Potential Titles: Strong
Jul. 15th, 2011 02:58 amTo the heart firm and strong - A.L.O.E. "Hymn of Industry"
Strong with the memory of their brothers slain - Lewis Alexander "Africa" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With strong yearning and passionate pain - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Decorated in the strong songs of survival - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"
Wherefore be strong to endure their doom - Apollonius of Rhodes "The Tale of the Argonauts" transl. by Arthur S. Way
Echo with strong music's stirring roar - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
whose night strong arms had banished - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
Strong as a current runs - b: william bearhart "No More Fire Here: A Sestina"
Strong friend of souls - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"
With iron of his own strong forging crowned - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: II. Penumbra"
So she turned him into strong evidence - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"
Constant and strong its silent course - Anne Bronte "Past Days"
The countless links are strong - Emily Bronte "Self-Interrogation"
Trauma bonded stronger than covalence - Pixie Bruner "With Serviettes Upon Our Heads" [Strange Horizons 11 August 2025]
Till the strong tornado broke - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
His splendour shines too strong - Michelangelo Buonarroti "II. On Dante Alighieri" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Where the seas, a million strong, ride in - Bliss Carman "Winter at Tortoise Shell"
Mighty fountains pure and strong - Roger Casement "Lost Youth"
Built strong walls and high - C.P. Cavafy "Walls" transl. from modern Greek by John Cavafy
Pride shall make my spirit strong - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
What strong memories over time's abyss bore up - G.K. Chesterton "The Myth of Arthur"
The strong fresh gale of life - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
For the vices of a strong man are pardoned - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
Strong to bear times' wintry weather - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
Two colts too strong for a tether - Countee Cullen "Spring Reminiscence"
against the strong silences of your song - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
My strong fingers beneath the snow - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IX)"
No stronger than the strips of sand - H.D. "Sea Gods"
A strong though nameless spell - Rev. Thomas Dale "The Anniversary"
A strong wall about me - Mary Carolyn Davies "Love Song"
Caught by the arm of a strong wind - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Termaggio"
To show how strong the silent passions are - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Had some strong delusion of that sort - "A Dialogue of Shadows" [Household Words no.2, April 6, 1850]
Along the border of a strong waterfall - Timothy Donnelly "By Night with Torch and Spear"
Nothing stronger than momentum - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Her strong hand closed on her blunted sword - Arthur Conan Doyle "Victrix"
A stronger hand restrains our wilful powers - Drayton "Will" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Their strongest Lusts subdue - E.E. (might be by Edmund Elys per speculation by the editor of the book in which I found it) "On the Death of The Truly Virtuous Mrs. Anne Killigrew who was Related to my (Deceased) Wife"
Made strong the fountains and made fresh the springs - T.S. Eliot "Ash-Wednesday IV"
Strength aiding still the strong - Ebenezer Elliott "When Wilt Thou Save the People?"
A stronger absence than death - Claudia Emerson "A Bird in the House"
Strong Hades could not keep his own - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Uriel"
Strong with the breath of Pan - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
To warm his bowels with strong potations - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
What strong arm have you to fight your battles? - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
On every side fenced by strong bulwarks - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Showed a strong solicitude to fall with decency - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The dying vine can hold the strongest oak - John Gould Fletcher "The Old Love and the New"
To answer strongly would have been amiss - Edward Edwin Foot "Jane Hollybrand; of Virtue Rewarded"
Our hearts in strong affection's chain - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
The broken heart's strong prayer - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)
Resurrect the strongest of all your enemies - Nikita Gill "Hekate: Father"
Ancient and unbroken, stronger than the core of the cosmos - Nikita Gill "Hekate: Father"
Very strong and full of foreboding - Louise Gluck "The Setting Sun"
A strong sorrow held in strong control - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
Where strong sunsets burn - Ivor Gurney "De Profundis"
Strong thirst past satisfaction - Ivor Gurney "Winter Beauty"
Keen with health, and strong for struggling - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Grows stronger each time we mourn - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"
