Potential Titles: Expire

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Expired like bruised sweet herbs - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"

Expire at Eden's door - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Forge it from the scraps of all your expired hopes - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

Expires to lodge in memory - Dom "Year's End"

Though the orbs of heaven expire - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

From this low fraction of expiring time - Mary Gardiner Horsford "The Lost Pleiad"

And bid his smiling day expire - George Moses Horton "Memory"

Expired words buried in open graves - Naomi Long Madgett "Packrat"

Until the last sad tongue of flame expire - Theodore Maynard "Nocturne"

The sputtering stench of an expiring form - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"

While all the flames of dream expire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

When the last echoes of my harp expire - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Expiring sounds of autumn - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"


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