Potential Titles: Proof/Prove

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He gave him steel of proof and price - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Her own proof of immortality - Tommaso Campanella "XXVI. Conscience" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Proof against the storm of war - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Searching the angry night sky for proof - Natalie Eilbert "Crescent Moons"

New proof uncovered on every return - Summer Farah "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"

Until the proof becomes accepted - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

In proof that men grow old - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

What needs edge of proof - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"

Not proof against a worm - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"

Depends not on a proof by vision - Meredith Nicholson "When Friends Are Parted"

No proof of the soul - Mary Oliver "Whistling Swans"

In the orderly house of reasons and proof - Mary Oliver "The World I Live In"

As if proof meant nakedness - Carl Phillips "Craft and Vision"

Is my proof of heaven - George Santayana "Sonnet XLIV [For Thee the Sun Doth Daily Rise, and Set]"

Whispering the glorious proofs - Charles Simic "The Chair"

Proof of where the hot blood sang - Emily van Kley "Rules of the Game"

Proof of our belief in loneliness - Katie Willingham "Correction: Tonight Is Not the Longest Night in the History of Earth"

Need some proof of loss - Katie Willingham "Salt (Disambiguation)"

I am shouted proof - Elinor Wylie "Sunset on the Spire"

Heaven's geometry is hesitation's proof - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Sifts and proves and balances - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"

The sweets of forgetfulness prove - James Beattie "The Hermit"

Proved unworthy of his prize - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Drunken Father"

Savour of ethics proved and tried - Louise Morey Bowman "Oranges"

Should the source prove hollow - Geoffrey Brock "Orpheus Variations. 1. In Which He Turns With Intent"

Nor heart of doubting prove - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"

The riddle nature could not prove - John Clare "I Hid My Love"

To prove such holding vain - Susan Coolidge "When Love Went"

Proves nothing save my certainty - Meg Day "Elegy in Translation"

Prove scarce unmingled blessings - Edward Dowden "Paradise Lost and Found"

Joy prove a more steady guest - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat II"

Ever prove all void of care - Thomas Hood "To Goldenhair"

Will prove an amulet to guard - William H.C. Hosmer "Impromptu: Written on Receiving a Rose-Bud from a Lady"

Prove title to your heirship - James Russell Lowell "The Heritage"

Proving the human heart has always ached - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"

A recantation proved the knave no fool - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Proves perfection by defining the flaw - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"

Our hearts would break to prove - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

Their words of scorn and malice proved - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Shall prove its sterling worth - Arthur Caswell Parker "My Race Shall Live Anew"

Prove a thing, then doubt it - James Whitcombe Riley "Natural Perversities"

So shall Endymion faithful prove - Ronsard "To the Moon" transl. by Andrew Lang

Only loss proves this - Kay Ryan "Eggs"

Prove no more than fireflies in a jar - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"

What did your deep damnation prove? - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Proving his beauty by succession - William Shakespeare "Sonnet II"

Proves thievish for a prize so dear - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVIII"

Ask some tremendous thing to prove her - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"

she's got absolutely nothing to prove - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"

The harvest of my proven gold - George Sterling "The Voice of the Wheat"

Out of the dead that is proved not dead - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"

Two more datapoints to prove some things last - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"

Never lost except to prove the sweetness - Edward Thomas "Tall Nettles"

Though all the Fates should prove unkind - Henry David Thoreau "Lines [Though all the Fates should prove unkind]"

That proves its purpose to be fair - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"

Which proves a curare for the heart - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

The smile that proves the parent to a sigh - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

Heavy sweetness proves its own caretaker - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Congratulate yourself like you've proved something - Katie Willingham "Whatever"


Busy disguising the jaded and unproved - Paul Cameron Brown "The Keeper of the Jewel"

Gathered stores of unproved bliss - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"


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