Potential Titles: Rob

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Alive but robbed of suspense - Mary Jo Bang "Let's Say Yes: 1. Scene After Scene"

Has robbed the spoil of Hybla's bees - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

Robs all the brilliant light of the universe - Russell Brakefield "Florist's Apprentice, Age 19"

Robbed of a dream's desire - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"

To rob the iron-bolted tower - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"

Blizzards that robbed us of sight - George Blackstone Field "The Price of the Line"

Barren of bliss and robbed of golden cheer - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"

Then rob him of half of his home - Robert M. Hart "Words of Sympathy" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Robbed Charon's garden - Richard Hughes "Gratitude"

With joy to rob the day - James Weldon Johnson "Prayer at Sunrise"

Night robs me of all pride - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"

To rob the grey shade of its spoil - Francis Neilson "Resurrection"

The keen wind robs the flowers - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

Robbed the flowers of their melodies - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Windy June"

Because my country has robbed me of living - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"

Be robbed of your welcome - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Or rob defeat of pain - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Hour of Most Desire"

Blind robbing the bees - Lauren Russell "Descent" [selection]

And no longer forget who robbed me last year - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"

We will not be robbed of continuum - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

And my heart would be robbed of delight - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Stopping Wine" transl. by Burton Watson

To rob the velvet of its hue - Jane Taylor "The Squire's Pew"

Robbing the sky of stars - Sara Teasdale "Broadway"

Rob the prison of its prey - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"


Robbers afraid of pardon - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

The roaming robber breezes catch - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

With a robber's hand - "From the Instructions of King Cormac" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Robbers counting chains and rings - R.L. Gales "A Childermas Rhyme"

A robber with no hands - francine j. harris "fume"

And robbers arm them for the nightly raid - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Crawling worm and robber bee - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"

Thieves and robbers dwell therein - Jeremy Taylor "Hymn for Advent; or Christ's Coming to Jerusalem in Triumph"

The Giant Robber clad in steel - Henry van Dyke "Stand Fast"


Robber-bands of grim-faced years - Annie Fellows Johnston "Banditti"


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