Potential Titles: Pensive

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And the curfew's pensive tone - Reginald Augustine "Dreams" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no 372, May 30 1829]

And rouse this pensive heart - Anne Bronte "Music on Christmas Morning"

Inchoate in their pensive rivulets - Paul Cameron Brown "Helluland"

When daylight blends with the pensive shadows - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"

Blends with the pensive shadows - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"

Still the pensive spring returns - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"

The mind in pensive musings hold - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

With a pensive quietness hushes - David Gray "The Mavis"

With hop-vines' incense all the pensive glory - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Glowing rose and pensive pansy - F.W. Harvey "English Flowers in a Foreign Garden"

In her pensive breeze such sympathy - Islwyn "Night" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Pensive with noon - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"

The pensive throats of the shy birds - Archibald Lampman "Freedom"

Among the pensive woods - Archibald Lampman "The Frogs"

The kingbird and the pensive thrush are fled - Archibald Lampman "September"

Pensive light and wistful sound - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"

Pensive, passionate child of song - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

At the gloaming's pensive hour - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]

Delight to cheer each pensive exile - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Whispers peace to each pensive pine - Kate Louise Wheeler "Under the Pines"

Pensive round his sable shrine - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"


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