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Potential Titles: Sword
A bright star on their swords - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Cut the sky with glittering swords - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"
Broken sword that vanquished all but Night - R.H. Barlow "R.E.H."
for the sun was a broken sword - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"
And climbed the ladder of swords that men call Life - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"
Whetting his sword on a bleak ridge - Stephen Vincent Benet "Before Michael's Last Fight"
Hector's sword is asleep from war - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
As the swords ran out of their scabbards - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Broke upon them like a million swords - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
The sword outwears its sheath - Byron "We'll Go No More a-Roving"
The crown and sword alike relentless - Giosue Carducci "Dante [O Dante, why is it that I adoring]" transl. by Frank Sewall
And seven swords were in her heart - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Stab our souls with seeds of sworded fire - W.R. Childe "Les Hallucines"
More for peril than a thousand swords - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
Whose soul a sword was- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
Realm of swords - Hart Crane "Sunday Morning Apples"
To let a red sword of virtue plunge into my heart - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
With lance, with corslet, casque and sword - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Her children's sharp swords out - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Whose dread sword the fate of empire sway'd - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Beneath whose awful sword rebellion crouch'd - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Because the country was ruled by swords - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Prey to pain and sorrow's sword - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ah, Death, Death, Death, to thee I make my prayer]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
A word which bears a sword - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love X: Forgotten"
Rider of the shining sword - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The sword when shielded by the pen - Irving Sidney Dix "Washington"
Grasped again his crimson sword - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
Fair sword of doom - Edward Dowden "Salome"
A glittering thicket of keen swords - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
With voice like a sword - "Eamonn an Chnuic, or 'Ned of the Hill'" transl. by P.H. Pearse
Each word is sacrificed to a sword - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian
Whipping Quijote's sword overhead - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
A world where swords can still cut - J. Everett Feinberg "Renaissance"
And the sword was a broker of doom - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
Stabbed with the swords of the rain - John Gould Fletcher "Kiyonobu and Kiyomasu Contrasted"
Sweeping round it with a flaming sword - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
Soft flowers wreathing a hero's sword - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"
The sword within the sun - Ellen Glasgow "England's Greatness"
With the wind for a sword - Louis Golding "For My Friend"
Shattering thrust of untamed swords - Louis Golding "The Wind, Whence Blowing"
Who bears the sword and handles the musket - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
And joy, like a shining sword cutting the dark - Mona Gould "Immortality, 1943"
The great AVENGER unsheathed his awful sword - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The sword shall break the sword - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLIV"
Vows that consecrate his sword - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Of the sword that knows no sheath - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"
Waved on high the sword of fate - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
With no swords and no constellations - Lee Herrick "jap"
The great sword of understanding - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"
Bared ten thousand swords - John Imlah "Katherine and Donald"
Sowed a verse and reaped a sword - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Vain as swords against the enchased crocodile - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Arms filled with sickles and swords - Vandana Khanna "Hindu Mythology in Shorthand"
For his tongue that shamed their swords - Rudyard Kipling "Rahere"
That moon-like sword the ascendant dead unsheathe - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Sword that no man will put to rout - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Sword that severs the question from us who breathe - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
With a sword for the foe of freedom - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Spices like sharp sweet swords - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
That sword of honest anger - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
The lone sword by my pillow sings - Lu Yu "Third Month, Night of the Seventeenth, Written While Drunk" transl. by Burton Watson
And eager thousands grasp the sword - R.W. MacGowan "Our Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Our swords redress the injured - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: VI"
A whirlwind and a blaze of swords - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
Crimson velvet and a diamond-hilted sword - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"
Here the sword within the soul - Theodore Maynard "In Domo Johannis"
The swords of your lost battlefields - Theodore Maynard "Ireland"
Whose charity was as a sword of flame - Theodore Maynard "To a Good Atheist"
Readings of the crown and sword - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
The ghosts of reddened swords - Charlotte Mew "The Quiet House"
Twice with sword and flame - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"
Whose scales turn aside the sun's sword - Marianne Moore "An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish"
To open locked doors with a sword - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"
His breath was our sword - Thomas Moore "Sound the Loud Timbrel"
Forcing the sword back into the stone - Jaye Nasir "November"
Let fall its tears like glacial swords - Pablo Neruda "Appointment with Winter" transl. by Alastair Reid
Pierced your stone heart like a sword - Pablo Neruda "Brother Cordillera" transl. by Alastair Reid
A sword among defenseless men - Pablo Neruda "Dead Gallop" translated by John Felstiner
A sword in a scabbard of meteors - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Incite the root of their swords - Pablo Neruda "I Come from the South [Song of Protest]" transl. by Miguel Algarin
A sword above the highways - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly
A procession of mirrors and swords - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Behind a planet of swords - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Sword-tinted angel - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Scorning the swords - Yone Noguchi "Upon the Heights"
Menaced by the sword - John Oxenham "Quo Vadis?"
