Potential Titles: Chain

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Reason bound in chains - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Her myrtle chains have worn - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Up and down a chain of moods - Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"

Feed a thousand chains of regret through greasy barrels - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"

Language is a chain of accidents - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

In the memorized chain of life - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of names"

The blasphemy of our chains - James Baldwin "Song (for Skip)"

The silver chain of that wild song - Benjamin West Ball "Cymindis"

The chain of centuries from dusk to dawn - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"

Free from error's chain - Ardelia Maria Barton "Freedom"

Pearls strung on Life's chain - Ardelia Maria Barton "To a Friend on Her Birthday"

Striking off the icy chain - Cora C. Bass "Who Is This So Loved of Yore?"

By the chained stalk of the uneasy mind - Stephen Vincent Benet "Always the Sonnetteer"

Your plow is chained to a deadly yoke - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

Dragging slow chains the hours went by - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

Broke the chains of earth - Gwendolyn Bennett "Wind"

Heavier than these chains - Ariana Benson "Love Poem in the Black Field"

Breakless chain, and iron thrall - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Of dancing away from chains - Rebecca G. Biber "The Children's Firebird"

Hung with ivy's blackened chains - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"

Raising myriads of chained wings - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Grass-Blade"

With secret, chained thoughts - Maxwell Bodenheim "Boarding-House Episode"

Diversion to my chained impatience - Max Bodenheim "Poem to a Policeman"

The chained recalcitrance of earth - Max Bodenheim "Topsy-Turvy"

Sky chained to torture - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"

Tying down the wind with rope or chain or tackle - Bruce Boston "Wind People"

Fear and chains behind us cast - John Breslin "Rolling Home"

Confined by such a chain as this - Anne Bronte "The Arbour"

And the flesh to feel the chain - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"

The domino that starts the chain - Taylor Byas "Love Poem Attempt 3/?"

Weaving her bright chain - Lord Byron "Stanzas for Music"

When icy chains the streams have bound - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Winter had thrown his icy chain - "The Cascade"

The chains are gone from heaven - Leonard Cohen "Samson in New Orleans"

With weights and chains and pendulum - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"

Ere I wore proud chains of diamonds, forged of bitter, frozen tears - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]

Chained by an alien element - Susan Coolidge "Ebb-Tide"

The forked tree's chained shadows - George Cronyn "Clouds"

Leading chained rivers - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

And handled with a chain - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XI"

Chained dogs on every house corner - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"

A long muted chain of twisting keys - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Round his neck three chains of roses - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

Chained to a wild and sea-girt rock - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

That rings like chains - Dovid Edelshtot "My Last Will - Oh, My Good Friends" (translated by Bernart Bartleby? Maybe?)

And in thy sweet chains caught - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"

Though all unseen his chain - "Extract from an Unpublished Poem by the Author of Howard Pinckney, Etc."

Dragged to the depths by iron hand and chain - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]

Old objects chained in their places - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten IX"

A throat without chain - T'ai Freedom Ford "Emancipation Celebration"

But proud of the weight of our chain - Gilbert Frankau "A Song of the Guns"

Our hearts in strong affection's chain - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

With chains of coloured song - Rose Fyleman "The Daphne Bush"

From heaven on a slim silver chain - Rose Fyleman "Fairies in Autumn"

Robbers counting chains and rings - R.L. Gales "A Childermas Rhyme"

The chains postwar empire was reforming - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"

No break in life's unceasing chain - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "For Us"

Had memory no chain to bind - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

No chains of fear should bind me - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"

Throw off the chains of thought - Jonas Hallgrimsson "Journey's End" transl. by Dick Ringler

Bid me break my fiery chain - Frances E.W. Harper "Save the Boys"

And bind existence in eternal chain - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Behold a chain of wonders rise - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"

The choice of chains or death - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Chain'd in the slumbers of decay - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

Bitter be thy chain - Felicia Hemans "The Wife of Asdrubal"

Wreath her chain round us - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "When Shall We Meet Again?"

