Potential Titles: Poise

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Poised 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"

That left you vague hunger poised over death - Maxwell Bodenheim "Myself: To Georgie May"

Into the poised lyric of the sky - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"

Poised like a panther on a bough - Eloise Briton "The Acrobat"

Spun the poised and pulsing universe - Geoffrey Dearmer "To the Uttermost Farthing"

Poised, between husbands and factions - Rita Dove "Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove"

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 by Incantation's charm - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

For poise and feasting in tension so high - Crawford Jackson "The Birds' Orchestra: The Dawn"

Poised to disclose some secret - John James "At Assateague"

For poised and halting thought - G.H. Johnstone "Summer"

As men may poise upon a needle's end - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

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"

While poised to devastate her reputation - Harry Martinson "Aniara 38" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Blowing the poising kestrel over - John Masefield "On Malvern Hill"

The wasps poised at the yellow plums - John Masefield "The Return"

The central Sun, poised on his throne of gold - W.H. Rhodes "The Emerald Isle"

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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