Potential Titles: Possess
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somethingdarkerWhatever it is that possesses them - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
A wave possessing definite mass - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"
Conscious of wit I never yet possess'd - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"
Possessed by the plight of eyes - Maxwell Bodenheim "More About Captain Simmons"
Who could possess an enterprise or an empire - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"
By mighty dreams possessed - Bliss Carman "Over the Wintry Threshold"
Possessed the soul of Keats for song - Bliss Carman "Wayfaring"
Possessed some quilt scrap of God - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"
A sweetness that no other strains possess - "The Children's Song" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Possessing still the bestial fire - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
Who knows what skill their hands possess - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"
The thirst of infinite desire possessed me - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
But this one thought possessed his mind - William H. Davies "A Bird's Anger"
Possessing a knowledge of trajectories - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"
All the alluring qualities they possess - Denise Duhamel "Kinky"
Webster was much possessed by death - T.S. Eliot "Whispers of Immortality"
Possessed with wrath to see our wealth expire - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Excerpts from an Epistle to a Friend" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.3, Sept. 1852]
Possess the self-same mansions - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The rich fields of your inheritance now possess - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Possessed by temper's curl and stream - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 5"
Possesses dust as frail as mine - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A Sabbath-calm possessed her - Laurence Housman "Annus Mirabilis (1902)"
Who possess the Past's most noble home - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
Possessing nothing but each other - Keetje Kuipers "The Rats"
Its conquering joy possessed me - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"
Possesses the pleasant lightness of tea - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"
Who possess encyclopaedic minds - Henry S. Leigh "Men I Dislike"
Possessed a mind of sturdy fabric - Anna Maria Lenngren "Other Fabrics, Other Mores!" transl. by Nadia Christensen and Mariann Tiblin
Possess'd by blues, or bored by duns - Frederick Locker-Lampson "The Castle in the Air"
Dark is the dream that possesses him now - Charles Mackay "The Dream of Lord Nithsdale" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
Shadows that possess no future - M.S. Merwin "Green Fields"
Some sweet madness now possess me - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."
Half possessed by delight - Tim Newcomb "The Smoke Within the Fire's Ring"
By her own soul possessed - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"
Nor Aristotle the lore possessed - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Where worms possess all that was most honoured - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)
Possesses the perpetuity of nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"
No wealth of gold do I possess - James Whitcombe Riley "A Poor Man's Wealth"
A possessed witch, haunting the black air - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"
Too dear for my possessing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVII"
Something spectral possesses the stalactites - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
Possessed of tearing breath - May Swenson "Hearing the Wind at Night"
Who possessed the grace of disappearing - Wislawa Szymborska [Untitled] transl. by Czeslaw Milosz
Possessing the jewels of the earth - Rudolph Valentino "Poverty"
A square of sky possess'd by the wind - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Possesses neither word nor cadence - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver
A hawk that took possession of this electric creature - Duane Ackerson "Raven Rules"
A far better way of gaining possession of a new reality - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"
A shadow dream of emerald possession - Bruce Boston "Children of the Mutant Rain Forest"
Take possession of such a grief-blasted heart - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"
All June's possession - Edward Dowden "An Autumn Song"
Knowing possession means the risk of loss - Thom Gunn "Merlin in the Cave: He Speculates without a Book"
Wish and its possession seemed the same - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Of coming power and new possessions - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Take imperturbable possession of his last tenement - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
In which compulsion and possession meet - Heather McHugh "To Have To"
sacrifice to some stoned possession for blood spent - Ed Roberson "once the magnolia has blossomed"
How tender Grief and laughing Joy strove for possession - Vita Sackville-West "A Masque of Youth (A Mock-Heroic Poem)"
Felt the poetry of possession - Richard Solomon "Possession VII: Book"
With possession of music unsought - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"
That my possessions shall perish - "V: Otro Mexica Tlamelauhcacuicayotl | Another Plain Song of the Mexicans" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Hedge thy possessions about with thorns - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 28" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
In their possession only dust - Adolf Wolff "Misers"
