Potential Title: Vanquish

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The vanquished search for the vanquished - Etel Adnan "Surge"

That bids the vanquished triumph over time - Maurice Baring "Icarus"

Broken sword that vanquished all but Night - R.H. Barlow "R.E.H."

All past and vanquished in this sullen cold - Louise Morey Bowman "Oranges"

More vanquishing than victory - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 38"

Crowned for vanquishing - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars - Willa Cather "Prairie Dawn"

Vanquishing the outrages of time - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz [Untitled] transl. by Samuel Beckett

The cloud-host, vanquished, took to flight - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

Who conceals the vanquished - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Saw the vanquish'd eagles fly - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"

Fail at vanquishing my few weaknesses - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"

That vanquish in a stricken field - John McCrae "The Unconquered Dead"

Towering like vanquished cathedrals - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Bereft, but not vanquished - Tracy K. Smith "Everything that Ever Was"

Amid winds that vanquish the grass - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


Unvanquished Venus of the northern sea - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel V: On the Sea-Cliff"


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