Potential Titles: Bind

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No spells or runes to bind her - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

Bind true elegance with sweet utility - Wm. Alexander "Sonnet.--Art" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The shackles binding your souls do not exist for justice's sake - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

In dreams ecstatic bind - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VIII--The Sunshine of Poetry"

The heart can bind itself alone - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"

By every tie that binds the soul endeared - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Try with bonds to bind the morning light - William Francis Barnard "To the Enemies of Free Speech"

Shall bind the future fast - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"

Let care no longer heavily bind -"Battle with Life!" [Household Words no.26, Sept. 21, 1850]

Bind your heart lest it find secrets out - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"

Binding spells of silence and hope - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"

And binding with briars my joys - William Blake "The Garden of Love"

Binding up their hearts away from breaking - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Call on nature to collect and bind - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. First Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Bind the wounded heart that bleeds - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

Bind all our shattered hopes - Susan Coolidge "Readjustment"

Binds soul and dust - Benjamin Copeland "Remember!"

Immaculate venom binds the fox's teeth - Hart Crane "Lachrymae Christi"

Bonds to bind the free - Adelaide Crapsey "Adventure"

The silent runes that bind me here - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"

The naked sea-marsh binds her home - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

All loath that calms should bind him - Delta "Disenchantment" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIX, Nov. 1849, v.LXVI]

The gates of darkness bind - Augusta Theodosia Drane "Maris Stella"

A thing to bind in brave captivity at the world's bidding - John Drinkwater "Lake Winter"

Binds together conquest with forgotten fear - Holly Easton "In the Age of Dreams" [Strange Horizons 21 July 2025]

Who delights the broken heart to bind - Charlotte Elliott "Monday Evening"

Though you bind it with the blowing wind - Eleanor Farjeon "The Night Will Never Stay"

With the fetters that bind the soul - George Blackstone Field "The Breed"

As Fate to bind a life to your desire - Nora May French "Indifference"

Bitter, blinding, binding words - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

And bind our thoughts to earth - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

Hating the laws that bind it here - Robert Graves "Sullen Moods"

Such the spell that binds me now - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Let not a false fate bind - Grenville Grey "Write Thou Upon Life's Page"

Had memory no chain to bind - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

No chains of fear should bind me - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"

Is binding on the nearest flower - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"

To bind a fox's throat with a gold bell - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"

And bind existence in eternal chain - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

With bands of Cowslips bind him - Robert Herrick "The Mad Maid's Song"

Free from the ancient gyves that bind and gall - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]

You have freed me of the binding leash - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Bind again these scattered leaves - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

Broken links at last to bind us to a ruined past - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"

No art its severed strength could bind - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"

Seven steps together bind - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

On the golden margin that binds the silver sea - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [Walking by moonlight on the golden margin]"

Loathing the heavy chains that bind - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

Bind on your helms of the burning gold - "Lovel and John" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Potent a giant's limbs to bind - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

With narrowing prison bind - James Russell Lowell "Prison of Cervantes"

The ringing steel again we'll bind - George Lunt "Skating" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.2, Feb. 1841]

Saw the threads binding my delight - Erin Marie Lynch "Poshmark"

These grand axioms bind us - Thomas Lynch "Lessons from Berkeley"

The songs of the young girls binding up the corn - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"

That binds us to our sorrow - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things II: Song" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

That binds him to his couch of clay - Charles Mackay "The Founding of the Bell"

I have no ties to bind me - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

No boundaries bind my heart - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

A rambling bramble binds his knees - John Masefield "The Dead Knight"

And binding rule forever broken - Claude McKay "Homing Swallows"

Pervades the air and binds the brain - Herman Melville "The House-top"

To bind myself upon the wheel - "The Misanthrope"

Choose between tearing and binding - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

Ours to bind its cords again - "Mustering-Chorus" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Mad dreams are mine to bind - Sarojini Naidu "The Poet's Love-Song"

Sinks and binds the copper's cell - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Binding still the spell that Adam felt - Robert Winkworth Norwood "His Lady of the Sonnets"

Which binds the whole to heaven - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Thoughts"

Unmaking all the multitudes of binding charms - Kostes Palamas "Sunrise" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

Bind my brow with willow - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"

It is her silences binds me unreleased - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

Lashes of white light binding another hailcloud - Adrienne Rich "Peace"

Something to bind me to this coast - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Should misfortune bind your wings - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Downtrodden"

To snatch the sceptre and to bind the yoke - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"

The sun's uncharted orbits bind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of a Comet"

Bind the branch of promise ever - Mrs. Seba Smith "Thou Hast Loved" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]

And bind with ghostly light - George Sterling "White Magic"

Bound in new gilt bindings - Marion Strobel "Collectors"

Come to bind us with a tourniquet - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 175: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Nor yet September binds their hearts - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Harsh the yoke that binds them - Algernon Swinburne "Death and Birth"

To bind the wind or set a fetter on the sea - Sara Teasdale "Enough"

Binding up wounds, but pouring in no balm - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

Forging chains binding you to destruction - John Trudell "Rich Man's War"

That bind the mystery of Circe's lips - Morris Tyler "Lament"

In dark cerebral chambers bind old nightmares - George Sylvester Viereck "Inhibition"

Yolks needed to bind portraits to walls - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"

Pledges that bind him to redeem the debt - Virgil "Eclogues VIII" (transl. not identified)

Bindeth the flower - Charles William Wallace "Chorus"

Of roseless thorns to crown and bind - Charles William Wallace "False Womankind!"

Still waits through weary years to bind - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "The Patient Earth"

A spell that binds me to the night - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]

Will not spare to hurt and bind - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 13" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

Alone she cuts and binds the grain - William Wordsworth "The Solitary Reaper"

no less binding for being silken - Monica Youn "Blueacre"


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Let us unbind our throats of fear and pit - Hart Crane "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen"

All your sighs and tears unbind - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Written Upon Love's Frontier-Post"

A plethora of forces bound and unbinding within us - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]


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