Potential Titles: Chain
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somethingdarkerThey flung a chain around the silences - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan CVIII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Ranting of the sword and chain - Aion "The Land of Slaves" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
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"
Clanking irons chained to the wall of stone - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
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"
And the soft chain of thought has bound me - "April Fools" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
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"
As beggars chained in separate solitudes - Natalie Clifford Barney "Habit"
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"
I strove in vain to burst my chain - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
When icy chains the streams have bound - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Latest link of Time's long chain - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Or else in Chains to live - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Heartless Folly"
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"
Cursed the imps that had chained him well - Frank J. Cotter "The Birth of the Land"
The forked tree's chained shadows - George Cronyn "Clouds"
Breaks the sceptic chain that bound my soul - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]
The chained watchdog Will no longer springs - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]
Leading chained rivers - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
But distance only chains him more - Delta "Disenchantment" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIX, Nov. 1849, v.LXVI]
Chain up the billows as they roll - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]
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"
Breaks the silver chain of harmony - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
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"
Nerves that vibrate in unfolding chains - Thomas Gent "Prometheus"
No break in life's unceasing chain - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "For Us"
You, too, shall clank the seven years' chain - Robert Graves "Return"
Comes with the sound of breaking chains - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"
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"
Languid jungles chained by bloody roots - Nicolás Guillén "Rivers" transl. by Roberto Marquez and David Arthur McMurray
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"
In Pharaoh's chain--by Pharaoh's throne - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
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"
To track down a few hundred giants in chains - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"
Chains clanking together on rusty wheels - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"
The terrible stillness of the adamant core and the steel-hard chain - Aldous Huxley "The Burning Wheel"
Held them in error's iron chain - O.S.B. Father Ignatius "The Holy Isle: A Legend of Bardsey Abbey"
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"
Thy chain shall prove a sand-woven rope - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
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"
Henchmen busy with locks & chains - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
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"
Loosed from chains to locate the defect - Harry Martinson "Aniara 90" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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"
Obtain a mandate to unloose the chain - James Parkerson "On Mr. L---"
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]
See the light Spring weave her rosy chain - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
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"
Weave fair flowers into a weary chain - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
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]
Weave them with daisies into vacant lot chain fences - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
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
Bears a heavy chain of bitter sorrow - M.B.S. "Memory" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10, no.280, 27 Oct. 1827]
Burst from all species of chains - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
With his chain upon her hand - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
Shall have power to break the chain - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
With chains of shackled pearls and bands of foam - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
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"
Loaded monarchs with his vassal chain - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
The chain of fate by which her limbs are pressed - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Orphan"
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]
His words were chains and torments - Johann Ludwig Uhland "The Minstrel's Curse" transl. by A. Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXX, v.LX, Aug. 1846]
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
Chain'd by frosts, the waters lie - B.T.W. "The Coming of Winter" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
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"
Bears along my greeting to the chainless sea - "Out of Prison" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]
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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Ranting of the sword and chain - Aion "The Land of Slaves" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
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"
Clanking irons chained to the wall of stone - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
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"
And the soft chain of thought has bound me - "April Fools" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
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"
As beggars chained in separate solitudes - Natalie Clifford Barney "Habit"
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"
I strove in vain to burst my chain - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
When icy chains the streams have bound - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Latest link of Time's long chain - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Or else in Chains to live - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Heartless Folly"
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"
Cursed the imps that had chained him well - Frank J. Cotter "The Birth of the Land"
The forked tree's chained shadows - George Cronyn "Clouds"
Breaks the sceptic chain that bound my soul - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]
The chained watchdog Will no longer springs - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]
Leading chained rivers - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
But distance only chains him more - Delta "Disenchantment" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIX, Nov. 1849, v.LXVI]
Chain up the billows as they roll - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]
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"
Breaks the silver chain of harmony - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
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"
Nerves that vibrate in unfolding chains - Thomas Gent "Prometheus"
No break in life's unceasing chain - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "For Us"
You, too, shall clank the seven years' chain - Robert Graves "Return"
Comes with the sound of breaking chains - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"
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"
Languid jungles chained by bloody roots - Nicolás Guillén "Rivers" transl. by Roberto Marquez and David Arthur McMurray
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"
In Pharaoh's chain--by Pharaoh's throne - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
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"
To track down a few hundred giants in chains - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"
Chains clanking together on rusty wheels - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"
The terrible stillness of the adamant core and the steel-hard chain - Aldous Huxley "The Burning Wheel"
Held them in error's iron chain - O.S.B. Father Ignatius "The Holy Isle: A Legend of Bardsey Abbey"
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"
Thy chain shall prove a sand-woven rope - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
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"
Henchmen busy with locks & chains - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
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"
Loosed from chains to locate the defect - Harry Martinson "Aniara 90" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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"
Obtain a mandate to unloose the chain - James Parkerson "On Mr. L---"
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]
See the light Spring weave her rosy chain - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
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"
Weave fair flowers into a weary chain - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
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]
Weave them with daisies into vacant lot chain fences - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
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
Bears a heavy chain of bitter sorrow - M.B.S. "Memory" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10, no.280, 27 Oct. 1827]
Burst from all species of chains - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
With his chain upon her hand - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
Shall have power to break the chain - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
With chains of shackled pearls and bands of foam - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
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"
Loaded monarchs with his vassal chain - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
The chain of fate by which her limbs are pressed - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Orphan"
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]
His words were chains and torments - Johann Ludwig Uhland "The Minstrel's Curse" transl. by A. Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXX, v.LX, Aug. 1846]
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
Chain'd by frosts, the waters lie - B.T.W. "The Coming of Winter" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
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"
Bears along my greeting to the chainless sea - "Out of Prison" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]
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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