Potential Titles: Elder/Eldest

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Always in praise of the elder tongue - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

Eldritch visions of the Armageddon of the Elder Gods - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"

All the brave rhymes of an elder day - C.S. Calverley "Lovers, and a Reflection"

What the elders meant by grace - Chris Dombrowski "Ghazal in which End Word Repetition Is Implied"

Some mighty seer or elder days - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"

With all an elder sister's pride - John Keble "Fire"

Blue as your seven elder sisters - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Dryads from the leafless oak or budded elder - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Not with the war-voice of our elder clay - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]

From childish eyes hide elder woe - M.P. "The Vales" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]

Keep strange faith with entities of elder void - Ann K. Schwader "Void Flyers"

Each elder tree a king - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"


Soothsayer of the eldest gods - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Inhospitable of eldest time - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Sleep with the world's eldest dead - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]


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