Potential Titles: Chance
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somethingdarkerA 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"
Chance upon dark laughter - Paul Cameron Brown "Chance Upon"
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"
One chance stalk of wheat - Alice Cary "Presence" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
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"
Time nor chance shall your work untwine - Barry Cornwall "The Weaver's Song" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]
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"
Painted before my eyes, with brush of chance - Beulah Field "Fame"
That lost, and all my chance has flown - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
By chance found the marauder's den - John Gay "Fable XVII: Shepherd's Dog and Wolf" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Some chance on the midnight cities - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"
Without a chance to blaze upon the unities of a paper scene - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"
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"
Whatever chance or change be mine - Lucy H. Hooper "Farewell" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
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"
And judge them gifts of kindly chance - T.M. Kettle "Sowing (Written in 1899)"
Dared to scorn untoward chance - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"
No gratitude to wanton chance - Joyce Kilmer "Wherever, Whenever"
What change, what chance, what chill - Rudyard Kipling "A Centurion of the Thirtieth"
Out of dust & chance - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"
Plough for him the stony field of Chance - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
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"
That chance and miracle must have one source - Harry Martinson "Aniara 47" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
To be opened when Chance approves - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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"
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"
Shapes Fate and Chance with potent skill - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
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"
Chanceful and changeful is my destiny - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"
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"
Yesterday's broken smiles desperate for another chance - John Trudell "Thicker than Blood for Billy Joe/Chiefs Song"
Paying for every taken chance - John Trudell "What Happens/Sarcee Song"
Wounded by that pocket knife thrown by chance - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
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"
Chance will come as time proceeds - Dennison Woodcock "Christmas"
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
The galling yoke of sorrow and mischance - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
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.
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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"
Chance upon dark laughter - Paul Cameron Brown "Chance Upon"
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"
One chance stalk of wheat - Alice Cary "Presence" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
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"
Time nor chance shall your work untwine - Barry Cornwall "The Weaver's Song" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]
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"
Painted before my eyes, with brush of chance - Beulah Field "Fame"
That lost, and all my chance has flown - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
By chance found the marauder's den - John Gay "Fable XVII: Shepherd's Dog and Wolf" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Some chance on the midnight cities - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"
Without a chance to blaze upon the unities of a paper scene - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"
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"
Whatever chance or change be mine - Lucy H. Hooper "Farewell" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
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"
And judge them gifts of kindly chance - T.M. Kettle "Sowing (Written in 1899)"
Dared to scorn untoward chance - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"
No gratitude to wanton chance - Joyce Kilmer "Wherever, Whenever"
What change, what chance, what chill - Rudyard Kipling "A Centurion of the Thirtieth"
Out of dust & chance - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"
Plough for him the stony field of Chance - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
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"
That chance and miracle must have one source - Harry Martinson "Aniara 47" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
To be opened when Chance approves - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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"
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"
Shapes Fate and Chance with potent skill - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
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"
Chanceful and changeful is my destiny - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"
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"
Yesterday's broken smiles desperate for another chance - John Trudell "Thicker than Blood for Billy Joe/Chiefs Song"
Paying for every taken chance - John Trudell "What Happens/Sarcee Song"
Wounded by that pocket knife thrown by chance - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
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"
Chance will come as time proceeds - Dennison Woodcock "Christmas"
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
The galling yoke of sorrow and mischance - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
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.
Navigation Links:
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