Potential Titles: Dire

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Whose dire energies invest such clay - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalm 12"

To warn us of the dire intent - Rev. William Crowe "Verses to the Honour of the London Pastrycook, Who Marked 'No Popery' on His Pies, &C."

Forged for my fate upon an anvil dire - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Heralds of some dire disaster - Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Meadow Lark"

Dire Scarlet Plumes - Anne Killigrew "Alexandreis"

Bears his part in that conflict dire - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Dire summons at my door - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Ever imagining the dire - Dorothea Tanning "Lucky"


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