Potential Titles: Power
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somethingdarkerThe ruthless glee of an unescapable power - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
As the sleepless itch for power swells - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."
A power whose prisons are broken - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Color hides a power still unknown but real - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Arrayed behind his eyes in primary bands of power - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Whatever power wields the watering can - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"
Discover fragrance of such sweet power - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXVIII: A Soul's Sweetness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
The power of a good man's prayer - "Away to the Fray" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Of power to tame a tiger's heart - Benjamin West Ball "Inscription"
An immense power in uncertainty - Mary Jo Bang "I as in Justice"
Colossal Power with overwhelming force bears down - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
By the high decree of powers supreme - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
Sweet powers of solitude and song - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
The rats are eating the thrones of power - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Gains power from such multiplicity - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
With all his guards and tools of power - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Spoil the power of the feast - "The Book of Odes: No.220. When Guests First Take Their Seats" transl. by Burton Watson
So we could inhabit a circle of power - Bruce Boston "Marble People"
Grieves for its waning power - Louise Morey Bowman "The Dead Violin"
All his powers employ - Anne Bronte "The Narrow Way"
And silence must resume her power - Anne Bronte "Past Days"
With a powerful barnacle glue - Calef Brown "Barnacle Built for Two"
Power under a quilt that won't unravel - Jericho Brown "After Avery R. Young"
Early spring's dissolving powers - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Hawthorn Spray"
Through the idle mesh of power - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
The vexed ore no mineral of power - William Cullen Bryant "Sonnet to --"
Trophies of remembered power - William Cullen Bryant "A Walk at Sunset"
Find what prize befits their powers - George S. Burleigh "The Gardener" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The passion and the power to roam - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
Pity and power the deadliest benevolence - Cecilia Caballero "Octavia Said You Cannot Know How Deeply People Feel Their Ancestors"
The power to forge and be prolific as Carp - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Breathing flame of pride and power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Earth's host upon its iron power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
Equal gifts of anger, love, and power - Giosue Carducci "In Santa Croce" transl. by Frank Sewall
To balance the power of yes - Connstynce Nduta Chege "To Get 2(54) You"
My spleen's above the power of words - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]
Must recruit exhausted power - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"
Not fear, not power, but focus - Aaron Coleman "Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)"
Power in the spring - Hilda Conkling "Spring Song"
Dark, fierce, and full of power - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
With thrice augmented power - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
By wizard-power upheld - George Crabbe "Parish Register: Part I. Baptisms"
equals the power of your intense fragility - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"
This bitter power of song - H.D. "Cassandra"
Whose happy heart has power to make a stone a flower - W.H. Davies "The Example"
Shows the power of luminous Truth to kill - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
And bids their deeds the power of death defy - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Some turn of Fortune's wheel destroy his power - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Power in deep oblivion overthrown - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Raised to the power of all the nerves in the human brain - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Futile barrier of Power - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
Shocked by their own power - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Eyes prophetic of the power - Julia C.R. Dorr "Idle Words"
A confederacy of mightiest Powers - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"
Powers of the deep below - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"
Storm with the tempest of power - A.E. "Love"
On the right side of power - Tongo Eisen-Martin "The Patient Ones"
Wither away beneath the false one's power - Eliza "The Broken Heart" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
A tribute to the power in her voice - Danielle Emerson "shíma yazhí ahéheeʼ / thank you, auntie"
The inmost powers Prometheus proffered - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
We are still in death's stern and inflexible power - "The Emperor's Rout"
Power each one himself to raise - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Queen of all power - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Seized the seven powers of the gods - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Who reaps the powers of heaven and earth - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Founded to house the ancient powers - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle
From which powers and verdicts spring - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 21. E-Tarsirsir. the Temple of Baba in Girsu" transl. by Sophus Helle
Skilled in the great powers of dominion - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 33. E-Dimgalkalama, the Temple of Ishtaran in Der" transl. by Sophus Helle
Hallowed house of great powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 34. E-Sikil, the Temple of Ninazu in Eshnunna" transl. by Sophus Helle
Raise your head among the noble powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 35. E-Duba, the Temple of Zababa in Kish" transl. by Sophus Helle
As power trembled into thought - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"
Rules every power in oak and olive-trunk - Michael Field "In Monte Fanno"
The power to Midas given of old - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
The infinite power of dynamite - Luciano Folgore "The Submarine" transl. by Anne Simon
The changing power of years - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"
And the sun by its own power seems to be undone - Robert Frost "An Encounter"
To surprise its power with treason - Tess Gallagher "Ring"
Traded her emotions for power - Nikita Gill "Hymn for Hera"
More powerful in your solitude - Nikita Gill "A Place to Find Purpose"
Taxes every power you know - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Heroism"
