Potential Titles: Mercy

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When the merciful snow cloaks me - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

Every merciful and smiling lie - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Merciful skies, uncradle your mist - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"


To mercy's door I flee - A.L.O.E. "Hymn for the Penitent Convict"

The shore of some brief & gilded mercy - Hanif Abdurraqib "It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off"

In the mercy of the more hollow - manuel arturo abreu "Sound Has Ears"

The memory of traditions of mercy - Aijaz Ahmad from an interview published in In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda edited by Ellen Meiksins Wood and John Bellamy Foster

Drag me upward in horrible mercy - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

On the other side of mercy - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"

Back and forth to a song of no mercy - Mary Jo Bang "A Calculation Based on Figures in a Scene"

Small Mercies sliced from the root - Ellen Bass "Roses"

Mercy has a human heart - William Blake "The Divine Image"

At the mercy of the gorgeous and lethal aurora - Jaswinder Bolina "Apologia Matilde"

Draw straws for mercy - Russell Brakefield "The Wraith in the Creek"

The stars of God's mercies - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"

The doors of mercy to unfold - Patrick Bronte "Winter-Night Meditations"

Outside flick of life at the mercy of these coming winds - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

Realms of justice and mercy trod - Michelangelo Buonarroti "I. On Dante Alighieri" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Without reflection, without mercy, without shame - C.P. Cavafy "Walls" transl. from modern Greek by John Cavafy

The walls scream for mercy - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"

Mercy and its dark twin - Tina Chang "Fury"

Worship mercy in routine - Ty Chapman "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"

Endless Mercy stoops to save - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

the only mercy is memory - Lucille Clifton "the message of fred clifton"

This house in the firmness of mercy - Leonard Cohen "It Is to You I Turn"

Judged again with mercy - Leonard Cohen "The News You Really Hate"

Vials of mercy - Ernest Dowson "Extreme Unction"

Each thing learned in mercy - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"

At the mercy of my own bravery - Camonghne Felix "Thank God I Can't Drive"

The mercy of dull anodyne - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VII. In a Bar Room"

Light of love and mercy shine - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"

And too the instruments of dark mercy - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."

From Oceans of mercy's zeal - James Roane Gregory "Rain"

Collect all your mercies for me - Kimberly Grey "We Are Mostly Merciful"

The mercy of dust and chrysanthemums - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

Inside mercy but outside glory - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

Of gratitude for mercies undeserved - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Mercy walks down a different block - Patricia Spears Jones "Saturnine"

The first mercy of diving - Tobi Kassim "A Blind Spot, Awash"

Through Mercy's brooding care - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"

In secret moods of mercy - Archibald Lampman "Winter"

The tender scarf of warm mercies - Joseph O. Legaspi "Vows (for a gay wedding)"

Mercy for this moment between fences - Ada Limon "Big Star"

True to mercy's law - George Martin "Eudora"

Where mercy prepares the map - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"

For mercy's reign the cruelty of hell - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Fight to make mercy last - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"

For having known mercy - Jenny Molberg "I Am Not Thine, But Thee"

Mercy must not survive entry - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Shared Plight"

Spun silk of mercy - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"

At the mercy of a stranger's eyes - Miller Oberman "Taharah"

Mercy's a cliff - Carl Phillips "From a Land Called Near-Is-Far"

Frogs don't understand mercy - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Tlaltecuhtli"

Called forth mercy for the fallen throng - Alexander Pushkin "A Monument" transl. by John Pollen

And mercy deals the pain-inflicting blow - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Adversity" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Omnivorous and without mercy - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

As far as the mercy of the deer - Jade Riordan "We Others"

Boats of mercy embark - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

Pours out the moon's white mercy - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hope of the Infinite"

Each hath his mercy - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"

Mercy at the makeshift desk - Gerald Stern "Places You Wouldn't Believe"

My three claims for mercy - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 212: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

No jealous god's mercies - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"

The countenance and gestures of Mercy - J. Sylvester "Mercy and Justice" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]

Golden in the mercy of his means - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

Of mercy in the last day - "The Vision of Seth" (Translated by Edwin Norris)

The mercy of morning - Kevin Young "Ledge"


Coming to the mercy seat - Julia A. Baker "Mizpah"

And only we should reach her mercy-seat - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"


Whom unmerciful Disaster followed fast and followed faster - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"


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