Potential Titles: Yield

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Yielding as molten gold - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"

Too often yield to chance - Cora C. Bass "Be Faithful"

To which time cannot yield relief - Park Benjamin "Audubon's Blindness"

Yielded on the field their breath - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Yield for grace so infinite - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIII. To Vittoria Colonna. Brazen Gifts for the Golden" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Flowers that yield their breath - Tommaso Campanella "LV. To Annibale Caraccioli, a Writer of Eclogues" transl. by John Addington Symonds

What lovely visions yield their place - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"

Harvests of opulent yield - Will Carleton "Wealth"

Where no bush a shelter yields - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

The love of soul yields not to change of state - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Yield attendance to one crucial sign - Hart Crane "Recitative"

Pervade the yielded avenues of sense - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Nor yielded with your eyes - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XII"

Did Bacchus yield to Reason's voice divine - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

The way his face yields to the light - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

Into whose dominion I yield my heart - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Yield her moat of pear - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love IX: Possession"

Though their currents yield return to none - John Donne "Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness"

Yielding to the eye which searches - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

With joy their sceptres yield - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Soon as the snows of winter yield - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

Yielded to custom's imperious demand - "The Emperor's Rout"

If to thee the stars yield victory - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

Won't yield the stolen - Cynthia Grady "Log Cabin"

The harvest to their sickle yield - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Fences yield to sleep - francine j. harris "senses"

Yields the magic of oblivion and ecstasies - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XII"

Fate could yield to Valour's son - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"

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

Not yield him peace - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"

That he yields in lease to tenant dreams - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Last year's fading yield - Elinor Jenkins "To H.S.T."

My heart yielded in capture - James Weldon Johnson "The Last Waltz"

The sweetest flower wild nature yields - John Keats "To a Friend who sent me some Roses"

The joy that young existence yields - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

Yields no store for hungry days - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

The star yielded to light - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"

Whose buds yield fragrant harvest - Letitia Elizabeth Landon "The Oak"

Yielding scarce enough to eat - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"

Yields in peace its yearly grain - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

Where thousands must yield up their breath - Chas. G. Leland "The Wolf Hunt" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

Yield and leave us to restful dreams - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

Can yield to melody's sweet spell - J.C. McCabe "First Love"

Yields to a sprig with one leaf unfurling - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"

And burnt you yielding - Claude McKay "Commemoration"

While justice yields before remorseless power - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Now the stubborn frost is yielding - Francis Neilson "Let Us Make a Garden"

The yielding gateway of your lips - Meredith Nicholson "Songs and Words"

Yielded to the pull of the globe - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Yielding no root - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "A Greeting"

Where buttercups to daisies yield - Walter S. Percy "Chatterbox"

Eyes like suddenly yielded gates - Lola Ridge "In Harness"

Yield them to the spell - Clinton Scollard "Wild Geese"

Yield rose-dust and ivy-leaf - Clark Ashton Smith "Sepulture"

In silent prophecy of lavish yield - Robert J.C. Stead "The Plow"

Ruined altars yielding up their fire - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"

My thicket yields a rose - M. Letitia Stockett "Free"

Yield the keys of Beauty's gates - Iris Tree "[Blow upon blow they bruise the daylight wan]"

That Endymion sighed to yield his spirit - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Shall not even yield to sleep - Louis Untermeyer "The Great Carousal"

Yield up the harvest of our hours - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"

Yields only that despair - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

True faith in what love yields - Afaa Michael Weaver "The Silver Thread"

Till heaven yield her sceptre - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

Yielded her heart's sweet strife - Helen Hay Whitney "The Love of the Rose"

And to sorrow never yield - Myra Viola Wilds "Sunshine"

Those yielding wicks of false metaphors - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Memory refuses to yield - C. Dale Young "The Second Fallacy"

Hoped the future too would yield - Adam Zagajewski "Bertolt Brecht in Eternity"


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