Potential Titles: Reason

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Reason bound in chains - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

To aid the tardy steps of reason - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

I can't help but reason with your ash - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"

A reason his love tastes bitter - Alise Alousi "Pandemic"

the sky doesn't know her reasons - Jarid Arraes "Movement"

That Reason on her throne might prove deceiver - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]

A tentacle reaching for a wafer of reason - Mary Jo Bang "Catastrophe Theory III"

A song for all reasons - Mary Jo Bang "A Hurricranium, He Said"

The sole reason center stage was invented - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"

The skull with its spare coat of reason - Mary Jo Bang "When Meeting Beauty"

His reason waits on the law's black hates - William Francis Barnard "The Hangman"

The cut and stripped images of reason - Elizabeth Bartlett "Mental Hoeing"

An agony too keen for reason - Elizabeth Bartlett "Voluntary, Exile"

Strength has always delicate, secret reasons - Maxwell Bodenheim "Myself: To a Discarded Steel Rail"

Beyond one rustic ancestor of reason - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"

Traitors to thought and reason - Tommaso Campanella "VI. An Exhortation to Mankind" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Infinite reasons I could give for gladness - Johnson Cheu "Wail"

Turned the world topsy-turvy, with no reason or rhyme - Ellen C. Clayton "The Birds and the Fishes"

In reason's grave precision - Arthur Hugh Clough "Wen Gott Betrugt, Ist Wohl Betrogen."

Of Reason's piercing ray defrauded - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"

Flings to the winds the spoils of reason's thrift - James Henry Cousins "Etain the Beloved"

Leftover reasons to be alive - Brody Parrish Craig "Full"

The reason tortured Tantalus is baited - Countee Cullen "Yet Do I Marvel"

Which lights the void which reason leaves - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

Every green reason to wait - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"

Did Bacchus yield to Reason's voice divine - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

In reason's balance her best offers weigh - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

To anoint the dream with reason - Diane DeCillis "Foreboding Frog"

Fair reason checks these monsters - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"

For reasons still impossible to see - Lord Alfred Douglas writing as The Belgian Hare "Song for Sidlers"

Usurp the place of common sense and reason - "The Druriad" [1798]

Who flutter about without object or reason - "The Emperor's Rout"

Commanding him 'gainst reason to transgress - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

We urged the self-same reasons - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Such frenzy as shall o'erturn his reason - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The reason for this burning was a family - Nikita Gill "Hekate: The Day I Was Born"

15 new reasons for laughs - Nikita Gill "The Meaning of a Day"

Thunder and fury for no reason at all - Nikita Gill "Papa"

No reason for feral birds - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"

The warning of reason was spoken in vain - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"

Homes of blighted reason - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LIV"

Poise of reason's sphere maintain - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

For some reason bred within thy mind - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Must love without adjunct of sense or reason - Aldous Huxley "Soles Occidere et Redire Possunt"

If Reason's power fail'd in each reeling mind - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Hurls absurd reasons from a future - K. Iver "Anti-Elegy"

The reason such monsters should be loose - "Johnny and the Toad" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]

Letting reason go up in smoke - Camisha L. Jones "Accommodation"

with good reason to crumble - Camisha L. Jones "Wrecking Ball"

Of an infinity of reasons - Lawrence Joseph "Here in a State of Tectonic Tension"

By reason of his fallen divinity - John Keats "Hyperion"

Equipped with theories forged in reason - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

To Reason bound - Anne Killigrew "A Farewell to Worldly Joyes"

In the teeth of things forbid and Reason overthrown - Rudyard Kipling "Helen All Alone"

Reconsider your reasons for travel - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"

A minimum of reason and a maximum of rhyme - Henry S. Leigh "Un Pas Qui Coute"

Reason over it no victory knows - Lermontof "My Native Land" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

I am the fact and the crushing reason - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: I. Satan Speaks"

And let Reason keep the door - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Pleasant foe to reason - Thomas Lodge "Cupid Plague Thee for Thy Treason"

Fresh and bright shone reason's light - "The Martyrs' Monument" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

As Wisdom trod in Reason's dusty way - A.G. Marius "Wisdom and Fancy" transl. by William Hodgson Ellis

At the axis of reason, your taxi to hell - Donna Masini "Anxieties"

Fire for ancient reason - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

Reasons to buy hammers or light bulbs - John McCarthy "The Key"

No branch of Reason's growing - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

Where rhetoric seems reason - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"

The reasons for betrayal - Claire Millikin "Selfie as Illusory Child at Birthday Party"

Bespeaks the Reason ill design'd - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]

Reason swallowed by dolphins - Maggie Nelson "Proposal"

No reason to wish ourselves extinct - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

No reason to doubt witchcraft - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

In the orderly house of reasons and proof - Mary Oliver "The World I Live In"

Giving trust a thousand reasons - Walter S. Percy "The Shut and Open Hand: The Open Hand"

With amethyst and reason - Carl Phillips "The Difference Between Power and Force"

For no reason they were willing to give - Carl Phillips "Scattered Snows, to the North"

Of Reason's faithful Pilot now bereft - "The Pleasures of a Single Life, Or, The Miseries of Matrimony" [1709]

Drop fire from the sky but don't name me as reason - Iain Haley Pollock "the smoke of the country went up"

Some reason to read these thick omens as good - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

Another reason to operate from uneducated fear - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

Reason's lens and knife - Theodore H. Rand "I Am"

In search of reasons underground - Adrienne Rich "Second Sight"

Many reasons not to waste a rainy evening - Adrienne Rich "This Evening Let's"

And Reason pales upon her throat - John Rollin Ridge "The Harp of Broken Strings"

All reasons to refuse him - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Eros Turannos"

Could battle with despair on reason's throne - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]

Has begun to rend the chain of reason - Rumi "The Bird of My Heart" transl. by A.J. Arberry

Shall reasons find of settled gravity - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIX"

To guard the lawful reasons - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIX"

My judgment knew no reason why - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXV"

Unravel the world for no reason - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Thursday, August 25, 2005"

A reason to crave shelter - Patricia Smith "Katrina"

Reason's force asleep in Error's lap - Robert Southwell "Lewd Love Is Loss"

In my slightly desperate search for reasons - Keith Taylor "What's Needed Now"

Have pity on nights without reason - Sophia Terazawa "September Roams a Vertical Passage" [excerpt]

allowing obstacle a rebirth as reason - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"

Would have found reason for change - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"

Reasons only a cow can know - Kristen Tracy "Sometimes This Happens"

Beyond the reason and time of why - John Trudell "Thicker than Blood for Billy Joe/Chiefs Song"

Tart speech and full-ripe reason - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

felled for unbearable reasons - Asiya Wadud "number four"

No more searching for reasons - Wang An-Shih "Accord All-Gather Comes Through Snow to Visit" transl. by David Hinton

Alive by reason of the sun - William Carlos Williams "The Descent"

By reason thereof the treasure-houses are opened - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 43" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

Reason to lament what man has made of man - William Wordsworth "Lines Written in Early Spring"

No reason for logic in war - Emily Jungmin Yoon "An Ordinary Misfortune"

Astrologists and Presbyterians agree for different reasons - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"


In the dawn of a reasonable doubt - Mary Jo Bang "What Is a Mouth?"

Bombs of reasonable fear of bombs - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

Includes all reasonable ends of knowledge - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Impossible to have a reasonable relation with the self - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"


Unreason.


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