somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Humble

Courage on humble backs - Kwame Alexander "Animal Ark"

While their humble orisons they breathe - William Anderson "The Alpine Horn"

Elastic humbleness of flowers and weeds - Maxwell Bodenheim "Landscape"

Gladdened once our humble sphere - Anne Bronte "Reminiscence"

With pure and humble eyes - Arthur Hugh Clough "An Evening Walk in Spring"

And humble reeds bewail the shepherd's pain - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Be humble or lose yourself - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"

That was humble among the gods - Lord Dunsany "The Return of Song"

Down on humbled, human knees - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"

A humble cloud can bust the lamp of Cassiopeta [sic] - John Grey "Skywatching"

To get even and humble proud heaven - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"

My spirit humbled by surprise - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

That humble birds to silent flight - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Tasters of humble human wines - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)

Only humbled hearts may see - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"

The humbled white of the snow - Jenny Molberg "The Pheasant"

Some humbler herb or worm - Lewis Morris "The New Creed"

With your joy of humble honeycomb - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1936)" translated by Richard Schaaf

The humble decency of widows - Pablo Neruda "The Masks" transl. by Richard Schaaf

A humble snail crawled from his shell - Walter S. Percy "The Snail and Star"

Of humbler position in the scale of creation - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Be humble like the dust - Saadi "In Connection with Humility" transl. by Mirza Aqil-Husain

Guardian of the humblest homes - Harvey Maitland Watts "To a Roadside Cedar"

Beyond the humble reach of every day - Edith Wharton "Heaven"

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