Potential Titles: Strain
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somethingdarkerGave the strain to wild despair - "The Alter'd Lay"
The melancholy strain of Echo - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
Profuse strains of unpremeditated art - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"
Skylarks straining to locate a star - Mary Jo Bang "Dark Smudged the Path Untrammeled"
Strain at a gnat and swallow camels - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"
Strains at the weight of a buried stone - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"
Bloodhounds straining at the slip - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"
Straining the whole horizon - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
The straining sails of unimpeded ships - Witter Bynner "Grieve not for Beauty"
The north's wild vibrant strains - W. Wilfred Campbell "How One Winter Came"
Hush not one fervent strain - John Vance Cheney "Love and Youth"
The bird's long, lethal strain - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
No sadness clogs the dreamer's strain - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
The strain of the straight lines - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"
Chanting strains of ancient chivalry - Coningsby Dawson "The Mirror of Thought"
Money not too much strain on the back - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
Clear strains of hymn - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XVII: The Book of Martyrs"
That sweet strain of hours - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"
Straining at escaping windows - Mari Evans "Amtrak Suite II"
The moving strains of Eden's harps - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Grim apostle of stress and strain - C. L. Graves "Ballade of Free Verse"
Strains that sky-larks downward send - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
The robin's mellow strain in wild notes gushes - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
With the love of my strained bones - Richard Hughes "Cottager is given the Bird (1921)"
Weigh on the water and strain the rock - Robinson Jeffers "Contrast"
Brought a strain from Paradise - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"
Strains from that mighty hunting-horn - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
The soft strains of David's Lyre - Anne Killigrew "The Discontent"
Beneath the straining wall of darkness - Ted Kooser "Telescope"
Winds that strain the oak - Archibald Lampman "Voices of Earth"
Beneath the strain of reckless revelry - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
The strain that the wild band plays - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"
Sunshine strained through amber wine - James Russell Lowell "The Protest"
Strains no more availing - Herman Melville "John Marr and Other Sailors"
These tuneless strains of wrong - Lewis Morris "Cradled in Music"
A strain Titania wove - Francis Neilson "The Music of My Heart"
Sweet chords strained and jangled - John Oxenham "All's Well"
In sacred strains my soul survives my dust - Alexander Pushkin "A Monument" transl. by John Pollen
Music woven of countless strains - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
Rams straining beyond the gate - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
That strain to touch their tips with stars - Lola Ridge "Re-birth"
Wild trees that strain against the dawn - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"
Where even joy has a minor strain - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: I. The Violin-Maker"
A song's sweet strains to tell - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)
The gallant strain of a pilfered ant - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
The witching strain of a waltz - Robert W. Service "New Year's Eve"
Profuse strains of unpremeditated art - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
With five-fold strains of harmony - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
The wild strain that night-winds wake from reeds - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets II: Shakspeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Cuts the strained knot of destiny - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
And strained my sinews sore - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
A strain uncomprehended by the sense - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Strain against motion - Natasha Trethewey "Three Photographs"
Black horses yellowing with strain - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
For one sweet strain of silence - Henry van Dyke "If All the Skies"
Straining to win that soft sequestered note - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"
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The melancholy strain of Echo - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
Profuse strains of unpremeditated art - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"
Skylarks straining to locate a star - Mary Jo Bang "Dark Smudged the Path Untrammeled"
Strain at a gnat and swallow camels - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"
Strains at the weight of a buried stone - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"
Bloodhounds straining at the slip - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"
Straining the whole horizon - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
The straining sails of unimpeded ships - Witter Bynner "Grieve not for Beauty"
The north's wild vibrant strains - W. Wilfred Campbell "How One Winter Came"
Hush not one fervent strain - John Vance Cheney "Love and Youth"
The bird's long, lethal strain - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
No sadness clogs the dreamer's strain - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
The strain of the straight lines - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"
Chanting strains of ancient chivalry - Coningsby Dawson "The Mirror of Thought"
Money not too much strain on the back - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
Clear strains of hymn - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XVII: The Book of Martyrs"
That sweet strain of hours - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"
Straining at escaping windows - Mari Evans "Amtrak Suite II"
The moving strains of Eden's harps - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Grim apostle of stress and strain - C. L. Graves "Ballade of Free Verse"
Strains that sky-larks downward send - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
The robin's mellow strain in wild notes gushes - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
With the love of my strained bones - Richard Hughes "Cottager is given the Bird (1921)"
Weigh on the water and strain the rock - Robinson Jeffers "Contrast"
Brought a strain from Paradise - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"
Strains from that mighty hunting-horn - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
The soft strains of David's Lyre - Anne Killigrew "The Discontent"
Beneath the straining wall of darkness - Ted Kooser "Telescope"
Winds that strain the oak - Archibald Lampman "Voices of Earth"
Beneath the strain of reckless revelry - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
The strain that the wild band plays - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"
Sunshine strained through amber wine - James Russell Lowell "The Protest"
Strains no more availing - Herman Melville "John Marr and Other Sailors"
These tuneless strains of wrong - Lewis Morris "Cradled in Music"
A strain Titania wove - Francis Neilson "The Music of My Heart"
Sweet chords strained and jangled - John Oxenham "All's Well"
In sacred strains my soul survives my dust - Alexander Pushkin "A Monument" transl. by John Pollen
Music woven of countless strains - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
Rams straining beyond the gate - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
That strain to touch their tips with stars - Lola Ridge "Re-birth"
Wild trees that strain against the dawn - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"
Where even joy has a minor strain - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: I. The Violin-Maker"
A song's sweet strains to tell - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)
The gallant strain of a pilfered ant - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
The witching strain of a waltz - Robert W. Service "New Year's Eve"
Profuse strains of unpremeditated art - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
With five-fold strains of harmony - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
The wild strain that night-winds wake from reeds - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets II: Shakspeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Cuts the strained knot of destiny - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
And strained my sinews sore - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
A strain uncomprehended by the sense - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Strain against motion - Natasha Trethewey "Three Photographs"
Black horses yellowing with strain - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
For one sweet strain of silence - Henry van Dyke "If All the Skies"
Straining to win that soft sequestered note - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"
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