Potential Titles: Discern

[somethingdarker]

That would discern the secret'st truth of things lost - Louis K. Anspacher "Adam Prometheus" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]

Those sorceries dark that steal the wits' discerning - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: II. The Council"

And there's no one to discern the difference - Paul Cameron Brown "The East Is Red"

Can thence discern what's base - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

For both will cheat the most discerning - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

When with joy the Shades discern us - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Discerned the lineaments of patience - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 5. Fosterage"

Their appetites voracious yet discerning - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"

Faint beyond any discerning - Theo Marzials "To a Bunch of Lilac" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]

A dark hole discerned is a different wilderness - Margaret Noodin "We Are Returning Always" transl. by the author

Nothing left to discern - Charif Shanahan "Indeterminacy"

Cast no discernible light - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"

Evade my heart's discernment - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Penelope"

Discern salt from iron or shell from shale - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"


Breathing with indiscernible sadnesses - Katie Ford "Colosseum"

Mangled, mutant, and indiscernible - Mack W. Mani "Sanctuary"


In undiscerned mysterious ways apart - Morton Fullerton "George Meredith" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]

With an undiscerning eyes I see - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"


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