Potential Titles: Compass
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somethingdarkerLooked upon the compass of his soul - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"
In a raindrop's compass lie a planet's elements - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
Trust that quiet inner compass - Mouna Ammar "Homage to a Cat Stevens song"
Until by measured compass I can meet the place I started - Louis K. Anspacher "My Psalm of Life" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]
My compass has betrayed me - James Baldwin "Inventory/On Being 52"
The economy of a compass - Mary Jo Bang "A Model of a Machine"
With gray walls compassed round - Anne Bronte "Home"
In the compass of a year - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin Over His Sons"
Clasped in the compass of one sun - Susan Coolidge "Savoir C'est Pardonner"
Compass, quadrant and sextant contrive - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"
Compass, quadrant and sextant contrive no farther tides - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"
Orbit our compass star - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
May err in compassing material ends - T.S. Eliot "The Hippopotamus"
With need for compass and for rod - Jessie Fauset "The Return" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Without the compass, sail, and oar - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Villains would compass it by guilt - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A compass without a needle - Jim Harrison "Hard Times"
A compass pointing in all directions of lifelines - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Fashioned the compass that leads to the creaky side door - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
A starburst compass pointing in all the directions - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"
Replaced his compass with a heart-shaped clock - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
You'll wonder if this compass will ever change - Sally Wen Mao "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles"
Surpasses the compass of words - George Martin "To a Young Lady"
Where the map edges blister, and the compass wasps - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
Would ask the compass of an age - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."
In the naked mountain's compass - Pablo Neruda "Winter in the South, on Horseback" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Making compasses of stories folded - Margaret Noodin "Crooked Trees" transl. by the author
My compass taps out of bearing in circles - dg nanouk okpik "Anthropocene Years"
My father never needed a compass - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"
His hands were the needle of my compass - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"
The four threads of the compass - E.J. Pratt "The Fog"
Magnetize a compass of love - Julie Quiroz "Superpowers"
End past compass or compute - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Within his bending sickle's compass come - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"
To every compass point and corner - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 200: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Didn't know a compass could encircle desire - Annie Wenstrup "Lodestone"
A needle on a moral compass - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Humanity"
Alone I compassed the circuit of heaven - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 24" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Read the compass on their faces - Yolanda Wisher "west of philly"
No compass but the heart - Jane Yolen "Autumn Song of the Goose"
A valley compassed with sweet sound - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
dialects curbing the confidence of compass needles - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"
Encompass.
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In a raindrop's compass lie a planet's elements - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
Trust that quiet inner compass - Mouna Ammar "Homage to a Cat Stevens song"
Until by measured compass I can meet the place I started - Louis K. Anspacher "My Psalm of Life" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]
My compass has betrayed me - James Baldwin "Inventory/On Being 52"
The economy of a compass - Mary Jo Bang "A Model of a Machine"
With gray walls compassed round - Anne Bronte "Home"
In the compass of a year - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin Over His Sons"
Clasped in the compass of one sun - Susan Coolidge "Savoir C'est Pardonner"
Compass, quadrant and sextant contrive - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"
Compass, quadrant and sextant contrive no farther tides - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"
Orbit our compass star - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
May err in compassing material ends - T.S. Eliot "The Hippopotamus"
With need for compass and for rod - Jessie Fauset "The Return" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Without the compass, sail, and oar - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Villains would compass it by guilt - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A compass without a needle - Jim Harrison "Hard Times"
A compass pointing in all directions of lifelines - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Fashioned the compass that leads to the creaky side door - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
A starburst compass pointing in all the directions - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"
Replaced his compass with a heart-shaped clock - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
You'll wonder if this compass will ever change - Sally Wen Mao "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles"
Surpasses the compass of words - George Martin "To a Young Lady"
Where the map edges blister, and the compass wasps - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
Would ask the compass of an age - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."
In the naked mountain's compass - Pablo Neruda "Winter in the South, on Horseback" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Making compasses of stories folded - Margaret Noodin "Crooked Trees" transl. by the author
My compass taps out of bearing in circles - dg nanouk okpik "Anthropocene Years"
My father never needed a compass - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"
His hands were the needle of my compass - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"
The four threads of the compass - E.J. Pratt "The Fog"
Magnetize a compass of love - Julie Quiroz "Superpowers"
End past compass or compute - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Within his bending sickle's compass come - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"
To every compass point and corner - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 200: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Didn't know a compass could encircle desire - Annie Wenstrup "Lodestone"
A needle on a moral compass - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Humanity"
Alone I compassed the circuit of heaven - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 24" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Read the compass on their faces - Yolanda Wisher "west of philly"
No compass but the heart - Jane Yolen "Autumn Song of the Goose"
A valley compassed with sweet sound - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
dialects curbing the confidence of compass needles - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"
Encompass.
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