Potential Titles: Shield
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somethingdarkerThe shield of Temperance guarding his breast - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"
Through the shield of the window - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"
That bears the sacred shield of Truth - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
A black shield thrust down on earth - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
With broken shields piled at her feet - Maxwell Bodenheim "Boarding-House Episode"
The seven champions of the silver-mantled shield - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin Over His Sons"
A golden shield of growing span - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Wrapped you as a shield around - Millie W. Carpenter "A Winter Reverie" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
Were our frail hopes shields - Annie Rothwell Christie "The Woman's Part"
Rainbows to shield me from the sun - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
The coward's shield of glass - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Clang and clang of spear and shield - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Before me goes a shield to guard - Mary Carolyn Davies "Love Song"
A shield around the pain - Helen Dimos "For One Dead"
The sword when shielded by the pen - Irving Sidney Dix "Washington"
Whose shields bear bags of argent on a field of gold - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]
Prepare your corslet, spear and shield - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
His shield a tear of sadness - W.S. Gilbert "The Rival Curates"
Watching history through the mouth of a shield - Golden "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"
My flesh was its own shield - Thom Gunn "The Man with Night Sweats"
Knowing what her laughter shields - Robert Hayden "Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves"
The conquering lance and shield - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Who kiss to shield yourselves from blame - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Gaze not upon his shield of jet - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Dilemma"
Club and shield eternally raised - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
To shield from winter's wind and storm - "Jane and Her Needle" [Spring Blossoms, no date, no editor/author, Project Gutenberg]
Shield them from that jeopardy - Elinor Jenkins "Dreams Trespassing"
Lifted high on our victorious shields - Richard Le Gallienne "To Belgium"
Shielding so soft a heart - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
A shield for its brilliant power - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
Only cold beads of dew on swords and shields - Li Po "Weep Not, Young Women" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Where gothic saints and warriors made a shield - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"
Wrapped every fact inside a shield of formulae - Harry Martinson "Aniara 96" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Homeward borne upon a bloody shield - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
The taste of thin gold shielding cold brass - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
To shield your eyes from the lantern light - Achy Obejas "The Man in White"
And both their shields were shattered there - "Oh, Seventy-Seven Twice-Told Were They" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Wore as sheath and shield - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"
Rebel swords have struck your shield - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Our only shield from the screaming snow - Andre F. Peltier "Hockey Night in Emmett County"
Even love can be no shield - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Covered by St. Michael's shield - Polonski "On Skobelef" transl. by John Pollen
Shield her from the jaws of flame - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Drachenfels"
Hot beneath this sorrow-studded shield - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"
Alien multitudes in a strident shield of color - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"
Heaven shield the brave Gallant - Sir Walter Scott "Cavalier Song"
Flaming shields of dawns between - Clark Ashton Smith "The Land of Evil Stars"
The shield of moss encircling - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Heliotrope"
Barrier island that shields us from a dark horizon - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
Shield and mirror to the fair snake-curled Pain - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
The half-cracked shield of mockery - Louis Untermeyer "Monolog from a Mattress"
Shield themselves with bladed rocks - Assétou Xango "Terpsichore"
Under the lamplight's shielded glare - Francis Brett Young "The Pavement"
Bright-shielded Mars, who leads the host - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "A Vision" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Let us revel amid the shield-flowers - "XVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Frost whorling across a windshield - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"
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Through the shield of the window - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"
That bears the sacred shield of Truth - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
A black shield thrust down on earth - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
With broken shields piled at her feet - Maxwell Bodenheim "Boarding-House Episode"
The seven champions of the silver-mantled shield - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin Over His Sons"
A golden shield of growing span - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Wrapped you as a shield around - Millie W. Carpenter "A Winter Reverie" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
Were our frail hopes shields - Annie Rothwell Christie "The Woman's Part"
Rainbows to shield me from the sun - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
The coward's shield of glass - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Clang and clang of spear and shield - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Before me goes a shield to guard - Mary Carolyn Davies "Love Song"
A shield around the pain - Helen Dimos "For One Dead"
The sword when shielded by the pen - Irving Sidney Dix "Washington"
Whose shields bear bags of argent on a field of gold - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]
Prepare your corslet, spear and shield - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
His shield a tear of sadness - W.S. Gilbert "The Rival Curates"
Watching history through the mouth of a shield - Golden "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"
My flesh was its own shield - Thom Gunn "The Man with Night Sweats"
Knowing what her laughter shields - Robert Hayden "Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves"
The conquering lance and shield - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Who kiss to shield yourselves from blame - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Gaze not upon his shield of jet - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Dilemma"
Club and shield eternally raised - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
To shield from winter's wind and storm - "Jane and Her Needle" [Spring Blossoms, no date, no editor/author, Project Gutenberg]
Shield them from that jeopardy - Elinor Jenkins "Dreams Trespassing"
Lifted high on our victorious shields - Richard Le Gallienne "To Belgium"
Shielding so soft a heart - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
A shield for its brilliant power - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
Only cold beads of dew on swords and shields - Li Po "Weep Not, Young Women" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Where gothic saints and warriors made a shield - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"
Wrapped every fact inside a shield of formulae - Harry Martinson "Aniara 96" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Homeward borne upon a bloody shield - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
The taste of thin gold shielding cold brass - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
To shield your eyes from the lantern light - Achy Obejas "The Man in White"
And both their shields were shattered there - "Oh, Seventy-Seven Twice-Told Were They" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Wore as sheath and shield - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"
Rebel swords have struck your shield - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Our only shield from the screaming snow - Andre F. Peltier "Hockey Night in Emmett County"
Even love can be no shield - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Covered by St. Michael's shield - Polonski "On Skobelef" transl. by John Pollen
Shield her from the jaws of flame - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Drachenfels"
Hot beneath this sorrow-studded shield - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"
Alien multitudes in a strident shield of color - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"
Heaven shield the brave Gallant - Sir Walter Scott "Cavalier Song"
Flaming shields of dawns between - Clark Ashton Smith "The Land of Evil Stars"
The shield of moss encircling - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Heliotrope"
Barrier island that shields us from a dark horizon - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
Shield and mirror to the fair snake-curled Pain - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
The half-cracked shield of mockery - Louis Untermeyer "Monolog from a Mattress"
Shield themselves with bladed rocks - Assétou Xango "Terpsichore"
Under the lamplight's shielded glare - Francis Brett Young "The Pavement"
Bright-shielded Mars, who leads the host - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "A Vision" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Let us revel amid the shield-flowers - "XVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Frost whorling across a windshield - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"
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