Though your beauty were a net of unimagined power - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
Sour disintegrations of Love's power - Robert Graves "Cynics and Romantics"
Power of impulse unsubdued - David Gray "The Mavis"
The power, the rapture, and the crown of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
The mighty secrets of his power - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
No power beyond the reach of leaves - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"
The all-withering power of Time - Ivor Gurney "Eternal Treasure"
Nor steel nor flame has any power - Ivor Gurney "Serenity"
Left myself to her free power - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Vale Millies"
Winning Love's alchemic power - Hafiz "The Divan XLII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Scenes within her ring of power - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"
Every power that bids the leaf be green - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"
By the power of his word - Jupiter Hammon "A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death"
Rome with all her pride and power - Frances E.W. Harper "The Hermit's Sacrifice"
An interconnected power shift - Yona Harvey "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love"
Only the secular powers of the Atlantic thundering - Seamus Heaney "North"
Like the hush'd volcano's power - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Power pervade the living lyre - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Such visions claim unhallow'd power - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Clothed with conquering power - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Rear'd her form in tenfold power - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"
Rushing with an earthquake's power - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"
Of coming power and new possessions - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Beyond the power of light to warm - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Golden sunshine's nursing power - William H.C. Hosmer "Impromptu: Written on Receiving a Rose-Bud from a Lady"
Everything we burned to keep the power on - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"
Makes the power of the Lion's jaw - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Riders of the Plain"
The power my rooted limbs to start - James Weldon Johnson "Before a Painting"
The power to fade the voices - Camisha L. Jones "Ode to My Hearing Aids"
Midst multiplied cares they have such power - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
A power more strong in beauty - John Keats "Hyperion"
A lit candle saved for when the power goes out - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"
All youth's brightest power - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"
The Power that lent such gifts - Fanny Kemble "To Mrs. --- [I never shall forget thee--'tis a word]"
No power can make this kingdom less - Henry Killigrew "Song [While Morpheus thus does gently lay]"
Has neither need nor power - Joyce Kilmer "For a Child"
Which o'erpay the power of Destiny - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
And Sappho's lute has lost its power - L.E.L. "The Skylark"
Biddings of sweet power - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
High throned on power - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
The golden horns of power - D.H. Lawrence "St Luke"
To blow a blast of shattering power - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"
Passed the gift of power from palm to palm - Ruth Lechlitner "Only the Years"
The ghost of dwindled power - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"
The power of earth called up into the ragged air - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
A shield for its brilliant power - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
Lets loose the whirlwind's vengeful power - "The Lesson of War" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.1, Jan. 1862]
The arcane power of right angles - Denise Levertov "The Sculptor (Homage to Chillida)"
The archaic power of his figs - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
Power falls twice - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
The power of unshared secrets - Audre Lorde "Legacy -- His"
Her troubling beauty's power - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"
And search the heavens for power - Edwin Markham "The Man with the Hoe"
Steel apulse with all the power of hell - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"
Never needed any other emotion than power - David Tomas Martinez "An Alluded to Letter from DTM for Matthew Olzmann"
The barren fool in power - John Masefield "Forget"
Those great powers of marching silences - John Masefield "The South-West Wind"
Such rapid wit and powerful skill - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
A power of unison between souls - Edgar Lee Masters "William and Emily"
In a rhizomatic hydra of power - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
Confesses to the power of air - Philip Matthews "The Morning Star"
Of precious powers spent - Claude McKay "Futility"
The silent thunder of thy power - Claude McKay "Poetry"
While justice yields before remorseless power - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Surpassing the power of language - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"
By the powers that raised you - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
Then the tidepool of my power fills - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"
To grapple with your tenfold power - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"
The power to judge an erring creature - "The Misanthrope"
All the despot's bolts and powers - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"
No power beyond our century - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Determined by the power of volition - Marianne Moore "Reinforcements"
Only strung to suffering's power - Morna "Ianthe"
The dreadful power to choose - Lewis Morris "Suffrages"
Resting on the hard secret of power - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The powerful rage of the immense executioner - Pablo Neruda "I Say Goodbye to Other Subjects" transl. by Teresa Anderson
Tongues and weapons of His power - John Henry Newman "The Greek Fathers"
Held the power of three days - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Secret"
Pretending power over my stones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem's Smile"
Imagine silence more powerful - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Wisdom"
further from me and closer to power - Catherine O'Ciarmacain "Steelwife"
The kind of power that lifts you up - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Power that swallows your memories - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Bow to the power of negative space - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"
Competing powers of revelation and distortion - Carl Phillips "Like So"
Of hunger's addictive and erosive powers - Carl Phillips "Scattered Snows, to the North"
No virtue in power - Rowan Ricardo Phillips "Who Is Less Than a Vapor?"
