Potential Titles: Famine

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Want and famine raged around - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

But the famine will not fall forever - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan

Without a thought of famine, flood, or fire - Countee Cullen "Protest" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Famine and fever crept in at the door - Ellen M.H. Gates "Rich and Poor" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

With famine's itch and flames of thirst - Robert Graves "Return"

But only served a reminder of famine - Hawa Haji-Hassan "Carrying Anticipation"

Famine of sleep in his eyes - T.M. Kettle "Ennui"

Ghastly Famine's bony hand was stretched - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

In her famine waisted flamingo gown - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

A famine where abundance lies - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"

While famine and pestilence stalk'd in thy train - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The War-Spirit"

Famine's at the city gate - "War and Peace: War" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Over hills where famine flowers - John Wieners "For Huncke"


In Egypt's famine-stricken field - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]


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