Potential Titles: Sting/Stung
Jul. 15th, 2011 08:39 pmMakes the cane ash sting less in my throat - Keisha-Gaye Anderson "We Dreamed You"
The stinging brood of scorn - "As-cription"
Between the horn and the sting - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Dark Centaur"
That stings with the changing weather - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Turn with sharp stings upon itself - Arthur Hugh Clough "τὸ καλόν."
Shall serpent-friendship rise to hiss and sting - "Corn Is King" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
And in all touch he found the sting - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
A brief campaign of sting and sweet - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life LI"
Hope to sting the heart - Edward Dowden "Sea Voices"
Stinging with the visible eclipse - Max Eastman "A Praiseful Complaint"
More sugar than sting - Tarfia Faizullah "Variations on a Cemetery in Summer"
Its healing power rob death of half its sting - Fanny Forrester "Not Beautiful!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.11-v.I, 15 March 1884]
Golden maze of stinging scented fire - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Gorse"
Quench your thirst with stinging brine - Dana Gioia "Seaward"
With stinging foam and swinging rains - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"
Or honey void of sting - Hafiz "The Divan XXXI" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Words that sting like bitter limes - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"
And quench the sting of every fear - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"
When sharp frosts sting and the north winds freeze - Lucy H. Hooper "Winter" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873]
Prickling salt to sting our eyes - June Jordan "It's Hard to Keep a Clean Shirt Clean"
Before stumbling into stinging nettles - Janet Kauffman "Dodder Is No Daughter"
As lurks a bitter sting in honeyed words - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Bitter-stinging white world - D.H. Lawrence "Southern Night"
Stings more deeply when she's far away - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Power to shrug off conscience when it stings - Harry Martinson "Aniara 43" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
With stinging gas and lethal vapor - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
The sting of wit that trembles - Alice Meynell "To Sleep"
Of bitter memory that stings and glows - Adam Mickiewicz "The Grave of Countess Potocka" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
And barb their stings with memory - E. Nesbit "In Memory of Saretta Deakin"
Have felt the death stings of your shells - Thomas O'Hagan "Louvain"
Too poor to bless, too weak to sting - J.G. Percival "To a Belle" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
When it collects all fire, and as it blesses, stings - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
The sting of serpent's subtlety - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen
Stings his soul with a deeper despair - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Stings the air like a sharp herb - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
Light fine as a wasp's sting - Lola Ridge "In Harness"
The silence a compressed sting - Lola Ridge "In Harness"
And bridal jewels of fangs and stings - James W. Riley "The Lugubrious Whing-Whang"
Stinging thistles round a haunted charnel - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]
Carry my pack of aches and stings - Leonora Speyer "Duet (I sing with myself)"
Honey from illusion's stinging hive - George Sterling "A Character"
Transient passion with its stains and stings - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
That held a sting for falsehood, and for pride - H.K.W. "Lines Written After Perusing a Letter Written by Robert Burns" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.737, 9 Feb. 1878]
Whose stings and gnawing shall never cease - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist
Stinging all the air to life - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"
We hug the world until it stings - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"
Lashingly deep the acid stung - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Until the floor stung my feet awake with cold - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"
With muttering curses stung - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"
Stung with swarms of wretchedness - E. Foxton "The New Search After Happiness"
Stung to madness by the tempest's might - Ben Hecht "Moods"
With shafts that stung and needles' piercing lights - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
With grief and fury stung - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Stung by the self-betrayal - Carol Moldaw "Arthritis"
Stung by a sinister star - Arthur Rimbaud "Novel" transl. by Wyatt Mason
Stung with immortal wrath and doomed to weep - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
The stung beekeeper gathering honey - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]
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The stinging brood of scorn - "As-cription"
Between the horn and the sting - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Dark Centaur"
That stings with the changing weather - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Turn with sharp stings upon itself - Arthur Hugh Clough "τὸ καλόν."
Shall serpent-friendship rise to hiss and sting - "Corn Is King" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
And in all touch he found the sting - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
A brief campaign of sting and sweet - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life LI"
Hope to sting the heart - Edward Dowden "Sea Voices"
Stinging with the visible eclipse - Max Eastman "A Praiseful Complaint"
More sugar than sting - Tarfia Faizullah "Variations on a Cemetery in Summer"
Its healing power rob death of half its sting - Fanny Forrester "Not Beautiful!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.11-v.I, 15 March 1884]
Golden maze of stinging scented fire - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Gorse"
Quench your thirst with stinging brine - Dana Gioia "Seaward"
With stinging foam and swinging rains - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"
Or honey void of sting - Hafiz "The Divan XXXI" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Words that sting like bitter limes - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"
And quench the sting of every fear - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"
When sharp frosts sting and the north winds freeze - Lucy H. Hooper "Winter" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873]
Prickling salt to sting our eyes - June Jordan "It's Hard to Keep a Clean Shirt Clean"
Before stumbling into stinging nettles - Janet Kauffman "Dodder Is No Daughter"
As lurks a bitter sting in honeyed words - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Bitter-stinging white world - D.H. Lawrence "Southern Night"
Stings more deeply when she's far away - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Power to shrug off conscience when it stings - Harry Martinson "Aniara 43" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
With stinging gas and lethal vapor - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
The sting of wit that trembles - Alice Meynell "To Sleep"
Of bitter memory that stings and glows - Adam Mickiewicz "The Grave of Countess Potocka" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
And barb their stings with memory - E. Nesbit "In Memory of Saretta Deakin"
Have felt the death stings of your shells - Thomas O'Hagan "Louvain"
Too poor to bless, too weak to sting - J.G. Percival "To a Belle" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
When it collects all fire, and as it blesses, stings - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
The sting of serpent's subtlety - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen
Stings his soul with a deeper despair - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Stings the air like a sharp herb - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
Light fine as a wasp's sting - Lola Ridge "In Harness"
The silence a compressed sting - Lola Ridge "In Harness"
And bridal jewels of fangs and stings - James W. Riley "The Lugubrious Whing-Whang"
Stinging thistles round a haunted charnel - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]
Carry my pack of aches and stings - Leonora Speyer "Duet (I sing with myself)"
Honey from illusion's stinging hive - George Sterling "A Character"
Transient passion with its stains and stings - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
That held a sting for falsehood, and for pride - H.K.W. "Lines Written After Perusing a Letter Written by Robert Burns" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.737, 9 Feb. 1878]
Whose stings and gnawing shall never cease - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist
Stinging all the air to life - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"
We hug the world until it stings - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"
Lashingly deep the acid stung - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Until the floor stung my feet awake with cold - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"
With muttering curses stung - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"
Stung with swarms of wretchedness - E. Foxton "The New Search After Happiness"
Stung to madness by the tempest's might - Ben Hecht "Moods"
With shafts that stung and needles' piercing lights - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
With grief and fury stung - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Stung by the self-betrayal - Carol Moldaw "Arthritis"
Stung by a sinister star - Arthur Rimbaud "Novel" transl. by Wyatt Mason
Stung with immortal wrath and doomed to weep - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
The stung beekeeper gathering honey - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]
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