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A chance such prize of winning - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Among the trees the question chanced to rise - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Once on a time, in early dawn of summer]"

A thousand chances are to one I never may return - William Allingham "The Winding Banks of Erne"

Before a door of chance - Maya Angelou "On Diverse Deviation"

A chance to bloom anywhere once - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"

No other knowledge but chance - Elizabeth Bartlett "Notes for the Future"

The wilder ways of chance they choose - Elizabeth Bartlett "Self-Evident"

Too often yield to chance - Cora C. Bass "Be Faithful"

Buffeted by the waves of chance - Cora C. Bass "The Waves of Chance"

Moths upon the wings of chance - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited

Tread the roads of chance - Charles Baudelaire "To a Brown Beggar-Maid" transl. not credited

The enfoldment of chance and fatigue - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Scalar"

And pray for the chance to say please - Jericho Brown "Odd Jobs"

That make blind chance the heir - Tommaso Campanella "XXXI. To Poland" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Just as they chance to fall - Lewis Carroll "Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur"

Give twopence for the chance - John Clare "The Woodman"

Lesser chances and inferior hopes - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

One flitting moment's chance reflection - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob's Wives"

Forfeit that fair chance - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"

Sweet chance, that led my steps abroad - W.H. Davies "A Great Time"

Gave everyone a chance at forgiveness - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"

Happy in my sparrow chance - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXVII: Enough"

May chance to linger - Mary Mapes Dodge "Be Careful"

Wake up with a second chance - Rita Dove "Dawn Revisited"

Beyond all chance secure - Edward Dowden "Europa"

Twin cities of fantasy and chance - Farnaz Fatemi "Farnaz"

Another chance to dance with another new day - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"

Some chance on the midnight cities - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"

Into this net of chance - Hafiz "The Divan XXXIX" (translated by H. Bicknell)

The tide of chance may bring its offer - Thomas Hardy "The Opportunity"

The infinite glitter of chance - Joy Harjo "Bird"

What were his chances of coming through? - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

With the magic hand of chance - John Keats "When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be"

Dared to scorn untoward chance - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"

No gratitude to wanton chance - Joyce Kilmer "Wherever, Whenever"

Out of dust & chance - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"

To take just our chances in living - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

A dirge for myriad chances dead - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Wed"

No chance against the knife - David Lehman "Wedding Song"

Chance the pilgrim sandals - Denise Levertov "A Traveler"

An alert cat leaving nothing to chance - Philip Levine "A Theory of Prosody"

Fed by Time and Chance - Maria White Lowell "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle"

Kindled by some chance fire - Stephane Mallarme "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune" (translated by Aldous Huxley)

A chance to restore the color - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"

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

Chance decides the fate of fleets - John Masefield "Philip the King"

Where trees chance to become constellations - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

That mock the chance of fear - Louis J. McQuilland "The Digger"

Over these chance dust and ashes - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

Carrying the psalm of last chances - Claire Millikin "August Sander's 'Man with Dancing Bear, 1928, Westerwald'"

Blocking any chance of feeling eager - Chris Nealon "All About You"

Offers all the unexpected chances - Tim Newcomb "Evocative Montana"

Would read the book of chance - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Bowling by chance in adjacent lanes - Idra Novey "Value City"

Have paid chance tribute - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Verses"

Chance's strange arithmetic - Wilfred Owen "Insensibility"

All the slaughtered chances - Carl Phillips "In Which to Wonder Flew a Kind of Reckoning"

One last bright chance to believe - Carl Phillips "Of California"

In love with last chances - D. A. Powell "The Imaginal State"

One chance stalk of wheat - "Presence" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

Forms from the verge of chance - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"

The map of chance and purpose - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

A pie gets one chance - Alberto Rios "Perfect for Any Occasion"

Over the foam for the golden chances - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"

Clung to the chance promise - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Pig whispers and games of chance - Karen A. Romanko "Bosch in Hollywood"

That Chance with brazen sceptre rules him not - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

An altar dignifying the god of chance - Charles Simic "The Altar"

Auspicious to chance meetings - Charles Simic "The Infinite"

With chances for none - Anne Spencer "At the Carnival"

The abrupt ferocities of chance - George Sterling "A Character"

The chance romances of the streets - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"

Will always bear the beauty of chance - Arthur Sze "Under a Rising Moon"

A parcel of vain strivings tied by a chance bond - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"

No chance could sever - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"

Another chance without talking - Edwin Torres "Under Venus's Hair"

Faery glitter in the streets of chance - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"

For all of our second chances - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Ram, Laborer"

Missed the chance of answering - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"

Our tasks without chance of resting - Jo Walton "When We Were Robots in Egypt"

The air, the light, the whole enormous chance - John Moncure Wettarau "Morning, Maine Honolulu"

By the chance dropping of a tiny seed - Helen Hay Whitney "The Coming of Love"

Checked only by vile chance - C. K. Williams "The Future"

Were in this place the guests of chance - William Wordsworth "Stepping Westward"


The nurse of fell mischance - Michelangelo Buonarroti "II. On Dante Alighieri" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Blessed beauty from mischance - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus

If we count up the world's mischance - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Why Sad To-day"


Perchance in the pale halls of Hecate - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"

For perchance to-morrow's sun - P. Gerhardt [untitled]

Perchance have never in communion met - W. Gilmore Simms "Sonnet: To Mrs. -- -- --" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

Perchance may tune its strings again - Sidney R. Thompson "At Waking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.108-v.III, 23 Jan. 1886]


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