Potential Titles: Measure

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measure your pace, keep time with quiet hands - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

Measures the opposite of time - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

A measured phrase of bells - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

Measuring the earth's door - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"

Measure the miles with pebbles - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"

Of pearls two measures--of gold but three - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XLVIII: The Sultaness" transl. by Sir John Bowring

In measures of solitude - Cynthia Arrieu-King "Poem"

the latitude is measured out of grief - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

Measured by his steady midnight breathing - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Measuring an immense span of glass - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"

Measuring in lofty thought the march of Time - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

as the sky measures breath - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"

to heights out of time and measure - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"

A rhythmic measure's mellow flow - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

The measured trample of Liberty's horses - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"

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

My heart no measure knows - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "Song"

Measures out the earth in lines of life - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"

The woodland minstrels sing changes of measure - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"

Measure out the distances from good - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Bent with duty's measured pull - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"

The measures trod by the angels - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Wander-Lovers"

Move to the quick measure of the hours - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"

To measure the sky - Jennifer Chang "About Trees"

Charms many praise beyond all measure - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]

With the measures of a bitter song - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"

A meditative measure of wind and rain - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"

Poison in the water's measure - Flower Conroy "Frog"

Measured out the fleeting sands of life - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Of mighty measures and sublime - James H. Cousins "To Algernon Charles Swinburne"

That mercurial measure of contact - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Harmony (I)"

Coax a measured flood - Imani Davis "Kink"

Swallowed by the gulf no plummet measures - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Measure and inexplicable substance - Monica de la Torre "Divagar"

The only true measure of the grid - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"

Measure nuances in the sky - Diane DeCillis "When You Cannot Sleep"

Measured out my life with coffee spoons - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Measures the heavens and outlines the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 42. E-Zagin, the Temple of Nisaba in Eresh" transl. by Sophus Helle

Measure the miles in vines - Heid E. Erdich "Red Vines: Lines for Deloria"

Low-breathed music's echoed measure - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Owned wealth in a measure supreme - Eleanor Farjeon "The Unspoken Word"

The score of a life you did not measure - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"

As measured against maple, birch, and oak - Robert Frost "The Onset"

Measured not nor priced - Ellen Glasgow "A Creed"

Cash is the measure of the heart - S.G. Goodrich "Farewell to a Fashionable Acquaintance"

Tread a measure against bright candles - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

My breath measuring length - Leah Naomi Green "Week Five: Measure"

Dim flights of measured air - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"

Weaving without stint or measure - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

A way to measure out the wind - Robert Herrick "God Unsearchable"

Of happiness measured against all the dark - Jane Hirshfield "The Weighing"

Poured out its measured tides - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Measures of oil for others - Emily Pauline Johnson "In Grey Days"

Who measures desire by stillness - Jenny Johnson "Pedal"

Measures dawn by absence of desire - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"

The path you now measure - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"

In glad unstinted measure - Jan Kochanowski "Laments VI" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Only a measure of shadow - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"

New minerals and precisely measured constants - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

Splintering by measured denials - Philip Lamantia "Untitled [To see this evil from its core]"

Measured roar and iron ring - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

Measure the dust in his palm - Archibald Lampman "One Day"

Measure my single grain of grief - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"

Measured in minute particles of moisture - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"

Measure time using my growing hurt of loneliness - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"

I measure my departure - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"

Measure chance against truth - Herbert Woodward Martin "Five Finger Exercise"

Fastened by the measure of limitation - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

Were measured but in inches - John McCrae "The Unconquered Dead"

Like a light innocent of measure - W.S. Merwin "Note"

Archimedes still holds his measured home - Joaquin Miller "As It Is Written"

Fling down that map and measure - Joaquin Miller "Usland to the Boers"

The measure of the heart's broken pulse - N. Scott Momaday "Remembering Milosz and Esse"

Sound the cosmic depths for the measure of glory - William Moore "Dusk Song"

Measuring what my exoskeleton withstands - Rusty Morrison "Measurement Fable"

Can neither watch nor measure you - Pablo Neruda "Amazon" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A honey that measured the earth - Pablo Neruda "To Miguel Hernandez, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Joy's full measure knew - Meredith Nicholson "My Paddle Gleamed"

doing the magic of measuring - Anton Nimblett "Balance"

A life measured by sighs - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

Is linked in mystic measure - Thomas O'Hagan "The Song My Mother Sings"

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

Has no final measure - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"

Measuring the crinolines of leaves - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

They measure it by their orbits - Jessy Randall "Cassini's Mini-Packets Home"

Where the long wave breaks in measured time - Robert Reid "Poesie"

Time was not its measure - Alberto Rios "Faithful Forest"

The way the wind measures the weather - Carl Sandburg "How Much?"

Measure your pulse by their dying breaths - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"

Leashed with a measure of anchor rope - Diane Seuss "Jesus, with his cup"

Thus far the miles are measured - William Shakespeare "Sonnet L"

All measures of delightful sound - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

Their seamless smiles, their measured words - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Less than the measure of desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

Measuring the crescendo of the brasses - Jean M. Snyder "Rhythm"

Measure by parallelogram construction - "Song of the Screw"

Measured wisdom of wide symphonies - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Never to measure its full depth - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 71: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Measured by an eye that's hidden above - Keith Taylor "Landscape of Fear"

For the measured dawns - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"

Dancing with a measured step from wrecked and shattered towns - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"

Nearly equal measures of hope - Matthew Thorburn "Forgotten Until You Find It"

Swallows his lies without measure - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"

Cadence, measure, rest, inflection - Adolf Wolff "Immortality"

To the adequate measure of night - Jay Wright "Kumu"

That measures its life in olive groves - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"

To measure your life in debts - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season"

The blinded measuring snake a Moebius strip - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Immeasurable.


Measureless.


Uncertain measurement of time - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"


Unmeasured.


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