Potential Titles: Iron

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Clanking irons chained to the wall of stone - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Splintered the pine and split the iron rock - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Rhythmic echo of the iron wheel - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"

A portrait of iron and memory - Zaina Alsous "Translator's Essay"

Starved by the iron will of discipline - Julia Alvarez "Gaining My Self Back"

His heart of iron did not quail - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

An iron claw and a new-made screw - Mary Jo Bang "A Calculation Based on Figures in a Scene"

Minor quibbles a clock will iron smooth - Mary Jo Bang "Head-Heavy on its Snakestalk, the Tulip"

A porcelain nun behind a wrought iron gate - Mary Jo Bang "Mistress Mary, Quite"

Heard the iron weeping of the King - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"

With her network of iron - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien

Love is an iron lord - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Crushed me with an iron yoke - Stephen Vincent Benet "Poor Devil!"

The waltz of iron and wood - Joshua Bennett "Ode to the Equipment Manager"

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

Has taken iron into his laugh - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"

The years go back with an iron clank - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"

Iron misused must turn to blight - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"

With iron bars over her windows and doors - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

The cactus stubborn as iron - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

With iron sceptre rules the year - Patrick Bronte "Winter-Night Meditations"

Midas' gold or Krupp's iron wealth secured - Paul Cameron Brown "The Treasure Ships"

And break their iron net - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Rome on two iron legs - Tommaso Campanella "XLVII. Nebuchadnezzar's Image" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Should threaten her iron repose - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"

Down under the iron hoof - W. Wilfred Campbell "A Present-Day Creed"

Iron voices rolling on her ears - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"

Earth's host upon its iron power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"

Their creeds with an iron twist - W. Wilfred Campbell "The World-Mother"

With the iron of tyrant fears - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

Of hunger toothed with iron - Willa Cather "A Silver Cup"

When anger reaches its iron tongue - Stephanie Cawley "Not"

Blooming like rust under oil and tender iron - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"

With mystery and iron laughter stirred - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

The opening of his iron book - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

iron understands time is another name for God - Lucille Clifton "rust"

Time's iron tongue proclaims - Rev. John Clutton "Sabbath-Breaking on the Canal"

Or blighting iron showers - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"

Through iron doors, through gates of brass - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"

Carrying the iron of purpose in them - Kwame Dawes "Steel"

Iron pin and emerald larch - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

Sand flaring in silence as the iron strikes - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"

The casual horror of the iron - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

The echo from an iron cliff - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

Dark inspiration of iron times - W.E.B. Du Bois "The Song of the Smoke"

To break this iron cage - Aziz Isa Elkun "Borders" transl. by author

Written on the iron leaf - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Red ivy iron fire and the brick blossoms florid - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"

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]

Through the veranda's black iron bars - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"

Around the iron circumstances of the world - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Bleakness of life's iron spaces - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

Beneath the iron bell close-bound - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Slag"

Such purposeless and iron wings - Louis Golding "Having Finished 'Jude the Obscure'"

Intolerant mountains of iron and ice - Louis Golding "The Quest"

The iron key in the rusted lock - Marilyn Hacker "For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back"

Leaves the iron gate open - francine j. harris "roommates"

White iron shimmers in the forge - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXIII"

Growth rings of iron, flint and bronze - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"

Corridors and stairs of stone and iron - William Ernest Henley "In Hospital I. Enter Patient"

Work his will, and bow before his rod of iron - Oliver Herford "How the Lion Became King"

Do not trouble the holders of the iron keys - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Riding the cab of an iron dungeon - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

Stood before the iron sleet - Charles Fenno Hoffman "Monterey"

No hot iron of torture whitened in his forge - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

That laps his flesh and iron bones - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"

Held them in error's iron chain - O.S.B. Father Ignatius "The Holy Isle: A Legend of Bardsey Abbey"

Beating on the iron heart of sin - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Against hell's iron gate - James Weldon Johnson "The Prodigal Son"

Cursing with a mouth full of iron - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

But we couldn't stop believing in iron - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

Iron left men bent so close to the earth - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

Squinting down into iron grates - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

My body forever pierced by some iron spear - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

The dragon trapped below iron, bricks, & wood - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Iron in a forbidden transition - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"

breaking space and time with an iron sound - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

Measured roar and iron ring - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

With iron roar of waters - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"

