Potential Titles: Stella Benson

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A key no thief can steal, no time can rust - Stella Benson "Christmas, 1917"

Has heard again our steps returning - Stella Benson "Christmas, 1917"

Come home, you million ghosts - Stella Benson "The Cornishman"

The honest years shall make amends - Stella Benson "The Cornishman"

The sun and moon shall be your hosts - Stella Benson "The Cornishman"

Shall find great forests in their debt - Stella Benson "The Cornishman"

I would siege the golden shores of space - Stella Benson "The Cornishman"

So I might see those million ghosts come home - Stella Benson "The Cornishman"

Throwing hate along the wind - Stella Benson "The Dog Tupman"

Returned to barren words and old cold truth - Stella Benson "The Dog Tupman"

When you looked your crisis in the eyes - Stella Benson "The Dog Tupman"

A steel smile that showed the teeth of war - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"

Sang him sorrow's song to make him wary - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"

Five smooth stones to make him wise - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"

Who tasted the reddest fruit on that forbidden tree - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"

Made up of fear and failure, lies and loss - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"

Has no dignity to lend it value - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"

When the moment has gone by for hoping - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"

Sackcloth for banner, ashes in your wine - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"

A fatal blade, unthwarted, subtle as the air - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"

Who wrought that steel of subtle grain - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"

Stars and fire-flies dance in rings - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"

Writing magic things in flame, upon the wall of night - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"

Smoke across the dazzle of the sand - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"

The precious venom in my veins - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"

To lose the outline of my soul against the greyness - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"

Counting each hour a word - Stella Benson "New Year, 1918"

Drowning my whispered dreams - Stella Benson "New Year, 1918"

To-night the heavens bend a little nearer - Stella Benson "New Year, 1918"

No more to sing alone a song unknown - Stella Benson "New Year, 1918"

Go spoil the fantasy by prying - Stella Benson "The Newer Zion"

Self-conscious by a glassy ocean - Stella Benson "The Newer Zion"

Stammer strange songs amid an alien host - Stella Benson "The Newer Zion"

Bequeath to London my contented ghost - Stella Benson "The Newer Zion"

Through the red thunders of a Zeppelin raid - Stella Benson "The Newer Zion"

A Shadow, wading in the torrent - Stella Benson "The Newer Zion"

Until we reach the Keeper of the Door - Stella Benson "The Newer Zion"

One altar to a thousand aisles - Stella Benson "The Orchard"

Let me still think myself a star - Stella Benson "The Orchard"

Magic may kill their wisdom and their will - Stella Benson "Redneck's Song"

And trust in what dead men did prove - Stella Benson "Redneck's Song"

Where young hot hopes grow cold beneath - Stella Benson "Saint Bride"

Child-widow of a truth that died - Stella Benson "Saint Bride"

Bearer in mind of things forgot - Stella Benson "Saint Bride"

Exploding all your faery blunders - Stella Benson "Saint Bride"

To-morrow comes and beats upon the door - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"

Built the towers of cliffs upon the sands - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"

Painted peace upon the sky above - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"

A house upon the brink of high and twisted cliffs - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"

To draw my soul's elastic very fine - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"

To show the limit of the thing desired - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"

Dance along the hours that led to morning - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"

Advance toward the great moon's beacon warning - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"

And scorch to death upon a bank of stars - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"

Sang up the mountains of the sea - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"

Down guilty and delightful ways - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"

The clutch of God's great rocks upon my keel - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"

Drowned in the ocean of Too Much - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"

Arose and tossed a billion gems across the sea - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"

Surrender some imitation of splendour - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"

Songs that I heard on my road - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"

Were they not debts that I owed - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"

Now, since you gave me the key - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"

Their climb up the long ladder of time - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"

Drove me to dare an attempt - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"

All my dead secrets arise - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"

All my dead stories come true - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"

By which my fate may find me - Stella Benson "Song [There is the track my feet have worn]"

Three things the sea shall never end - Stella Benson "Song [There is the track my feet have worn]"

Three things shall mock its power - Stella Benson "Song [There is the track my feet have worn]"

Till you reach the tangled tide advancing - Stella Benson "Song [There is the track my feet have worn]"

Upon the beach the traces of my dancing - Stella Benson "Song [There is the track my feet have worn]"

Time shall be slave to me - Stella Benson "Thanks to My World for the Loan of a Fair Day"

Bind your heart lest it find secrets out - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"

No punishment of magic shall disturb - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"

Shut your lips to words that are forbidden - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"

Throw away your sword, nor think to fight - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"

No terrible delight shall cross your path - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"

Build up no plan, nor any star pursue - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"

You promised honour and ordeal by flame - Stella Benson "True Promises"

We never guessed the fury of the test - Stella Benson "True Promises"

In those halls where speaks no human tongue - Stella Benson "True Promises"

When I can reclaim with interest all I lend - Stella Benson "Two Women Sing"

Who but a witless gambler plays for farthing stakes - Stella Benson "Two Women Sing"

My eyes are girt with outer mists - Stella Benson "The Woman Alone"

The swinging stars shall plumb the silence of the sky - Stella Benson "Words [Oh words, oh words, and shall you rule]"

To hunt with dreams the restless birds - Stella Benson "Words [Oh words, oh words, and shall you rule]"


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