Potential Titles: Blight

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His blighted sinews nerved and strung - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

With its blight of glass bulbs - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands"

doubts can frost and worries blight - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"

The pale blight of time and sorrow - Charlotte Bronte "Mementos"

Foul corruption's ice blight - Walter Richard Cassels "Gone"

The blight of dead leaves in the blood - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

Blight of a broken word - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"

Transfigure all blight into bloom - Benjamin Copeland "The Law of Love"

Or blighting iron showers - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"

And blight the asters on the hill - Danske Dandridge "Indian Summer"

Breaking blighted pigeon eggs - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Rosemary"

The light which bites and blights - Edward Dowden "Song and Silence"

Assorted characters of death and blight - Robert Frost "Design"

Homes of blighted reason - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LIV"

Which passion's breath could blight - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

To raise from earth a blighted flower - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"

By madness and treachery blighted - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"

The blight of sunless days - James Weldon Johnson "Beauty That is Never Old"

Memory's bitter blight - James Weldon Johnson "Morning, Noon and Night"

Red Wind of blight and blood - Lionel Johnson "The Red Wind"

That far land where fall no blights - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"

To blight 10,000 Carthages - Aimee Le "Bac Hai & the American Way"

These gods that make perfect and blight - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"

Blackened by strange blight - Edna St Vincent Millay "Recuerdo"

To which no blight is known - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Song Written for a May Day Festival"

Our scarce-fledged hopes and blighted joys - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet VI"

The levin's blighting fire comes - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"

Unplay the summer's blight - Tess Taylor "Mud Season"

Bent like a blighted elm - Paul Zimmer "Suck It Up"


The soul-blight of a nation - Leslie Pickney Hill "So Quietly"


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