Potential Titles: Claim/Unclaimed

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Until judgment sought its claim - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

When the scarlet fever delirium claimed him - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

And dares to claim the sun - Maya Angelou "Caged Bird"

Strange to be claimed by a dream - Lou Barrett "The Account"

Until the oven claimed the pie - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"

To prevent the body's claim upon the heart - Scott Cairns "Loves"

To claim in higher spheres a refuge - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

On the throne a queen may come to claim - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

jumped straight to claiming this miracle - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"

Those impetuous claims that drew me forth - William Cory "Amavi"

Claimed it as her good luck charm - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Ordinary Things"

All manner of allegations, bold claims and public lies - Rita Dove "Trans-"

Bowing to the claim of alien currents - C.J. Druce "The Meeting"

Thalia claims this fav'rite for her own - "The Druriad" [1798]

Claiming the right to live another fortnight - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Snow in October" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Better were it to admit these claims - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

What pretext can ye allege to claim - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

And the deceased who claims these hateful rites - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Found a claim to your assistance on your love - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

And having perhaps the better claim - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"

when I claim that vastness - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer

And claim the cast of green shade for ourselves - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Claimed by Art and time - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"

Claims his heritage of day - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Such visions claim unhallow'd power - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

The territory it claims as landmark - Camisha L. Jones "Scars"

And claim all things feather, skin, scale - Janet Kauffman "Instead of Flying in Water"

Who claim the Future's boundless space - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

Where hunger claims to be the honoured guest - T.M. Kettle "Reason in Rhyme"

Whatever you choose to claim of me is always yours - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"

and all my claims of innocence are false - Joseph Lease "Falling"

My liveries claim my next attention - Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe "The Lay of the Sheriff"

Soon the shadows will claim the light - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"

The haunts their children claim - Marguerite Mooers Marshall "Ghosts"

I know of betrayal's claims - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

Histories have claimed you - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"

Unless it might that shadow claim - Herman Melville "Clarel" [excerpt - The Medallion]

Who claims compassion for a wounded paw - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Two Monologues I: The Nietzsche Man"

Claims but the beggar's part - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"

Will seek to claim the tempest of thy soul - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

As wind claims the whole sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "Wind and the Sleeping Breath of Men"

Where a heart thy claim denies - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

Which justly makes the highest claim - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

By vain wishes bar my claim - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"

Claims the witness of a song - 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]

To struggle and claim his own - Arthur Caswell Parker "My Race Shall Live Anew"

Folly claimed too large a portion - J.G. Percival "The Soul"

Fate stakes the final claim - Carl Phillips "And Love You Too"

a war always claims casualties - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

A beggar claimed to be playing Nero's fiddle - Charles Simic "Paradise"

Claim the pantheon of dream - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

Claiming a little piece of where we stand - Tracy K. Smith "Everything that Ever Was"

Staked a claim on the cosmos - Analicia Sotelo "Eating the Moon in Cotulla, TX"

My three claims for mercy - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 212: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

And claim to love the wind and winter - Keith Taylor "Chasing the Ancient Murrelet"

Until herons returned in spring to claim their place - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"

Whom no country can claim as her son - Luis Lloréns Torres "Bolivar" transl. by Muna Lee

I dare not claim one thought in them - Rudolph Valentino "Cremation (To G.S.)"

Though Pan, with Arcady for judge, my claim contest - Virgil "Eclogues IV" (transl. not identified)

Danger and glory claimed him as their own - Hon. Robert J. Walker "Napoleon's Tomb" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

By what law did Sagittarius make his squatter's claim - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

His squatter's claim on a place that doesn't exist - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

Freedom only the opaque can claim - Jenny Xie "Red Puncta 5"


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Some unclaimed and starry hour - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Like fragments of an unclaimed biography - Louise Gluck "Cornwall"

Hanging in the air unclaimed - Kay Ryan "Tracers"


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