Potential Titles: Reign

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The reign of sense is over - "The Angels of War" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

Haunt the place where passions reign - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"

The loyal victim of a tyrant's reign - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

Indulgence like a mildew reigns - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: Alfred and Jennet"

Break the reign of monotone - John Philip Bourke "The Versemakers"

Reign of blast and storm - William Cullen Bryant "March"

Where only sad thoughts reign - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVI. Joy May Kill" transl. by John Addington Symonds

For all the ills they wrought her reign - George S. Burleigh "The Gardener" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

May hope to see mild Saturn's reign - Tommaso Campanella "XLII. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.3. The Golden Age" transl. by John Addington Symonds

With such upon her tide, freedom can't reign - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"

Let justice reign supreme - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"

Their reign of high delights - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"

And reigns there seven weeks - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

But not subjected to her gentle Reign - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

And mournful stillness reigned around - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"

The glories of their gaudy reign - "Flora: a Vision"

Once reigned supreme among bushels and pits - Deborah Garrison "Her Majesty Loses Her Touch"

Up to the end of the great QUEEN'S reign - C. L. Graves "Ballade of Free Verse"

The wreckage of their reign exalted - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"

During the rose and lily's reign - Hafiz "The Divan XXIII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

In homage to him who reigneth - Jennie Earngey Hill "Consecration"

Reign beneath a darkened sky - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Idle minutes are his reign - Ben Jonson "Venus' Runaway"

The kindly nurse of her who is to reign - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

Against the kind and awful reign - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

By what death you reign - John Masefield "The Khalif's Judgment"

For mercy's reign the cruelty of hell - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

A deeper cadence reigns - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Initiation"

Awaited the fulfilment of their reign - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

The vernal Odin reigns - Walter S. Percy "Sugaring Off"

Apparelled for a conqueror's reign - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet IV"

The sullen mayor who reigns in hell - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"

Silence resumes her ancient reign - Owen Seaman "Of Baiting the Lion"

My ultimate valleys where solitude reigns - Robert W. Service "I'm Scared of it All"

Though enemies to either's reign - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"

Reigns above the fallen noon - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"

Reigns over all the earth - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 194 : Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Rise and their long reign begin - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Under the black rook's reign - Derek Walcott "Steam"

While sullen sacred silence reigns - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

Disputes this Desolation's reign - William Watson "Night on Curbar Edge, Derbyshire"

Though adverse fortune reign - Richard Wilke "A Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]


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