Potential Titles: Clutch
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somethingdarkerSmote and beat upon by clutch and strain - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
Still clutching at the vanishing day - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
The clutch of God's great rocks upon my keel - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
Red claws to clutch and gills to gasp - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"
Backlit by a scattered clutch of charcoal - Russell Brakefield "Raccoon Sighting Before Intimacy"
Clutching their holly on Roanoke island - Paul Cameron Brown "Ancient of Days"
Escape periphery's clutch - CM Burroughs "Dream, After Her Burial"
Reins clutched in his titan hands - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Learning not to clutch the ground so fierce - Ty Chapman "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"
Came to clutch my dreams at night - Lucille Clifton "david has slain his ten thousands"
Burning out the clutch of the heart - Jim Daniels "The Dark Miracle"
While chaos clutched the throat and shuddered past - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Eluding dusk's clutch - Chris Dombrowski "Study for the Ridgeline Blue in Winter"
I clutch at the ragged holes they leave behind - Rita Dove "Adolescence II"
A mute blue stillness clutches at my heart - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"
Clutched within a miser's hold - John Gay "Fable XVI: Pin and Needle" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Clutched in the grip of those vast hands - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"
A gnarled stick clutched in my hand - Georgia Heard "Room of Ordinary Things"
When dusk fell, a clutch of black birds landed - Michael Hettich "The Angels"
terror is the knotty clutch of an umbilical cord - DaMaris B. Hill "Come. Pray. Know"
Make the savage Czar in terror clutch his crown - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
The tendrils of his memory clutch my hear - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Clutch at pretty yesterdays - Helene Johnson "Remember Not"
One always caught in the clutch of another - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Refrained from clutching at iniquity - C.H.B. Kitchin "Ruler of infinite austerity"
A dragon brood clutches with brutal claws - Gertrud Kolmar "Paris" transl. by David Kipp
Clutched hands across a halo bright - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
Clutching for one second's pause - D.H. Lawrence "Man and Bat"
Out of the clutches of demonic space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 89" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Clouds clutching the river - Jenny Molberg "The Uncommon Mirror"
To clutch a fistful of thistle - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"
Fools, into Satan's clutch leaping - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Can from Time's stern clutches save - Susan Pinkerton "Autumn Leaves" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.306, 10 Nov. 1849]
From the clutches of the cold, remorseless wave - Alexander Posey "My Fancy"
That clutched the widow's pulse - E.J. Pratt "The Conclusion of 'Rachel'"
Where groping hands clutch fear - Charles G.D. Roberts "Night in a Down-town Street"
His clutch is waxing stronger - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"
Throats in the clutch of a hope - Carl Sandburg "Passers-by"
Clutched the reins of a shooting star - Robert W. Service "The Junior God"
Clutched in hollow hand of ice - Robert W. Service "The March of the Dead"
You must have a soul to clutch - Anne Spencer "Neighbors" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
That clutched the deviating earth - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"
A bloodied clutch of crowns - Sonya Taaffe "Radio Banquo"
All while clutching the earth - Sarah Grace Tuttle "Rooted"
And clutch the crumbling walls - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"
There have I clutched at divinity - Francis Brett Young "Envoi"
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Still clutching at the vanishing day - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
The clutch of God's great rocks upon my keel - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
Red claws to clutch and gills to gasp - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"
Backlit by a scattered clutch of charcoal - Russell Brakefield "Raccoon Sighting Before Intimacy"
Clutching their holly on Roanoke island - Paul Cameron Brown "Ancient of Days"
Escape periphery's clutch - CM Burroughs "Dream, After Her Burial"
Reins clutched in his titan hands - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Learning not to clutch the ground so fierce - Ty Chapman "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"
Came to clutch my dreams at night - Lucille Clifton "david has slain his ten thousands"
Burning out the clutch of the heart - Jim Daniels "The Dark Miracle"
While chaos clutched the throat and shuddered past - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Eluding dusk's clutch - Chris Dombrowski "Study for the Ridgeline Blue in Winter"
I clutch at the ragged holes they leave behind - Rita Dove "Adolescence II"
A mute blue stillness clutches at my heart - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"
Clutched within a miser's hold - John Gay "Fable XVI: Pin and Needle" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Clutched in the grip of those vast hands - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"
A gnarled stick clutched in my hand - Georgia Heard "Room of Ordinary Things"
When dusk fell, a clutch of black birds landed - Michael Hettich "The Angels"
terror is the knotty clutch of an umbilical cord - DaMaris B. Hill "Come. Pray. Know"
Make the savage Czar in terror clutch his crown - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
The tendrils of his memory clutch my hear - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Clutch at pretty yesterdays - Helene Johnson "Remember Not"
One always caught in the clutch of another - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Refrained from clutching at iniquity - C.H.B. Kitchin "Ruler of infinite austerity"
A dragon brood clutches with brutal claws - Gertrud Kolmar "Paris" transl. by David Kipp
Clutched hands across a halo bright - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
Clutching for one second's pause - D.H. Lawrence "Man and Bat"
Out of the clutches of demonic space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 89" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Clouds clutching the river - Jenny Molberg "The Uncommon Mirror"
To clutch a fistful of thistle - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"
Fools, into Satan's clutch leaping - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Can from Time's stern clutches save - Susan Pinkerton "Autumn Leaves" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.306, 10 Nov. 1849]
From the clutches of the cold, remorseless wave - Alexander Posey "My Fancy"
That clutched the widow's pulse - E.J. Pratt "The Conclusion of 'Rachel'"
Where groping hands clutch fear - Charles G.D. Roberts "Night in a Down-town Street"
His clutch is waxing stronger - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"
Throats in the clutch of a hope - Carl Sandburg "Passers-by"
Clutched the reins of a shooting star - Robert W. Service "The Junior God"
Clutched in hollow hand of ice - Robert W. Service "The March of the Dead"
You must have a soul to clutch - Anne Spencer "Neighbors" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
That clutched the deviating earth - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"
A bloodied clutch of crowns - Sonya Taaffe "Radio Banquo"
All while clutching the earth - Sarah Grace Tuttle "Rooted"
And clutch the crumbling walls - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"
There have I clutched at divinity - Francis Brett Young "Envoi"
Navigation Links:
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