Potential Titles: Pleasure
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somethingdarkerAt Pleasure's shrine devoutly kneeling - Mrs. Lois B. Adams "Hath Not Thy Rose a Canker"
The periodic pleasure of small happenings - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"
And balm in pleasure found - Alice M. Ardagh "Sic Passim"
Gone the ivory house of pleasure - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
To vivisect the ear's dear pleasure - Mary Jo Bang "She Couldn't Sing At All, At All"
Drinking deep pleasure from old Nature's wells - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Refrain from the unholy pleasure - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: Dedication"
The stricken pleasure of intimacy - Traci Brimhall "Fledgling"
Of glory's wreath and pleasure's flower - Emily Bronte "Plead for Me"
And trust in Pleasure's careless guiding - Emily Bronte "The Wanderer from the Fold"
A pleasure in the pathless woods - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
Disgust of pleasure, scorn of duty - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"
Through halls of vanished pleasure - Willa Cather "Poppies on Ludlow Castle"
Mind the flowers of pleasure - Willa Cather "Poppies on Ludlow Castle"
Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
If pleasure steal from toil one hour - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes"
Sad pleasure in the moon's control - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"
By the casual pleasures of warmth - Camonghne Felix "Tonya Harding's Fur Coats"
For the pleasure of the wind - Robert Frost "My Butterfly"
Lost hours, lost friends, lost pleasures - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Working loom of ceaseless pleasure - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
No spell her pleasure blighted - Oliver Herford "The Fairy Godmother-in-Law I: The Wedding"
Brew us fatal pleasures - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"
Our hopes with pleasure glowing - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Pleasure, with her harps unstrung - George Moses Horton "Memory"
Pleasure in being in complete - Linda Susan Jackson "Improvisation on Them"
Where pleasures alone will be mine - Charles Jefferys "Let Me Rest in the Land of My Birth"
Such pleasure in unraveling - Kimberly Johnson "Ode on My Episiotomy"
Pleasure made into light - Taylor Johnson "W 177th & Broadway"
Pain often, stands by pleasures [sic] side - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"
The dim phantoms of o'er shadowed pleasures - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]
Whose cheek bears pleasure's sleepless flush - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
A pleasure secret and austere - Archibald Lampman "In November"
Seek to borrow pleasure - Archibald Lampman "The Song of Pan"
Echoes of serenest pleasure - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
The pleasures that gold can procure - Henry S. Leigh "Anticipations"
Pleasure and Paraffin, lend us a smile - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"
What kind of pleasure can accrue - Henry S. Leigh "Crooked Answers No. 1--Vere de Vere"
The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"
Laugh, because the pleasure was earned - Sandra Lim "A Walk Round the Park"
Pleasure waits with her siren train - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The ineffable pleasure of deserving - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
Pleasures which can come no more - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
The pale pleasure of the sand - Pablo Neruda "Goodbye to the Snow" transl. by Alastair Reid
Sorrow and pleasure grew on the same tree - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Understand"
Earthly pleasures cease to charm - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen
Easy sales of lasting pleasure - Francis Quarles "The World's Fallacies"
That pleasures are pitfalls prepared to deceive - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
The pleasure of tangled violins - Erika L. Sanchez "Love Story"
All pleasure lost in cursing once - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Following the pleasure of the storm - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #59"
Drained earth's pleasures to the lees - Frederick George Scott "Solomon"
For summer and his pleasures wait - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCVII"
Where pleasures are collected - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
The uncertainty of pleasure - Safiya Sinclair "Sophia the Robot Contemplates Beauty"
The passionate pleasure of motion - Alfonsina Storni "Running Water" (translated by Muna Lee)
The pleasures of ambrosial words - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 46: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
White-hot glorious pain and a brash bronze pleasure - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
In Pleasure's borrowed dress - Melesina Trench "On Being Pressed to Go to a Masqued Ball not Many Months After the Death of My Child"
The pleasure I take in loneliness - Chase Twichell "Inland"
As surely as words are pleasure - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"
In a room shredded with our pleasure - Michael Wasson "So Call it Grace"
On joy and pleasure let my wishes feed - "The Whore"
Matured into a sober pleasure - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
A bloody lance of heaven's displeasure - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"
