Potential Titles: Comfort/Discomfort
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somethingdarkerTorn from the perch of their comfort - Hanif Abdurraqib "It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off"
Blossoms of comfort for the Pilgrim band - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
And comfort all desolate lambs - Willis Boyd Allen "A Christmas Pastoral"
From invisible portals breathing comfort and ghastly fear - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
Not comfortable living in a mouth - Gia Anansi-Shakur "The Owl"
Turn to black for comfort - Maya Angelou "Late October"
One for comfort and twice for fear - Mary Jo Bang "Ritual Gestures"
Out of comfort and easy dreaming - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
The promised land's hard comfort - Paul Bernstein "Sideshow"
The soft comfort of flour between my fingers - Julia Bouwsma "The Schoolteacher Answers the Call"
A mystic echo of comfort - Teresa Brayton "A Christmas Song"
Beauty's comfort-laden breath - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 12"
A spring of comfort in my heart - Anne Bronte "The Doubter's Prayer"
No comfort in the slow farewell - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
Bringing the the comfort of completion - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"
Come to comfort when you grieve - Witter Bynner "Romance"
To commence the comfortable exchange of difference - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
This mirror can be comfort now - Jennifer Chang "Lost Child"
Come back half comforted - Susan Coolidge "Commissioned"
In comfort's alien tongue - Adelaide Crapsey "The Mourner"
A comfortable state of oblivion - Jim Daniels "Feed Corn"
Sorry cheer and comfort cold - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Seasons of solace that may comfort me - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In this sad world have pity, my lady dear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Nor far nor near is comfort found - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
His contraband and only comfort - Chad Frame "A Union Victory"
If you can comfort me by any answer - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
The old dreams of comfort - Ivor Gurney "Solace of Men"
From fond thought some comfort I will borrow - Mrs. M.E. Hewitt "The Bride's Reverie" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no. 2, July 1850]
Forgetfulness to comfort her - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"
Bring comfort to our sad hearts - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Under the comfort of Cincinnati fog - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
In the comfort of a true isolated system - Natasha King "The First Perpetual Motion Machine"
To admit the murdered into rooms of vast crushed comfort - Youna Kwak "After"
And comfort them with whispers of their home - L.L. "The Graves of Gallipoli" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Comfort for an aching mood - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"
The comfort things could bring - Philip Levine "These Words"
My cup of wine for comfort - Lu Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson
The air as comforting as wine - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"
Where a century fits comfortably inside 10 am - John McCarthy "Gravestone"
Take comfort behind neon signs - Claire Meuschke "zero in on"
Until it fit comfortably on the feet of the divine - Matthew Olzmann "Olympus"
And substance for every comfort - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"
The amber color of comfort - Linda Pastan "At the Edge"
Some grim comfort has come my way - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"
A comforting word the prophet spoke - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
Continual delight and comfort find - Alice Wellington Rollins "Thought"
Comfort in the season of sorrow - Rumi "The Beloved the Divine Consoler" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
Comforting as cherry brandy - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"
That the ancient things I loved would comfort you - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
And sing a lullaby of promise and of comfort - Carmen Sylva "A Friend"
Myself remains to comfort me - Sara Teasdale "White Fog"
The comfortable heaven or your breast - Louis Untermeyer "Sunday Night"
Comforted by darkness - Margaret Widdemer "The Dark Cavalier"
Comfort and covert for the flinching will - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
To warn, to comfort, and command - William Wordsworth "Perfect Woman"
No comfort in the grave - W.B. Yeats "The Man who dreamed of Faeryland"
this blue refrain sings of comfort - Monica Youn "Blueacre"
Bearing with you a comfortless twinge of regret - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Walked in a comfortless quiet - Donald Hall "Conclusion at Union Lake"
In return for a shadowed and comfortless past - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Does not leave us comfortless - Jane Kenyon "Let Evening Come"
Meet discomfort on the way - Sue Budin "Following the Thread"
Every kind of uncomfortable - Aimee Le "Analogies, or, Twinkie Is to Egg As"
