Potential Titles: Eager

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Eager eyes that watch for one alone - Charlotte F. Bates "Unsaid" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.31, Oct. 1873]

Time, the grim and eager foe - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

So eagerly across that unknown span - Laurence Binyon "Youth"

Whets to keenest eagerness his cravings - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Resurrected by phenomena of the eager - Paul Cameron Brown "What Became of the Sixties"

With crimson-dashed and eager jaws - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Third Voice"

This eager rivalry of life - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"

The path where calls my eager mind - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr "Sonnet [I would not tarry if I could be gone]"

With beating hearts and eager eyes - Richard Cox, Jr. "Happiness--A Sonnet"

Eager eyes I might undazzled raise - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Imps in eager caucus - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life III: Rouge et Noir"

Eager to take the riches of renown - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Howl abroad like eager wolves - Max Eastman "To the Ascending Moon"

The rapture of eager April grace - Arthur Davison Ficke "To a Child--Twenty Years Hence"

Thwarting the eager spirit's pure intelligence - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

The eager feet of the returning dreamers - Mona Gould "Answer Me!"

Somewhat of the making's eager pain - Ivor Gurney "Song and Pain"

On eager wing of Hope we soar - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

Winning it with eager eyes - Laetitia Elizabeth Landon "Little Red Riding-Hood" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Grasped my eager heart in my own talons - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

And eager thousands grasp the sword - R.W. MacGowan "Our Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Eager with new miseries - Stephane Mallarme "Apparition" translated by Wilfrid Thorley

Shall eager seize the new-born truth - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Showing eager teeth of battle - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

Craved the trumpet's eager note - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

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

And drink your rushing words with eager lips - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"

Reached my hands in eager quest - Alexander Posey "To My Wife"

Our eager hands would grasp them - Miriam Clark Potter "Bubbles"

Whose untamed endeavor is eager for the sea - Horatio Nelson Powers "Delectatio Piscatoria" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Sept. 1880]

With throbbing heart, and eager pulse - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Aspiration"

Thousands eager to hear your views - Ishmael Reed "A Black Genius"

With each eager sense - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Eager and longing to break - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dawn"

Eager whispers Echo round each cell - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]

Eagerly greets the shore - DJ Savarese "The Caseworker Speaks of a Good Fit"

Whose eager haste the fatal jar to know - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

Hug them to my eager heart of fire - Robert W. Service "The Song of the Camp-Fire"

A breeze sucked in by eager lungs - Joyce Sidman "Come, Happiness"

With hands just as defiant and eager - Leta V. Meyers Smart "A Young Man's Adventure with Opportunity"

Too many knights errant eager to err - Cislyn Smith "Hot"

Leave my eager foot-prints on the shore - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

Empty of faith and eager to depart - Helen Hay Whitney "False"

An eager spirit of fragile fancies - Francis Brett Young "Testament"


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