Potential Titles: Brief

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The shore of some brief & gilded mercy - Hanif Abdurraqib "It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off"

A brief wafting of a heart's tune - Lou Barrett "Cradle Song"

Hearing how brief is the song - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

The timetables of their brief commute - Paul Bernstein "Sparrows"

Wild and brief as cowslips - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

A briefer length of moon - Arna Bontemps "Length of Moon"

A brief and hollow truce - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XLIX. Love's Excuse" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Hummed between brief silences - Connstynce Nduta Chege "To Get 2(54) You"

That one brief unit of loose time - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

into the strenuous briefness - E.E. Cummings "Post Impressions (VI)"

Captains of this brief campaign - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

A brief campaign of sting and sweet - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life LI"

Too brief that span of heaven - James B. Dollard "The Soul of Karnaghan Buidhe"

Brief as a July snow - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Coiling tighter with each brief orbit - Chris Dombrowski "May"

Of one brief moment in a sunset - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

hushed in brief sanctuary by the dark - Safia Elhillo "Transport"

The brief renascence of the midnight hour - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

For your brief life's faded light - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Past its brief time of blooming - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"

Settle for brief companions - Allison Eir Jenks "Night Train from Barcelona"

Assigning each brief storm its allotted space - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

Filling the brief space of one mortal hour - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"

Pay dear with sorrow for brief song - Jan Kochanowski "Laments VI" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

For a brief enchanted space - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

A brief softening and then a flood - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

Brief as a dragon-fly's repose - James Russell Lowell "Scherzo"

Brief lords of the changing soul - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Transfixes joy's brief crown - Arch Alfred McKillen "Lone Cello"

Your brief moments of apparent transparency - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"

Born to brief reflection - W.S. Merwin "Nocturne"

My seven brief hours of mortal life - "Midges in the Sunshine"

To whom the starlight is another brief monument - Miguel Murphy "The Sunlight"

For their brief hour unbound - John Henry Newman "The Sign of the Cross"

Such a brief slip of minutes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Each Day We Are Given So Many Gifts"

Brief but brilliant light - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"

So briefly come together - James Richardson "Essay on the One Hand and on the Other"

Fortune to brief minutes tell - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIV"

Make a brief and broken wind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

And desperate, brief delights - Clark Ashton Smith "Alexandrines"

The harsh, brief sob of broken horns - Clark Ashton Smith "Dissonance"

Brief embodiment of wandering will - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

Their brief victories of dusk and dawn - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"

This moment brief between two lives - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"

Briefness of its reckless Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Thanks"

A brief rainbow through a mist of rust - Ocean Vuong "Of Thee I Sing"

Revealing the briefest doors - Ocean Vuong "Trojan"

A brief pause of labour's sullen wheel - William Watson "The Glimpse"

This brief and scornful heart - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"

Briefer than apple-blossom's breath - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

As brief as grace notes - Jane Yolen "Song/Birds"


In those beautiful, too-brief moments - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"


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