Potential Titles: Gain
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somethingdarkerDead to every gain but gold - "An Army Contractor" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
gained a world not worth the lost - Elizabeth Bartlett "maturity"
Gains the dimension of eternity - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Gains power from such multiplicity - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
Built of equations for gain - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
The total of my bolder gains - Maxwell Bodenheim "Portraits. V: Housewife"
The drawbacks against the equivalent gains - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
What shall be the Traitor's gain? - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
No painful inch to gain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Despondency Rebuked"
Expense of grief gains no remorse - Sir William Davenant "The Soldier Going to the Field"
And gaining the universal synthesis - Edward Dowden "The Secret of the Universe: an Ode"
Loveliest gains and fair surrenders - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"
May struggle with great odds to gain - B.F.D. Dunn "Our Heritage" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
A captive fettered to the oar of gain - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Put forth no more for glory or for gain - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
That makes my grief her gain - Barnabe Googe "The Fly"
Can give without gain - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
One's gain was not the other lessened - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"
Crossing between gain and loss - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"
All he has gained by his actions to-day - "Naughty Willie" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
Gained sweetness from thy voice - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."
The ocean keeping whate'er it gains - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]
End up with one ox-hair worth of gain - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson
To finished loss or finished gain - Christina Rossetti "Diverse Worlds, Time and Eternity" [selections]
As greatest kings might die to gain - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
To place my gains beyond the reach of tides - Henry David Thoreau "The Fisher's Boy"
By such tricks to hope for gain - Isaac Watts "The Thief"
Wake power to gain the fight - Helen Hay Whitney "For Your Sake"
The stars burning gainless - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"
Regained the solitude of roads - Geoffrey Brock "Mundane Comedies. II. Leaving Kansas"
Sees darkness regain swift command - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"
And mocked by hopeless longing to regain - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"
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gained a world not worth the lost - Elizabeth Bartlett "maturity"
Gains the dimension of eternity - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Gains power from such multiplicity - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
Built of equations for gain - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
The total of my bolder gains - Maxwell Bodenheim "Portraits. V: Housewife"
The drawbacks against the equivalent gains - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
What shall be the Traitor's gain? - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
No painful inch to gain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Despondency Rebuked"
Expense of grief gains no remorse - Sir William Davenant "The Soldier Going to the Field"
And gaining the universal synthesis - Edward Dowden "The Secret of the Universe: an Ode"
Loveliest gains and fair surrenders - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"
May struggle with great odds to gain - B.F.D. Dunn "Our Heritage" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
A captive fettered to the oar of gain - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Put forth no more for glory or for gain - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
That makes my grief her gain - Barnabe Googe "The Fly"
Can give without gain - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
One's gain was not the other lessened - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"
Crossing between gain and loss - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"
All he has gained by his actions to-day - "Naughty Willie" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
Gained sweetness from thy voice - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."
The ocean keeping whate'er it gains - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]
End up with one ox-hair worth of gain - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson
To finished loss or finished gain - Christina Rossetti "Diverse Worlds, Time and Eternity" [selections]
As greatest kings might die to gain - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
To place my gains beyond the reach of tides - Henry David Thoreau "The Fisher's Boy"
By such tricks to hope for gain - Isaac Watts "The Thief"
Wake power to gain the fight - Helen Hay Whitney "For Your Sake"
The stars burning gainless - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"
Regained the solitude of roads - Geoffrey Brock "Mundane Comedies. II. Leaving Kansas"
Sees darkness regain swift command - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"
And mocked by hopeless longing to regain - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"
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