Potential Titles: Spear
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somethingdarkerTill the spears of Spain came shivering in - W.E.A. "The Heart of the Bruce" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Shower down your nearest spears of truth - Natalie Clifford Barney "Life"
Hunt with atom spears - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Earth Age"
Henceforth our speech is with spears - Stephen Vincent Benet "De Bellow Civili"
Harrow the soil with spears - Stephen Vincent Benet "8:30 A. M. on 32nd Street"
This poor kettle, clay to all spears - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"
A thousand glittering spears of sun - Stephen Vincent Benet "Road and Hills"
When the stars threw down their spears - William Blake "The Tiger"
Spear, and corselet, and musketoon - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
With sword and spear, I'd seek a warrior's fame - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Strange spears hung with ancient charms - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
Beyond the pageants of so many spears - G.K. Chesterton "The Myth of Arthur"
begin with a spear of salt - Lucille Clifton "begin here"
Drop that golden spear - Hilda Conkling "Song for a Play"
Down the edge of hostile spears- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
Found a man with spears for bones - Dorsey Craft "The Wife's Lament: A Retelling"
Clang and clang of spear and shield - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
All the poisoned spears of hate are hurled - Olive Custance "St. Sebastian"
Beat out our pruning-hooks to spears - Delta "The Covenanters' Night-Hymn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCC, v.LXV, Feb. 1849]
Which surrounds its path with spur and spear - Delta "The Dark Waggon [sic]" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXI, v.LXVII, Jan. 1850]
Speared mangos with bayonets - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
Brandished the spear and raised her Gorgon shield - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Pallas brandishing her pointed spear - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
No Hector brandishing his massive spear rushes to save thee - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Silver spears slanting downwards - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Prepare your corslet, spear and shield - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
For fear of warrior's sword and spear - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "For Fear"
To pretend himself my servant in the land of spears - Robert Graves "A Crusader"
Moonlight's crossed and trailing spears - Louise Imogen Guiney "A Salutation"
The dark king's fatal spear - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Retribution frowning on his spear - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Like those of old in breaking spears - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Their ringing spears made melody - Ione "The Songs of Our Fathers" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
A spear of lightning for my song - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"
My body forever pierced by some iron spear - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
Ringing with a thousand spears - Archibald Lampman "Indian Summer"
The spear is through the side of his isolation - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
Gleaming spears of great Apollo's host - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 1"
To see the spear of Freedom cast - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
To ward with magic shield and spear - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXVIII. Ballade Mystique"
The spirit of killing is in the spears - Li T'ai-Po "The Northern Flight" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
When the Northlights shake their spears - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Shrinking from the spear of light - Thomas MacDonagh "Inscription on a Ruin"
Setting out across a field of spears - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
A field of spears, a lake of pikes, a sky of hawks, a hundred winters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
Uplifts, unto the stars, her silver spear - Frederic Manning "The Vigil of Brunhild"
A spear that traveled through the Universe - Harry Martinson "Aniara 53: The Spear" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
In the press of flag and spear - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
With roots of neon to spear inside - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"
The seven deadly spears of memory - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 63"
The glimmering music of your spears - Sarojini Naidu "The Royal Tombs of Golconda"
Of fierce noon with its spears - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid
A fire-tipped spear of corn - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Trooping hither to assail twilight with spears - Robert Winkworth Norwood "His Lady of the Sonnets"
Our iron spears will be a forest - "Oghuzname Epic" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken
Winds that chase with lifted spear - Alexander Posey "An Outcast"
Surrounds its limbs with spears - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Necessarily, the camp is the border"
The scorpion tail of her voice speared its own pain - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Great spears folding into letters - Adrienne Rich "Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot"
Our spears have a vision of red - Theodore Roberts "The Spears of Kan-Mar"
A million torches and spears of flaming wings - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"
Hears the stern clangor of wild spears - Friederich Schiller "Elysium" transl. not credited
With tales of spears and distant victories - Tobias Seamon "We Asked"
For thee my sword was sharpened and my spear - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
To answering tides of spears - Clark Ashton Smith "In Lemuria"
Wind brushing through stands of spears - A.E. Stallings "Epic Simile"
The bristling hemlocks crossed their spears - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Suffering the spear of life - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Not speared in burning points but spun in strands - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta VII: The Warning"
Then spear and lance were left to rust - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
With a burning spear, and a horse of air - "Tom o' Bedlam"
Came to us from the edge of a spear - "The Tryst After Death" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Impale the sky on silver spears - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
Sheltered by sharp-speared gorse and the berried junipers - Edward Shanks "The Glow-Worm"
