Potential Titles: Sway

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And share my cold and regal sway with nobody - Joan Aiken "Π in the Sky"

Where the salt weed sways - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

The solar Seraphs hold their sway - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

Winter holds his solitary sway - Cora C. Bass "'Mid Eternal Snow"

But never owns their sway - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

Who sway in and out of the waters of life - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Handpainted Chinaware" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

The swaying commerce of violence - Russell Brakefield "Mackinaw Island"

The deserted nest in silence sways - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Holds cruel sway in Love's high house - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds

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

The Earth upon her diamond axle swayed - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Swirls and sways to her strange tryst - Walter de la Mare "The Moth"

Sway to the movement of hooded summits - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Let not your anxious hearts be swayed - C. L. Graves "A Ballad of Eels"

First sways the yielding frame - W.H. Herbert "Stanzas to a Lady"

Not to be swayed by fiberglass - Mary Hickman "Eva Hesse"

Once was held by mystic sway - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"

The juniper sways in remnant currents - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Softly-swaying pillars of dark flame - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"

And creeping mists assert their sway - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

Less swayed by savage passion - Amy Levy "Medea"

A swaying mirror for the sun - Jeannette Marks "Willow Pollen"

Wind through the swaying spires of skyscrapers - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"

Pulling a swaying bead-chain of moonlight - J.D. McClatchy "Late Night Ode"

Trifling with all who own her sway - John Napier "Who Knows?"

Where Silence holds her sway - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

By a mighty master's sway - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To Miss R. B."

Sway like suspicion - Carl Phillips "Of the Rippling Surface"

The gleam and sway of burning leaves - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Autumn in Sussex"

Terpsichore ruled with unlimited sway - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Beyond the sway of tides - Clinton Scollard "Dirge for a Sailor"

Prolonged the sway of timeless darkness - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"

Strength by limping sway disabled - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXVI"

Strength by limping sway disabled - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXVI"

Nor fell Misfortune's friendless sway - T.G. Spear "I Cling to Thee"

Felt my soul within me reel and sway - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"

Balanced on a strand of swaying stone - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"

Iberia's brood with iron sway kept down - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

The swaying stem of some exalted flower - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Felt the fire of passion's sway - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"

Where melancholy Sulphur holds her sway - "Where Avalanches Wail"


Those greed-swayed kings of sugar - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"


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