Potential Titles: Rival

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From rival's brow to wrest the laurel - Duncan Anderson "The Death of Wolfe"

Rivals Homer's god-enraptured dreams - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

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

Who vainly strove to rival Juno - William Cory "Asterope"

Her rivals have flouted the rose - Nathalia Crane "The Gossips"

Whose rival is Persephone - Adelaide Crapsey "To Walter Savage Landor"

And the rival thrushes sing - Edward Dowden "Compensation"

Roused to indignation by a rival's reprobation - Harry Graham "The Last Horsed 'Bus"

The apotheosis of Ra's rivals - James Hannaham "Apophasis Now"

Southward a rival's stealth - Emily Pauline Johnson "Canada"

The vivid shades of dissolution rival the desert - Robbi Nester "Rot"

Rival the flying wind's swiftness - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)

A haze of waste whose brightness rivals heaven - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"

Staring at the god he could never rival - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"

Taking from his rival fear and desire - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"

Rivals the pride of summer - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

foster public rivalries with megalomaniacs and mad scientists - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"

The self's rivalry unraveled - Richard Solomon "Wormwood (For Linda)"

And rivaled a parrot for swearing - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "We're in the Chorus Now"

Each delicate, rival thread - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"


Unrivalled in those halcyon days of truth - Lennox Amott "Stanzas Addressed to a Lady Coming of Age"

The unrivall'd Falstaff of the ground - "The First Hole at St. Andrews on a Crowded Day"

And stars unrivalled bright - Thomas Hood "Fair Ines"


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