Potential Titles: Pomp/Pompous

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The pomp of sacred senates - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Behold them clad in Autumn's golden pomp - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

When the pomp is passed away - Adelaide Crapsey "Warning to the Mighty"

In what slow pomp the Rogues advance - Rev. William Crowe "On the Funeral of --, in a Hearse and Six, Followed by a Mourning Coach and Four"

Pomp among the grain and barley - Chris Dombrowski "Self-Portrait as Dandelion Head Discovered in the Crop of a Partridge"

The pomp of all passions passed - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame"

Rejects its usual pomp in going - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Evening"

Comes triumphant in his pomp and power - Edward Shanks "The Return"

The unhallowed shrine of pomp and pride - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]


Through pompous motions blown - David Gray "Sonnet"

Incursions toward the pomposity of ants - Frank O'Hara "To the Film Industry in Crisis"

Impede the slow steps of the pompous ages - William Watson "History"


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