Potential Titles: Peril

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Imperiled by the current and the wind - Boris Dralyuk "The Catch: On Translation"


Every peril paired with its opposite - Mary Jo Bang "The Raven Feeds Reynard"

Neither peril nor passion intrude - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Poem"

Unchecked by peril, unawed by fear - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

More for peril than a thousand swords - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Her coasts of perils and shadows - George Blackstone Field "The Breaker of the Trail"

The shock of Peril's darkest wave - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Strong from the peril of the strife - William D. Howells "Saint Christopher"

Through all perils laughed - Elinor Jenkins "Sursum Corda"

And therefore the land lies in peril - "The King-Slaying in Finderup, 1285" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Still perils in the path - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: III. The Third Hole"

That denial a peril - Joy Priest "Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over"

Will love you through prize and peril - Jacques J. Rancourt "Mt. Diablo"

The perils his wisdom foresaw - Sir Walter Scott "Song"

With peril and with wonder zoned - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"

On the tides of peril drawn - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

I have threaded narrows, and I have passed through perils - Arthur Stringer "Protestations"

Snug in the perilous knowledge - Mark Van Doren "The Hills of Little Cornwall"


Set on some precipice's perilous edge - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

The broken stair with perilous step shall climb - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Drenching the perilous garden - Louise Morey Bowman "Green Apples"

Thy lovely perilous abode - Thomas Boyd "To the Lianhaun Shee"

In their perilous fall shall thunder - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

And shun the land too perilous - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

To this most perilous venture run - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"

Lay prone on the perilous edge - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Out of the window perilously spread - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"

Perilous tombs of forgotten goddesses - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Go unto that perilous throne - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 4 (February 1923)"

On the foam of perilous seas - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Pilgrims of the perilous deep - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Loom over perilous pits of eclipse - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"

Its dear perilous honey - Richard Le Gallienne "Corydon's Farewell to His Pipe"

Walking the perilous tightropes of tension - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"

Quit this perilous brink - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

The perilous lustre of thy eyes - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

Proud and perilous passion - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"

Wrought in God's perilous mood - William Vaughan Moody "I Am the Woman"

The perilous sound of hail on a tin roof - Linda Pastan "Ah, Friend"

Shaking you free from your perilous berth - Amy Redpath Roddick "A Scientific Puzzle"

Deepened to a perilous pit - "Second Winter-Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull

To scorn the perilous blue - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Sinking of the Titanic"

Rest perilously on the bank of time - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 180: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Our perilous voyage past - Richard C. Trench "The Kingdom of God"

The frozen lake's perilous breath - Emily van Kley "Lacustrine"

A perilous foot that treads the reeds - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"

The call of the perilous margins - Humbert Wolfe "The Well"


Divine accomplice of those perilous-sweet - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"


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