Potential Titles: Pierce
Apr. 6th, 2011 03:53 pmTragic thorn-pierced feet - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
His unrequited trust pierces her - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"
Twelve towers tall enough to pierce and hold - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"
Pierced infinity as we rode - Elizabeth Bartlett "Ship of Earth"
Pierced the pitying sky - Cora C. Bass "The Battle of Bunker Hill"
With the piercing flame of endless sorrow - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"
The very stars which pierce the veil - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Of Reason's piercing ray defrauded - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"
Sharp strokes fall piercing, unceasing, and true - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
And arrows of despair spare not to pierce - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In this sad world have pity, my lady dear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
The piercing glance of the eagle to the poacher - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Pierce our hearts with cold death frost - James Roane Gregory "Nineteenth Century Finality"
Where pale stars pierced the dark - Tom Hall "Her Reverie"
To pierce the mysteries of the skies - Geo. W.H. Harrison "A Prison Vision"
Can pierce the mazes of the soul - Felicia Hemans "To the Eye"
Its terminal clusters piercing thunderheads - Brenda Hillman "1951"
That wake from piercing ecstasies - Aldous Huxley "Revelation"
On which the stars could pierce like elfshot - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"
Windows, by the moonlight pierced - Juan Ramon Jimenez "One Night" transl. by Thomas Walsh
Piercing the flesh of cumulous dragons - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"
The cold moonlight piercing - Kaneko Misuzu "Snow Pile" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
Piercing the cerulean vault of heaven - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"
Could not pierce these meshed and low-slung skies - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
Piercing through his midnight sleep - Vachel Lindsay "To Eve, Man's Dream of Wifehood as Described by Milton"
A carp piercing through the dragon's gate - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
The twinkling stars pierce me with nostalgia - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman
Pierced the roof of the sky - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (6)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
As shadow pierced by sun - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"
The white blanket icicles pierce - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"
A rain to pierce the roof - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
That hour of the piercing shaft - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Our songs will pierce the dark fathoms - Rajiv Mohabir "Why Whales Are Back in New York City"
Pierces the asteroid shard of her heart - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
Pierced your stone heart like a sword - Pablo Neruda "Brother Cordillera" transl. by Alastair Reid
A hard star which pierced the jungle - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid
Though iron and fire pierce you - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Pierce far away the midnight gloom - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
An eagle pierced on his cloudy throne - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Drachenfels"
Pierces the vista of forgotten time - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Ages" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Eel eyes piercing the rivers - Adrienne Rich "Ends of the Earth"
Five-pierced with old pain - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"
Pierced with the white crow of dawn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
The piercing channel from the intersection - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVI"
Pierced suddenly by pillars of heavy light - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"
Pierced me through with immortal pain - "The Song of Crede, Daughter of Guare" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves
Pierced by the arrows of separation - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 144: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
That pierces heart and spirit - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"
Pierce thy heart to find the key - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
With thoughts that pierce like flame - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Pierced through by far-off singing planets - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
The spires that pierce eternity - Iris Tree "Islands"
Pierced with knives of flame - Iris Tree "Moods III"
Pierced by a sword of music - Iris Tree "Moods IV"
Longing for the pierce of stars - Leah Umansky "Desire [even in the time of the tyrant]"
Piercing the stubborn stones - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Piercing the dead with the quick - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XVII"
Our meeting hearts pierced - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
Piercing the thrust of instinct - Nancy Wood "The Old Ways"
The moon-pierced warp of night - Amy Lowell "Apples of Hesperides"
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His unrequited trust pierces her - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"
Twelve towers tall enough to pierce and hold - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"
Pierced infinity as we rode - Elizabeth Bartlett "Ship of Earth"
Pierced the pitying sky - Cora C. Bass "The Battle of Bunker Hill"
With the piercing flame of endless sorrow - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"
The very stars which pierce the veil - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Of Reason's piercing ray defrauded - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"
Sharp strokes fall piercing, unceasing, and true - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
And arrows of despair spare not to pierce - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In this sad world have pity, my lady dear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
The piercing glance of the eagle to the poacher - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Pierce our hearts with cold death frost - James Roane Gregory "Nineteenth Century Finality"
Where pale stars pierced the dark - Tom Hall "Her Reverie"
To pierce the mysteries of the skies - Geo. W.H. Harrison "A Prison Vision"
Can pierce the mazes of the soul - Felicia Hemans "To the Eye"
Its terminal clusters piercing thunderheads - Brenda Hillman "1951"
That wake from piercing ecstasies - Aldous Huxley "Revelation"
On which the stars could pierce like elfshot - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"
Windows, by the moonlight pierced - Juan Ramon Jimenez "One Night" transl. by Thomas Walsh
Piercing the flesh of cumulous dragons - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"
The cold moonlight piercing - Kaneko Misuzu "Snow Pile" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
Piercing the cerulean vault of heaven - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"
Could not pierce these meshed and low-slung skies - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
Piercing through his midnight sleep - Vachel Lindsay "To Eve, Man's Dream of Wifehood as Described by Milton"
A carp piercing through the dragon's gate - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
The twinkling stars pierce me with nostalgia - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman
Pierced the roof of the sky - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (6)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
As shadow pierced by sun - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"
The white blanket icicles pierce - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"
A rain to pierce the roof - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
That hour of the piercing shaft - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Our songs will pierce the dark fathoms - Rajiv Mohabir "Why Whales Are Back in New York City"
Pierces the asteroid shard of her heart - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
Pierced your stone heart like a sword - Pablo Neruda "Brother Cordillera" transl. by Alastair Reid
A hard star which pierced the jungle - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid
Though iron and fire pierce you - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Pierce far away the midnight gloom - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
An eagle pierced on his cloudy throne - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Drachenfels"
Pierces the vista of forgotten time - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Ages" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Eel eyes piercing the rivers - Adrienne Rich "Ends of the Earth"
Five-pierced with old pain - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"
Pierced with the white crow of dawn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
The piercing channel from the intersection - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVI"
Pierced suddenly by pillars of heavy light - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"
Pierced me through with immortal pain - "The Song of Crede, Daughter of Guare" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves
Pierced by the arrows of separation - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 144: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
That pierces heart and spirit - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"
Pierce thy heart to find the key - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
With thoughts that pierce like flame - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Pierced through by far-off singing planets - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
The spires that pierce eternity - Iris Tree "Islands"
Pierced with knives of flame - Iris Tree "Moods III"
Pierced by a sword of music - Iris Tree "Moods IV"
Longing for the pierce of stars - Leah Umansky "Desire [even in the time of the tyrant]"
Piercing the stubborn stones - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Piercing the dead with the quick - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XVII"
Our meeting hearts pierced - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
Piercing the thrust of instinct - Nancy Wood "The Old Ways"
The moon-pierced warp of night - Amy Lowell "Apples of Hesperides"
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