Potential Titles: Pestilence

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Taints with pestilence the gale - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

We pray pestilence will pass - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Insomniac Tankas"

What the pestilence had touched ne'er rose to life again - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

And ruin her pestilential nest - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"

When pestilence clasps hands with death - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"

Poking through the pestilential ash - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

Before the fall of pestilential showers - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Vagrant flowers of legal pestilences - Pablo Neruda "The Beggars" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A breath of unnamed pestilence - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"

Scattered the seeds of pestilence - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

While famine and pestilence stalk'd in thy train - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The War-Spirit"

Pestilence and rot within thy bowers - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"

The arrows of pestilence flying - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "Foreshadowings"


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