Potential Titles: Weak

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Weak reeds which by the rivers stand - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

Weak and worn with my inquiring - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall

Shed no beams upon my weak heart - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

The magnetic pull weakens with space and time - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"

And the trees were weak for water - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"

The walls of flesh grow weak - Ernest Dowson "Extreme Unction"

Let his weakness die in self-reclaiming dust - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

Weak foliage that is blown upon and bent - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"

Weakened by the fire's etherial afterglow - Terrance Hayes "The Golden Shovel"

A single passage of weak notes - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"

Weak clarities of dawn - Devin Johnston "Aubade"

Let not my weak tongue faulter - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

The magnetic pull weakens with space and time - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Some better strings in my weak heart - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

A thousand years of petty, weak disputings - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Fail at vanquishing my few weaknesses - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"

From the cursed lips of weak men - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"

The weakest murmur of his lips you prize - George L. Moore "Keats"

Too weak for a black hole or a pulsar - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"

A faith that weakly dies - Arthur Caswell Parker "Faith"

Weak sparkling assertions - William Saphier "Etchings Not to Be Read Aloud: Lights in Fog"

Crown the pale year weak and new - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"

Will come for the weak lambs' cry - Dora Sigerson Shorter "You Will Not Come Again"

Made weak by time and fate - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"

A wing too weak to soar - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"

Too weak to climb a solid fence - Mark Van Doren "Waterfall Sound"

Wedded to this weakened hour - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Aurelio, Seer Tecolote"

Weakest flower shall be our trust - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

So weak in my feather tuxedo - Wendy Xu "Notes on Sentence Crossing"


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