Potential Titles: Plague

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And spotted plagues from putrid fens distill - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Plague rats cluster in a feeding frenzy - Paul Cameron Brown "Carnival and Lent"

Slow plague shall bring the fatal hour - William Cullen Bryant "Sonnet to --"

With plagues of hell diseased - Tommaso Campanella "XXIII. The Modern Cupid" transl. by John Addington Symonds

To feel the many plagues within - John Castillo "To a Withered Flower!"

The universal plagues of life - John Clare "What Is Life?"

Plagues worse than filled Pandora's Box - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"

Breathing the plague on them - Martin Espada "Wake Up, Mario"

Plagues like these as storms may lower - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Plagues inflicted by these angered sprites - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"

The Greatest Plagues to bear - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Plague with livid pinions - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sister Mary of the Plague"

And if the seven plagues should come - Joaquin Miller "Mother Egypt"

Under a plague of allergies and tears - Frank O'Hara "The Eyelid Has its Storms..."

Plague poison their breath - Robert Pollok "The African Maid"

Poured the ten plagues on Egypt - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"

The plagues that are in hell light on the fruit - "The Queen of Elfland"

Several plagues including time - Roger Reeves "For Black Children at the End of the World--and the Beginning"

Plagues to choke me with sand - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Plague's contagious murderous breath - Friedrich Schiller "The Plague"

Of vermin beset by ancient plagues - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"

Plague of old refurbished buildings - Salik Shah "Field Notes"

Drink up the monarch's plague - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXIV"

Those plagues of night and of desolation - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist

Whose wings shed terror and a plague - William Watson "The Russ at Kara"

Ferrets by now a plague - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 2" transl. by Katherine Silver


Bring this plague ship to port - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"


Plague-wind, over a sterile shore - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"


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