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somethingdarkerSome of the words below reference things that can also be crimes or that are, IMO, unethical and immoral as punishments. Some things that have been used as punishments (such as Torture) are listed here, instead: Potential Titles: Law: Crime and Violence [category].
Admonish:
Trying to squeeze beauty into admonishment - Ana Bozicevic "Intervals of Please"
The admonition of a silver bell - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"
Admonitions to the winds and seas - John Keats "Hyperion"
Amend.
Annul:
The annulling light of any pitiless dawn - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Whose slow, annuling tide creeps nearer - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
Annul the blinding gesture of the sword - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
Appease/Unappeased
Arrest.
Atone.
Bail:
Letting midnight out on bail - Langston Hughes "Jam Session"
Banish.
Brand.
Cancel.
Censure:
Censured by our eyes - Christopher Marlowe "Hero and Leander"
Charge.
Clemency:
In the clemency of an autumn - Lucie Brock-Broido "Soul Keeping Company"
From Heaven distilled a clemency - Thomas Hardy "And There Was a Great Calm"
Condemn.
Confine.
Confiscate:
I come to confiscate your love - Katy Lederer "Love"
Constrain.
Conviction.
Demotion:
The universe demotes me, yet again - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"
The demotion of Pluto - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"
Discipline.
Exclude/Exclusion.
Execute.
Exile.
Expel/Expulsion.
Expiation:
The plan of expiation is unchanged - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
And furnish expiation for the sin - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
The expiation journey toward peace - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Gallows:
Unlikely steps on the gallows of wave function - Mike Allen "Pulse"
As we draw near the gallows-tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
Up from the shadows of gallows trees - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"
And he made the gallows holy - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Sunrise glimmering upon a gallows - Lola Ridge "'Histrionics'"
Guillotine:
Whose breath whets the edge of the guillotine - Dana Levin "According to the Gospel of Yes"
With your round guillotine of a mouth - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"
Dangling his guillotine of dread - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"
Handcuff:
The handcuff of obligation - Ada Limon "The Lost Glove"
Hang/Hung.
Impale:
Impaled on the pinnacles of a brassy skyscape - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"
Sweet beats of jazz impaled - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
Impaled on slivers of wind - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
Impale the sky on silver spears - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
Imprison.
Incarceration:
For a solar system beyond sable incarceration - William Archila "Saturn's Country"
Interdict:
Interdict all vague emotion - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Where no tyrant's interdict can ban - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"
Jail.
Leniency:
The leniency of consideration - Dara Barrois/Dixon "The Pressure of the Moment"
Noose:
That sly angel whose halo is a noose in disguise - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
In a Noose of Light - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Narrows its halo into a noose - Rusty Morrison "Measurement Fable"
Like a noose of golden shadow - James Oppenheim "We Dead"
Outlaw.
Pardon.
Penalty:
No matter what the penalty - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"
Penance.
Penitent.
Persecution:
Will not persecute you more - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
In the night of persecution - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Lucid persecution of delight - David Gray "The Moon I"
Pillory:
Pilloried to their thrones of shame - Victor Hugo "Feuilles d'Automne" transl. by Roger Casement
Prison.
Punish:
When leagued with me in crime and punishment - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Punished mildly by wind - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"
The punishment for sight - Dean Rader "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
Crime & punishment made one - Ann K. Schwader "Gone to Ground"
Reparation:
All my reparations made in darkness - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
Two thousand years of daily reparation - Richard Chenevix Trench "Lines: Written at the Village of Passignano, on the Lake of Thrasymene"
Rebuke.
Reconcile.
Redeem/Redemption.
Repent.
Reprieve.
Reproach.
Restitution:
If the anvil seeks restitution - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Fred Williamson Stars as 'The Hammer'"
Retaliation:
Before I teach myself retaliation - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"
Retribution:
Scribbled with retribution - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"
Retribution frowning on his spear - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Sanction:
Crows & apples sanction their appeal - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Freedom in a sanctioned outing - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"
The potent sanction of her hand - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"
When ill shall sanction ill - Richard Chenevix Trench "Poland, 1831"
Scaffold.
Sentence.
Shun:
And shun the land too perilous - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
No rites we need that shun the light - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Deadlier than the cup you shun - Horace "The Portent [Ode 20, Bk V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling
Existence stands with an appeal we cannot shun - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]
As the vermin shunning light - Adolf Wolff "Our Lady of Infinite Mercy"
Subdue.
