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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-12-02 04:49 am

Potential Titles: Lance

Flinging luminous lances of rain - Daisy Aldan "Women at Windows"

March on with gleam of silver lances - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Sleep's Serenade"

Grasping the diamond lance - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Lengthened a prayer into a lance - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"

With lance, with corslet, casque and sword - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Lance and drain this ravened sky - Rebecca Dunham "Atavism at Twilight"

Silver lances in the sun - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"

And dropped his thirsty lance - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Young Cupid's lances strike as deep as ever - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]

The conquering lance and shield - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

His keen-tipped lance of lightning - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus

The spectral lances of the moon - E.M. "Part IV. The Vision Glorious"

A forest of lances and lampreys - Pablo Neruda "Death" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Breaks against me like a lance - Lola Ridge "Ward X"

A bloody lance of heaven's displeasure - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"

Bend the lances of the mirrored pines - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

Then spear and lance were left to rust - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

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

His the lance to slay the boar - Henry van Dyke "The Vain King"

The single lance of a candle - Derek Walcott "Roman Peace"


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