Potential Titles: Scald

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Now falls the scalding tear - H.D. "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]

The scald of rattlesnake weather - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"

Spider webs across the scalded earth - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

Scalding my heart with shame - Robert Graves "Reproach"

And wheel into the scalded sky - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Fight like scalded wildcats - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

And brought me to with scalding water - "A Report from Below" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.403, 5 Dec. 1829]

A strength severe, though wet with many a scalding tear - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

My scalded eyes no longer brook - "Verses for an Album" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

The pain scalding us toward each other - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"


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