Desire's strong prayers and tears fall useless - Eliza Calvert Hall "Possession" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
With feelings stronger felt by lapse of time - John Stockdale Hardy "The Emigrants"
Veiled against too strong a stare - Thomas Hardy "An Ancient to Ancients"
A yearning nature's strong appeal - Thomas Hardy "Dream of the City Shopwoman"
The strongest point of time - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Strong foundations they planted broad and deep - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
In whom myth was strongest - S. Frances Harrison "November"
To drink a dark strong poison - Terrance Hayes "Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy"
The wild beating blows of the strong handed winds - Ben Hecht "Moods"
Strong to stem the torrent's force - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
A bleeding heart can never beat as strong - Jennie Earngey Hill "Heartbloom"
Strong from the peril of the strife - William D. Howells "Saint Christopher"
The strong exorcising grace of everyday's futility - Aldous Huxley "The Defeat of Youth: VII"
A strong tower rooted in the past on dark unknown foundations - Aldous Huxley "Soles Occidere et Redire Possunt"
Chanting the music of a spirit strong - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
As the tender love the strong - Jean Ingelow "The Four Bridges"
The stronger for the squall - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"
Strong music of the sea - Lionel Johnson "In England"
Stern thoughts and strong winds - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Prisoners of strong despair - Lionel Johnson "Our Lady of the Snows"
An undertow with the strongest hands - Camisha L. Jones "On Having an Autoimmune Disease"
Strong impressions of eternity - Lawrence Joseph "In Parentheses"
A power more strong in beauty - John Keats "Hyperion"
A strong south wind in thunder sings - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"
Built my tomb walls strong enough to keep me safe - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"
In strongest Tempests he will rule the Wind - Anne Killigrew "To my Lady Berkeley, Afflicted upon her Son, My Lord Berkeley's Early Engaging in the Sea-Service"
In some strong enchanted lens - Joyce Kilmer "George Meredith"
Laughter give the rumor strong wings - Walter J. Kingsley "Lo, the Press Agent" [The Broadway Anthology]
Strong heart with triple armour bound - Rudyard Kipling "A British-Roman Song (A.D. 406)"
Wounds are for the desperate, blows are for the strong - Rudyard Kipling "Cold Iron"
Stronger than life our tether - Rudyard Kipling "England's Answer"
We are not strong, but we know People that are - Rudyard Kipling "A Pict Song"
Vines strong as a dozen sharecroppers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
Stronger than their houses & altars - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
Asleep in the rule of the strong machine - D.H. Lawrence "The North Country"
Whose power can wound is strong to heal - Mary L. Lawson "The Belle" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
The hand that would break us is strong - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"
Let the foe be strong as he may - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Throws a stronger sunlight on Life's dial - Mrs. Estelle Anna Lewis "Sonnets: Joys of Intellectual Employment" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.5, Nov. 1852]
To stand in the strong spine of rivers - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
A strong spell for reversal - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"
Grows stronger with eating the years away - J. Wm. Lloyd "The Fountain of Youth"
Build it up with stone so strong - "London Bridge"
To suffer and be strong - H.W. Longfellow [untitled]
Strong enough to roost in for the night - Leonel Sánchez Lopez "What the Birds Do"
Embers scattering wide at a stronger gust - Amy Lowell "March Evening"
A strong soul trampled from its throne - James Russell Lowell "Rosaline" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
Always stronger in the face of annihilation - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Stronger and older than peak and than boulder - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"
Strong in the wisdom that is more than prayer - James Allan Mackereth "Hail and Farewell"
Stronger runs the tide - Douglas Malloch "Children of the Spring"
This gossamer of dreams each strong wind shatters - Frederic Manning "The Vigil of Brunhild"
And make the circle strong - Edwin Markham [Untitled]
My stem is strong as brown cedar - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
With the strong red wine of His mirth - John Masefield "Laugh and Be Merry"
A hunger strong and alien - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Strong as the avenging fury - "The Misanthrope"
The strong, deep current of your spirit's voice - N. Scott Momaday "Yahweh to Urset"
How fragile are the strong and mad - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
The only fortress strong enough to trust - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"