Winter with wind and iron - Archibald Lampman "Sapphics"

When the iron year changes - Archibald Lampman "The Song Sparrow"

Onward with the might of iron - Archibald Lampman "War"

Crushed amid iron walls - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IV: Night Sounds"

December's bare iron hooks - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

Like iron implements twisted - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Almond-Trees"

From the lips of your iron men - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"

The clank of iron on iron distressed - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"

Black and mighty shapes of iron and stone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

By tempests of iron and lead - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Hunting the King 1792"

Howling its iron, seeping whispers - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

Iron fists like a maelstrom - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

Iron pick will tear a pathway - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

And iron striking back - Philip Levine "Flowering Midnight"

Where the iron, where the clay - J. Patrick Lewis "The Voice of the Voiceless"

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

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

The gaunt sons of Calvin's iron breed - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

The poet of iron words - Thomas Lux "Vaticide"

As the iron enters the riven soul - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Eked from iron and wreaked from blue - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heron"

The iron tread of armies - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"

Iron ice bound all the bitter seas - Don Marquis "Dickens"

When the iron brain assails - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Blown on a bugle with an iron note - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"

When prison locks and iron bars will fail - H.P. McKnight "A Prisoner's Thanksgiving"

Iron caulking the egg-shell heart - Mark McMorris "Prayer to Shadows on My Wall"

My appetite of iron - Mark McMorris "Prayer to Shadows on My Wall"

And the meanings cling like iron - Mark McMorris "The Thought of the World"

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

Scores of iron horsemen rode - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Iron & salt & the reverberation of your breaths - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"

Full of iron and clotted cream - Elizabeth Metzger "Control Feast"

In these iron days - Edna St Vincent Millay "To a Poet That Died Young"

Drew iron tears down Plato's cheek - John Milton "Il Penseroso"

Through the iron edge of the cliff - Marianne Moore "The Fish"

Summon the saint of iron - John Murillo "Poem Ending and Beginning on Lines by Larry Levis"

A hammer on an iron curtain - Marilyn Nelson "Sonic Boom"

Clothed in iron vapor - Pablo Neruda "Amazon" transl. by Jack Schmitt

An orchestra of water, stone, and iron - Pablo Neruda "Beyond Your Lands, America" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Dissolving the iron in the soul - Pablo Neruda "Bread-Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid

A single feather of an iron bird - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Through the insulted iron - Pablo Neruda "The Destroyed Street" translated by Donald D Walsh

Pockets of water converted into iron - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A slow iron army - Pablo Neruda "Guayaquil (1822)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The iron spoon that eats the earth - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly

And convert the iron into locks - Pablo Neruda "The Invisible Man" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Ordered with such iron conditions - Pablo Neruda "It Means Shadows" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Raptor of iron plumage - Pablo Neruda "It Was Not You" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

Your cargo of iron flowers - Pablo Neruda "Midday XL" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

That latitude of iron and snow - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The iron clamor of shadows - Pablo Neruda "On the Coast" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Valiant day of iron plumage - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Though iron and fire pierce you - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Iron rust countries with caves of diamonds - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XX" transl. by William O'Daly

Beneath your iron clarity - Pablo Neruda "The Stones of Chile" transl. by Dennis Maloney

So lovingly made with iron fire - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Memories in iron lock boxes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Patience Conversations"

they cast their fears in iron - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

Our iron spears will be a forest - "Oghuzname Epic" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken

A forest of felled iron - Sharon Olds "Take the I Out"

The iron thing they carried - Mary Oliver "Flare"

To persuade iron and fire and marble - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

Iron fences line the streets - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"

Leaden rain and iron hail - John Pierpont "Warren's Address"

The wings of an iron angel - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Walking Back Up Depot Street"

Wreathed in smoke and iron - Michael Prior "Wakeful Things"

Close all the havens with iron bands - "Queen Bengerd" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Loose every captive from his irons - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Time's galling iron yoke - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Interlude"

Currents of iron seas - Theodore H. Rand "Bay of Fundy"

Of timeless years and iron fate - Theodore H. Rand "In the Cool of the Day"

Iron gateways with remorseless flood - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"

Resistless fate and iron destiny - Theodore H. Rand "Resistless Fate"

The iron tongue of Time - Herbert Randall "To the Standish Guards of the Old Colony"

