Potential Titles: Shame

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No time to shame the night with light - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger

Love unhinged from shame - Julia Alvarez "What Was It That I Wanted?"

The stricken lily puts the rose to shame - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

Put to shame the white rose and the red - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"

Hold our secret shames so close - Sheila Black "The Earth"

The general of shame - Robert Bly "My Father at Eighty-Five"

Jolted by the freight of shame - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"

Without reflection, without mercy, without shame - C.P. Cavafy "Walls" transl. from modern Greek by John Cavafy

Lifting like shame in the open - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"

With anger or with shame repair - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

Shame if ever you make them weep - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Going to Work"

The shame of the bargain - Jim Daniels "The Dark Miracle"

Where thy feast of shame was spread - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"

before shame became my native tongue - Safia Elhillo "Transport"

Through circling ages of shame and sin - "The Game of Fate" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

In the garden of my shame growing roses - Andrea Gibson "Bad at Love"

May say nothing in shame of poets - Ivor Gurney "To the Poet Before Battle"

Choke down snake of shame - Tara Hardy "Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor)"

And weep for Vashti's shame - Frances E.W. Harper "Vashti"

Has outworn the shame of time - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

Was shame in you born before beauty? - Brenda Hillman "1951"

Dwindled down with shame and grief - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

Pilloried to their thrones of shame - Victor Hugo "Feuilles d'Automne" transl. by Roger Casement

Wear our shame like an ocean - Carly Inghram "Of No Specific Light"

Be hid beneath some passing shame - James Johnson "Sugar and Spice"

Like the little gifts shame gives us - Courtney Kampa "Confiteor"

For his tongue that shamed their swords - Rudyard Kipling "Rahere"

Clear a path through jungles of shame - Joseph O. Legaspi "Vows (for a gay wedding)"

Crushed to dust and damned to shame - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

And ghosts dissolved in shame - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

Turning my life to shame and candle - J. Patrick Lewis "the Auntie"

Lay aside my face of shame - Li T'ai-Po "Ch'ang Kan" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Gravitate to ways of shame - George Martin "Marguerite"

To gather shame and gold - Theodore Maynard "The Tramp"

Eyes that shamed the light - John McCrae "The Hope of My Heart"

Because there is no shame in wanting - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"

All veil of shame laid by - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Advancement in public shaming - Matthew Olzmann "My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency"

Less that shame exists - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

Plowed contours of shame and hope - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Owe no one shame - Raquel Salas Rivera "the independence (of puerto rico)"

The shame I win for singing - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Dear Friends"

Slander'd with a bastard shame - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXVII"

Yet untaught by shame and art - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

No shame or scruple might my judgement see - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XII"

A cadre of shame brandishing knives - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Whispered spells and shameful lore - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Shivered in sudden naked shame - Mark Van Doren "To a Great Lady in My Small House"

Before the giant champions of shame - Henry van Dyke "Richard Watson Gilder: In Memoriam"

Folly upon the lees of shame - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell

All void of shame, of decency, and grace - "The Whore"

Built with bricks of shame - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

The shame and the blade - Jenny Xie "Borderless"

Hard tide of shame - Jenny Xie "Zazen"

Covered in shame and lightning - Matthew Zapruder "Schwinn"


Their shamefaced grays and reds - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"

A shame-faced galaxy - James Galvin "My Second Angel"


Shameless and still radiant - H.D. "Fragment Forty-one"

Shameless spillage or sharp portrayal - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"


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