When the meandering became too strong - Hoa Nguyen "Oxbow Lake"
Where I weave my strongest spell - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"
Her strong foundations crumbling - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
Strong enough to withstand rain - January Gill O'Neil "For Ella"
Stronger for having drowned - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "The Room Weeps"
A strong giant flinging his hundred hands about thy neck - Kostes Palamas "A Talk with the Flowers" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Strong enough to bring the stars down - Carl Phillips "This Far In"
Or made the Oligarchal Tyrants strong - Philo "The Tribute"
Be few but stronger - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Strong wine to strengthen me for my task - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Nectar strong with youth and mirth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Road to Colla"
With a strong fellow feeling for brandy and sherry - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
By the strong pride of an unfeeling will - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Bears a sceptre in his talons strong - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
Music in the strong deep-throated bush - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
The desire of this strong North - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"
By experience made strong - Alice Wellington Rollins "Experience"
The freedom of the truth-strong - John Jerome Rooney "Mississippi"
By the strong sea wrenched and tossed - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"
His clutch is waxing stronger - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"
Action strong as thought conceives - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
The strong wind whistles in his desert caves - S.S. "Rejoice" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.4, Oct. 1842]
Stronger than all proud men - Carl Sandburg "Death Snips Proud Men"
Did not the same strong mainspring urge and guide - Friederich Schiller "Friendship" transl. not credited
Too strong for my breaking - Laura Redden Searing "Corinna Confesses"
A solar wind too strong to ride - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"
A strong swimmer won't last ten wet minutes - M. Bartley Seigel "Wave After Wave"
Who are strong to withstand - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"
Make grief's length seem stronger - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"
Strong legions of madness and pride - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The War-Spirit"
fear will never make you stronger - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
Both sword and guns are strong - "Smiles and Tears" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Power lent by the stronger night - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
To render strong Antares blind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Identical seedpods strong on a vine - Gary Snyder "Why I Take Good Care of my Macintosh"
Visions make their spirits strong - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
And strong to serve the Star - George Sterling "The Fleet"
The proud and the strong have departed - Wallace Stevens "Lebensweisheitspielerei"
To beg the strong winds - Bianca Stone "The Murder"
The strong arm of the oak - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Strong from newer honey - L.A.G. Strong "In the Garden"
Forbidden fruits allure the strong - "Sugar" [Punch v.153, Nov. 28, 1917]
Eyes that keep eternal watch, unshaken, strong, and true - Alan Sullivan "A Question"
Strong as a wild swan's pinions - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
When Time and strong Oblivion ask - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"
Swift rapture and strong - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
One endeared by Friendship's strongest ties - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Where Ozymandius the strong lies in colossal ruin - J.B. Tabb "Shelley" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
Each strong molecule expands, a lattice of tetrahedrons - Brian Teare "Sitting River Meditation"
Flenses the strongest water from thaw - Brian Teare "Sitting River Meditation"
makes stronger their bondage to suffering - Brian Teare "When we are on the right track we are rewarded with joy"
A strong wind blows the dreams away - Sara Teasdale "Other Men"
Sheltered from too strong a sea - Sara Teasdale "To Rose"
Strong enough to be silent - Sara Teasdale "What Do I Care?"
And keep beside her strong Philosophy - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"
Serving the strong suggestions of my blood - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: IX"
In the strong loins of time - Eunice Tietjens "Children of War"
With strong roots and thick branches - Elizabeth Torres "The Tree"
A hill so strong that violent storms can't destroy - Tu Fu "Song of My House Being Battered by the Autumn Winds" transl. by Marilyn Chin
The laugh of the strong - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"
To arm the troubadour with weapon strong - Rudolph Valentino "The Lute"
Without putting a stronger one in its place - Rudolph Valentino "Sympathy (To J.)"
