somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Marianne Moore

In that galaxy of nine - Marianne Moore "Baseball and Writing"

Learn to catch your corners - Marianne Moore "Baseball and Writing"

Studded with stars in belt and crown - Marianne Moore "Baseball and Writing"

Spiritual brother to the coral - Marianne Moore "Black Earth"

The equable sapphire light - Marianne Moore "Black Earth"

No beautiful element of unreason - Marianne Moore "Black Earth"

With an elephant to ride upon - Marianne Moore "Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight"

May attach to scarecrows - Marianne Moore "Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight"

Whose scales turn aside the sun's sword - Marianne Moore "An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish"

The nest of modified illusions - Marianne Moore "England"

Emotional shorthand and jade cockroaches - Marianne Moore "England"

Which cats and dogs can read - Marianne Moore "England"

Continents of misapprehension - Marianne Moore "England"

Which may be mistaken for appetite - Marianne Moore "England"

To match my value in action - Marianne Moore "Feed Me, Also, River God"

Keeps adjusting the ash heaps - Marianne Moore "The Fish"

Shutting itself like an injured fan - Marianne Moore "The Fish"

Which encrust the side of the wave - Marianne Moore "The Fish"

Illuminating the turquoise sea - Marianne Moore "The Fish"

Through the iron edge of the cliff - Marianne Moore "The Fish"

The sea has nothing to give - Marianne Moore "A Grave"

From which Castor and Pollux hatched - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"

Who admired strange birds - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"

Eight pairs of ostriches in harness - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"

Where no tree of freedom grows - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"

Not of silver nor of coral - Marianne Moore "He Made this Screen"

A variation of the perpendicular - Marianne Moore "In the Days of Prismatic Color"

The classic multitude of feet - Marianne Moore "In the Days of Prismatic Color"

Truth is no Apollo - Marianne Moore "In the Days of Prismatic Color"

Not the business of the gods - Marianne Moore "In This Age of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, and"

A conversation of five hundred years- Marianne Moore "In This Age of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, and"

In phantasmagoria about fishes - Marianne Moore "Is Your Town Ninevah?"

In the sweltering east wind of your wishes - Marianne Moore "Is Your Town Ninevah?"

An amber-colored amethyst inhabits it - Marianne Moore "A Jelly-Fish"

Superintended the demolition of his image - Marianne Moore "Like a Bulrush"

In the combined livery of bird plus snake - Marianne Moore "Like a Bulrush"

Black as a plume on a casque - Marianne Moore "My Lantern"

A gibbering goblin that bars the way - Marianne Moore "My Lantern"

Noisy, familiar, and safe by day - Marianne Moore "My Lantern"

Whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

Her perishable souvenir of hope - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

Bitten by a crab loyal to the hydra - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

Leaving its wasp-nest flaws - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

The only fortress strong enough to trust - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

Revived bitterness - Marianne Moore "The Past Is the Present"

Frames an old grudge - Marianne Moore "The Past Is the Present"

A brass nailed echo - Marianne Moore "The Past Is the Present"

Paper muslin ghost - Marianne Moore "Pedantic Literalist"

The candles are not wired for electricity - Marianne Moore "Picking and Choosing"

A place for the genuine - Marianne Moore "Poetry"

Imaginary gardens with real toads in them - Marianne Moore "Poetry"

The vestibule to experience - Marianne Moore "Reinforcements"

Dismiss the idea of movement - Marianne Moore "Reinforcements"

Moral machinery is not labelled - Marianne Moore "Reinforcements"

Determined by the power of volition - Marianne Moore "Reinforcements"

Spirit creates form - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"

Not proof against a worm - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"

The infinitesimal pieces of your mind - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"

Your thorns are the best part of you - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"

Guarding the infinitesimal pieces - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"

That takes its prey to privacy - Marianne Moore "Silence"

To open locked doors with a sword - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"

Threading the points of needles - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"

Planting shade trees upside down - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"

Lived on every kind of shortage - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"

When obstacles happened to bar the path - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"

Venus' mantle lined with stars - Marianne Moore "Spenser's Ireland"

Outwitting the fairies, befriending the furies - Marianne Moore "Spenser's Ireland"

With eight stranded whales - Marianne Moore "The Steeple-Jack"

As formal as the scales on a fish - Marianne Moore "The Steeple-Jack"

Under a splintered mast - Marianne Moore "Talisman"

A sea-gull of lapis lazuli - Marianne Moore "Talisman"

Echoes struck from thin glass - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"

Sown by tearing winds - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"

Hid by emeralds from Persia - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"

A species of vertical vineyard - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"

Rich instruments with which to experiment - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"

But surgery is not tentative - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"

Crush all the particles down - Marianne Moore "To a Steam Roller"

A millstone to grind chaff - Marianne Moore "To Military Progress"

And with your warped wit laugh - Marianne Moore "To Military Progress"

Prostrate where the crow falls - Marianne Moore "To Military Progress"

An artichoke in six varieties of blue - Marianne Moore "When I Buy Pictures"

The silver fence protecting Adam's grave - Marianne Moore "When I Buy Pictures"

Your error has been timed - Marianne Moore "You Say You Said"

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