Potential Titles: Tiger

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That even tigers might envy - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

A tiger with a taste for human suffering - Kim Addonizio "This Too Shall Pass"

Tiger of the double panoply - Al-Khansa (further attribution uncertain) "For Her Brother" transl. by E. Powys Mathers

Tiger sleeping in the sun - Alise Alousi "Password"

Of power to tame a tiger's heart - Benjamin West Ball "Inscription"

Tigers hidden in treetops - Mary Jo Bang "Etched, Tetched, Touched"

A tiger well repay the trouble and expense - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Tiger"

Could lay hold on the tiger's terrible heart - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

When wolves and tigers howl - William Blake "Night"

Entry barred by the paws of tigers - Ana Bozicevic "The Fall of Luci"

As an ambush of tigers scowl - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"

Dead leaves tiger bright - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"

The tiger springs in the new year - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"

As a tiger round a camp - Michael Field "Real Presence"

Still the tiger's famished growl - John Gay "The Council of Horses"

Tigers with their stealthy tread - Frances E.W. Harper "The Hermit's Sacrifice"

Tigers and wolves and wild-cats - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"

The yellow-black dance of the tiger - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

I'm a tiger in the rain - Sarah Kirsch "Sad Day in Berlin" transl. by Gerda Mayer

To pray inside the mouth of a tiger - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"

As the tigers slip like smiles through the bamboo - Stephen Leggett "Seeing Tigers"

Seek out the cubs in the tiger's cave - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson

High above that tiger on parade - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"

To fall into this lair of leopards and tigers - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson

Sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth - Claude McKay "America"

Straight rains and tiger sky - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Where the tiger claws the snake - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Water in the tiger's mouth - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"

As creeps the tiger on the deer - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Cross through a summer of tigers - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Behind thirsty tigers - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Chair" transl. by Maria Jacketti and Dennis Maloney

Thickets where the tiger burned - Pablo Neruda "The Traveler (1927)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Leads the tiger to pursue - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Cuvier: The Vera Causa"

Into the Terror's hot red tiger-mouth - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

Whose ardors work in men and tigers - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Hungry as a famished tiger - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

Keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIX"

From the fish swallowing the tiger - Richard Solomon "Dream Caused by the Fight of the Bumblebee"

The tiger-haunted garden - George Sterling "Peace"

Catches tigers in red weather - Wallace Stevens "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"

Always wanted the tiger - Kristen Tracy "Presto"

Tigers and leopards howl beside the trail - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

Like tigers on a lone lee shore - Sherard Vines "Permission"

Wolves and tigers poised to prey on it - Wang Ts'an "Seven Sorrows" transl. by Burton Watson

The burning eyes of a tiger barred - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


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