Potential Titles: Bequeath/Bequest

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The agony bequeathed to you - James Baldwin "Song (for Skip)"

Bequeathed to it the dewdrops - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Flower's Prayer for Immortality"

Bequeath to London my contented ghost - Stella Benson "The Newer Zion"

Bequeath us to no earthly shore - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

That priceless heirloom they bequeathed - Delta "The Covenanters' Night-Hymn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCC, v.LXV, Feb. 1849]

Bequeathed with store of honeycomb - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Bequeathing earth and heaven to ghosts - Robert Graves "Retrospect: The Jests of the Clock"

A deliverance that bequeaths - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

And bequeath this holly and this ivy - Robert Herrick "A Christmas Carol"

To us bequeath your choicest boon - Jennie Earngey Hill "The Goldfinch"

Who a mad tale bequeaths to us - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXVI"

Which the hallowed veil of years bequeaths - Thomas Buchanan Read "Lines, Suggested by Rogers' Statue of Ruth"

Bequeathing their immortal part to us - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

Much struggle and suffering yet may bequeath - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

so I bequeath to earth my dying gasp - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"


New bequest of sun - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"

Nature's bequest gives nothing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet IV"

The daylight's withering bequest - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"


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