Potential Titles: Relief/Relieve
Jun. 3rd, 2011 03:03 pmGo to the land and find relief - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"
That bowl of greatest bitterness without relief - Natalie Clifford Barney "The Love of Judas"
have shaken the brutal sea for relief - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"
fears no nearer to relief than tears - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
To which time cannot yield relief - Park Benjamin "Audubon's Blindness"
And relief is that vibrant - Brian Blanchfield "Funny Loss of Face"
Relief from the flawed light of love and grief - Louise Bogan "The Alchemist"
A flowing expressionist relief of mythic proportions - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Seek relief from the Eumenides of woe - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Sheaves of wheat in cement relief - Lee Ann Brown "Beauty Supply"
I but seek relief from my consuming grief - H.D. "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]
At the bridge edge seeking relief - DéLana R. A. Dameron "When Mama died, I lost my air"
Not yet desirous of relief - Russell W. Davenport "Poems I"
relief bitterness guilt all combined - Deborah L. Davitt "Unbound" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
All wisdom is afterthought, a sort of helpless relief - Rita Dove "The Spring Cricket Repudiates His Parable of Negritude"
In misery's eloquence relief - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
Denies a tear's relief - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
Relief when the world gave none - Marie Howe "My Dead Friends"
Waken relief from despair - Douglas Hyde "My Grief on the Sea"
How much choreographed relief a kingdom tolerates - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
And strangers could give no relief - Charles Jefferys "Let Me Rest in the Land of My Birth"
How to rupture against relief - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
What a relief to feel the weight fall - Danusha Laméris "Eve, After"
Solace I sought not, nor relief - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]
A portion of its mild relief - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"
Relief maps of regret - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Torrent"
In my eyes you saw no relief - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
Feed us with hopes, yet with-hold us relief - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"
The relief of snowmelt - Carl Phillips "Anyone Who Had a Heart"
For the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"
No relief from the unbearable thin light - David Salisbury "On Mars"
In natural drops her anguish finds relief - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]
Relief at finding something left - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"
Thinking the cooling winds would bring relief - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "An Autumn Reverie"
A timely utterance gave that thought relief - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
Interrupted by relief - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
A fatigue no sleep could relieve - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
Give us no relieving shade - Robert Hayden "Zeus Over Redeye"
Relieved by depth of shade - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"
The red flower, pearl at its heart, that relieves all curses - Anne E.G. Nydam "Jorinde Remembers" [Strange Horizons 29 Sept. 2025]
No living thing relieved the dismal rifts - Richard F. Searight "The Dead World" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
In a time of relieved quality - Edwin Torres "The Necessariest"
No grief goes unrelieved - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"
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That bowl of greatest bitterness without relief - Natalie Clifford Barney "The Love of Judas"
have shaken the brutal sea for relief - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"
fears no nearer to relief than tears - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
To which time cannot yield relief - Park Benjamin "Audubon's Blindness"
And relief is that vibrant - Brian Blanchfield "Funny Loss of Face"
Relief from the flawed light of love and grief - Louise Bogan "The Alchemist"
A flowing expressionist relief of mythic proportions - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Seek relief from the Eumenides of woe - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Sheaves of wheat in cement relief - Lee Ann Brown "Beauty Supply"
I but seek relief from my consuming grief - H.D. "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]
At the bridge edge seeking relief - DéLana R. A. Dameron "When Mama died, I lost my air"
Not yet desirous of relief - Russell W. Davenport "Poems I"
relief bitterness guilt all combined - Deborah L. Davitt "Unbound" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
All wisdom is afterthought, a sort of helpless relief - Rita Dove "The Spring Cricket Repudiates His Parable of Negritude"
In misery's eloquence relief - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
Denies a tear's relief - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
Relief when the world gave none - Marie Howe "My Dead Friends"
Waken relief from despair - Douglas Hyde "My Grief on the Sea"
How much choreographed relief a kingdom tolerates - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
And strangers could give no relief - Charles Jefferys "Let Me Rest in the Land of My Birth"
How to rupture against relief - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
What a relief to feel the weight fall - Danusha Laméris "Eve, After"
Solace I sought not, nor relief - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]
A portion of its mild relief - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"
Relief maps of regret - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Torrent"
In my eyes you saw no relief - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
Feed us with hopes, yet with-hold us relief - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"
The relief of snowmelt - Carl Phillips "Anyone Who Had a Heart"
For the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"
No relief from the unbearable thin light - David Salisbury "On Mars"
In natural drops her anguish finds relief - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]
Relief at finding something left - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"
Thinking the cooling winds would bring relief - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "An Autumn Reverie"
A timely utterance gave that thought relief - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
Interrupted by relief - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
A fatigue no sleep could relieve - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
Give us no relieving shade - Robert Hayden "Zeus Over Redeye"
Relieved by depth of shade - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"
The red flower, pearl at its heart, that relieves all curses - Anne E.G. Nydam "Jorinde Remembers" [Strange Horizons 29 Sept. 2025]
No living thing relieved the dismal rifts - Richard F. Searight "The Dead World" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
In a time of relieved quality - Edwin Torres "The Necessariest"
No grief goes unrelieved - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"
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