Anvil and iron be thy name - Roger Reeves "For Black Children at the End of the World--and the Beginning"

Tasting of its bronze and iron - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

Upon her tongues of iron - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Lilies unwithering, magnolias of iron - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"

Let the iron run wild - Lola Ridge "Reveille"

And sings exultant with the Iron - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

The brazen, articulate tongues of the Iron - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

Locked mammoths of iron - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

In my flagons fluid iron - Lola Ridge "To the American People"

Under its iron band of sky - Lynn Riggs "The Arid Land"

An arch of iron to frame the sky - Lynn Riggs "Endless Legend"

To feed unsinning at the iron dish - Lynn Riggs "Song of the Unholy Oracle"

Iron and paper and light and salt - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"

Drained the iron channel dry - Charles G.D. Roberts "Night in a Down-town Street"

Ceaseless winds that eddy down to whip the iron street - Lloyd Roberts "The Winter Harvest"

The wind sweeps in from the iron seas - Lloyd Roberts "Winter Winds"

The swift iron burning bee - Isaac Rosenberg "Dead Man's Dump"

Iron to shoe the hoofs of death - Isaac Rosenberg "Marches"

Earth stood hard as iron - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"

A voice stained like iron - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"

To the heart of iron and fire - D.L. Sayers "For Phaon"

Iron crowns of Ruin and Death be mine - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

On the iron plain of glory dance - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"

Why the iron that marks our blood is restless - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"

Dominion in your iron hands - Frederick George Scott "In Via Mortis"

Ironing out the kinks in despair - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"

Where the sea swings in like an iron gate - Anne Sexton "The Truth the Dead Know"

smith my silence to an iron gate - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

Iron rays of dawn relentless - Clark Ashton Smith "Desolation"

Black desert gripped in iron silences - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Oak flesh that fades on iron bone - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

Under the iron wheels that lift us - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Speaking with 100 iron tongues - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"

The iron key that locks your heart - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Upon this iron world - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

For now his soul has taken iron - George Sterling "Henri"

Iron litanies of worlds that die - George Sterling "Yosemite"

All the iron years - M. Letitia Stockett "At Eventide"

In iron poverty and hopeless tears - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

Applied her passion like a hot iron sword - Bianca Stone "Emily Dickinson"

With anvil, chain, and iron bar - Alfred B. Street "The Smithy" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

On my brow the iron crown of sorrow - Arthur Stringer "Black Hours"

Twisting earth's iron to their use - Arthur Stringer "The Steel Workers"

Through sullen Lethe's iron gate - "Superior Nonsense Verses"

The iron hollow of doubtful heaven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Discern salt from iron or shell from shale - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Green of the seaweeds' iron - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

Iberia's brood with iron sway kept down - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

From their iron ribs they belch volcanic - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

A broken lance against iron laws - Louis Untermeyer "He Goads Himself"

Agonies of iron and stone - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

As they went on their iron way - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower

All praise to your iron style - Emily van Kley "You Aren't Sure & I May Not"

Gathering the memory of rust & iron - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"

Even when burned in iron - Mark Wallace "Deep Cover Costumes"

The iron tomb dissolve its spell - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

The iron opened from the inside out - John Moncure Wettarau "Wrecking Ball, Commercial Street"

Creeping down by waterless defiles under an iron midnight - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

The iron road agleam with splintered light - Francis Brett Young "February"

Iron haste hurries to iron days - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"

Iron scythe forged by his thunder - Francis Brett Young "On a Subaltern Killed in Action"

The age of iron, pick, and spade - Francis Brett Young "Song of the Dark Ages"

Sometimes time is iron - Jordan Zandi "Solarium"

Through impassable armour of iron - Zheng Min "Images of the Heart #4: It" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

That seal the track with a branding iron - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 5" transl. by Katherine Silver


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Too greatly noble for this iron age - Aldous Huxley "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam"

For baser uses rule our iron age - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

To rob the iron-bolted tower - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"

No iron-crackling now is scor'd - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Ever tearless, iron-hearted - Yone Noguchi "Where Is the Poet"

Iron-lit indifference - Michael McGriff "Men Keep on Dying"

The iron-plated breast of Night - Charles William Wallace "Sonnets of Life I"

Stands alone in its iron-red power - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Uluru"

Who led the iron-throated harmonies of war - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"


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