Not a single strip of twilight ever appears stronger than the night - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
That deep below are hidden strongest roots - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]
Where ancient roots still grow full and strong - Wang An-Shih "A Lone Kindred-Tree" transl. by David Hinton
With the thousand voices rising strong and solemn - Walt Whitman "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
Strong for the chill of the star - Helen Hay Whitney "Prayers"
Strong only on his native ground - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Strong temptations she could not withstand - "The Whore"
Grief is victor over her strong will - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
My strong strategy for the future dystopia - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
Holding my soul strong against foreign powers - Nicholas Wong "The Little Pink"
Strong as a cavern of stone - "XV: Tezozomoctli ic Motecpac | The Reign of Tezozomoctli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
While I mount upward on a strong desire - Edward Young "The Last Day Book I"
Strong arms of imagination - Matthew Zapruder "Cat Radio"
No bulwark strong enough - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
In the headstrong and obstinate fight - "Ne Pora" [Ukrainian Folk Songs by Rev. Humphrey Kowalsky. 1925]
Old and siren-strong, I smile immortal - W.D. Lighthall "Canada Not Last: At Venice"
To strongholds in the thickest woods - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"
In the assaulted stronghold of his will - Alice Meynell "The Unknown God"
Ours to stronghold and defend - Robert W. Service "The Pines"
Who spilled the strong-willed wine - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
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Strong with the memory of their brothers slain - Lewis Alexander "Africa" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With strong yearning and passionate pain - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Decorated in the strong songs of survival - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"
Wherefore be strong to endure their doom - Apollonius of Rhodes "The Tale of the Argonauts" transl. by Arthur S. Way
Echo with strong music's stirring roar - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
whose night strong arms had banished - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
Strong as a current runs - b: william bearhart "No More Fire Here: A Sestina"
Strong friend of souls - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"
With iron of his own strong forging crowned - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: II. Penumbra"
So she turned him into strong evidence - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"
Constant and strong its silent course - Anne Bronte "Past Days"
The countless links are strong - Emily Bronte "Self-Interrogation"
Trauma bonded stronger than covalence - Pixie Bruner "With Serviettes Upon Our Heads" [Strange Horizons 11 August 2025]
Till the strong tornado broke - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
His splendour shines too strong - Michelangelo Buonarroti "II. On Dante Alighieri" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Where the seas, a million strong, ride in - Bliss Carman "Winter at Tortoise Shell"
Mighty fountains pure and strong - Roger Casement "Lost Youth"
Built strong walls and high - C.P. Cavafy "Walls" transl. from modern Greek by John Cavafy
Pride shall make my spirit strong - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
What strong memories over time's abyss bore up - G.K. Chesterton "The Myth of Arthur"
The strong fresh gale of life - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
For the vices of a strong man are pardoned - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
Strong to bear times' wintry weather - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
Two colts too strong for a tether - Countee Cullen "Spring Reminiscence"
against the strong silences of your song - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
My strong fingers beneath the snow - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IX)"
No stronger than the strips of sand - H.D. "Sea Gods"
A strong though nameless spell - Rev. Thomas Dale "The Anniversary"
A strong wall about me - Mary Carolyn Davies "Love Song"
Caught by the arm of a strong wind - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Termaggio"
To show how strong the silent passions are - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Had some strong delusion of that sort - "A Dialogue of Shadows" [Household Words no.2, April 6, 1850]
Along the border of a strong waterfall - Timothy Donnelly "By Night with Torch and Spear"
Nothing stronger than momentum - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Her strong hand closed on her blunted sword - Arthur Conan Doyle "Victrix"
A stronger hand restrains our wilful powers - Drayton "Will" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Their strongest Lusts subdue - E.E. (might be by Edmund Elys per speculation by the editor of the book in which I found it) "On the Death of The Truly Virtuous Mrs. Anne Killigrew who was Related to my (Deceased) Wife"
Made strong the fountains and made fresh the springs - T.S. Eliot "Ash-Wednesday IV"
Strength aiding still the strong - Ebenezer Elliott "When Wilt Thou Save the People?"
A stronger absence than death - Claudia Emerson "A Bird in the House"
Strong Hades could not keep his own - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Uriel"
Strong with the breath of Pan - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
To warm his bowels with strong potations - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
What strong arm have you to fight your battles? - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
On every side fenced by strong bulwarks - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Showed a strong solicitude to fall with decency - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The dying vine can hold the strongest oak - John Gould Fletcher "The Old Love and the New"
To answer strongly would have been amiss - Edward Edwin Foot "Jane Hollybrand; of Virtue Rewarded"
Our hearts in strong affection's chain - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
The broken heart's strong prayer - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)
