Potential Titles: Compel/Compulsion

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That compels us to answer the questions it asks - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Lest a blacker charm compel - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "A Voice Sings"

More swift compelled submission - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

The lore of soul-compelling song - Joyce Kilmer "George Meredith"

Compel a summer storm's pent thunder - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Compelled by an enchanter's rod - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

Compelled to fall around you forever - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

So why are you compelled to forgive rivers? - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

On a meteor compelled by earth - Sina Queyras "The Couriers"

Into dust compelled - Theodore H. Rand "Oblivion"

As I have been compelled by you - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 1"

The panther felt compelled to know the path - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"

Forever he's compelled to roam - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"

Compelled a voice from native oracles - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Compelled in our separate orbits - Louis Untermeyer "The Flaming Circle"

Compelled by the receding tide - Zheng Min "An Appointment" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Hazard so much free of compulsion - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"

By hard compulsion bent - John Keats "Hyperion"

In which compulsion and possession meet - Heather McHugh "To Have To"

The nine lives of pathological compulsion - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"

Gathering in avid compulsion - Grace Nichols "Blackberrying Black Woman"

The objects of an eternal compulsion - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"

Mastered by fear of dark compulsions - Joshua Weiner "Psalm"


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