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Potential Titles: Neglect/Negligence

Neglected my sorrowful soul - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Where knotted grass neglected lies - Anne Bronte "Home"

Of harsh neglect, regret, despair - Professor Campbell "To the Lily of the Valley" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Harsh neglect will smother up the flame - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

weaving garments of neglect - Lucille Clifton "shadows"

Neglected it had been through all the storm - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Turned sour by sun's neglect - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"

Feel the frost of cold neglect - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

My shining mirror darkens with neglect - Hsu Kan "The Wife's Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

Who never neglect to offer up praise - "IX: Otro Tlaocolcuica Otomitl | An Otomi Song of Sadness" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

The neglected Lyre to tune - Anne Killigrew "To My Lord Colrane, In Answer to his Complemental Verses sent me under the Name of Cleanor"

With our high neglected dreams - Furnley Maurice "Barter"

Offer the antidote for neglect - Shara McCallum "Ghazal"

The life I neglected to live - Ted Mathys "Fool's Gold"

That flourish through neglect - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]

Try the skill of my neglected hand - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

A space primed for neglect - Adrienne Rich "Second Sight"

Neglect is a poisoned arrow - Mrs. Kāminī Roy "Call and Bring Her" transl. Miss Whitehouse

Neglecting the fracture on my soul - Niloufar-Lily Soltani "A Mountain on My Back"

Neglect not dreams nor call them worthless - Carmen Sylva "Night"

A neglected trophy on the ledge in my study - Keith Taylor "Parthenon Marbles"

The doomed trilobites neglect to make out their wills - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"

Neglectful of roses - Jay Wright "Sasa"

Sprouting passionately as neglected gardens do - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"


In the fixed dusk of his negligence - Louise Gluck "Lamentations"


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