Potential Titles: Justice
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somethingdarkerJust [Justice].
Who nursed them in crime and fed them on injustice? - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Had no voice been raised against injustice - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"
The guardian voice of justice on her throne - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
The shackles binding your souls do not exist for justice's sake - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
Realms of justice and mercy trod - Michelangelo Buonarroti "I. On Dante Alighieri" transl. by John Addington Symonds
And neither breaks toward justice - Cortney Lamar Charleston "It's Important I Remember that the Moral Arc of the Universe Bends--"
Makes you chairs when you need justice - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Let justice reign supreme - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
Patiently knocking at justice's door - Jamie Harris Coleman "A Plea for Justice"
The solemn sense of justice infinite - Benjamin Copeland "Niagara"
And justice vainly each expedient tries - George Crabbe "The Library"
Whom Justice arms for vengeance - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"
Should still in justice strive with Gods - Drayton "Kings" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.379, 4 July 1829]
Mete justice from a thousand starry thrones - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dana"
Simple justice he requested - James T. Fields "On a Portrait of Cromwell"
And justice absent from your session - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The first time you conceived of justice - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"
Like the sky seeking justice - Saeed Jones "A Memory"
Justice stood in the shoes of mercy - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
And smirch-robed Justice feebly scold at Crime - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Questions not the justice of his fate - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Never in fair justice framed - Amy Levy "Medea"
Justice spread her gilded wing - George Reginald Margetson "The Call to Duty"
While justice yields before remorseless power - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Bury justice in loopholes - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Samaria Rice, Tamir's Mother"
Through the hinterlands of justice - Mary Oliver "The Oak Tree at the Entrance to Blackwater Pond"
And justice dooms you to a culprit's fate - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
An idea of justice that roamed around the seams - Mara Pastor "Flora numérica/Numeric Flora" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
Raise a poem to justice - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"
Armed myself against justice - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Those poisoned claws called justice - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah V: Through Certain Angles"
Where common justice rules the mind - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
Force in name of justice spent - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
Justice comes all trouble to repair - James Stephens "Honoro Butler and Lord Kenmare (1720)"
Thought it not safe near such Justice to stay - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"
A kind of smudgy justice - Pimone Triplett "From Another Other Within, Without"
Announce triumphant justice - Fernando Valverde "The Wound Before the Tomb of Walt Whitman" (translated by Carolyn Forche)
Dispensing with justice the broth and the bread - A.D.T. Whitney "The Big Shoe"
And propose a depth of justice - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"
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Who nursed them in crime and fed them on injustice? - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Had no voice been raised against injustice - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"
The guardian voice of justice on her throne - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
The shackles binding your souls do not exist for justice's sake - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
Realms of justice and mercy trod - Michelangelo Buonarroti "I. On Dante Alighieri" transl. by John Addington Symonds
And neither breaks toward justice - Cortney Lamar Charleston "It's Important I Remember that the Moral Arc of the Universe Bends--"
Makes you chairs when you need justice - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Let justice reign supreme - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
Patiently knocking at justice's door - Jamie Harris Coleman "A Plea for Justice"
The solemn sense of justice infinite - Benjamin Copeland "Niagara"
And justice vainly each expedient tries - George Crabbe "The Library"
Whom Justice arms for vengeance - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"
Should still in justice strive with Gods - Drayton "Kings" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.379, 4 July 1829]
Mete justice from a thousand starry thrones - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dana"
Simple justice he requested - James T. Fields "On a Portrait of Cromwell"
And justice absent from your session - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The first time you conceived of justice - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"
Like the sky seeking justice - Saeed Jones "A Memory"
Justice stood in the shoes of mercy - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
And smirch-robed Justice feebly scold at Crime - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Questions not the justice of his fate - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Never in fair justice framed - Amy Levy "Medea"
Justice spread her gilded wing - George Reginald Margetson "The Call to Duty"
While justice yields before remorseless power - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Bury justice in loopholes - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Samaria Rice, Tamir's Mother"
Through the hinterlands of justice - Mary Oliver "The Oak Tree at the Entrance to Blackwater Pond"
And justice dooms you to a culprit's fate - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
An idea of justice that roamed around the seams - Mara Pastor "Flora numérica/Numeric Flora" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
Raise a poem to justice - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"
Armed myself against justice - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Those poisoned claws called justice - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah V: Through Certain Angles"
Where common justice rules the mind - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
Force in name of justice spent - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
Justice comes all trouble to repair - James Stephens "Honoro Butler and Lord Kenmare (1720)"
Thought it not safe near such Justice to stay - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"
A kind of smudgy justice - Pimone Triplett "From Another Other Within, Without"
Announce triumphant justice - Fernando Valverde "The Wound Before the Tomb of Walt Whitman" (translated by Carolyn Forche)
Dispensing with justice the broth and the bread - A.D.T. Whitney "The Big Shoe"
And propose a depth of justice - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"
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