Potential Titles: Gird/Girt

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A halo girds the path of time - Delta "Disenchantment" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIX, Nov. 1849, v.LXVI]

Girded with root and rock - Seamus Heaney "Antaeus"

Girds itself with myrtle hedges - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Gird the complaining shores of snow - J. Bayard Taylor "A Requiem in the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]


My eyes are girt with outer mists - Stella Benson "The Woman Alone"

Girt by a colonnade of crysolite - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

With its nine centuries of gravestones girt - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]

And, girt not less with ruin, lives to show - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Girt round the feet with gorse - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"

Girt with all the terrors of the storm - Felicia Hemans "Heliodorus in the Temple"

Girt with the glamor of conquest - Don Marquis "Early Autumn"

And girt afar with Heaven's Promethean fire - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

Girt with Bigotry's besotted crew - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]


Take no more solace from the palm-girt wells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"


Sea-girt shrines of battle and of song - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

Chained to a wild and sea-girt rock - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

The towers of Jason's sea-girt city - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"


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