Well barred by every chain - Helen Hunt Jackson "Dreams"

Fettered in midwinter's crystal chains - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Pilot of the Plains"

Broke at once the vital chain - Samuel Johnson "On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet"

Snapped the chain of tranquil youth - G.H. Johnstone "Oxford in May"

Chains of absolute ghosts - Fady Joudah "Sandra Bland, Texas"

The unfolding of an infinite paper princeling chain - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

The tightened chain of rough existence - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile]"

Loathing the heavy chains that bind - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

A golden chain of rhythm - Joyce Kilmer "Thurifer"

The endless chain of unrepentant years - C.H.B. Kitchin "Epilogue"

Dragging the links of my shortening chain - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"

Mournful, rattling bones and chains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

wrapped your wrists in chains of fervent foam - Yoon Ha Lee "Sea-Sweet"

Who made them walk in chains - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

Once more escaped its chain - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"

His fairy chain of blooming amaranthine flow'rs - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]

Her poisen [sic] flowers and her hidden chain - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

To break the chain that sorrow wears - Arthur Macy "All on a Golden Summer Day"

To fret against the chain - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"

The chain of her doubt - George Martin "On Mount Royal"

A silver call that had a chain of gold - John Masefield "An Old Song Re-Sung"

Freedom with a tyrant's chains - John Masefield "Pompey the Great"

The devil's in the chains - John Masefield "A Valediction"

Cast in chains beneath my feet - Theodore Maynard "Aladdin"

Tugs a rusted chain - John McCrae "The Captain"

The silver chain of sound - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"

Untwisting all the chains that tie - John Milton "L'Allegro"

Hoped the chains could not climb this high - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"

Ere slumber's chain has bound me - Thomas Moore "Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)"

The chains that wounded spirits wear - Morna "Ianthe"

Love's golden chain and burning vow - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Dressed in chains and carnations - Pablo Neruda "The Dawn's Debility" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A chain of eyes and horses - Pablo Neruda "Saddlery" transl by Jack Schmitt

By cold, by chains, by moon and tides - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Swans who wear and break a chain - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

Even a heaven with doors so chained - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"

the chains are different now - Pat Parker "Questions"

Let our anger be as fire, blasting chains and tyranny - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Broken chains, lying cankered with old blood-drops - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

And knowledge still extends the golden chain - Philo "The Tribute"

Each twig a chain of gold - Lydia Jane Pierson "A Winter Scene"

Armed in adamantine chains - Alexander Pope "Lines by a Person of Quality"

Took gladly the second chain - D.A. Powell "To Last"

The golden chain of my love - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: The Tyrant and the Captive"

Bound my soul with chains of earth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Confidence"

Burst the tyrant's chain - James Ryder Randall "My Maryland"

Whose traitorous inclination would rivet foreign chains - "Remember Traitors" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Upon my heart with rapture chained - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"

Light that jingles like anklet chains - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Behind the chain's black links - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Knight" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Sunbeams chained for a banner - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Has begun to rend the chain of reason - Rumi "The Bird of My Heart" transl. by A.J. Arberry

Burst from all species of chains - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"

The mortal chain of Custom - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

By such a chain was bound - Shelley "The Recollections"

Clad in monstrous chains of frost - Taras Shevchenko "Caucasus" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Chained and frozen cold - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree"

An elevator hauled by golden chains - Marge Simon "Sightings: Algis Budrys"

Strikes off the chains of Time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Chained and hurled with solar lightning - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

No sturdy coils nor clanking chains - Clarence Victor Stahl "Ambition"

And clangor of ascending chains - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"

When the spirit's chains are rust - George Sterling "In a Thousand Years"

When matter's chain shall rust - George Sterling "The Moth of Time"

And drag a chain for years - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

With anvil, chain, and iron bar - Alfred B. Street "The Smithy" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Throw off the shackles and chains of time - Arthur Stringer "The Revolt"

Sang in my chains like the sea - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

As with a chain indissoluble bound - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

Within the chains that language wrought - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IX" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

The flaxen hemp still plaits its chain - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Rattling the foam's chain - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

Gently chain the joined wrists - Derek Walcott "Roseau Valley"

Dear scenes which bound me like chains - William Walker, Jr. "The Wyandot's Farewell"

As Peter's chains dropped for the Angel - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"

All chains from limb and spirit strike - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Forged her cruel chain of moods - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

And with chains the rivers lashed - Huldah Lucile Winsted "The Deluge"

A turquoise chain of sun-shower rain - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

Weave her a chain of silver twist - Elinor Wylie "The Falcon"

Fast in chains of horror bound - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


Pulling a swaying bead-chain of moonlight - J.D. McClatchy "Late Night Ode"


Northward moved his chainless soul - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Came as chainless as the wind - Toru Dutt "Savitri"

Borne upon the chainless air - George Martin "In Memory of Joseph Guibord"


Causing a chain reaction of giant black holes - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"


The frame for this chainsaw night - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"

A chain saw gnawing the bruised air - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"

Stealing chainsaw refrains and shutter clicks - Amari Low "Themself"


Used to chainsmoke on the mezzanine - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"


Warm daisy chains, holy dandelions - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"


Enchain.


Carnivores in their own essential food chain - Achy Obejas "Dancing in Paradise"


Unchain.


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