Everywhere the evil principle has dispossessed the good - Chu Yuan "An Unhappy Time" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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A wave possessing definite mass - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"
Conscious of wit I never yet possess'd - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"
Possessed by the plight of eyes - Maxwell Bodenheim "More About Captain Simmons"
Who could possess an enterprise or an empire - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"
By mighty dreams possessed - Bliss Carman "Over the Wintry Threshold"
Possessed the soul of Keats for song - Bliss Carman "Wayfaring"
Possessed some quilt scrap of God - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"
A sweetness that no other strains possess - "The Children's Song" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Possessing still the bestial fire - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
Who knows what skill their hands possess - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"
The thirst of infinite desire possessed me - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
But this one thought possessed his mind - William H. Davies "A Bird's Anger"
Possessing a knowledge of trajectories - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"
All the alluring qualities they possess - Denise Duhamel "Kinky"
Webster was much possessed by death - T.S. Eliot "Whispers of Immortality"
Possessed with wrath to see our wealth expire - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Excerpts from an Epistle to a Friend" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.3, Sept. 1852]
Possess the self-same mansions - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The rich fields of your inheritance now possess - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Possessed by temper's curl and stream - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 5"
Possesses dust as frail as mine - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A Sabbath-calm possessed her - Laurence Housman "Annus Mirabilis (1902)"
Who possess the Past's most noble home - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
Possessing nothing but each other - Keetje Kuipers "The Rats"
Its conquering joy possessed me - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"
Possesses the pleasant lightness of tea - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"
Who possess encyclopaedic minds - Henry S. Leigh "Men I Dislike"
Possessed a mind of sturdy fabric - Anna Maria Lenngren "Other Fabrics, Other Mores!" transl. by Nadia Christensen and Mariann Tiblin
Possess'd by blues, or bored by duns - Frederick Locker-Lampson "The Castle in the Air"
Dark is the dream that possesses him now - Charles Mackay "The Dream of Lord Nithsdale" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
Shadows that possess no future - M.S. Merwin "Green Fields"
Some sweet madness now possess me - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."
Half possessed by delight - Tim Newcomb "The Smoke Within the Fire's Ring"
By her own soul possessed - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"
Nor Aristotle the lore possessed - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Where worms possess all that was most honoured - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)
Possesses the perpetuity of nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"
No wealth of gold do I possess - James Whitcombe Riley "A Poor Man's Wealth"
A possessed witch, haunting the black air - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"
Too dear for my possessing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVII"
Something spectral possesses the stalactites - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
Possessed of tearing breath - May Swenson "Hearing the Wind at Night"
Who possessed the grace of disappearing - Wislawa Szymborska [Untitled] transl. by Czeslaw Milosz
Possessing the jewels of the earth - Rudolph Valentino "Poverty"
A square of sky possess'd by the wind - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Possesses neither word nor cadence - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver
A hawk that took possession of this electric creature - Duane Ackerson "Raven Rules"
A far better way of gaining possession of a new reality - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"
A shadow dream of emerald possession - Bruce Boston "Children of the Mutant Rain Forest"
Take possession of such a grief-blasted heart - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"
All June's possession - Edward Dowden "An Autumn Song"
Knowing possession means the risk of loss - Thom Gunn "Merlin in the Cave: He Speculates without a Book"
Wish and its possession seemed the same - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Of coming power and new possessions - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Take imperturbable possession of his last tenement - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
In which compulsion and possession meet - Heather McHugh "To Have To"
sacrifice to some stoned possession for blood spent - Ed Roberson "once the magnolia has blossomed"
How tender Grief and laughing Joy strove for possession - Vita Sackville-West "A Masque of Youth (A Mock-Heroic Poem)"
Felt the poetry of possession - Richard Solomon "Possession VII: Book"
With possession of music unsought - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"
That my possessions shall perish - "V: Otro Mexica Tlamelauhcacuicayotl | Another Plain Song of the Mexicans" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Hedge thy possessions about with thorns - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 28" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
In their possession only dust - Adolf Wolff "Misers"
Everywhere the evil principle has dispossessed the good - Chu Yuan "An Unhappy Time" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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