Potential Titles: Try

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Trying each to get a share - "Abroad"

Try to outbid the rustling of the hard drive - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"

Who tried to warn us once before - Mike Allen "Ascending"

A broken elevator trying to contain its freefall - Alise Alousi "Skip"

The strange tales of Ocean it tries to confess - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

What tragedy was always trying to teach - Mary Jo Bang "Tragedy"

Try with bonds to bind the morning light - William Francis Barnard "To the Enemies of Free Speech"

Tried tales and trusted sorceries - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"

Trying to rescue a birdcage from the burning house - Emily Berry "Freud's Beautiful Things"

Trying to walk on mysterious ice - Maxwell Bodenheim "Boarding-House Episode"

Savour of ethics proved and tried - Louise Morey Bowman "Oranges"

Trying to squeeze beauty into admonishment - Ana Bozicevic "Intervals of Please"

The shape of a man trying to hold up the ceiling - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"

Trying to calculate the debts he still owes - Kwame Dawes "Last Days"

What loons could be trying to say - Monica de la Torre "The Script"

Try and figure out how to breathe - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"

Trying to fashion a woman out of glass - Cheryl Dumesnil "A Million Silver Minnows"

Like gold we must be tried by fire - Toru Dutt "Savitri"

Trying hard to become sense - Cornelius Eady "Charles Stuart in the Hospital"

Tried to persuade the moon - Chiyuma Elliott "When I Was a Wave"

Trying so hard to outrun this - Camonghne Felix "Thank God I Can't Drive"

Tried to spell his dream - Zona Gale "The Kilbourn Road"

The fossils that drowned trying to reach us - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"

Tired of trying to find the right endings - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"

Bid the world to try me - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"

I am trying to become illegible - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

And you could try me - Mary Ann Hoberman "Changing"

All the winter bird dare try - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"

Trying to sort villain from victim - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"

Trying to ascend to a dominion foreign to you - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"

Try to give up the certainty - Brionne Janae "Child's Pose"

To try the seer's prophetic lyre - James Weldon Johnson "Envoy"

Trying to find the door to nothingness - Taylor Johnson "Nocturne"

Trying to paint the sea - Jeff Kass "Oh, Splotch of Blue Paint"

Seven times tried in fiery furnaces - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Trying to drown - Galway Kinnell "Break of Day"

To try out its backwards variations - Galway Kinnell "Chamberlain's Porch"

Try not to be disappeared here - Michael Kleber-Diggs "America is Loving Me to Death"

Trying to hold too much light - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Tried to ride the buses without paying - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"

Winds trying to hold each other - Dana Levin "Zozo-ji"

Try to remember the angles of devotion - Ada Limon "The Angles Made at the Factory"

Who lately tried to touch the moon - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"

Trying to capture mountains of somewhere - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Trying to outrun it before it breaks - Arthur H. Manners "Now You Know"

A rooster trying to crow in August - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Trying to crush beer cans against the moon - John McCarthy "Ghost Friends, Sangamon County"

They don't even ask you to try on the glass slipper - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"

Science & Mathematics trying to plot - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

As one who goes to try a Mystery - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"

In every trying terminal breath - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"

I'm trying on egos - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"

Try the skill of my neglected hand - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Try someone else's song - Hannah Sanghee Park "The One Mockingbird Only Sings at Night"

When I try remembering - Carl Phillips "Anyone Who Had a Heart"

Trying to outstare the distance - Carl Phillips "Archery"

Try not to think about withering - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"

Trying on your extravagance - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda III"

Trying to decide who I am today - Ira Sadoff "Self-Portrait"

Trying on something discarded - Ira Sadoff "Self-Portrait"

The crickets trying to stave off the chill - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"

Little gods and devils trying out their wings - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Trying to salvage the bitter roots - Prageeta Sharma "What Happened at the Service?"

To try his fortune to advance - "Shule Aroon" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

A dark page I am trying to turn - Safiya Sinclair "Hands"

trying to find a warmth to call home - Danez Smith "juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet"

Trying to leverage this slippery trait of memory - Bogi Takács "The Person Who Reminds the Other Person to Cast a Spell"

Trying to quiver into place - Jean Toomer "As the Eagle Soars"

We'll try the rogue, by Judge and Jury - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"

Just trying brightness out - John Updike "Stretch"

Trying to stir a storm - A. Van Jordan "A Tempest in a Teacup"

To try the world-wide cry - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "King Philip (Pometacom)"

A council of solemn dolls who try you - Edith Weaver "Lost Cinderella"

And try them against the sky's limits - William Carlos Williams "M. B."

With each success, a thousand futile tries - Allan Wolf "For Those Who Light the Candle"

Tried their best to scorch my memory - Assétou Xango "Eve"

Sunset's skinned knuckle try at holding fast - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Finding untried ways to interlock - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

Who bent his daring sail to untried winds - Rev. William Crowe "On the Death of Captain Cook"

Untried pilgrims of life's stormy sea - M.P. "The Vales" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]


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