Potential Titles: Guilt
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somethingdarkerGuilt, that rent-free tenant - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
While Guilt and Desire wrangled - James Baldwin "Guilt, Desire and Love"
A haughty heart and guilty brain - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"
Guilty of more than silence - Elizabeth Bartlett "Voluntary, Exile"
To swear by the debts of the guilty - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"
The guilty land is washed in innocent blood - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Down guilty and delightful ways - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
A paper-knife to penetrate heart & guilt together - John Berryman "The Possessed"
Exhaling with an arsonist's guilt - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
Salutation from a guilty mouth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Spreads desolations round a guilty land - George Crabbe "The Library"
And I am guilty of the same sin - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"
relief bitterness guilt all combined - Deborah L. Davitt "Unbound" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
The guilt privilege affords - Chris Dombrowski "To the First of the Getting-Longer Days"
With blood by guilty angels shed - The Ettrick Shepherd "A Witch's Chant"
This guilt must sure unmeasured be - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
It is the guilty soul that speaks - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Villains would compass it by guilt - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Built you perfect and guilty - Kimberly Grey "Invention"
By his guilt made desolate - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
In proud supremacy of guilt alone - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
Distanced itself and sang of its guilty blood - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
To sow in guilt what they must reap in woe - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Let the Furies rend her guilty soul - Amy Levy "Medea"
Which no stain of guilt has ever soiled - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
When a guilty world was drowned - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]
Guilty of being hungry - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"
The gauge of our love’s guilt - Joyce Carol Oates "Five Confessions: V. Doctor’s Wife"
Four floors of guilt - Diana O'Hehir "Riding the San Francisco Train"
Traced its guilty lines upon the page - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
If thus she weep above the guilty dead - C.L.P. "Tidings of Victory" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Only tastes of earth and guilt - Coventry Patmore "Joy"
To sweep away our guilt before the sky - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
No calculations of your galactic guilt - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist as a Satellite, Petulant"
Guilt planted for others - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
Questions about guilt, satisfaction and lunch - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXI"
Dress me in guilt - Danez Smith "say it with your whole black mouth"
From the guilt of its release - Susan Stewart "Poem from Holderlin"
Looked Janus-faced to innocence and guilt - William Wetmore Story "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem"
How ages will reckon the guilt - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
So framed for Adam's guilty line - Richard Chenevix Trench "Lines I"
As within a guilty citadel - Richard Chenevix Trench "Vesuvius, as Seen from Capri"
Under the spell of your guilt - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"
And grandeur crouches like a guilty thing - William Wordsworth "On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm"
Guilty by tongue but not by mind - Wendy Xu "Interim Poetics"
Guilty of crimes we didn't commit - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
Guiltless at my soul's command - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
Watch him steal, guilt-lighted, to his pillow - B. Simmons "Stanzas to the Memory of Thomas Hood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
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While Guilt and Desire wrangled - James Baldwin "Guilt, Desire and Love"
A haughty heart and guilty brain - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"
Guilty of more than silence - Elizabeth Bartlett "Voluntary, Exile"
To swear by the debts of the guilty - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"
The guilty land is washed in innocent blood - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Down guilty and delightful ways - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
A paper-knife to penetrate heart & guilt together - John Berryman "The Possessed"
Exhaling with an arsonist's guilt - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
Salutation from a guilty mouth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Spreads desolations round a guilty land - George Crabbe "The Library"
And I am guilty of the same sin - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"
relief bitterness guilt all combined - Deborah L. Davitt "Unbound" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
The guilt privilege affords - Chris Dombrowski "To the First of the Getting-Longer Days"
With blood by guilty angels shed - The Ettrick Shepherd "A Witch's Chant"
This guilt must sure unmeasured be - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
It is the guilty soul that speaks - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Villains would compass it by guilt - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Built you perfect and guilty - Kimberly Grey "Invention"
By his guilt made desolate - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
In proud supremacy of guilt alone - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
Distanced itself and sang of its guilty blood - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
To sow in guilt what they must reap in woe - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Let the Furies rend her guilty soul - Amy Levy "Medea"
Which no stain of guilt has ever soiled - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
When a guilty world was drowned - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]
Guilty of being hungry - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"
The gauge of our love’s guilt - Joyce Carol Oates "Five Confessions: V. Doctor’s Wife"
Four floors of guilt - Diana O'Hehir "Riding the San Francisco Train"
Traced its guilty lines upon the page - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
If thus she weep above the guilty dead - C.L.P. "Tidings of Victory" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Only tastes of earth and guilt - Coventry Patmore "Joy"
To sweep away our guilt before the sky - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
No calculations of your galactic guilt - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist as a Satellite, Petulant"
Guilt planted for others - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
Questions about guilt, satisfaction and lunch - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXI"
Dress me in guilt - Danez Smith "say it with your whole black mouth"
From the guilt of its release - Susan Stewart "Poem from Holderlin"
Looked Janus-faced to innocence and guilt - William Wetmore Story "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem"
How ages will reckon the guilt - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
So framed for Adam's guilty line - Richard Chenevix Trench "Lines I"
As within a guilty citadel - Richard Chenevix Trench "Vesuvius, as Seen from Capri"
Under the spell of your guilt - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"
And grandeur crouches like a guilty thing - William Wordsworth "On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm"
Guilty by tongue but not by mind - Wendy Xu "Interim Poetics"
Guilty of crimes we didn't commit - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
Guiltless at my soul's command - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
Watch him steal, guilt-lighted, to his pillow - B. Simmons "Stanzas to the Memory of Thomas Hood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
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