Potential Titles: Overwhelm

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A silent, mammoth thing that overwhelmed me - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"

Colossal Power with overwhelming force bears down - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

If Envy's hurricane o'erwhelm them - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

And these papers overwhelm an archive - Raquel Gutiérrez "Would It Kill Me to Be a Nicer Guy?"

The birds and their chatter overwhelm me - Han-Shan "[The birds and their chatter]" transl. by Burton Watson

The scent and silence overwhelming me - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"

Slumbered beneath the overwhelming waves - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Could overwhelm those waters - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"


In black Oblivion's waves should whelm his name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle


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