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"

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

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"

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"

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"

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"

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

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"

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

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"

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]

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"

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"

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"

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

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

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

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

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"

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"

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

felled for unbearable reasons - Asiya Wadud "number four"

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

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


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

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


Unreason.


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