Potential Titles: Smother
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somethingdarkerSmothering the wrathful flame - Richard C. Adams "A Delaware Indian Legend"
Across the blackened fields are only smothered stars - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Smothered stars casting their phantom reflections - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
And join the smothered gossip of trees - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
Harsh neglect will smother up the flame - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
In dead details to smother vital ends - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Remember this smothering need - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Letdown"
Nearly smothered with heat and with smoke - "The Fox and the Geese"
None their ambitious wish could smother - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Smothered in the rust of its old gates - Ashley M. Jones "I Find the Earring that Broke Loose from My Ear the Night a White Woman Told Me the World Would Save Her"
To smother the smell of formaldehyde - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
Lightning out of your smothered dusk - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"
A stone wall smothered by what fell - Charles Rafferty "Snowfall After Hearing Hard News"
Smother flying souls that pass - Duane W. Rimel "Late Revenge" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
Yet leave the smothering silence still supreme - George Rostrevor "The Grey Bird"
His feast of plums smothered in the fire - Clinton Scollard "The Yule-Log"
Oil lamps, that sputter, smothered with earth - Evelyn Scott "Manhattan the Unpeopled City: Lights at Night"
Smother her round scream - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"
In the smothering dark one white star - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
Walk into that flower-smothered standing ovation - Rita Dove "Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove"
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Across the blackened fields are only smothered stars - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Smothered stars casting their phantom reflections - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
And join the smothered gossip of trees - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
Harsh neglect will smother up the flame - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
In dead details to smother vital ends - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Remember this smothering need - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Letdown"
Nearly smothered with heat and with smoke - "The Fox and the Geese"
None their ambitious wish could smother - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Smothered in the rust of its old gates - Ashley M. Jones "I Find the Earring that Broke Loose from My Ear the Night a White Woman Told Me the World Would Save Her"
To smother the smell of formaldehyde - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
Lightning out of your smothered dusk - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"
A stone wall smothered by what fell - Charles Rafferty "Snowfall After Hearing Hard News"
Smother flying souls that pass - Duane W. Rimel "Late Revenge" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
Yet leave the smothering silence still supreme - George Rostrevor "The Grey Bird"
His feast of plums smothered in the fire - Clinton Scollard "The Yule-Log"
Oil lamps, that sputter, smothered with earth - Evelyn Scott "Manhattan the Unpeopled City: Lights at Night"
Smother her round scream - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"
In the smothering dark one white star - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
Walk into that flower-smothered standing ovation - Rita Dove "Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove"
Navigation Links:
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