In the scramble for merit and power - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson
The noonday of their power - Alexander Posey "The Dew and the Bird"
Swept by tidal power - E.J. Pratt "In Absentia"
Fate is coming to power tomorrow - Ariana Reines "Beauty"
How unstable the powers to which we grow attached - Paisley Rekdal "Wild Horses"
From those cold petals subtler power - Edgell Rickword "Grave Joys"
Noontide displays all its power - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"
Weighed with satiate passion's power - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Spread wide its venom'd pow'r - Mrs. Mary Robinson "The Alien Boy"
The power to enthrall such chivalry - Alice Wellington Rollins "I Know Myself the Best-Beloved of All"
Conscious power in repose - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"
Bright with the conscious power to bless - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Throttle your wheel's grinding power - Morris Rosenfeld "The Nightingale to the Workman" transl. by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank
That powers the lamps of dreams - Kay Ryan "Tune"
Subtle hands betray their power - George Santayana "Futility"
Distant spheres obey her power - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Though Homer knew the power of dark blood - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"
Wizard, witch, and fiend have power - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"
Command the road to power - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Home to your place of power and pride - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Fooled by these rebel powers - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 146"
Comes triumphant in his pomp and power - Edward Shanks "The Return"
With the power we have in hand - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"
Power lent by the stronger night - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Power, with encrimsoned hands - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"
The power of your deluding wine - George Sterling "To Life"
Sources of power and regret - Susan Stewart "Poem from Holderlin"
More powerful than a hundred - "The Tercets of Llywarc'h"
All things by immortal power - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Implores a poet's power - Francis Thompson "To My Godchild--Francis M. W. M."
Because it gives some sense of power and passion - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Keep your realms and your circumscribed power - Henry David Thoreau "Independence"
In that realm of hidden powers - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Touched by Ariel's power, free of air, and earth, and waves - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Power that fashions and upholds - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Same, Continued"
Still intangible power floats out of the sky - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
Stands alone in its iron-red power - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Uluru"
Dancing in the meteor's hall of power - "Where Avalanches Wail"
Terrible in beauty, age, and power - Walt Whitman "As I Ponder'd in Silence"
Wake power to gain the fight - Helen Hay Whitney "For Your Sake"
Subject to vast power structures - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
How psychic storms survive to power flesh - Dana Wilde "Abductions"
A cloak behind which to change one's power - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"
As if death had no power to touch him - N.P. Willis "The Shunamite"
The grim tyrant stalks full panoplied in power - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Holding my soul strong against foreign powers - Nicholas Wong "The Little Pink"
Without the power of stone - Nancy Wood "The Sacred Songs of Our Ancestors"
Made quiet by the power of harmony - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Rises from a powerful well - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"
The terror of resembling power - Jenny Xie "Memory Soldier"
Powered by perpetual hindsight - Josephine Yu "Narcissist Revises Tidal Theory"
Into overpowering white - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
Despair was powerless to destroy - Emily Bronte "Remembrance"
Powerless idols of departed time - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"
Powerless before the dawn-borne rains - Li Yu "[Blossoms of the wood have scattered]" transl. by Burton Watson
Unmelted by the powerless sun - Tim Newcomb "December 2013"
Butterflies on power lines - Valzhyna Mort "Singer"
Symphonies of spirit-power divine - Herbert Randall "The White Pine"
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As the sleepless itch for power swells - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."
