Potential Titles: Guard

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Guarded indifferently by deer, ducks, and flamingoes - Duane Ackerson "The Great Gnome Escape"

Butterfly-winged sphinxes guarded their eggs - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Green-faced violin players guarding vertical streets - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

Stars keep great guard upon you - T.H.W. Armstrong "Watching"

Guarding their last embers - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of Lovers" transl. not credited

With all his guards and tools of power - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Created you to guard its doors - Max Bodenheim "Poem to a Policeman"

With Cerberus to guard its portals - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"

That guard the enchanted ground - William Cullen Bryant "Autumn Woods"

guard your language - Lucille Clifton "california lessons. 2, history"

Where you promised to stand guard - Leonard Cohen "Field Commander Cohen"

Gold apples from the guarded trees - Arthur Colton "The Herb of Grace"

Blooming like a guarded rose - Susan Coolidge "By the Cradle"

Where Angels rode in fiery guard - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"

Gilded cats guarding the empty bridge - Jim Daniels "Listening to '96 Tears' by? and the Mysterians While Looking Down from My Third-Floor Window at a Kid Crossing the Panther Hollow Bridge"

Before me goes a shield to guard - Mary Carolyn Davies "Love Song"

Barb'd blossom of the guarded gorse - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"

That guard the growth of winged lives - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"

And pen me in this conscious world with guarded men - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"

No laws written to guard you - Carol Ann Duffy "White Writing"

To guard until the break of day - William Hodgson Ellis "As a Watch in the Night"

Behind a guard of frowning fir - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"

Guarded by a tender choir - Edmund Gosse "Alere Flammam"

Guards the glowing coal of song - Edmund Gosse "Alere Flammam"

By the poor guard of danger set about - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Sanctuary of love close guarded - Ivor Gurney "The Farm"

Dreams too might guard the shore - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"

And bade the gray seas guard - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"

That may not guard the door that love itself unbarred - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

Guards a piece of light - Joy Harjo "Transformations"

The pledge forever runs to guard their sacred fires - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

To guard their own Thermopylae - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"

The pillar guarding noble dust - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

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

Just wolves to guard them from - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"

Guard your magic beyond the wing of melody - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"

To guard a thousand flocks - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

When happiness is caught off guard - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"

Silent friend that guarded well - Archibald Lampman "God-Speed to the Snow"

Your wizard guards in vigilance unforgot - Archibald Lampman "Storm"

The name of the angel who guards my sleep - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

All we guard will be surrendered - Li-Young Lee "To Hold"

A pack of death-hounds guarding me - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

Set a thousand guards upon her - Anonymous "Love's Enterprise"

Guards the vision of the sunset sky - Amy Lowell "The Poet"

Standing guard and keeping vigils - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"

Let me find your guarded eyes - Naomi Long Madgett "Post-Script"

The black swan guarding the pond - Randall Mann "?"

The guards hidden under my tongue - Joyce Mansour "Auditory Hallucination" transl. by Carol Cosman

The guarded heart against excess of rain - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"

Guard the sunset's glittering hoard - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"

Pentacles to guard the ground - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"

I guard for thee this jealous sad monopoly - Alice Meynell "Why Wilt Thou Chide"

Knows alone and guards too well - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"

Guarding the infinitesimal pieces - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"

Guard the squirrel's slumber - Sarojini Naidu "The Snake-Charmer"

To guard the hidden heart of prayer - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

The wide sky guards their flight - E. Nesbit "The Poet to His Love"

How jealously you guard the root - E. Nesbit "The Tree of Knowledge"

Guarded by angry geese - Achy Obejas "Volver"

Who guards me from long ice needles - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

With magnets to guard against assault - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

That guard the ports of life - E.J. Pratt "In Retreat"

Guarding a house on the street of broken dreams - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Street of Broken Dreams"

Guarded by silver-footed antelope - John Presland "To a Robin in December"

To guard the relics of a friend - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"

The guard rails papered by lichen - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

Weary watchers, guard the solemn scene - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

The leaves of Autumn guard the buds of Spring - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"

Guarded by the granite names of dead parishioners - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"

To guard the lawful reasons - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIX"

The hills that guard the portal - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: I. In the North"

Angel guards beside them - Taras Shevchenko "Prayer II" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Guarding with might each avenue to fame - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Set as guards above the prison - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"

That guard their dreams like sentinels - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

That guard so well their mysteries - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

And pride of guarding flame - George Sterling "Caeli Enarrant"

Whose guard secures the heavenly bay - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

The cherry blossoms standing guard - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

Guarded by the demon owl - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Shells to guard the crossroads - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"

Five thousand coffins guard each flank - O.I. Victor "The Phantom Field"

Guarded by hired knives - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"

A candle will guard his sleep - Derek Walcott "Roman Peace"

Guarding the temple gates of peace - Helen Hay Whitney "Malua"

A new guard at twilight - John Wieners "Forthcoming"

A finished thing guarding its secret - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"

The gates that guard the river breaking - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"


Guardian.


Entrusted to the bodyguard of the temple - Manal Kara "[Country people enjoy dogs ...]"


Wading out to sea to lure lifeguards - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"


Not all of our safeguards are weapons - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

Who surrounds himself with crystal safeguards - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"

My fancied safeguard made my snare - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"


Each day unguarded by the angels - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]


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