Whetting a spearhead on an asteroid - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
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Shower down your nearest spears of truth - Natalie Clifford Barney "Life"
Hunt with atom spears - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Earth Age"
Henceforth our speech is with spears - Stephen Vincent Benet "De Bellow Civili"
Harrow the soil with spears - Stephen Vincent Benet "8:30 A. M. on 32nd Street"
This poor kettle, clay to all spears - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"
A thousand glittering spears of sun - Stephen Vincent Benet "Road and Hills"
When the stars threw down their spears - William Blake "The Tiger"
Spear, and corselet, and musketoon - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
With sword and spear, I'd seek a warrior's fame - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Strange spears hung with ancient charms - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
Beyond the pageants of so many spears - G.K. Chesterton "The Myth of Arthur"
begin with a spear of salt - Lucille Clifton "begin here"
Drop that golden spear - Hilda Conkling "Song for a Play"
Down the edge of hostile spears- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
Found a man with spears for bones - Dorsey Craft "The Wife's Lament: A Retelling"
Clang and clang of spear and shield - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
All the poisoned spears of hate are hurled - Olive Custance "St. Sebastian"
Beat out our pruning-hooks to spears - Delta "The Covenanters' Night-Hymn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCC, v.LXV, Feb. 1849]
Which surrounds its path with spur and spear - Delta "The Dark Waggon [sic]" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXI, v.LXVII, Jan. 1850]
Speared mangos with bayonets - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
Brandished the spear and raised her Gorgon shield - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Pallas brandishing her pointed spear - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
No Hector brandishing his massive spear rushes to save thee - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Silver spears slanting downwards - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Prepare your corslet, spear and shield - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
For fear of warrior's sword and spear - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "For Fear"
To pretend himself my servant in the land of spears - Robert Graves "A Crusader"
Moonlight's crossed and trailing spears - Louise Imogen Guiney "A Salutation"
The dark king's fatal spear - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Retribution frowning on his spear - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Like those of old in breaking spears - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Their ringing spears made melody - Ione "The Songs of Our Fathers" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
A spear of lightning for my song - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"
My body forever pierced by some iron spear - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
Ringing with a thousand spears - Archibald Lampman "Indian Summer"
The spear is through the side of his isolation - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
Gleaming spears of great Apollo's host - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 1"
To see the spear of Freedom cast - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
To ward with magic shield and spear - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXVIII. Ballade Mystique"
The spirit of killing is in the spears - Li T'ai-Po "The Northern Flight" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
When the Northlights shake their spears - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Shrinking from the spear of light - Thomas MacDonagh "Inscription on a Ruin"
Setting out across a field of spears - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
A field of spears, a lake of pikes, a sky of hawks, a hundred winters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
Uplifts, unto the stars, her silver spear - Frederic Manning "The Vigil of Brunhild"
A spear that traveled through the Universe - Harry Martinson "Aniara 53: The Spear" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
In the press of flag and spear - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
With roots of neon to spear inside - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"
The seven deadly spears of memory - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 63"
The glimmering music of your spears - Sarojini Naidu "The Royal Tombs of Golconda"
Of fierce noon with its spears - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid
A fire-tipped spear of corn - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Trooping hither to assail twilight with spears - Robert Winkworth Norwood "His Lady of the Sonnets"
Our iron spears will be a forest - "Oghuzname Epic" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken
Winds that chase with lifted spear - Alexander Posey "An Outcast"
Surrounds its limbs with spears - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Necessarily, the camp is the border"
The scorpion tail of her voice speared its own pain - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Great spears folding into letters - Adrienne Rich "Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot"
Our spears have a vision of red - Theodore Roberts "The Spears of Kan-Mar"
A million torches and spears of flaming wings - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"
Hears the stern clangor of wild spears - Friederich Schiller "Elysium" transl. not credited
With tales of spears and distant victories - Tobias Seamon "We Asked"
For thee my sword was sharpened and my spear - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
To answering tides of spears - Clark Ashton Smith "In Lemuria"
Wind brushing through stands of spears - A.E. Stallings "Epic Simile"
The bristling hemlocks crossed their spears - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Suffering the spear of life - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Not speared in burning points but spun in strands - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta VII: The Warning"
Then spear and lance were left to rust - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
With a burning spear, and a horse of air - "Tom o' Bedlam"
Came to us from the edge of a spear - "The Tryst After Death" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Impale the sky on silver spears - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
Sheltered by sharp-speared gorse and the berried junipers - Edward Shanks "The Glow-Worm"
Whetting a spearhead on an asteroid - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
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