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Better grasp the red-hot steel, than touch another's gold - A.L.O.E. "Ragged Boy's Hymn"

Where steel drags along - Stephanie Adams-Santos "from Xibalba [Outside the water sings]"

The clash of knightly steel on steel - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Sestet"

Sprinkled beads of gold and steel - Martin Armstrong "Miss Thompson Goes Shopping"

He gave him steel of proof and price - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

In a steel trap of tiny tomorrows - Mary Jo Bang "The Disappearance of Amerika: After Kafka"

A steel maze inside - Mary Jo Bang "Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror"

Nor of all your strength of the gold and steel - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"

Gold and steel enthroned at the gates of the mart - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"

steel canyons and arctic nights - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

Love cold steel and powder - Charles Baudelaire "A Madrigal of Sorrow" transl. not credited

By steel and flame you taught - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Her soul was steel and her eyes were bleak - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

Poison the steel of the plunging dart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Granite and steel upflung became my fountains - William Rose Benét "The City"

Against this motion clear in steel - MacKnight Black "Corliss Engine"

Of voice-over and steel drums - Tommye Blount "But the Weather, the Weather"

Open floors of steel - William Brewer "Resolution"

Ash tight fingers, the steel laws of fate - Paul Cameron Brown "Barbary White"

Months of steel rust blisters - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"

Tinder and steel her mantle - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XLIII. The Impeachment of Night" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Dark against the sky of steel - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

On steely anvils of the stars - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Soft orange inside my steel - Ching-In Chen "Breath for Metal"

Steel and teeth by starlight - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"

The lightning's flash their vengeful steel - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "The Band of Gideon"

The gleam of the steely lightning - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"

Song of the blue steel - "The Dance of the Sword" (Translated by Tom Taylor)

Hear the steel of a new century creaking - Kwame Dawes "Steel"

Five hundred steel cages lined up - Toi Derricotte "The Minks"

The trampled steel that springs - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life VIII"

Sorrow the sparrow's steel cord - Chelsea Dingman "Here, the Sparrows Were, All Along"

The worn steel of belt-hooked hammers - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"

The slow patience of steel - Louise Erdrich "Mary Kroger"

Fell before the whip and steel - Martin Espada "How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"

Sleeping gentle over steel bones - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

A sentinel of burnished steel - Luciano Folgore "The Submarine" transl. by Anne Simon

After learning to shave the gleaming steel - Katie Ford "Koi"

A rattle of hoof and of steel - Arthur M. Forrester "Black Loris"

Rituals of steel and sacrifice - Nikita Gill "Pallas and Athena"

All the steel of its containing bars - Louis Golding "To A.L.O."

If his heart be not of steel or stone - C. L. Graves "'Bleak House'"

Nor lead nor steel shall reach him - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"

Nor steel nor flame has any power - Ivor Gurney "Serenity"

Steel pillar with cracks - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"

the second hand a steel jaw I have set in the snow - Jim Heston "In the Time of Lycanthropy"

With bony claws of razored steel - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"

Writ in burnished rows of steel - Julia Ward Howe "Battle-Hymn of the Republic"

A dream like steel in my soul - Langston Hughes "The Negro Mother"

Encased in a gauntlet of steel - Emily Pauline Johnson "Guard of the Eastern Gate"

With the steel of brotherhood - Fenton Johnson "Children of the Sun"

The steely soul of ice - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"

The horn hits and flows through steel - Janet Kauffman "Stress Position"

Hear the steel strike stone - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Like sensitive steel in the air - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Almond-Trees"

Steel hawks against moonlight - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"

Cut like steel each tiny leaf - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

While my limbs still sing steel - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"

Build it up with iron and steel - "London Bridge"

Iron and steel will bend and bow - "London Bridge"

With his merry men well weaponed in steel - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Aimed for a heart of steel and stone - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson

My love in the light of steel - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"

Girdle me with steel - James Clarence Mangan "Dark Rosaleen"

False gods of gold and steel - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"

Against the towers of stone and steel - Don Marquis "Lower New York--A Storm"

Steel apulse with all the power of hell - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"

Her Decrees of Steel - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"

Made of nerves and steel springs - John Masefield "Right Royal"

In the reeds of a steel lagoon - John Masefield "The Wild Duck"

That folds steel like a flag - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

Her progeny of steel and steam - John McCrae "The Captain"

Noise of iron knits his steel - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

Twisting hues of flourished steel - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

This body of flame and steel - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]

i am one with the chill of steel - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"

That one's heart must be steeled against the east wind - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

Wind scraped by steel - Cindy Hunter Morgan "Deckhand: Scent Theory"

With tempest of fire, and storm of steel - "The Northmen are Coming" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

The spiritual steel of Saint Augustine - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Chase of steel on stone - John Oxenham "Everymaid"

Whose souls the Furies steeled - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

Gnashing of steel serpents twisting - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

Where flint first met steel - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

Before our line of leaping steel - Charles G.D. Roberts "Cambrai and Marne"

Struck them like a steel to flint - Kay Ryan "He Lit a Fire with Icicles"

Smoke of the finished steel - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

Stone and steel of your sleeping numbers - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Fingers of red-hot steel - Robert Haven Schauffler "The White Comrade"

The unnatural deaths of steel and concrete - Ann K. Schwader "Alien Machines"

A heart of steel to conquer - Frederick George Scott "In Via Mortis"

the wolf in a skin of bare steel - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"

Smoky quartz in a steel bottle - Solmaz Sharif "Self-Care"

An arm of steel and a heart of gold - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Weeping Cupid"

Buy my love a sword of steel - "Shule Aroon" transl. by Eleanor Hull

The crooked steel teeth of the city - Aaron Smith "Boston"

The skies of steel and gold - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"

Mirrors of steel or silver - Clark Ashton Smith "Mirrors"

Prison is a plantation made of stone & steel - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."

A machine's steel tear - Patricia Smith "Boy Dies, Girlfriend Gets His Heart"

Keen, clear, flashing teeth of steel - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

That steel is more than gold - E. Sutton "The Bugle"

Today the goose is made of steel - Kristen Tracy "Having It?"

The Giant Robber clad in steel - Henry van Dyke "Stand Fast"

Our lines bristle with burnished steel - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Barbarian herds of steel and glass - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

A casque of scorching steel - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

The monuments of bronze or steel - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"

a steel ring cast over what I know - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"


Rimmed round by steel-built battleships - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"

With steel-clad breast, and coward heart - "By Memory Inspired" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Steel-skeletal cars stacked with stranger cargo - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"

A tumbleweed with steel-toed boots - Yesenia Montilla "a brief meditation on breath"


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