Potential Titles: Obedient/Disobedient

[somethingdarker]

Torn from stubbornly disobedient scores of prisms - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"

Which disobedience would save us - Nava EtShalom "Repair"

To teach me my disobediences - Katie Ford "Breaking Across Us Now"


A dwelling less obedient to decay - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXIII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Obedient to my fatal mood - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

Obedient to some other moon - Robert Bly "Thomas and the Codfish's Psalm"

Escaping an obedience to desire - William Brewer "Relapse Psalm"

Obedient to the goad of grief - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

Obedient to the dread command - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

With smiles obedient to his will's control - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Where the grasses bow down obedient to the blast - Deborah Garrison "Atlantic Wind"

And makes my soul obedient to her will - Else Lasker-Schüler "Sphinx" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

Offerings in the obedient now - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Obedient to the trumpet's blare - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"

Who in a quick obedience move - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"

Obedient to all that the truth commands - "Of the Sower" [The Parables of the Saviour, no date, Project Gutenberg]

In such shining obedience - Mary Oliver "Someday"

Obedient to gallant notions - Wallace Stevens "A Quiet Normal Life"

In the cords of obedience - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Song of Rahero: I. The Slaying of Tamatea"

Never ask why will is but obedience - Carmen Sylva "Out of the Deep"


Obey.


Navigation Links:
Go to O word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.