Potential Titles: Steady

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Slowly and steadily defying the sinking destruction - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

The water breathing steadily - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"

Solemnly and steadily forsaking us - Elizabeth Bishop "The Armadillo"

Steadily traipsing toward dawn - Susan Comninos "Arctic Traveler"

And pink bindweed dimly, steadily flower - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"

Tall angels of darkness advancing steadily - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"


A steady lamp in a vast plain of shifting grey - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

Measured by his steady midnight breathing - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

With steady eyes of awful friendship - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"

The steady scruff of sandpaper graded routine - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"

Steady flame in a darkened field - Ana Bozicevic "The Mystery of the Seagulls"

Steady strife for a deathless crown - Vera M. Brittain "That Which Remaineth"

Enough to feel that sweet steady rhythm - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"

A steady cold channel of headwind - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"

Steady for a little space - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

Hemming security in steady stitches - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Thank You Jesus"

irrigated by steady streams of cars - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

The steady shadows shook and thinned and died - John Freeman "The Wakers"

The steady glory of noon - Zona Gale "Here a Still Field"

How steady those footsteps - Jin Ha "You Must Not Run In Place" (translated by the author)

A steady tattoo of roses - Joy Harjo "We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future"

Joy prove a more steady guest - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat II"

Steady your hearing to an inner music - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Tomatoes in a steady splutter - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

The always steadying presence of seeds - Joanna Klink "Given"

Returning again and again to the steady heart - Ted Kooser " In a Light Late-Winter Wind"

And the nerve of the hunter is steady - Chas. G. Leland "The Wolf Hunt" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

Will amaze the earthbound, steady tulip - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"

A steady diet of iniquities - Thomas Lynch "Argyle in Agony"

With steady wingbeats boosts his way - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heron"

With steady heart and ready arm - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

And overthrow our steady senses - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet I from Second April

The steady gaze of constellations - Naomi Shihab Nye "Pictures from the Occupied Territories"

Inside the steady gaze of stones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Those Whom We Do Not Know"

Along the steady flight of seraphim - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"

Steadied on the red reserve of its bloodstream - Nnadi Samuel "On the Shores of Ninevah"

I will hold the pieces steady - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Downtrodden"

A steady tongue and half a dream - Patricia Smith "To 3, No One in the Place"

Too steady to destroy - Sara Teasdale "The Answer"

The dusk takes refuge in the steady rain - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"

The slow and steady drip of water from a reed - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Faster than the breath's steady luggage - Keith S. Wilson "Book of Horses"

Steady yourself on a foothold of earth - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa


With face averted and unsteady eyes - Coleridge "The Pang More Sharp Than All"

Asks of our bright, unsteady flame - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

Swerving around that unsteady silhouette - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"


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