Potential Titles: Sin

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Light in the sinning hours - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

That lights the sorrowing sinner back - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IV--The Sunbeam"

Of how the young world took to sin - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [A hundred years ago the church bells spoke]"

A retrospect of sin behind me - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

A solution to the seven deadly sins - Mary Jo Bang "The Numbers"

In narrow streets, or alleys foul with sin - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]

And furnish expiation for the sin - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

That sharp poison which is sin - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited

From every sin the terror lift - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited

Stealthy and slow as a hidden sin - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

Grown familiar with the paths of sin - J. Huntington Bright "The Dying Boy" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

For the sins of mine - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Curse for a Nation"

But only of their sin - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Enough is sinned and suffered - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Firm as my sin - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

O distant, sinful heart - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

Or break the sinful vow - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Words of Rosalind's Scroll"

Felt the burden of sin in Urban Outfitters - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"

whose only sin was dying - Lucille Clifton "morning mirror"

Through the great sinful streets - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

These sinful roots and remnants - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene VI"

Accept a sinner's offering - Benjamin Copeland "Good Friday"

Traveling through this vale of sin and strife - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Delicate flowers of sin - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For Daughters of Magdalen"

the square virtues and the oblong sins - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"

And smack their lips on storied sin - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"

And I am guilty of the same sin - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"

My sins braided into my glory - Tyree Daye "Cornrows"

Power to close sin's bleeding wounds - Delta "The Message of Seth: An Oriental Tradition" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]

Blanched from taint and touch of sin - Delta "A Wild-Flower Garland: The White Rose" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

More a sinner than Dante was - Carl Dennis "Help from the Audience"

Grieving would be sin - Mary Mapes Dodge "Coming"

Amidst the black and rolling smoke of sin - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Illuminating all my sins - Cheryl Dumesnil "Ode to October"

we wash away the empire's sins - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"

The oldest sin of the world - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Who has taken sins and sorrows - John Gould Fletcher "The True Conqueror"

Not having sinned - Gloria Fuertes "Human Geography"

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

Across buried virtues and slain sins - Louis Golding "Fires of Change"

Every horror story has a sin and a monster - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"

Speaking sins words - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)

Our various divinity and sin - F.W. Harvey "The Bugler"

Rushing through slaughter, spoil, and sin - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]

Where Sorrow walks with Sin - James M. Hayes "Old Nuns"

How sin does battle - Terrance Hayes "Liner Notes for an Imaginary Planet"

My sinnes and I joyning together - George Herbert "The Flower"

To pawn his soul the sinner goes - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

The neurons are immune to sin - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"

Death and Sin rose to render key and sword - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXI: Hell's Gate"

Red Republicans settling with sin - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Swimming in the brine of her sins - Mark Irwin "Monster"

Beating on the iron heart of sin - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Irony brooding over sin - Lionel Johnson "The Roman Stage"

Taps your sins on water pipes - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Paying for sins I don't remember - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

So full of sin and folly - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Have found my sin's sharp scourge - Fanny Kemble "To --- [What recks the sun, how weep the heavy flowers]"

A world of sorrow and of sin - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

Who broke the sin that Bonaparte planned - T.M. Kettle "Paddy (After Mr. Kipling)"

Relearning familiar sin - Michael Lauchlan "Interferometry in Hell"

As bitters over dulcet sins - Richard Le Gallienne "The Decadent to His Soul"

Sweet saint of sin - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"

The lamps of sin are flaring - Richard Le Gallienne "Sunset in the City"

To blot the sins of dawn away - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

Ev'ry soft-hearted sinner contributes and cries - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"

Independent both of sin and of "sensation" - Henry S. Leigh "Un Pas Qui Coute"

The sins of all war-lords burn his heart - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"

If law opposes a sin so fair - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Forgotten empires dreamed and sinned - Don Marquis "'They Had No Poet...'"

Sin is the foster-child of Doubt - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"

Pulling the space between sins - J. Michael Martinez "White"

To their unending sins of erosion - Harry Martinson "Aniara 83: The Song of Erosion" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

You pray to your sins - Donna Masini "Anxieties"

Their vision no longer clouded by flesh and sin - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"

Like secret unremembered sins - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

Fashioned out of sin and soap - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of a Ferocious Catholic"

With sins a countless sum - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Dead Favourites"

Is with no sin allied - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"

The winds of sin whispered in my ear - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"

The blasphemous sin of compromise - Walter Dean Myers "Henry Johnson, 39, Mail Carrier"

Our own small sins grown in the dark - Caroline Harper New "Interview with a Cervidologist"

The lush weed of our sin - Shaemas OSheel "Thanksgiving for Our Task"

In a violet twilight of virtues and sins - Barry Pain "Martin Luther at Potsdam"

Devil-gotten sinners - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl’s rhyme"

Ghosts of all my lovely sins - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"

The secret name of subtler sins - Lynn Powell "Slow Elegy from Afar"

Remember your sins in vivid detail - Tim Pratt "Angel Bites"

A tale of sin, of suffering, and sorrow - Rebecca "The Heiress" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Impose upon me a sense of sin - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Rosary of remembered sins - Alice Wellington Rollins "Confession"

Give alms to my best sins - Erika L. Sanchez "A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring"

Sweet atomic absolution of our myriad sins - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"

For this sin there is no remedy - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXII"

Where they pray for the sins of Saturday - James Stephens "Westland Row"

Some garden built by sin - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"

To feed on a hundred sins - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

May fitly be reckoned the wages of sin - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

And Sin that batters the door - Iris Tree "[Pity the slain that laid away their lives]"

Cimmerian depths of mystery and sin - Iris Tree "Streets"

before sin might reek of permanence - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

With folly and sin are fraught - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]

To atone for the sin of being alive - Jackie Wang "Masochism of the Knees"

From the snares of sin - Phillis Wheatley "An Hymn to the Evening"

To sin by silence, when we should protest - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"

Carrying an ordinary sinner - Adam Zagajewski "Sandals"


Sinless in sand - Chase Berggrun "Eccles. 9:7"

Scatheless through the sin-lit dark - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"

To feed unsinning at the iron dish - Lynn Riggs "Song of the Unholy Oracle"


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