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Better grasp the red-hot steel, than touch another's gold - A.L.O.E. "Ragged Boy's Hymn"

cavorting with your skull in my grasp - Grisel Y. Acosta "Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic"

Ambition grasps the empire of the soul - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

The hand that millions now can grasp - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle

Grasped only in the mind's geography - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

Grasp a length of time with my fingers - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

Take shape beneath the grasp of Thought - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]

To grasp with wet hands - Mary Jo Bang "Gretel"

Grasping the diamond lance - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

My memory grasps a hollow dream - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

Grasp your bracing challenge - Cyrus Cassells "The World That the Shooter Left Us"

What escapes the grasp of leaves - Jos Charles "A Note on Form"

Gripped the ground and grasped the air - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Grasped the meaning of purity - Ch'iu Wei "Visiting a Recluse on West Mountain and Not Finding Him In" transl. by Burton Watson

My hand grasping at the sky - Chiwan Choi "portraitures and erasures"

Grasp at stars in their uncertain way - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"

Grasp for handles in a maze - Dom "Risking for a Sign"

A starling grasps the gutter - Chris Dombrowski "Poem Beginning and Ending with Haiku"

Grasped again his crimson sword - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Grasp the vessel with both hands - JJJJJerome Ellis "Before Stuttering"

Holds terror in its grasp - Heid E. Erdich "Post-Barbarian"

If thou escape the ruthless grasp of fate - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Though I appear to grasp at things impossible - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Where yet Silenus grasps the woodland cup - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Grasping the cusp of the moon - Jim Harrison "Singer"

Grasp this gleam of grace - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Shadows"

Our endless desire to grasp things - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

His hand extended to grasp the forerunner's - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"

Baffles even the grasp of time - Aldous Huxley "Points and Lines"

Wanted to grasp the flame's heat - John James "Materia"

Wring from grasping hands their meed of gold - Helene Johnson "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"

Strangled in my nervous grasp - John Keats "Hyperion"

With Fate conspire to grasp - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Reach over and grasp the dark air - Christopher Kondrich "Schedule for Burning"

Reft from me and from my clinging grasp - W.E.L. "A Dirge of Love" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.454, 11 Sept. 1852]

Dissolves the grasp of death - Archibald Lampman "Favorites of Pan"

The burning grasp of life - Archibald Lampman "We Too Shall Sleep"

Grasp the fallen sceptre of the day - Ida Lee "The Homestead"

The void where fuel grasps at rocks - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

Inability to grasp wave-particle duality - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"

Grasped my eager heart in my own talons - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

And eager thousands grasp the sword - R.W. MacGowan "Our Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

A hunger I can never grasp - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"

And practices of grace, how hard to grasp - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A stumpy gray asymmetry of grasp - Heather McHugh "The Matter Over"

To grasp it is to spoil its bloom - George Meredith "Rhine-land" [Household Words no.330, July 19, 1856]

The buds of spring grew withered in his grasp - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Our fingertips shone orange from grasping - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Hypothetical Moons"

The grasp of alien hands - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

In vain disorder grasps the cup - Coventry Patmore "Joy"

Our eager hands would grasp them - Miriam Clark Potter "Bubbles"

Wrested from the grasp of night - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Before Dawn: Malvern"

Of an unwilling relaxing of grasp - Mark Rich "To Sleep"

Trying to grasp the sunbeam - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Baby's Hand"

In the grasp of Time's cold palm - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"

There is nothing concrete to grasp - Ed Roberson "Here"

Grasped within the hollow hand of Night - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"

All suns are grasped within the hollow hand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"

Grasping morsels of adventure - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

Who shake off our fates to grasp again at life - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"

From the crocodile's grasp - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 202: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Can June's fist grasp May? - A.C. Swinburne "John Jones"

A body curious with grasping - Mary Szybist "Again, the Body as Temple"

Within the grasp of the fiery feather - John Trudell "Material Junkies"

Within my grasp the sceptre of the universe - Rudolph Valentino "Poverty"

Grasp of their particular moons - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal [cross symbol]

An adder's grasp about its chords - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"

Connecting you to what can't be grasped - Dean Young "Elegy on a Toy Piano" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

Grasping arms out of elsewhere - Timothy Yu "Chinese Dream 61"


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