Potential Titles: Pity

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Snow pitying the frozen ground - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

Pity the sky once- Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"

Soft pity's sorrowing look - "The Alter'd Lay"

Pierced the pitying sky - Cora C. Bass "The Battle of Bunker Hill"

The sacred drops to pity due - James Beattie "Elegy"

The roaring mill where gods grind without pity - William Rose Benét "The City"

In pity to my joyless years - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

That wins the pity of a sky - Max Bodenheim "City Streets"

Steal pity from city streets - Maxwell Bodenheim "More About Captain Simmons"

Pity and power the deadliest benevolence - Cecilia Caballero "Octavia Said You Cannot Know How Deeply People Feel Their Ancestors"

No ladder of pity - Tina Chang "Infinite and Plausible"

Unmoved by pity or the dark heart of the sea - Alicia Cole "Once, I Was a Mermaid"

condemnatory fingers thinned of pity - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

With ritual pauses for breath and pity - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"

He is not one to pity fragileness - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "To an Icicle"

Where it rained always & without pity - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"

Lightning's pity picks you - Heid E. Erdich "Girl of Lightning"

Be strange as pity - Louise Erdrich "Fooling God"

Pity sleep in the curve of her palms - Mona Gould "Ballet Moment"

Pity's crafted afterthought - Linda Gregerson "When Nothing But Tree"

Though pity's cheek grow pale - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

In the arms of your pity - Langston Hughes "Litany"

Hath pity more to say? - Lionel Johnson "A Burden of Easter Vigil"

The sacred contagion of pity, of giving, of loss - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"

May not deal in doubt or pity - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"

Pity a broken-winged wanderer - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson

Scorning pity's tears - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

Pity on these centuries - Pablo Neruda "The Masks" transl. by Richard Schaaf

Compassion's shadow, pity - Carl Phillips "Overheard, Under a Dark Enchantment"

Pity this ragged luck of mine - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

The moon is the mother of pathos and pity - Wallace Stevens "Lunar Paraphrase"

With false and feeble pity - Sara Teasdale "The Answer"

Meet our pity with a traitor's kiss - Iris Tree "[The scandal-monger after all is right]"

Pity him his lonely heaven - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Blasphemy"

Days that have no pity - Louis Untermeyer "In the Streets"

Has neither knowledge nor pity - Louis Untermeyer "Waters of Babylon"

Voids that never knew the pity of creation - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Pity's long-broken urn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"


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