Potential Titles: Fright

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With fearful footsteps, and affrighted gaze - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]


Fled into the air like frightened birds - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"

See frightened ghosts on the streets - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog"

The frightened eyes of the city glow - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"

the shore frightened by the tide - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"

Any fright of stumbling up crooked paths - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"

Wild ravings in Night's frighted ear - James Beattie "Elegy"

The molten lava of your fright - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene I"

With long fright and longer trust - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XL"

And frightened the music away - Mary Mapes Dodge Rhymes and Jingles (p.109)

Woman wrapped in frightful light - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Wrapped in a great, frightful light - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle

Your heart is strewn with frightful light - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 29. E-Mah, the Temple of Ninhursanga and Asghi in Adab" transl. by Sophus Helle

On frightful rocks where billows poured - "Epitaph in a Dedham Churchyard" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

With fright almost ready to die - "The Fox and the Geese"

The winds take fright and question - Zona Gale "Ballade of Listening"

And frightening the army of Xerxes away - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"

Frightened a thousand miles away - Langston Hughes "Migrant"

Fold them like the wings of frightened birds - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

Frightened birds shot cruelly down - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

Frightened waters huddle close - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Rush frightened through the air - Effie Lee Newsome "At the Pool"

Plunged into the most frightful shadow - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson

The arrow-screams of frightened gulls - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

A wild annihilating fright - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"

Crying on the frightened air - James Stephens "The Snare"


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