wedding"
Promoting the better side of constant dark - Ken Poyner "Ineffective"
Better than soot or algae's wet sigh - Gaia Rajan "Dent"
Better than this sudden sleep - Mark Rich "To Sleep"
how to parlay a no good into something better - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"
Better by far you should forget and smile - Christina Rossetti "Remember"
A star chart might work better than a map - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Missing Time"
To march in ranks of better equipage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXII"
better to finish the hunger right - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
See better with eyes closed - Charles Simic "Caged Fortuneteller"
The fiction of silence and a better self - Bruce Smith "Garden"
A better excuse for the song - George Sterling "The Quarrel"
A frown would have gone better - Mark Van Doren "To a Great Lady in My Small House"
Better to stand bewildered - Derek Walcott "Pentecost"
No better than his thoughts - Myra Viola Wilds "Thoughts"
Striving to be a better astronaut - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
To better sense your latitudes - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
Who better knows your gravity - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
Better a cluster of stars than another bad sleep - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"
Better to be the last chronicler of twilight - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"
Before declaring myself a better failure - Maged Zaher "Untitled"
Led by slightly better versions of us - Matthew Zapruder "Yellowtail"
Like a gargoyle with nothing better to do - Jenny Zhang "under the chiming bell"
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Better than the waste of time's devices - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Never a better the Queen might wear - "Agnes and the Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Better than all the books relate it - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
The better for the ripple in your smile - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"
Some things are better off unnamed - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
Better dwell with youth upon the mountains - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXX: Youth and Age" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Paid better attention to drought - Tacey M. Atsitty "River Sonnet"
Better to keep your breath cold - Attar "Looking for Your Own Face" transl. by Coleman Barks
Kissed better than the champagne - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Heroes born in better days - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"
that the oceans have known better universes - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"
Luminous is a better word than translucent - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"
No better cloister from the bickering hours - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Better sometimes than itself - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"
Born under better auspices - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. Second Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds
As fair a tribute to the better part - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
clockwise back to a better self - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
Who better to define freedom - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"
Of better mettle made - John Castillo "Old Sam! or the Effects of the Gospel"
Sparkless for lack of knowing better - Jennifer Chang "Sonogram"
Better known by fate and name - Susan Coolidge "Eighteen"
Far better than honor or gold - Jamie Harris Coleman "Dove of Peace"
kisses are a better fate than wisdom - E. E. Cummings "[since feeling is first]"
Better to taste of frost - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"
Two better hemispheres without sharp north - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"
The face of better luck - Cornelius Eady "Revenge (Running Man)"
In minds made better by their presence - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"
Better than the language of galaxies - Martin Espada "Of the Threads that Connect the Stars"
Mothers with secrets know better - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"
And having perhaps the better claim - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"
Of joys that seem better forgot - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
And Lucifer just threw better parties - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"
Better than the rue - Walter Everette Hawkins "Ask Me Why I Love You"
Better without a heart - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"
Old ill fortune of better men than I - A.E. Housman "Last Poems II"
The better for the embittered hour - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LXII"
Better than Years with Ibsen spent - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
A new bird better than a phoenix - Jennifer Jean "Inspiration Point"
Better to clear keep of ev'ry brawl - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]
Hope for better winters - Patricia Spears Jones "Jim"
The death-blow of Oppression in a better time and way - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Better things than picking lentils out of the hearth - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
I'll go one better in raising the wind - H.J. Kesson "The Legend of the Lincoln Imp"
Because they like you better lonely - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 2"
Ere the better Moon arose - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Reduce the Year to better reckoning - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Needed a better mirror for her pursuits - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Some better strings in my weak heart - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"
Gave her the better of the fray - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
Better to rest in the halls of the dead - E. Anna Lewis "The Orphan's Hymn"
Better to ask what man is not - Nabila Lovelace "The S in 'I Loves You, Porgy'"
Better than a life of caves - James Russell Lowell "Pessimoptimism"
Better to leave them for the silverfish to eat - Lu Yu "Harp Song--To Send to Chi-ch'ang Shao-ch'ing" transl. by Burton Watson
But memory is the better poet - Anthony Madrid "Stepping Crow"
The hinge of a better life - Randall Mann "A Better Life"
You'd better leave your plaid suitcase - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
Better than stars or water - Harold Monro "Overheard on a Saltmarsh"
Rebuilding our house in a better glory - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"
Only weeds by a better name - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"
The better part of conquest - Carl Phillips "The Wedding"
Promoting the better side of constant dark - Ken Poyner "Ineffective"
Better than soot or algae's wet sigh - Gaia Rajan "Dent"
Better than this sudden sleep - Mark Rich "To Sleep"
how to parlay a no good into something better - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"
Better by far you should forget and smile - Christina Rossetti "Remember"
A star chart might work better than a map - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Missing Time"
To march in ranks of better equipage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXII"
better to finish the hunger right - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
See better with eyes closed - Charles Simic "Caged Fortuneteller"
The fiction of silence and a better self - Bruce Smith "Garden"
A better excuse for the song - George Sterling "The Quarrel"
A frown would have gone better - Mark Van Doren "To a Great Lady in My Small House"
Better to stand bewildered - Derek Walcott "Pentecost"
No better than his thoughts - Myra Viola Wilds "Thoughts"
Striving to be a better astronaut - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
To better sense your latitudes - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
Who better knows your gravity - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
Better a cluster of stars than another bad sleep - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"
Better to be the last chronicler of twilight - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"
Before declaring myself a better failure - Maged Zaher "Untitled"
Led by slightly better versions of us - Matthew Zapruder "Yellowtail"
Like a gargoyle with nothing better to do - Jenny Zhang "under the chiming bell"
Navigation Links:
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Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
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