Potential Titles: Ward/Warden/Warder

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To ward against dangers we can't see - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Fair apple trees keep ward - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Words to ward off sleep - Franny Choi "We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had"

As though laughter wards off death - Wanda Coleman "Dear Mama (4)"

The terror reaches its red claws into back ward and living room - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

In myriads from oblivion's ward - Juan Ramon Jimenez "One Night" transl. by Thomas Walsh

Humor that warded the arrows off - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

A talisman to ward off anguish - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"

To ward and worship all the light it sends - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"

Under the ward of the Polar Star - Frank L. Pollock "The Trail of Gold"

Turns noiselessly in memory's wards - William W. Story "The Violet"


With fairies abroad for watch and warden - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Wonderful Apple-Tree"

With the wind your warden - F.W. Harvey "Cloud Messengers"

Wardens of the far-sought gold - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"


Plant a warder keen and pure - Edward Dowden "To a Child Dead as Soon as Born"

Some unseen warder kept the key - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

And be no more the warder of my heart - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: I"

My lullaby the warder's tread - Sir Walter Scott "Song from 'The Lady of the Lake'"

And the Warder is Despair - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"


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