A power whose prisons are broken - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Color hides a power still unknown but real - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Arrayed behind his eyes in primary bands of power - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Whatever power wields the watering can - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"
Discover fragrance of such sweet power - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXVIII: A Soul's Sweetness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
The power of a good man's prayer - "Away to the Fray" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Of power to tame a tiger's heart - Benjamin West Ball "Inscription"
An immense power in uncertainty - Mary Jo Bang "I as in Justice"
Colossal Power with overwhelming force bears down - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
By the high decree of powers supreme - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
Sweet powers of solitude and song - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
The rats are eating the thrones of power - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Gains power from such multiplicity - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
With all his guards and tools of power - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Spoil the power of the feast - "The Book of Odes: No.220. When Guests First Take Their Seats" transl. by Burton Watson
So we could inhabit a circle of power - Bruce Boston "Marble People"
Grieves for its waning power - Louise Morey Bowman "The Dead Violin"
All his powers employ - Anne Bronte "The Narrow Way"
And silence must resume her power - Anne Bronte "Past Days"
With a powerful barnacle glue - Calef Brown "Barnacle Built for Two"
Power under a quilt that won't unravel - Jericho Brown "After Avery R. Young"
Early spring's dissolving powers - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Hawthorn Spray"
Through the idle mesh of power - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
The vexed ore no mineral of power - William Cullen Bryant "Sonnet to --"
Trophies of remembered power - William Cullen Bryant "A Walk at Sunset"
Find what prize befits their powers - George S. Burleigh "The Gardener" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The passion and the power to roam - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
Pity and power the deadliest benevolence - Cecilia Caballero "Octavia Said You Cannot Know How Deeply People Feel Their Ancestors"
The power to forge and be prolific as Carp - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Breathing flame of pride and power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Earth's host upon its iron power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
Equal gifts of anger, love, and power - Giosue Carducci "In Santa Croce" transl. by Frank Sewall
To balance the power of yes - Connstynce Nduta Chege "To Get 2(54) You"
My spleen's above the power of words - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]
Must recruit exhausted power - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"
Not fear, not power, but focus - Aaron Coleman "Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)"
Power in the spring - Hilda Conkling "Spring Song"
Dark, fierce, and full of power - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
With thrice augmented power - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
By wizard-power upheld - George Crabbe "Parish Register: Part I. Baptisms"
equals the power of your intense fragility - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"
This bitter power of song - H.D. "Cassandra"
Whose happy heart has power to make a stone a flower - W.H. Davies "The Example"
Shows the power of luminous Truth to kill - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
And bids their deeds the power of death defy - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Some turn of Fortune's wheel destroy his power - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Power in deep oblivion overthrown - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Raised to the power of all the nerves in the human brain - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Futile barrier of Power - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
Shocked by their own power - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Eyes prophetic of the power - Julia C.R. Dorr "Idle Words"
A confederacy of mightiest Powers - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"
Powers of the deep below - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"
Storm with the tempest of power - A.E. "Love"
On the right side of power - Tongo Eisen-Martin "The Patient Ones"
Wither away beneath the false one's power - Eliza "The Broken Heart" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
A tribute to the power in her voice - Danielle Emerson "shíma yazhí ahéheeʼ / thank you, auntie"
The inmost powers Prometheus proffered - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
We are still in death's stern and inflexible power - "The Emperor's Rout"
Power each one himself to raise - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Queen of all power - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Seized the seven powers of the gods - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Who reaps the powers of heaven and earth - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Founded to house the ancient powers - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle
From which powers and verdicts spring - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 21. E-Tarsirsir. the Temple of Baba in Girsu" transl. by Sophus Helle
Skilled in the great powers of dominion - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 33. E-Dimgalkalama, the Temple of Ishtaran in Der" transl. by Sophus Helle
Hallowed house of great powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 34. E-Sikil, the Temple of Ninazu in Eshnunna" transl. by Sophus Helle
Raise your head among the noble powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 35. E-Duba, the Temple of Zababa in Kish" transl. by Sophus Helle
As power trembled into thought - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"
Rules every power in oak and olive-trunk - Michael Field "In Monte Fanno"
The power to Midas given of old - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
The infinite power of dynamite - Luciano Folgore "The Submarine" transl. by Anne Simon
The changing power of years - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"
And the sun by its own power seems to be undone - Robert Frost "An Encounter"
To surprise its power with treason - Tess Gallagher "Ring"
Traded her emotions for power - Nikita Gill "Hymn for Hera"
More powerful in your solitude - Nikita Gill "A Place to Find Purpose"
Taxes every power you know - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Heroism"
Though your beauty were a net of unimagined power - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
