Potential Titles: Decree

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If careless fortune had decreed it so - Albion Fellows Bacon "An Alpine Valley"

Each act and thought decreed - Benjamin West Ball "Agimur Fatis"

By the high decree of powers supreme - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

For fate admits my soul's decree - Charlotte Bronte "The Wife's Will"

To promulgate that dread decree - Tommaso Campanella "XLVI. The Year 1603" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Th' immutable decrees of fate are given - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

I have decreed them all taboo - Thomas M. Disch "Ballade of the New God"

Looking back on Fate's decree - Constance Fairbanks "Those Far-Off Fields"

Some strange, swift decree - Hermann Hagedorn "The Ghost"

Manumitted by parchments and decrees - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"

Each relic utters Fate's decree - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

Wait fulfilment of our hearts' decree - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--When Summer Comes"

Fixed and stern as fate's decree - Emily Pauline Johnson "Silhouette"

Rocketed copies of the decree to paradise - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Her Decrees of Steel - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"

Would see your conqueror's decree - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Of dark fortune's decreeing - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Glen All Is Still"

At the approach of destiny's decree - Saadi "Guardians" transl. by E.B. Eastwick

Devised each apt decree - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"

By the decrees of fate from year to year - Henry David Thoreau "Friendship"

Have bent my heart to their decree - Mrs. E.R.B. Waldo "Faith" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]


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