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

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

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"

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"

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"

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"

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

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"

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

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

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

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"

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"

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


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