Sour disintegrations of Love's power - Robert Graves "Cynics and Romantics"
Power of impulse unsubdued - David Gray "The Mavis"
The power, the rapture, and the crown of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
The mighty secrets of his power - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
No power beyond the reach of leaves - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"
The all-withering power of Time - Ivor Gurney "Eternal Treasure"
Nor steel nor flame has any power - Ivor Gurney "Serenity"
Left myself to her free power - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Vale Millies"
Winning Love's alchemic power - Hafiz "The Divan XLII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Scenes within her ring of power - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"
Every power that bids the leaf be green - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"
By the power of his word - Jupiter Hammon "A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death"
Rome with all her pride and power - Frances E.W. Harper "The Hermit's Sacrifice"
An interconnected power shift - Yona Harvey "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love"
Only the secular powers of the Atlantic thundering - Seamus Heaney "North"
Like the hush'd volcano's power - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Power pervade the living lyre - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Such visions claim unhallow'd power - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Clothed with conquering power - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Rear'd her form in tenfold power - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"
Rushing with an earthquake's power - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"
Of coming power and new possessions - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Beyond the power of light to warm - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Golden sunshine's nursing power - William H.C. Hosmer "Impromptu: Written on Receiving a Rose-Bud from a Lady"
Everything we burned to keep the power on - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"
Makes the power of the Lion's jaw - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Riders of the Plain"
The power my rooted limbs to start - James Weldon Johnson "Before a Painting"
The power to fade the voices - Camisha L. Jones "Ode to My Hearing Aids"
Midst multiplied cares they have such power - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
A power more strong in beauty - John Keats "Hyperion"
A lit candle saved for when the power goes out - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"
All youth's brightest power - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"
The Power that lent such gifts - Fanny Kemble "To Mrs. --- [I never shall forget thee--'tis a word]"
No power can make this kingdom less - Henry Killigrew "Song [While Morpheus thus does gently lay]"
Has neither need nor power - Joyce Kilmer "For a Child"
Which o'erpay the power of Destiny - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
And Sappho's lute has lost its power - L.E.L. "The Skylark"
Biddings of sweet power - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
High throned on power - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
The golden horns of power - D.H. Lawrence "St Luke"
To blow a blast of shattering power - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"
Passed the gift of power from palm to palm - Ruth Lechlitner "Only the Years"
The ghost of dwindled power - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"
The power of earth called up into the ragged air - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
A shield for its brilliant power - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
Lets loose the whirlwind's vengeful power - "The Lesson of War" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.1, Jan. 1862]
The arcane power of right angles - Denise Levertov "The Sculptor (Homage to Chillida)"
The archaic power of his figs - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
Power falls twice - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
The power of unshared secrets - Audre Lorde "Legacy -- His"
Her troubling beauty's power - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"
And search the heavens for power - Edwin Markham "The Man with the Hoe"
Steel apulse with all the power of hell - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"
Never needed any other emotion than power - David Tomas Martinez "An Alluded to Letter from DTM for Matthew Olzmann"
The barren fool in power - John Masefield "Forget"
Those great powers of marching silences - John Masefield "The South-West Wind"
Such rapid wit and powerful skill - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
A power of unison between souls - Edgar Lee Masters "William and Emily"
In a rhizomatic hydra of power - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
Confesses to the power of air - Philip Matthews "The Morning Star"
Of precious powers spent - Claude McKay "Futility"
The silent thunder of thy power - Claude McKay "Poetry"
While justice yields before remorseless power - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Surpassing the power of language - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"
By the powers that raised you - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
Then the tidepool of my power fills - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"
To grapple with your tenfold power - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"
The power to judge an erring creature - "The Misanthrope"
All the despot's bolts and powers - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"
No power beyond our century - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Determined by the power of volition - Marianne Moore "Reinforcements"
Only strung to suffering's power - Morna "Ianthe"
The dreadful power to choose - Lewis Morris "Suffrages"
Resting on the hard secret of power - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The powerful rage of the immense executioner - Pablo Neruda "I Say Goodbye to Other Subjects" transl. by Teresa Anderson
Tongues and weapons of His power - John Henry Newman "The Greek Fathers"
Held the power of three days - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Secret"
Pretending power over my stones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem's Smile"
Imagine silence more powerful - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Wisdom"
further from me and closer to power - Catherine O'Ciarmacain "Steelwife"
The kind of power that lifts you up - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Power that swallows your memories - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Bow to the power of negative space - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"
Competing powers of revelation and distortion - Carl Phillips "Like So"
Of hunger's addictive and erosive powers - Carl Phillips "Scattered Snows, to the North"
No virtue in power - Rowan Ricardo Phillips "Who Is Less Than a Vapor?"
