Potential Titles: Destroy

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His slicing of the wind destroyed his vision - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"

I don't know a love that doesn't destroy - Diannely Antigua "Anniversary"

The longing for what can destroy us - Mary Jo Bang "The Earthquake in this Case Was"

Destroyed before the birth of Babylon - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"

Phoenicians destroying Greece for Persia - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"

Where each generation of growth destroys the last - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

When you destroy a blade of grass - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"

Let time and tears destroy - Emily Bronte "A Day Dream"

Despair was powerless to destroy - Emily Bronte "Remembrance"

The dust destroy the diamond - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"

Destroy ourselves for splendor - Tiana Clark "A Blue Note for Father's Day"

The destroyer of temples forgot the igniting formula - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan

Fled from the red destroyer - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"

Some turn of Fortune's wheel destroy his power - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Over age that darkens, and griefs that destroy - John Freeman "The Body"

Each breath patiently destroying me - Louise Gluck "A Work of Fiction"

No change can destroy - Felicia Hemans "To My Younger Brother"

Destroy every system that has ever left us broken - Jordan Jace "I Want"

In an after Rage destroy - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Can never remake the thing I have destroyed - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"

The naked singularity of innocence destroyed - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

Destroyed so many times - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"

The impulse to protect what you know you could destroy - Maya Marshall "Daddy on the Sofa"

To be destroyed for no good end - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Before the stern destroyer all shall bow - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

A miracle destroy the dawn - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"

Who cry like ravens at spacetime destroyed - Ann K. Schwader "Void Flyers"

And destroy your sight with a new Gorgon - Shakespeare "Macbeth"

In dark ignorance have destroyed myself - Su Tung-p'o "Under the Heaven of Our Holy Ruler" transl. by Burton Watson

Constantly destroyed by the closeness of the sacred - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"

Too steady to destroy - Sara Teasdale "The Answer"

In its sacredness destroyed - John Updike "Endpoint"

Which time may not destroy - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell

The object which delights them to destroy - "The Whore"

Dreams that have destroyed us - William Carlos Williams "Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!"

Destroyed by ordinary means - Katie Willingham "Artifact (Disambiguation)"

A ghost, not quite destroyed - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"

Capture what destroys - Katie Willingham "Terrifying Robot Update"

Untouched by the Destroyer's hand, remain - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Destroyed in our dwelling place - "XI: Otro | Another" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton


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