Potential Titles: Sting/Stung

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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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"



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 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"


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