Potential Titles: Portion

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The feast spoils while we argue portions - Julia Alvarez "Love Portions"

A portion of celestial fire - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Hold a portion of your sacred gold - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Hell and death his portion be - "Columcille's Farewell to Aran of the Saints" transl. by Douglas Hyde

Resuscitate their small portion of the light - Camille T. Dungy "How Great the Gardens When They Arrive"

Respect even its bitter portion - Tess Gallagher "Black Pudding"

Portion out their wakefulness - Linda Gregerson "Make-Falcon"

The orphan's portion and the widow's store - Felicia Hemans "Heliodorus in the Temple"

A portion of ethereal dew - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

A little portion of the green, ambitious earth - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"

To take my starveling's portion and pretend - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"

Shredding our portion of Eternity - Amy Lowell "The Matrix"

A portion of its mild relief - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"

Where grief is their first portion - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

Their darkened portion of forever - Airea D. Matthews "Psyche on Prozac"

Contains a portion of immortality - "The Misanthrope"

Folly claimed too large a portion - J.G. Percival "The Soul"

To sweeter portions of the dream - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Amavi"

And portioned out the sea - Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"

All things unclose their portions - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]


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