Potential Titles: Persuade/Persuasion

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Persuade the squirrels to teach me - Clive Bell "March"

Tried to persuade the moon - Chiyuma Elliott "When I Was a Wave"

To persuade iron and fire and marble - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

By fantastic wiles persuade the passions - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Persuade to drink that charmed cup - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"


Quibbled each morning with gravity's persuasion - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"

The bland persuasion of some breeze - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Crooked grin of ice cream persuasion - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"

Where all persuasions & equations lose their grip - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah V: Through Certain Angles"

All the swift persuasion of the Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"


Their most persuasive dead - Benjamin West Ball "To --"

The wind's persuasive violins and bells - Iris Tree "[Oh canst thou not hear in my heart all its whispering fears]"


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