Trial.
Verdict.
Vindicate.
Whip.
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Admonish:
Trying to squeeze beauty into admonishment - Ana Bozicevic "Intervals of Please"
The admonition of a silver bell - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"
Admonitions to the winds and seas - John Keats "Hyperion"
Amend.
Annul:
The annulling light of any pitiless dawn - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Whose slow, annuling tide creeps nearer - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
Annul the blinding gesture of the sword - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
Appease/Unappeased
Arrest.
Atone.
Bail:
Letting midnight out on bail - Langston Hughes "Jam Session"
Banish.
Brand.
Cancel.
Censure:
Censured by our eyes - Christopher Marlowe "Hero and Leander"
Charge.
Clemency:
In the clemency of an autumn - Lucie Brock-Broido "Soul Keeping Company"
From Heaven distilled a clemency - Thomas Hardy "And There Was a Great Calm"
Condemn.
Confine.
Confiscate:
I come to confiscate your love - Katy Lederer "Love"
Constrain.
Conviction.
Demotion:
The universe demotes me, yet again - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"
The demotion of Pluto - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"
Discipline.
Exclude/Exclusion.
Execute.
Exile.
Expel/Expulsion.
Expiation:
The plan of expiation is unchanged - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
And furnish expiation for the sin - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
The expiation journey toward peace - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Gallows:
Unlikely steps on the gallows of wave function - Mike Allen "Pulse"
As we draw near the gallows-tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
Up from the shadows of gallows trees - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"
And he made the gallows holy - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Sunrise glimmering upon a gallows - Lola Ridge "'Histrionics'"
Guillotine:
Whose breath whets the edge of the guillotine - Dana Levin "According to the Gospel of Yes"
With your round guillotine of a mouth - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"
Dangling his guillotine of dread - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"
Handcuff:
The handcuff of obligation - Ada Limon "The Lost Glove"
Hang/Hung.
Impale:
Impaled on the pinnacles of a brassy skyscape - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"
Sweet beats of jazz impaled - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
Impaled on slivers of wind - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
Impale the sky on silver spears - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
Imprison.
Incarceration:
For a solar system beyond sable incarceration - William Archila "Saturn's Country"
Interdict:
Interdict all vague emotion - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Where no tyrant's interdict can ban - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"
Jail.
Leniency:
The leniency of consideration - Dara Barrois/Dixon "The Pressure of the Moment"
Noose:
That sly angel whose halo is a noose in disguise - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
In a Noose of Light - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Narrows its halo into a noose - Rusty Morrison "Measurement Fable"
Like a noose of golden shadow - James Oppenheim "We Dead"
Outlaw.
Pardon.
Penalty:
No matter what the penalty - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"
Penance.
Penitent.
Persecution:
Will not persecute you more - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
In the night of persecution - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Lucid persecution of delight - David Gray "The Moon I"
Pillory:
Pilloried to their thrones of shame - Victor Hugo "Feuilles d'Automne" transl. by Roger Casement
Prison.
Punish:
When leagued with me in crime and punishment - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Punished mildly by wind - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"
The punishment for sight - Dean Rader "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
Crime & punishment made one - Ann K. Schwader "Gone to Ground"
Reparation:
All my reparations made in darkness - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
Two thousand years of daily reparation - Richard Chenevix Trench "Lines: Written at the Village of Passignano, on the Lake of Thrasymene"
Rebuke.
Reconcile.
Redeem/Redemption.
Repent.
Reprieve.
Reproach.
Restitution:
If the anvil seeks restitution - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Fred Williamson Stars as 'The Hammer'"
Retaliation:
Before I teach myself retaliation - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"
Retribution:
Scribbled with retribution - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"
Retribution frowning on his spear - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Sanction:
Crows & apples sanction their appeal - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Freedom in a sanctioned outing - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"
The potent sanction of her hand - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"
When ill shall sanction ill - Richard Chenevix Trench "Poland, 1831"
Scaffold.
Sentence.
Shun:
And shun the land too perilous - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
No rites we need that shun the light - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Deadlier than the cup you shun - Horace "The Portent [Ode 20, Bk V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling
Existence stands with an appeal we cannot shun - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]
As the vermin shunning light - Adolf Wolff "Our Lady of Infinite Mercy"
Subdue.
Trial.
Verdict.
Vindicate.
Whip.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
