Potential Titles: Thwart

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Athwart the untravelled wilds of space - B. "To an Evening Cloud" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

Athwart Truth's deep abyss - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Red sunbeam athwart the withered leaf - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Athwart the leaden sky - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

Glide athwart the sunshine and the shade - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Light of Our Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

A meteor thrown athwart some sky - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"

Weird shadows jigged athwart the gloom - Robert W. Service "The Dreamer"

A sullen bar of light athwart the darkness - Helen Hay Whitney "The Days"

Blurry headlights athwart wet asphalt - K. Ceres Wright "Mission: Accomplished"


Lofty pyramid of thwarting sea-cloud - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"

Thwarting the eager spirit's pure intelligence - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

Thwart all the hollows and angles - William D. Howells "In Earliest Spring"

In folds of thwarting matter furled - Archibald Lampman "The Clearer Self"

Long thwarted of their prey - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"

Dreaming up ways to thwart the crows - Kristen Tracy "To the Tender"

And thwart Ambition's schemes - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"

Ghostly zone of thwarted destinies - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


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