I can't be content here in my uncomfortable present - Jason Schneiderman "House with a Hot Tub and Pool"
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Blossoms of comfort for the Pilgrim band - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
And comfort all desolate lambs - Willis Boyd Allen "A Christmas Pastoral"
From invisible portals breathing comfort and ghastly fear - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
Not comfortable living in a mouth - Gia Anansi-Shakur "The Owl"
Turn to black for comfort - Maya Angelou "Late October"
One for comfort and twice for fear - Mary Jo Bang "Ritual Gestures"
Out of comfort and easy dreaming - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
The promised land's hard comfort - Paul Bernstein "Sideshow"
The soft comfort of flour between my fingers - Julia Bouwsma "The Schoolteacher Answers the Call"
A mystic echo of comfort - Teresa Brayton "A Christmas Song"
Beauty's comfort-laden breath - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 12"
A spring of comfort in my heart - Anne Bronte "The Doubter's Prayer"
No comfort in the slow farewell - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
Bringing the the comfort of completion - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"
Come to comfort when you grieve - Witter Bynner "Romance"
To commence the comfortable exchange of difference - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
This mirror can be comfort now - Jennifer Chang "Lost Child"
Come back half comforted - Susan Coolidge "Commissioned"
In comfort's alien tongue - Adelaide Crapsey "The Mourner"
A comfortable state of oblivion - Jim Daniels "Feed Corn"
Sorry cheer and comfort cold - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Seasons of solace that may comfort me - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In this sad world have pity, my lady dear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Nor far nor near is comfort found - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
His contraband and only comfort - Chad Frame "A Union Victory"
If you can comfort me by any answer - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
The old dreams of comfort - Ivor Gurney "Solace of Men"
From fond thought some comfort I will borrow - Mrs. M.E. Hewitt "The Bride's Reverie" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no. 2, July 1850]
Forgetfulness to comfort her - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"
Bring comfort to our sad hearts - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Under the comfort of Cincinnati fog - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
In the comfort of a true isolated system - Natasha King "The First Perpetual Motion Machine"
To admit the murdered into rooms of vast crushed comfort - Youna Kwak "After"
And comfort them with whispers of their home - L.L. "The Graves of Gallipoli" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Comfort for an aching mood - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"
The comfort things could bring - Philip Levine "These Words"
My cup of wine for comfort - Lu Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson
The air as comforting as wine - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"
Where a century fits comfortably inside 10 am - John McCarthy "Gravestone"
Take comfort behind neon signs - Claire Meuschke "zero in on"
Until it fit comfortably on the feet of the divine - Matthew Olzmann "Olympus"
And substance for every comfort - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"
The amber color of comfort - Linda Pastan "At the Edge"
Some grim comfort has come my way - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"
A comforting word the prophet spoke - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
Continual delight and comfort find - Alice Wellington Rollins "Thought"
Comfort in the season of sorrow - Rumi "The Beloved the Divine Consoler" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
Comforting as cherry brandy - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"
That the ancient things I loved would comfort you - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
And sing a lullaby of promise and of comfort - Carmen Sylva "A Friend"
Myself remains to comfort me - Sara Teasdale "White Fog"
The comfortable heaven or your breast - Louis Untermeyer "Sunday Night"
Comforted by darkness - Margaret Widdemer "The Dark Cavalier"
Comfort and covert for the flinching will - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
To warn, to comfort, and command - William Wordsworth "Perfect Woman"
No comfort in the grave - W.B. Yeats "The Man who dreamed of Faeryland"
this blue refrain sings of comfort - Monica Youn "Blueacre"
Bearing with you a comfortless twinge of regret - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Walked in a comfortless quiet - Donald Hall "Conclusion at Union Lake"
In return for a shadowed and comfortless past - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Does not leave us comfortless - Jane Kenyon "Let Evening Come"
Meet discomfort on the way - Sue Budin "Following the Thread"
Every kind of uncomfortable - Aimee Le "Analogies, or, Twinkie Is to Egg As"
I can't be content here in my uncomfortable present - Jason Schneiderman "House with a Hot Tub and Pool"
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