Potential Titles: Foe

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Against a foe I cannot see - A.L.O.E. "Soldier's Hymn"

To rescue time from its own worst foe - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Though storms prevail and foes beset - Cora C. Bass "Living for Others"

Time, the grim and eager foe - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

For every pageant of my foes - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

As forty brazen cohorts broke the foe - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

Opposed by many a mighty foe - Anne Bronte "Confidence"

Foe to falsehood, wrong, and treason - Charlotte Bronte "Preference"

None but my foe to be my guide - Anonymous "Burd Helen"

To foes a hidden trap well laid - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"

To foes an unassaulted fire - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"

Breathed in the face of the foe - Lord Byron "The Destruction of Sennacherib"

Their foes crashed crow loud around - May Chong "Kamcia"

The cutting wind is a cruel foe - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"

One faithful Abdiel may fearless brave unnumbered rebel foes - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Victor over foes infernal - Benjamin Copeland "Christus Consolator"

And each one sought his fallen foe - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

Cannot harm a foe so reticent - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXXV: The Rat"

Giant clouds like warring foes - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"

Keep foreign foes in awe - "Golfing Song"

Unto his foes more terrible - Robert Hayman "Of the Great and Famous Ever to Be Honoured Knight, Sir Francis Drake, and of My Little-Little Selfe"

None but my foe to be my guide - "Helen of Kirconnell"

Pour confusion on oppressive foes - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Inflicted by eternal foes - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"

So let us toast our Foe of Foes - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

Scatter the battalions of the foe - "The Hosts of Faery" transl. by Kuno Meyer

As knights ride by to meet the foe - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "A Ballade of Old Romance"

Fleeter in quest of the foe - Henry S. Leigh "Chivalry for the Cradle No. 2--A Legend of Banbury-Cross"

Let the foe be strong as he may - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

With a sword for the foe of freedom - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Pleasant foe to reason - Thomas Lodge "Cupid Plague Thee for Thy Treason"

The vision of ancestral foes - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

To slay their foes and lift them high - George MacDonald "That Holy King"

Thus address'd his foe - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

All foes without the line - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

When time is no longer foe - Charles P. O'Connor "Maura Du of Ballyshannon"

Mark the monstrous snare of subtle foes - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

Every foe is faithful till I die - Dorothy Parker "The Leal"

In hope to cheat his foes - May Probyn "The Bees of Myddleton Manor"

Our hated foes are feasting - Taras Shevchenko "The Night of Taras" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

As fierce and sworn a Foe - John Spateman "War"

Crouched like silent foes - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

Waiting a foe where four roads meet - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "Before the Mirror"

Of foes who lift great mountains - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 107: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

While the sun is nothing but a foe - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 165: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The foe that first beheld thy towers - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]


Chartered by the foeman's tent - H.I. Burt "From Their Dust"

Cut short her foeman's breath - "Columcille's Farewell to Aran of the Saints" transl. by Douglas Hyde

The foeman's dreadnoughts ride - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"

Undaunted by faith's foemen - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of a Ferocious Catholic"

To tell foeman from brother - William Morris "The Pilgrims of Hope II: The Bridge and the Street"

Treason's madness makes them foemen - "The Old Flag Alone" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Scratch a lover, and find a foe - Dorothy Parker "Ballade of a Great Weariness"

Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe - Dorothy Parker "Inventory"

The face of foemen unaware - Ronsard "To the Moon" transl. by Andrew Lang


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