Potential Titles: Wring/Wrung

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Wring from grasping hands their meed of gold - Helene Johnson "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"

Your hands with sorrow wring - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"

Spring wrings out the reedy winter chill - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Drought that wrings its leather hands above the world - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"


Wrung out cloth of all my salt - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Wrung the wine of the dream - Adelaide Crapsey "The Mother Exultant"

Which we wrung from the the red jaws of hell - Crosscut, 16th Battalion, AIF "How I Won the V.C." [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

Dews wrung from the Sun-god's eyes - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

Wrung them from startled velvet midnights - Naomi Long Madgett "If There Were Songs to Sing"

Wealth to be wrung from fields of salt - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson


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