Potential Titles: Boon

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May not ask too great a boon - Albion Fellows Bacon "An Alpine Valley"

The nightingale pours forth her secret boon - Giosue Carducci "Virgil" transl. by Frank Sewall

And bring a boon of silence and of solace - Danske Dandridge "Silence"

The Boon of full Impunity - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

Grants us by silence the boon of her roses - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"

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

A boon won from silence - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Poet in His Youth, and the Cuckoo-Bird"

A shady boon for simple sheep - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Would ask of memory no other boon - Mrs. S. A. Lewis "The Ennuyee" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

The boon that gives and then rescinds - A.E. Stallings "The Mother's Loathing of Balloons"

All the precious boon I begged - Helen Hay Whitney "Beneath the Moon"


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