somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Decay

The wet highway of this decayed Rome - Richard Aldington "In the Via Sestina"

Grown weary of dust and decay - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"

Repair the weary soul's decay - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

The lingering light decays - James Beattie "Retirement"

A realization beyond decay - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Scalar"

Calmly wait the hour of his decay - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

From the hopeless decay of thought - Max Bodenheim "Compulsory Tasks"

Youthful joys too soon decay - Anne Bronte "Consolation"

In grandeur of decay - William Cullen Bryant "The Rivulet"

Gracious in decay - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

Decay has dried up realms to deserts - Byron "To the Ocean"

Across worn pavements crumbling to decay - Frank Oliver Call "Through a Long Cloister"

When sad Autumn sheds abroad the stillness of decay - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Without the sorrows of a slow decay - George Crabbe "The Village"

Joys that soon decay - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

Decayed the hope of future years - The Rev. Thomas Dale "A Mother's Grief" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Took no pressure of decay - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"

My worth decay - John Donne "Elegy V: His Picture"

All beneath the moon decays - William Drummond "Ah! Would 'Twere So"

What it means to survive decay - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 6. Mucormycosis"

Can also catalyze our decay - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"

These are the satellites in decaying orbits - Kendall Evans "Now We Must Speak in the Shadows of Silence"

Leaves of the sea's decay - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"

the white powder of internal softness and decay - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"

With the slow smokeless burning of decay - Robert Frost "The Wood-pile"

Always do seek our soul's decay - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"

Whether by rust or decayed memory - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"

Decay cannot unmake me - Ellen Glasgow "The Mountain Pine"

Sunlight, treefall, decaying signals, shade - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"

Lasts beyond decaying dust - Ivor Gurney "Eternal Treasure"

Worlds decay and ages move - Frances Ridley Havergal "God Is Love and God Is Light"

Saw no twilight of decay - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"

Chain'd in the slumbers of decay - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

The exquisite chromatics of decay - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Praeludium"

Whose left hand honours with decay and death - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

A growth to meet decay - Robert Herrick "To Daffodils"

Will fester unto deep decay - S.S. Hornor "The Broken Reed"

Before this fire of sense decay - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIII: The Immortal Part"

When the decayed apples of an orchard amass beneath its trees - Major Jackson "Thinking of Frost"

The inward seeds of quick decay - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

No cold gradations of decay - Samuel Johnson "On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet"

Decaying to more and more intimate spaces - Janet Kauffman "Decaying to More"

Swampy corners of decay united - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

In the mist of dark decay - Henry King "The Dirge"

Marred with imperfection and decay - W.E.L. "A Dirge of Love" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.454, 11 Sept. 1852]

Through the stages of decay - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"

Gnawed by new decay - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory fo the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"

Language of decay written in clockwork - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Though the dreams and the dwellings of childhood decay - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "The Return to Lezayre" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.456, 25 Sept. 1852]

Let your speed decay - Anthony Madrid "Brake Light Out"

Within a world of rank decay - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of a Ferocious Catholic"

The forms of her decay - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"

Hermits to decay devoted - Louis J. McQuilland "In a Library"

Castles gone to decay - Frank J. Medina "Life's Reality"

Who comes in beautiful decay - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

All prophetic of our own decay - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Reluctant to engage with the decay - Robbi Nester "Rot"

The decaying roots of a fallen empire - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

And your pleasures will never decay - Old Humphrey "The Sabbath Breaker Reclaimed; or, a pleasing history of Thomas Brown"

Our earth bent dustward forsworn to decay - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Brought crimson October's beautiful decay - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

With sweets that never know decay - J. Pitman (who died in 1825) "Lines to a Young Lady on Her Birthday" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.743, 23 March 1878]

Majestic in its dark decay - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Bridal of Belmont"

Whose very memory must decay - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Beyond"

Ending in decayed light - Khadijah Queen "Monologue for Personae"

Her four elements are locked in the arms of decay - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Folly, age, and cold decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XI"

So fair a house fall to decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIII"

And fortify your self in your decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"

Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

Of utter ruin and fast decay - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"

Of the sun's half-dreamt decay - Clark Ashton Smith "The Refuge of Beauty"

Loveliness find root within decay - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"

Overgrowne with dust and old decay - Edmund Spenser "The House of Richesse"

Wearing decay like diadems - A.E. Stallings "Tulips"

Moss and grasses cover their decay - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"

But uncherished would decay - E. Sutton "The Bugle"

Though the painting grows decayed - Jonathan Swift "Stella's Birthday. 1720"

Among the crumbling arches of decay - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"

As of a thing too winsome to decay - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

In sad decay are first to fall, and fade away - D.R.W. "Lines to the Memory of Thomas Tyrie, a Young Edinburgh Poet of Great Promise" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.691, 24 March 1877]

Separating strata of decay - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

Tales of glory and decay - Wang Seng-Ta "To Match the Prince of Lang-yeh's Poem in the Old Style" transl. by Burton Watson

Cold with the knowledge of decay - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"

Into the place of decayed flowers - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Three ramparts undecaying - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull

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