Potential Titles: Poise
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somethingdarkerPoised on a cannon ball's flight - "The Angels of War" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Had thought and raised and poised its splendor - William Rose Benét "The City"
Poised between love and grief - Sheila Black "The Earth"
Into the poised lyric of the sky - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
Poised like a panther on a bough - Eloise Briton "The Acrobat"
Careless grace in flying poise - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"
Poised for shattering - Katherine Edgren "Mother's Day"
A peering dolphin poised questioningly - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
A wraith so poised and willful at trail's end - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."
Poised in marble thought - Robert Graves "On the Ridge"
The year poised on the equinox - Marilyn Hacker "Nearly a Valediction"
Poise of reason's sphere maintain - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Poised to disclose some secret - John James "At Assateague"
For poised and halting thought - G.H. Johnstone "Summer"
May poise upon a needle's end - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Poised for hours in her spun palace - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"
All this star-poised frame - James Russell Lowell "The Brakes"
Poised for an instant against the sky - P.H.B. Lyon "The Song of Strength"
Blowing the poising kestrel over - John Masefield "On Malvern Hill"
The wasps poised at the yellow plums - John Masefield "The Return"
In the drop poised upon the thorn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"
Like stars poised high and still - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Poised in endless possibility - Joyce Sidman "Where Is My Body?"
Sandhill cranes poised between the tall grass and oaks - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
Wolves and tigers poised to prey on it - Wang Ts'an "Seven Sorrows" transl. by Burton Watson
The poise of heart and mind - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"
Poised horizontal on glittering parallels - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"
Poised like butterflies before you - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
Love in counterpoise to silver glitter - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"
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Had thought and raised and poised its splendor - William Rose Benét "The City"
Poised between love and grief - Sheila Black "The Earth"
Into the poised lyric of the sky - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
Poised like a panther on a bough - Eloise Briton "The Acrobat"
Careless grace in flying poise - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"
Poised for shattering - Katherine Edgren "Mother's Day"
A peering dolphin poised questioningly - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
A wraith so poised and willful at trail's end - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."
Poised in marble thought - Robert Graves "On the Ridge"
The year poised on the equinox - Marilyn Hacker "Nearly a Valediction"
Poise of reason's sphere maintain - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Poised to disclose some secret - John James "At Assateague"
For poised and halting thought - G.H. Johnstone "Summer"
May poise upon a needle's end - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Poised for hours in her spun palace - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"
All this star-poised frame - James Russell Lowell "The Brakes"
Poised for an instant against the sky - P.H.B. Lyon "The Song of Strength"
Blowing the poising kestrel over - John Masefield "On Malvern Hill"
The wasps poised at the yellow plums - John Masefield "The Return"
In the drop poised upon the thorn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"
Like stars poised high and still - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Poised in endless possibility - Joyce Sidman "Where Is My Body?"
Sandhill cranes poised between the tall grass and oaks - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
Wolves and tigers poised to prey on it - Wang Ts'an "Seven Sorrows" transl. by Burton Watson
The poise of heart and mind - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"
Poised horizontal on glittering parallels - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"
Poised like butterflies before you - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
Love in counterpoise to silver glitter - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"
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