Rebel swords have struck your shield - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The field lays down its winded swords - Carl Phillips "Capella"
You have outlived the sword - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 4. Jar of Pens"
For the sweat of stars sliding across his sword - Roger Reeves "Beneath the Perseids"
Served with harp and sword - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"
Flash forth like a sword - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Their joy recalls no snake, no sword - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Firelight"
With a terror of twenty swords - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Waved his sword in the lightnings - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Between the King and Queen of Swords - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"
A sword over the low horizon - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Until you throw your sword away - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
In a radiance of swords - Delmore Schwartz "The First Morning of the Second World"
For thee my sword was sharpened and my spear - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Buy my love a sword of steel - "Shule Aroon" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Through the sky like severing swords - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Protection against the swords of the world - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
His vengeful sword demands - "The Song of Childbirth" transl. by Eleanor Hull
And sleep secure from Spoilers Swords - John Spateman "War"
The winter comes with silver sword - James Stephens "Honoro Butler and Lord Kenmare (1720)"
Their swords against the abyss - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Whom all the swords of sunset bar - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
Beyond Orion's dreadful sword of suns - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
His sword is rusting in its sheath - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
Wise words suppress the need of swords - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Applied her passion like a hot iron sword - Bianca Stone "Emily Dickinson"
Where our sharp, sworded lightning cut sudden - Alfred B. Street "Averill's Raid" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
The swords in my heart for one were seven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Bears the sword of vengeance unrelenting - J. Sylvester "Mercy and Justice" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]
Lights like sunken swords - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"
The candles crossed like swords - Matthew Thorburn "Relic"
The faith thrice broken that incurred Columbia's vengeful sword - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Where discovery is not a sword - Vincent Toro "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Maritza Soto Has Already Discovered Three Planets"
The valor of who bears a sword - Luis Lloréns Torres "Bolivar" transl. by Muna Lee
Torn laces and broken swords - Iris Tree "[I feel in me a manifold desire]"
Pierced by a sword of music - Iris Tree "Moods IV"
Lie within the shadow of the sword - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson
With the sword of protest - Louis Untermeyer "On the Birth of a Child"
And the hard sunlight entered like a sword - Mark Van Doren "The Spring in the Pantry"
Whose plough was still the sword - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XV"
Harmodius' sword bright flashing through the gloom - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Hatred more sharp than a sword - William Watson "England to Ireland"
Like a bright sword of sorrow - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
The sword that gleams on Conquest's track - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Sharp and shrill as swords at strife - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"
Annul the blinding gesture of the sword - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
If all swords were as harmless as this - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"
Wandered naked among trysted swords - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Among trysted swords - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Touched the horizon with its sword - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 17" transl. by Katherine Silver
A sword-wound to that tender heart - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
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Cut the sky with glittering swords - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"
Broken sword that vanquished all but Night - R.H. Barlow "R.E.H."
for the sun was a broken sword - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"
And climbed the ladder of swords that men call Life - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"
Whetting his sword on a bleak ridge - Stephen Vincent Benet "Before Michael's Last Fight"
Hector's sword is asleep from war - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
As the swords ran out of their scabbards - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Broke upon them like a million swords - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
The sword outwears its sheath - Byron "We'll Go No More a-Roving"
The crown and sword alike relentless - Giosue Carducci "Dante [O Dante, why is it that I adoring]" transl. by Frank Sewall
And seven swords were in her heart - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Stab our souls with seeds of sworded fire - W.R. Childe "Les Hallucines"
More for peril than a thousand swords - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
Whose soul a sword was- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
Realm of swords - Hart Crane "Sunday Morning Apples"
To let a red sword of virtue plunge into my heart - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
With lance, with corslet, casque and sword - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Her children's sharp swords out - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Whose dread sword the fate of empire sway'd - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Beneath whose awful sword rebellion crouch'd - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Because the country was ruled by swords - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Prey to pain and sorrow's sword - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ah, Death, Death, Death, to thee I make my prayer]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
A word which bears a sword - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love X: Forgotten"
Rider of the shining sword - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The sword when shielded by the pen - Irving Sidney Dix "Washington"
Grasped again his crimson sword - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
Fair sword of doom - Edward Dowden "Salome"
A glittering thicket of keen swords - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
With voice like a sword - "Eamonn an Chnuic, or 'Ned of the Hill'" transl. by P.H. Pearse
Each word is sacrificed to a sword - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian
Whipping Quijote's sword overhead - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
A world where swords can still cut - J. Everett Feinberg "Renaissance"
And the sword was a broker of doom - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
Stabbed with the swords of the rain - John Gould Fletcher "Kiyonobu and Kiyomasu Contrasted"
Sweeping round it with a flaming sword - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
Soft flowers wreathing a hero's sword - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"
The sword within the sun - Ellen Glasgow "England's Greatness"
With the wind for a sword - Louis Golding "For My Friend"
Shattering thrust of untamed swords - Louis Golding "The Wind, Whence Blowing"
Who bears the sword and handles the musket - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
And joy, like a shining sword cutting the dark - Mona Gould "Immortality, 1943"
