Potential Titles: Overwhelm
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somethingdarkerA silent, mammoth thing that overwhelmed me - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"
Colossal Power with overwhelming force bears down - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Angry enough to o'erwhelm a whole Rookery - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Blackbird and the Rooks"
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]
Whirling the sand in dense and overwhelming canopy - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
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"
Overwhelmed by the perpetual enigmas of star-strewn galaxies - Harry Martinson "Aniara 97" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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
And whelmed with its endless rue - Jessie Fauset "Rencontre" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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Colossal Power with overwhelming force bears down - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Angry enough to o'erwhelm a whole Rookery - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Blackbird and the Rooks"
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]
Whirling the sand in dense and overwhelming canopy - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
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"
Overwhelmed by the perpetual enigmas of star-strewn galaxies - Harry Martinson "Aniara 97" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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
And whelmed with its endless rue - Jessie Fauset "Rencontre" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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