Potential Titles: Please
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somethingdarkerPlease none but the brave - Charles Baudelaire "The Dance of Death" transl. not credited
For he displeases me, that pleases all - James Bramston "The Man of Taste"
And pray for the chance to say please - Jericho Brown "Odd Jobs"
Purpled evenings spent in pleasing toil - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Flamingos are pleased to ignore us - Stephanie Burt "At the Providence Zoo"
Who shapeshifts in an effort to please - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
Pleased with the praise of fools - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
And cackles to please them - Jacky Dandy "Jacky Dandy's Delight"
No sound flowers above please - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Just to please the hungry swine - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
No longer please himself with make-believe - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
By nature taught to please - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Wings from the wind to please her - Thomas Heywood "Good-Morrow"
Please count my eyes your stars - Mrs. E. Annette Hills "A Little Girl's Wedding Gift" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
My little home, where I weep when I please - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Please insert your spare coins - Katy Lederer "That Everything's Inevitable"
Here a voice to please enough - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"
Each of us pleased with his own art - "The Monk and His Pet Cat" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Please list the items you have lost - James Fujinami Moore "Diagnostic Quiz for Human Ghost"
Nothing will these Apostates please - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]
The evil spirits will do as they please with our nights - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"
Who would not endeavour to please - "The Peacock and Parrot, on their Tour to Discover the Author of 'The Peacock at Home'"
Had a knack to every Temper please - "The Pleasures of a Single Life, Or, The Miseries of Matrimony" [1709]
And pleased with what he gets - William Shakespeare "Under the Greenwood Tree"
No arts need study, but the arts to please - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
I am so much displeased with you - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Ill-Timed Levity"
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For he displeases me, that pleases all - James Bramston "The Man of Taste"
And pray for the chance to say please - Jericho Brown "Odd Jobs"
Purpled evenings spent in pleasing toil - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Flamingos are pleased to ignore us - Stephanie Burt "At the Providence Zoo"
Who shapeshifts in an effort to please - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
Pleased with the praise of fools - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
And cackles to please them - Jacky Dandy "Jacky Dandy's Delight"
No sound flowers above please - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Just to please the hungry swine - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
No longer please himself with make-believe - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
By nature taught to please - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Wings from the wind to please her - Thomas Heywood "Good-Morrow"
Please count my eyes your stars - Mrs. E. Annette Hills "A Little Girl's Wedding Gift" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
My little home, where I weep when I please - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Please insert your spare coins - Katy Lederer "That Everything's Inevitable"
Here a voice to please enough - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"
Each of us pleased with his own art - "The Monk and His Pet Cat" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Please list the items you have lost - James Fujinami Moore "Diagnostic Quiz for Human Ghost"
Nothing will these Apostates please - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]
The evil spirits will do as they please with our nights - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"
Who would not endeavour to please - "The Peacock and Parrot, on their Tour to Discover the Author of 'The Peacock at Home'"
Had a knack to every Temper please - "The Pleasures of a Single Life, Or, The Miseries of Matrimony" [1709]
And pleased with what he gets - William Shakespeare "Under the Greenwood Tree"
No arts need study, but the arts to please - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
I am so much displeased with you - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Ill-Timed Levity"
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