Potential Titles: Temper/Temperament

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Turns out tempered resilience outlasts regimes - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

Resorts at time to bluff and temper - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

The bombs have come in the same temper - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"

A calm retreat of tempered light - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

Possessed by temper's curl and stream - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 5"

Tempering and holding in check - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"

The tempered regularity of falling leaves - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

In the temper and the tantrum - Katy Lederer "That Everything's Inevitable"

Where no fresh stream temper the rich salt wave - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."

More tempered by winds - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid

then temper it to golden-rose - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

science rewards me with black temper - Nnadi Samuel "Orchard of Failed Sciences"

With tempers as violent as thunder - "Southeast the Peacock Flies" transl. by Burton Watson

The smooth temper of my age - Robert Southey "The Holly Tree"

The spirit's temper grows too soft - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"


Of happier-tempered coffee - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"


Acid-dipped, and sky-tempered, storm-bathed - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"


less temperamental than red - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

Temperamentally unfit for death - Deborah Landau "Flesh"


Liberal growth demands untempered heat - William Cory "Amavi"

The untempered supervision of the sun - Helen Parry Eden "A Prayer for St Innocent's Day"


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