The great AVENGER unsheathed his awful sword - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The sword shall break the sword - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLIV"
Vows that consecrate his sword - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Of the sword that knows no sheath - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"
Waved on high the sword of fate - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
With no swords and no constellations - Lee Herrick "jap"
The great sword of understanding - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"
Bared ten thousand swords - John Imlah "Katherine and Donald"
Sowed a verse and reaped a sword - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Vain as swords against the enchased crocodile - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Arms filled with sickles and swords - Vandana Khanna "Hindu Mythology in Shorthand"
For his tongue that shamed their swords - Rudyard Kipling "Rahere"
That moon-like sword the ascendant dead unsheathe - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Sword that no man will put to rout - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Sword that severs the question from us who breathe - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
With a sword for the foe of freedom - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Spices like sharp sweet swords - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
That sword of honest anger - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
The lone sword by my pillow sings - Lu Yu "Third Month, Night of the Seventeenth, Written While Drunk" transl. by Burton Watson
And eager thousands grasp the sword - R.W. MacGowan "Our Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Our swords redress the injured - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: VI"
A whirlwind and a blaze of swords - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
Crimson velvet and a diamond-hilted sword - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"
Here the sword within the soul - Theodore Maynard "In Domo Johannis"
The swords of your lost battlefields - Theodore Maynard "Ireland"
Whose charity was as a sword of flame - Theodore Maynard "To a Good Atheist"
Readings of the crown and sword - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
The ghosts of reddened swords - Charlotte Mew "The Quiet House"
Twice with sword and flame - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"
Whose scales turn aside the sun's sword - Marianne Moore "An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish"
To open locked doors with a sword - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"
His breath was our sword - Thomas Moore "Sound the Loud Timbrel"
Forcing the sword back into the stone - Jaye Nasir "November"
Let fall its tears like glacial swords - Pablo Neruda "Appointment with Winter" transl. by Alastair Reid
Pierced your stone heart like a sword - Pablo Neruda "Brother Cordillera" transl. by Alastair Reid
A sword among defenseless men - Pablo Neruda "Dead Gallop" translated by John Felstiner
A sword in a scabbard of meteors - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Incite the root of their swords - Pablo Neruda "I Come from the South [Song of Protest]" transl. by Miguel Algarin
A sword above the highways - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly
A procession of mirrors and swords - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Behind a planet of swords - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Sword-tinted angel - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Scorning the swords - Yone Noguchi "Upon the Heights"
Menaced by the sword - John Oxenham "Quo Vadis?"
Rebel swords have struck your shield - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The field lays down its winded swords - Carl Phillips "Capella"
You have outlived the sword - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 4. Jar of Pens"
For the sweat of stars sliding across his sword - Roger Reeves "Beneath the Perseids"
Served with harp and sword - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"
Flash forth like a sword - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Their joy recalls no snake, no sword - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Firelight"
With a terror of twenty swords - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Waved his sword in the lightnings - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Between the King and Queen of Swords - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"
A sword over the low horizon - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Until you throw your sword away - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
In a radiance of swords - Delmore Schwartz "The First Morning of the Second World"
For thee my sword was sharpened and my spear - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Buy my love a sword of steel - "Shule Aroon" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Through the sky like severing swords - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Protection against the swords of the world - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
His vengeful sword demands - "The Song of Childbirth" transl. by Eleanor Hull
And sleep secure from Spoilers Swords - John Spateman "War"
The winter comes with silver sword - James Stephens "Honoro Butler and Lord Kenmare (1720)"
Their swords against the abyss - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Whom all the swords of sunset bar - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
Beyond Orion's dreadful sword of suns - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
His sword is rusting in its sheath - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
Wise words suppress the need of swords - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Applied her passion like a hot iron sword - Bianca Stone "Emily Dickinson"
Where our sharp, sworded lightning cut sudden - Alfred B. Street "Averill's Raid" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
The swords in my heart for one were seven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Bears the sword of vengeance unrelenting - J. Sylvester "Mercy and Justice" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]
Lights like sunken swords - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"
The candles crossed like swords - Matthew Thorburn "Relic"
The faith thrice broken that incurred Columbia's vengeful sword - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Where discovery is not a sword - Vincent Toro "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Maritza Soto Has Already Discovered Three Planets"
The valor of who bears a sword - Luis Lloréns Torres "Bolivar" transl. by Muna Lee
Torn laces and broken swords - Iris Tree "[I feel in me a manifold desire]"
Pierced by a sword of music - Iris Tree "Moods IV"
Lie within the shadow of the sword - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson
With the sword of protest - Louis Untermeyer "On the Birth of a Child"
And the hard sunlight entered like a sword - Mark Van Doren "The Spring in the Pantry"
Whose plough was still the sword - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XV"
Harmodius' sword bright flashing through the gloom - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Hatred more sharp than a sword - William Watson "England to Ireland"
Like a bright sword of sorrow - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
The sword that gleams on Conquest's track - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Sharp and shrill as swords at strife - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"
Annul the blinding gesture of the sword - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
If all swords were as harmless as this - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"
Wandered naked among trysted swords - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Among trysted swords - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Touched the horizon with its sword - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 17" transl. by Katherine Silver
A sword-wound to that tender heart - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Navigation Links:
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