In the scramble for merit and power - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson
The noonday of their power - Alexander Posey "The Dew and the Bird"
Swept by tidal power - E.J. Pratt "In Absentia"
Fate is coming to power tomorrow - Ariana Reines "Beauty"
How unstable the powers to which we grow attached - Paisley Rekdal "Wild Horses"
From those cold petals subtler power - Edgell Rickword "Grave Joys"
Noontide displays all its power - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"
Weighed with satiate passion's power - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Spread wide its venom'd pow'r - Mrs. Mary Robinson "The Alien Boy"
The power to enthrall such chivalry - Alice Wellington Rollins "I Know Myself the Best-Beloved of All"
Conscious power in repose - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"
Bright with the conscious power to bless - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Throttle your wheel's grinding power - Morris Rosenfeld "The Nightingale to the Workman" transl. by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank
That powers the lamps of dreams - Kay Ryan "Tune"
Subtle hands betray their power - George Santayana "Futility"
Distant spheres obey her power - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Though Homer knew the power of dark blood - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"
Wizard, witch, and fiend have power - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"
Command the road to power - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Home to your place of power and pride - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Fooled by these rebel powers - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 146"
Comes triumphant in his pomp and power - Edward Shanks "The Return"
With the power we have in hand - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"
Power lent by the stronger night - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Power, with encrimsoned hands - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"
The power of your deluding wine - George Sterling "To Life"
Sources of power and regret - Susan Stewart "Poem from Holderlin"
More powerful than a hundred - "The Tercets of Llywarc'h"
All things by immortal power - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Implores a poet's power - Francis Thompson "To My Godchild--Francis M. W. M."
Because it gives some sense of power and passion - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Keep your realms and your circumscribed power - Henry David Thoreau "Independence"
In that realm of hidden powers - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Touched by Ariel's power, free of air, and earth, and waves - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Power that fashions and upholds - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Same, Continued"
Still intangible power floats out of the sky - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
Stands alone in its iron-red power - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Uluru"
Dancing in the meteor's hall of power - "Where Avalanches Wail"
Terrible in beauty, age, and power - Walt Whitman "As I Ponder'd in Silence"
Wake power to gain the fight - Helen Hay Whitney "For Your Sake"
Subject to vast power structures - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
How psychic storms survive to power flesh - Dana Wilde "Abductions"
A cloak behind which to change one's power - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"
As if death had no power to touch him - N.P. Willis "The Shunamite"
The grim tyrant stalks full panoplied in power - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Holding my soul strong against foreign powers - Nicholas Wong "The Little Pink"
Without the power of stone - Nancy Wood "The Sacred Songs of Our Ancestors"
Made quiet by the power of harmony - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Rises from a powerful well - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"
The terror of resembling power - Jenny Xie "Memory Soldier"
Powered by perpetual hindsight - Josephine Yu "Narcissist Revises Tidal Theory"
Into overpowering white - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
Despair was powerless to destroy - Emily Bronte "Remembrance"
Powerless idols of departed time - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"
Powerless before the dawn-borne rains - Li Yu "[Blossoms of the wood have scattered]" transl. by Burton Watson
Unmelted by the powerless sun - Tim Newcomb "December 2013"
Butterflies on power lines - Valzhyna Mort "Singer"
Symphonies of spirit-power divine - Herbert Randall "The White Pine"
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