Resurrect the strongest of all your enemies - Nikita Gill "Hekate: Father"
Ancient and unbroken, stronger than the core of the cosmos - Nikita Gill "Hekate: Father"
Very strong and full of foreboding - Louise Gluck "The Setting Sun"
A strong sorrow held in strong control - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
Where strong sunsets burn - Ivor Gurney "De Profundis"
Strong thirst past satisfaction - Ivor Gurney "Winter Beauty"
Keen with health, and strong for struggling - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Grows stronger each time we mourn - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"
Desire's strong prayers and tears fall useless - Eliza Calvert Hall "Possession" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
With feelings stronger felt by lapse of time - John Stockdale Hardy "The Emigrants"
Veiled against too strong a stare - Thomas Hardy "An Ancient to Ancients"
A yearning nature's strong appeal - Thomas Hardy "Dream of the City Shopwoman"
The strongest point of time - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Strong foundations they planted broad and deep - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
In whom myth was strongest - S. Frances Harrison "November"
To drink a dark strong poison - Terrance Hayes "Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy"
The wild beating blows of the strong handed winds - Ben Hecht "Moods"
Strong to stem the torrent's force - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
A bleeding heart can never beat as strong - Jennie Earngey Hill "Heartbloom"
Strong from the peril of the strife - William D. Howells "Saint Christopher"
The strong exorcising grace of everyday's futility - Aldous Huxley "The Defeat of Youth: VII"
A strong tower rooted in the past on dark unknown foundations - Aldous Huxley "Soles Occidere et Redire Possunt"
Chanting the music of a spirit strong - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
As the tender love the strong - Jean Ingelow "The Four Bridges"
The stronger for the squall - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"
Strong music of the sea - Lionel Johnson "In England"
Stern thoughts and strong winds - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Prisoners of strong despair - Lionel Johnson "Our Lady of the Snows"
An undertow with the strongest hands - Camisha L. Jones "On Having an Autoimmune Disease"
Strong impressions of eternity - Lawrence Joseph "In Parentheses"
A power more strong in beauty - John Keats "Hyperion"
A strong south wind in thunder sings - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"
Built my tomb walls strong enough to keep me safe - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"
In strongest Tempests he will rule the Wind - Anne Killigrew "To my Lady Berkeley, Afflicted upon her Son, My Lord Berkeley's Early Engaging in the Sea-Service"
In some strong enchanted lens - Joyce Kilmer "George Meredith"
Laughter give the rumor strong wings - Walter J. Kingsley "Lo, the Press Agent" [The Broadway Anthology]
Strong heart with triple armour bound - Rudyard Kipling "A British-Roman Song (A.D. 406)"
Wounds are for the desperate, blows are for the strong - Rudyard Kipling "Cold Iron"
Stronger than life our tether - Rudyard Kipling "England's Answer"
We are not strong, but we know People that are - Rudyard Kipling "A Pict Song"
Vines strong as a dozen sharecroppers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
Stronger than their houses & altars - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
Asleep in the rule of the strong machine - D.H. Lawrence "The North Country"
Whose power can wound is strong to heal - Mary L. Lawson "The Belle" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
The hand that would break us is strong - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"
Let the foe be strong as he may - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Throws a stronger sunlight on Life's dial - Mrs. Estelle Anna Lewis "Sonnets: Joys of Intellectual Employment" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.5, Nov. 1852]
To stand in the strong spine of rivers - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
A strong spell for reversal - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"
Grows stronger with eating the years away - J. Wm. Lloyd "The Fountain of Youth"
Build it up with stone so strong - "London Bridge"
To suffer and be strong - H.W. Longfellow [untitled]
Strong enough to roost in for the night - Leonel Sánchez Lopez "What the Birds Do"
Embers scattering wide at a stronger gust - Amy Lowell "March Evening"
A strong soul trampled from its throne - James Russell Lowell "Rosaline" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
Always stronger in the face of annihilation - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Stronger and older than peak and than boulder - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"
Strong in the wisdom that is more than prayer - James Allan Mackereth "Hail and Farewell"
Stronger runs the tide - Douglas Malloch "Children of the Spring"
This gossamer of dreams each strong wind shatters - Frederic Manning "The Vigil of Brunhild"
And make the circle strong - Edwin Markham [Untitled]
My stem is strong as brown cedar - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
With the strong red wine of His mirth - John Masefield "Laugh and Be Merry"
A hunger strong and alien - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Strong as the avenging fury - "The Misanthrope"
The strong, deep current of your spirit's voice - N. Scott Momaday "Yahweh to Urset"
How fragile are the strong and mad - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
The only fortress strong enough to trust - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"
When the meandering became too strong - Hoa Nguyen "Oxbow Lake"
Where I weave my strongest spell - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"
Her strong foundations crumbling - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
Strong enough to withstand rain - January Gill O'Neil "For Ella"
Stronger for having drowned - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "The Room Weeps"
A strong giant flinging his hundred hands about thy neck - Kostes Palamas "A Talk with the Flowers" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Strong enough to bring the stars down - Carl Phillips "This Far In"
Or made the Oligarchal Tyrants strong - Philo "The Tribute"
