Potential Titles: Bid

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And bid the sky repent of being dark - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Bid good-bye to sorrow - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "I Wonder"

The first star of evening has bidden them free - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Have bidden those waiting spirits speed - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"

That bids the vanquished triumph over time - Maurice Baring "Icarus"

Bidding each acre wake - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"

Bid these joys farewell - Catherine Barnett "Amor Fati"

Bids the stream of passion stand - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

And bid these clouds depart - Anne Bronte "Fluctuations"

Bidding nations quake - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)

Bidding the attuned spheres the notes prolong - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

And bids their deeds the power of death defy - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Never bid the Sphinx despair - Edward Dowden "Watershed"

Bid every shadow dance - Edward Dowden "The Winnower to the Winds"

At the bidding of the bellows - Helen Parry Eden "Simkin"

Bid the dusty streets adieu - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

And bid our lamp burn brighter - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."

The trumpet's breath bids ruin smile - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"

Bidding earthly sounds grow dumb - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]

Bids Ambition hold a wand - John Gay "The Jugglers"

Bid the world to try me - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"

Every power that bids the leaf be green - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"

Bid me break my fiery chain - Frances E.W. Harper "Save the Boys"

Bid the aged cedar fall - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"

Bidding hearts revel in enjoyment wild - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

Ascends and bids oblivion fly - George Moses Horton "Memory"

And bid his smiling day expire - George Moses Horton "Memory"

Bidding defiance to the angry blast - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

Wake at the bidding of the air - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"

When even the dead will bid adieu - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Bid old Saturn take his throne - John Keats "Hyperion"

Bid the fountains leap in thirsty lands - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Convince the night to do our bidding - Willie Lee Kinard III "Aubade: Nocturne"

Biddings of sweet power - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"

Morning brought sorrow, but Eve bids it cease - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"

And bid our souls ascend - George Martin "W.H. Magee"

Dare not question her bidding - Louis J. McQuilland "A Song of the Open Road"

Bid them hither cast their bells - John Milton "Lycidas"

Bid the soul of Orpheus sing - John Milton "Il Penseroso"

Thousands at his bidding speed - John Milton "Service"

From fickle fair to bid adieu - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

And bid them rest safe-anchored - E. Nesbit "The Island"

Bids the leaves of silence part - E. Nesbit "Song"

Bid them drain the cup of woes - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Now bid the peasant pay no tax - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

And bid her walk into optimism - Sina Queyras "Women in Fog"

To the painted banquet bids my heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVII"

To bid my heart rejoice - Dora Sigerson "Unknown Ideal"

And bid the stars of morning sing - George Sterling "To Germany"

Who bid good-bye at snowdrop time - Muriel Stuart "In Memory of Douglas Vernon Cow"

The sign that bids the clouds disperse - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"

Who answer when such whispers bid - Edward Thomas "I Never Saw That Land Before"

Bid Hope his thrilling clarion blow - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"

When the mermaid bids him come - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"

Laertes at his sister's grave bids violets spring - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Bidding the heart of man to wait - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"

Bids everyone to weep for Baldur - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: iii) Godzilla Weeps for Baldur"

Bidding my lips to sing - Francis Brett Young "February"

Told and retold to a highest bidder - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"


Bade.

Try to outbid the rustling of the hard drive - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"

Unbidden.


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