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somethingdarker) wrote2011-09-20 08:27 pm
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Potential Titles: Useless
useless as an oath against dying - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"
Useless as wounded pride - Maya Angelou "Insomniac"
For which praise is useless - Jabari Asim "Some Call It God"
And flap those useless wings - Anne Bronte "The Captive Dove"
Some bear a freight of useless tears - Frank Oliver Call "The Ships of Memory"
Useless as next morning's sun - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXVI: Till the End"
Call me a useless miracle - Cornelius Eady "Running Man"
Like soldiers in a useless war - Louise Gluck "Parable"
Our tools were useless all - "The Golfiad"
Desire's strong prayers and tears fall useless - Eliza Calvert Hall "Possession" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
With bated breath and useless oar - Frances E.W. Harper "A Story of the Rebellion"
Useless in the face of flood - francine j. harris "Wetland"
Useless to dream, more useless to regret - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--It Might Have Been"
To tie-back or prune branches is useless - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
This net of useless woe - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
Hell's first wild useless word - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "On Signorelli's Fresco of the Binding of the Lost"
Of useless grief and rueing - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "When as a Lad"
What is a map but a useless prison? - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
All the rattle of useless memory - Rusty Morrison "please advise stop [the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father's arm stop]"
Useless for lips to deny - Alice Wellington Rollins "Because"
Made from his useless musket-barrels - B. Simmons "London Cries" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
And idle lay the useless oars - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
The door of useless words - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"
Useless for gift wrapping and relay races - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]
The heart's a useless sliver in a glacier - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]
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Useless as wounded pride - Maya Angelou "Insomniac"
For which praise is useless - Jabari Asim "Some Call It God"
And flap those useless wings - Anne Bronte "The Captive Dove"
Some bear a freight of useless tears - Frank Oliver Call "The Ships of Memory"
Useless as next morning's sun - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXVI: Till the End"
Call me a useless miracle - Cornelius Eady "Running Man"
Like soldiers in a useless war - Louise Gluck "Parable"
Our tools were useless all - "The Golfiad"
Desire's strong prayers and tears fall useless - Eliza Calvert Hall "Possession" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
With bated breath and useless oar - Frances E.W. Harper "A Story of the Rebellion"
Useless in the face of flood - francine j. harris "Wetland"
Useless to dream, more useless to regret - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--It Might Have Been"
To tie-back or prune branches is useless - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
This net of useless woe - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
Hell's first wild useless word - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "On Signorelli's Fresco of the Binding of the Lost"
Of useless grief and rueing - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "When as a Lad"
What is a map but a useless prison? - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
All the rattle of useless memory - Rusty Morrison "please advise stop [the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father's arm stop]"
Useless for lips to deny - Alice Wellington Rollins "Because"
Made from his useless musket-barrels - B. Simmons "London Cries" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
And idle lay the useless oars - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
The door of useless words - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"
Useless for gift wrapping and relay races - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]
The heart's a useless sliver in a glacier - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]
Use.
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