Be few but stronger - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Strong wine to strengthen me for my task - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Nectar strong with youth and mirth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Road to Colla"
With a strong fellow feeling for brandy and sherry - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
By the strong pride of an unfeeling will - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Bears a sceptre in his talons strong - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
Music in the strong deep-throated bush - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
The desire of this strong North - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"
By experience made strong - Alice Wellington Rollins "Experience"
The freedom of the truth-strong - John Jerome Rooney "Mississippi"
By the strong sea wrenched and tossed - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"
His clutch is waxing stronger - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"
Action strong as thought conceives - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
The strong wind whistles in his desert caves - S.S. "Rejoice" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.4, Oct. 1842]
Stronger than all proud men - Carl Sandburg "Death Snips Proud Men"
Did not the same strong mainspring urge and guide - Friederich Schiller "Friendship" transl. not credited
Too strong for my breaking - Laura Redden Searing "Corinna Confesses"
A solar wind too strong to ride - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"
A strong swimmer won't last ten wet minutes - M. Bartley Seigel "Wave After Wave"
Who are strong to withstand - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"
Make grief's length seem stronger - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"
Strong legions of madness and pride - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The War-Spirit"
fear will never make you stronger - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
Both sword and guns are strong - "Smiles and Tears" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Power lent by the stronger night - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
To render strong Antares blind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Identical seedpods strong on a vine - Gary Snyder "Why I Take Good Care of my Macintosh"
Visions make their spirits strong - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
And strong to serve the Star - George Sterling "The Fleet"
The proud and the strong have departed - Wallace Stevens "Lebensweisheitspielerei"
To beg the strong winds - Bianca Stone "The Murder"
The strong arm of the oak - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Strong from newer honey - L.A.G. Strong "In the Garden"
Forbidden fruits allure the strong - "Sugar" [Punch v.153, Nov. 28, 1917]
Eyes that keep eternal watch, unshaken, strong, and true - Alan Sullivan "A Question"
Strong as a wild swan's pinions - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
When Time and strong Oblivion ask - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"
Swift rapture and strong - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
One endeared by Friendship's strongest ties - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Where Ozymandius the strong lies in colossal ruin - J.B. Tabb "Shelley" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
Each strong molecule expands, a lattice of tetrahedrons - Brian Teare "Sitting River Meditation"
Flenses the strongest water from thaw - Brian Teare "Sitting River Meditation"
makes stronger their bondage to suffering - Brian Teare "When we are on the right track we are rewarded with joy"
A strong wind blows the dreams away - Sara Teasdale "Other Men"
Sheltered from too strong a sea - Sara Teasdale "To Rose"
Strong enough to be silent - Sara Teasdale "What Do I Care?"
And keep beside her strong Philosophy - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"
Serving the strong suggestions of my blood - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: IX"
In the strong loins of time - Eunice Tietjens "Children of War"
With strong roots and thick branches - Elizabeth Torres "The Tree"
A hill so strong that violent storms can't destroy - Tu Fu "Song of My House Being Battered by the Autumn Winds" transl. by Marilyn Chin
The laugh of the strong - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"
To arm the troubadour with weapon strong - Rudolph Valentino "The Lute"
Without putting a stronger one in its place - Rudolph Valentino "Sympathy (To J.)"
Not a single strip of twilight ever appears stronger than the night - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
That deep below are hidden strongest roots - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]
Where ancient roots still grow full and strong - Wang An-Shih "A Lone Kindred-Tree" transl. by David Hinton
With the thousand voices rising strong and solemn - Walt Whitman "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
Strong for the chill of the star - Helen Hay Whitney "Prayers"
Strong only on his native ground - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Strong temptations she could not withstand - "The Whore"
Grief is victor over her strong will - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
My strong strategy for the future dystopia - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
Holding my soul strong against foreign powers - Nicholas Wong "The Little Pink"
Strong as a cavern of stone - "XV: Tezozomoctli ic Motecpac | The Reign of Tezozomoctli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
While I mount upward on a strong desire - Edward Young "The Last Day Book I"
Strong arms of imagination - Matthew Zapruder "Cat Radio"
No bulwark strong enough - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
In the headstrong and obstinate fight - "Ne Pora" [Ukrainian Folk Songs by Rev. Humphrey Kowalsky. 1925]
Old and siren-strong, I smile immortal - W.D. Lighthall "Canada Not Last: At Venice"
To strongholds in the thickest woods - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"
In the assaulted stronghold of his will - Alice Meynell "The Unknown God"
Ours to stronghold and defend - Robert W. Service "The Pines"
Who spilled the strong-willed wine - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
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