Potential Titles: George Santayana

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The heaving of our doubtful breath - George Santayana "Athletic Ode"

Too high for honouring mirth - George Santayana "Athletic Ode"

Intoxication in this air - George Santayana "Athletic Ode"

Wears a rainbow for a crown - George Santayana "Athletic Ode"

Scorched by the sky's inexorable zeal - George Santayana "Avila"

Unmindful of the mocking hours - George Santayana "Avila"

Twenty temples in a granite crown - George Santayana "Avila"

The sad trophies of my spirit - George Santayana "Avila"

The smiling and inhuman stars - George Santayana "Avila"

Curfew for the long departed - George Santayana "Avila"

Has cast me on a tide of time - George Santayana "Avila"

The sorrows of the barren year - George Santayana "Avila"

Brightens the galaxy of sister stones - George Santayana "Avila"

Orbs that move in many rings - George Santayana "Avila"

Vessels full of precious liquor - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"

Standing in their brave array - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"

When the heart's a trifle dry - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"

When once the dregs are emptied - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"

The proud glories that entice us - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"

The blood of nature's spilling - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"

Searches through the mazes of desire - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"

And the belated moor refilled her sphere - George Santayana "Cathedrals by the Sea"

Devoutly mended her wasted taper - George Santayana "Cathedrals by the Sea"

The sullen diapason of the sea - George Santayana "Cathedrals by the Sea"

The winter of Puritan snows - George Santayana "Fair Harvard"

A truth that is builded on doubt - George Santayana "Fair Harvard"

Dwell mid the currents of time - George Santayana "Fair Harvard"

All David might shout to his harp - George Santayana "Fair Harvard"

Subtle hands betray their power - George Santayana "Futility"

For there are snares in sleep - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

The treacherous glens are full of imps - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

Galleys waiting for the gale - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

To gallop with me into yawning hell - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

The heavy heritage of Adam - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

Looks with strange horror on her own abyss - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

Frail echo of some ancient sacred joy - George Santayana "In Grantchester Meadows"

Rapt Isaiah strikes the heavenly lyre - George Santayana "King's College Chapel"

And Jeremiah mourns Jerusalem - George Santayana "King's College Chapel"

A thousand leagues of silence roll - George Santayana "Midnight"

The stone endures in silence - George Santayana "Mont Brevent"

Upturns its furrowed visage - George Santayana "Mont Brevent"

Larger planets swim the liquid zone - George Santayana "Mont Brevent"

A thousand times that mirrored glory fled - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

Hunger turned the very stones to food - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

What unearthly spell returns - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

Idomitable hope or vain derision - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

And blaspheme worshipping still - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

Out of the maddening chalice of a dream - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

The sweetness of the mind's control - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

Stung with immortal wrath and doomed to weep - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

The false deeps of all the soul are sand - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

The loose rivets of the spirit clay - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

They who wrought wonders by the Nile - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

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

Pan's wild music pulsing through the grove - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

The Delphic sibyl in her cave - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

With barren husks and harvesting of dreams - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

A thick fume of kerosene - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"

The echoes of our earthly jars - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"

The petted passion and the shallow dream - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"

Bright lyrics at a cent a yard - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"

Of unreason weave a maze of rhyme - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"

An unknown love enchants our solitude - George Santayana "Premonition"

Wear the garment of its sorrow - George Santayana "Premonition"

Too coarse for Nature's fingers - George Santayana "Premonition"

The harsh tremor that among them lingers - George Santayana "Premonition"

Lightning through the storm of ages - George Santayana "Premonition"

Trouble stalked beneath the sky - George Santayana "Resurrection"

The soul's garden you have weeded - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

Dead things are not my science - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

And the cost of unearned bread - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

Sets up knaves and murders kings - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

To taste the sweet and bitter fruits of earth - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

To the utmost stretch the tether - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

As if the dregs were bitter - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"


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