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The periodic pleasure of small happenings - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"
And balm in pleasure found - Alice M. Ardagh "Sic Passim"
Gone the ivory house of pleasure - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
To vivisect the ear's dear pleasure - Mary Jo Bang "She Couldn't Sing At All, At All"
Drinking deep pleasure from old Nature's wells - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Refrain from the unholy pleasure - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: Dedication"
The stricken pleasure of intimacy - Traci Brimhall "Fledgling"
Of glory's wreath and pleasure's flower - Emily Bronte "Plead for Me"
And trust in Pleasure's careless guiding - Emily Bronte "The Wanderer from the Fold"
A pleasure in the pathless woods - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
Disgust of pleasure, scorn of duty - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"
Through halls of vanished pleasure - Willa Cather "Poppies on Ludlow Castle"
Mind the flowers of pleasure - Willa Cather "Poppies on Ludlow Castle"
Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
If pleasure steal from toil one hour - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes"
Sad pleasure in the moon's control - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"
By the casual pleasures of warmth - Camonghne Felix "Tonya Harding's Fur Coats"
For the pleasure of the wind - Robert Frost "My Butterfly"
Lost hours, lost friends, lost pleasures - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Working loom of ceaseless pleasure - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
No spell her pleasure blighted - Oliver Herford "The Fairy Godmother-in-Law I: The Wedding"
Brew us fatal pleasures - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"
Our hopes with pleasure glowing - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Pleasure, with her harps unstrung - George Moses Horton "Memory"
Pleasure in being in complete - Linda Susan Jackson "Improvisation on Them"
Where pleasures alone will be mine - Charles Jefferys "Let Me Rest in the Land of My Birth"
Such pleasure in unraveling - Kimberly Johnson "Ode on My Episiotomy"
Pleasure made into light - Taylor Johnson "W 177th & Broadway"
Pain often, stands by pleasures [sic] side - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"
The dim phantoms of o'er shadowed pleasures - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]
Whose cheek bears pleasure's sleepless flush - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
A pleasure secret and austere - Archibald Lampman "In November"
Seek to borrow pleasure - Archibald Lampman "The Song of Pan"
Echoes of serenest pleasure - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
The pleasures that gold can procure - Henry S. Leigh "Anticipations"
Pleasure and Paraffin, lend us a smile - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"
What kind of pleasure can accrue - Henry S. Leigh "Crooked Answers No. 1--Vere de Vere"
The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"
Laugh, because the pleasure was earned - Sandra Lim "A Walk Round the Park"
Pleasure waits with her siren train - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The ineffable pleasure of deserving - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
Pleasures which can come no more - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
The pale pleasure of the sand - Pablo Neruda "Goodbye to the Snow" transl. by Alastair Reid
Sorrow and pleasure grew on the same tree - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Understand"
Earthly pleasures cease to charm - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen
Easy sales of lasting pleasure - Francis Quarles "The World's Fallacies"
That pleasures are pitfalls prepared to deceive - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
The pleasure of tangled violins - Erika L. Sanchez "Love Story"
All pleasure lost in cursing once - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Following the pleasure of the storm - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #59"
Drained earth's pleasures to the lees - Frederick George Scott "Solomon"
For summer and his pleasures wait - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCVII"
Where pleasures are collected - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
The uncertainty of pleasure - Safiya Sinclair "Sophia the Robot Contemplates Beauty"
The passionate pleasure of motion - Alfonsina Storni "Running Water" (translated by Muna Lee)
The pleasures of ambrosial words - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 46: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
White-hot glorious pain and a brash bronze pleasure - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
In Pleasure's borrowed dress - Melesina Trench "On Being Pressed to Go to a Masqued Ball not Many Months After the Death of My Child"
The pleasure I take in loneliness - Chase Twichell "Inland"
As surely as words are pleasure - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"
In a room shredded with our pleasure - Michael Wasson "So Call it Grace"
On joy and pleasure let my wishes feed - "The Whore"
Matured into a sober pleasure - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
A bloody lance of heaven's displeasure - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"
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