Potential Titles: Speed

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And to the sun God gave a speedy answer - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XIV: The Maiden and the Sun" transl. by Sir John Bowring

At the speed of silence - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"

We can wait at high speed - Rae Armantrout "Custom"

Have bidden those waiting spirits speed - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"

white with speed - Elizabeth Bartlett "item: body found"

Time who speeds with never tiring flight - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

The implicit sweetness of speed - Joshua Bennett "Preface to a Twenty-Volume Regicide Note"

A decorative speed of thought and soul - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"

Stay young in a bubble of speed - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

The venomed dart shall bear its sure and speedy remedy - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Go by the speed of queer zest - Chen Chen "i love you to the moon &"

Speed upon plumes of thought - Luis de Camoes "Sonnet VIII" transl. by Viscount Strangford

Speeding up your orbital velocity - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

Pure speed held back for the finish - Stephen Dunn "Always Something More Beautiful"

Speeding Saturn cannot halt - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Visit"

Our brook's run out of song and speed - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"

The rhythmic fall of speeding feet - Zona Gale "Return"

Speeds the rivers in their onward course - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

Speed with the light-foot winds to run - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"

To speed the banquet's hour - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"

Take off thy wings of speed - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "A Day in Spring"

Excel his boasted Strength and Speed - Oliver Herford "How the Lion Became King"

Our electrons speed inside oblivion - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"

The speed with which the bulbs blast - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

undone by reality speeding too fast - Camisha L. Jones "The Law of Motion"

speed into tomorrow's slapstick - Kaie Kellough "if who"

Sister of the flying beam and speedy shadow - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

Calculating speed and memory - Kim Unsong "Cybersyndrome (1)"

With all the speed desire can make - Henry King "The Exequy"

runs against the speed camera - John Kinsella "Redneck Refutation"

Hot-wires the sun with its speed - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "weasel"

Let your speed decay - Anthony Madrid "Brake Light Out"

The ordered worlds speed on - Don Marquis "The Rebel"

Speed away westward on swift wide wings - Theodore Maynard "Dawn"

Wild for speed to cheat despair - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Thousands at his bidding speed - John Milton "Service"

To speed your ship of dreams - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"

With the speed of hounds - E.J. Pratt "The Ice-Floes"

Speed from thy burning lamp - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"

Convincing by speed alone - Kay Ryan "More of the Same"

Speeding toward the grim unknown - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Q&A: Insurance"

The speed to catch swallows - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Our New Horse"

Generates heat from his furious speed - Amy Redpath Roddick "A Scientific Puzzle"

The winds of our sighs speed the flow - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 178: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

the unnatural speed of my heartbeat - Laura Theis "Some Pointers on Dating a Were-Hare"

With speed and sweetness - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"

Of lightning's use and speed - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

Muscles whose speed you have tamed - Edward van de Vendel "I'll Root for You"

East and south are black with speeding storm - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

Speeding along in leaps of flame - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell

To drain time out of speed - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"


Sped with travail of the moon and stars - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"

All the halo will be sped - D.G. Carter "Stanza"

Sped along by whips with gilded handles - Boris Dralyuk "Babel at the Kibitz"

Sounds of the sands have sped - Emily Pauline Johnson "Good-Bye"

Sped with the gods of yesterday - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Angry Gallery First-Nighters"

Never sped the midnight deer - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

By hope of fortune sped - Walter S. Percy "I Give Thee My Promise"

Buzzing private embassies were sped - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"

And its hate be the tale of time long sped - "Ten to One on It" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]


Night outspeeding light - Algernon Swinburne "One of Twain"


That scale the speed of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "City Game: Marbles"

Before accelerating toward the speed of light - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"

What is born massless at light speed - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"


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