Potential Titles: Force

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How momentum forces the body forwards - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"

With the forces that oppose me - Richard C. Adams "To the American People"

Forced to craft my own light, my own hope - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

Nature's forces all in sweet subjection bend - Wm. Alexander "Sonnet.--Art" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Unyielding stripes forced order on the primal - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

And forced the music into pulsing motion - Mike Allen "Pulse"

The force of relentless water through dry cement - Mouna Ammar "Mama's Words"

What a grand and beautiful force - Atticus "Magic in Love"

Forced us into our current state of ambivalence - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Colossal Power with overwhelming force bears down - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Survive the force of fire - Elizabeth Bartlett "Landscape: With Bread"

To force my heart to climb - Elizabeth Bartlett "Time Will Tell"

Art bursting from forces in sight - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien

With waves that break with force - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "To M. S."

Forceful measures in a narrow place - Craven Langstroth Betts "Pope"

To flee the hypnotic force of such coercions - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

Forging a symbiosis with the force that rules their world - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

By the forced accents of your applause - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"

Forced to look outside their own heartbreak - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"

Force me to flee their fists and their fights - Stephanie Burt "Hank McCoy's Complaint Against the Danger Room"

Till nerve and force are spent - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto VI. Dyscomfyture"

First believe in the force of opposites - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"

By force and fortune's right - Arthur Hugh Clough "Peschiera"

Forcing the blood into forgetfulness - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan

A Sampson of Titanic force - James H. Cousins "Copernicus"

The force of watery judgments - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Gathering its forces like mad winds - Russell W. Davenport "Poems V"

Deeper into the swallow of its force - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

Through the whirl of atoms and of force - Edward Dowden "A Child's Noonday Sleep"

By too much force betrayed - John Dryden "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham"

Not matter forced to earth - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Problem Is"

What fiery force the earth renews - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

A word of flame and force - John Gould Fletcher "The Rock"

Up the chimney was forced to fly - "The Fox and the Geese"

Not forcing her hand with harrow and plow - Robert Frost "Blueberries"

Hands forced forward by the mainspring's spiral torsion - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Forced to join the parade - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"

Strong to stem the torrent's force - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"

Restrains the whirlwind's force - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Each departing passion's force - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"

A spell that forced him to obey - Oliver Herford "The Wakeful Princess"

A way to talk about raw force - Mary Hickman "Helen"

When pain has forced a footing there - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Or force my lips to gratify your longing - "Jonathan to John Bull" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

With greater force in the forest - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

Disaster drives me on by force - Jan Kochanowski "Laments II" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Dark force that drew me across uncharted space - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

With your carnival of force - Cecilia Llompart "The Barnacle and the Gray Whale"

Force me forever through the passing days - Amy Lowell "A Fairy Tale"

Invention, force or calculation - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"

Forced to be whatever we resemble - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)

To be forced into silence - Raymond McDaniel "No, You Shut Up"

Knowing forces it to become true - Rachel McKibbens "Mentor"

Have been forced to speak silently - Claire Millikin "August Sander's 'Man with Dancing Bear, 1928, Westerwald'"

With forced fingers rude - John Milton "Lycidas"

Forcing rash sweetness on sage ocean's brine - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."

Forcing the sword back into the stone - Jaye Nasir "November"

This unseen force that some called wind - Mark Nepo "Stopped Again by the Sea"

The force that gave it birth - Meredith Nicholson "Cardinal Newman"

Not built by brute force - Lorine Niedecker "Darwin"

Shows the ancient proverb's force - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: III. The Third Hole"

Measure the force of the blow - Sharon Olds "Not Once"

When war forces our hands - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"

Without forcing them to touch - Ben Purkert "The Past Suffers Too"

Everything hidden returns in force - Charles Rafferty "Resumption"

These lines force one foot in front of the other - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Relinquenda"

The bench of forced confessions - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

Knowing force as a brother - Lola Ridge "The Legion of Iron"

In your irresistible unspent force - Lola Ridge "Reveille"

Threat to break the thread by force - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

Forcing itself through the pinhole of grief - Teresa J. Scollon "Words, Poems"

Forced to break a twofold truth - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLI"

By forcing some lone ghost - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Music forced by hands of fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

Rotation now to force convert - "Song of the Screw"

Of Impulse, Energy and Force - "Song of the Screw"

Reason's force asleep in Error's lap - Robert Southwell "Lewd Love Is Loss"

The force that blows everyone off course - A.E. Stallings "The Mother's Loathing of Balloons"

Force in name of justice spent - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"

That forces Love himself to dance - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 47: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Bludgeons of light to force your seams - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"

Outside the window spring is gathering force - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"

Forces what we denied into luminosity - Margo Tamez "Father replays the funeral in Dream #28"

An ample force supreme - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Silence" transl. by Alma Strettell

The stone slabs of forces fallen - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament I"

For future uses hoarding present force - William Watson "Sketch of a Political Character"

As if such force would unlock me - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"

Wild carrot taking the field by force - William Carlos Williams "Queen-Ann's-Lace"

By the force of the moon - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"

Force him to contend with stillness - C. Dale Young "Curio"

Forced to contend with gravity - C. Dale Young "The Sixth Sense"


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