somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Doom

Falling through the generous doom of your mind - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

What hour may bring the doom - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

Until the doom door opens - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands"

Waving forests swept by wings of doom - Maurice Baring "Wagner"

As yet no prescience of their doom - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"

Here until the crack of doom - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"

In the doom of green - Maxwell Bodenheim "Cry, Naked and Personal"

Was such sensation Jonah's doom - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert II: The Parlour"

Foretold a dreadful doom for Pilate - Charlotte Bronte "Pilate's Wife's Dream"

The same substance that dooms the water to be - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"

Dismal spirits doomed to wander - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Winter"

That o'er our doom sheds undivided radiance - Edward Carpenter "Death"

Over the thrones of doom and blood - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"

A word that replaces beauty with doom - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"

Creatures doomed to echo still - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"

The fevered radiance fades from life's doomed tree - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

to be immortal is our doom - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

Went to meet your mystic doom - Olive Custance "Hylas"

A conquest doomed to perish - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz [Untitled] transl. by Samuel Beckett

Brooding on the doom I bear - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In this sad world have pity, my lady dear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

The doom's electric moccason - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXVI: The Storm"

Fair sword of doom - Edward Dowden "Salome"

Seven long ages doomed to dwell - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Our yellowed labels all spell doom - Boris Dralyuk "Emigre Library"

Like the hours of doom - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"

Why extinction is our doom - an anonymous Cherokee "[Faster and fiercer rolls the tide]" published in the Cherokee Advocate in 1871 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

And the sword was a broker of doom - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"

Stretched away unto the edge of doom - Robert Frost "Into My Own"

The looms of Destinies spinning antique dooms - Louis Golding "Down Tottenham Court Road"

Transparently in love with doom - Linda Gregerson "Spring Snow"

Years of doom and dagger - Kimberly Grey "Heroic Sentences"

And gives my doomed hands a soft task - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

Doomed long to part - Thomas Hardy "The Old Gown"

Flame and the noise of doom - F.W. Harvey "The Stranger"

Or pyramid record their doom - Felicia Hemans "The Crusaders' War-Song"

Art survived an empire's doom - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"

Shared a prouder doom - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

Calling his dooms to the Winds - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"

Doomed to tread the sands alone - E. Curtiss Hine "Christine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Rolling dissonances doomed to clash - Bill Holm "Wedding Poem For Schele and Phil"

To expend in sighs for this hard doom - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Contrasted with that darker doom - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

And tread them to their doom - Percy Adams Hutchison "The Swordless Christ"

Careless of the distant doom - James Weldon Johnson "If I Were Paris"

Bare to the stars of doom - Lionel Johnson "By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross"

With majesties of doom - Lionel Johnson "The Classics"

Doomed beneath the yoke to bow - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Doomed to till full sore - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Thou poisonous laurel leaf, that in the soil]"

Shall the earth to cinders doom - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Carve each day a slice of doom - Michael Lauchlan "Letter to a Dead Friend"

In the doomed faces of strangers - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"

A fixed doom that mocks our poor resistance - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things II: Song" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Dig my yearning into doom - Naomi Long Madgett "If Not in Summer"

All his triumphs gone down in doom - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"

Doom must thunder through the deep - John Milton "Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"

Bear dim relations to our common doom - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Like a doomed moon in a fool's song - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

Will realize that I foretell their doom - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

Failing History and being doomed to repeat it - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"

A dream in a sea of doom - Shaemas OSheel "He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed"

Like secret tidal pools doomed by salt - Linda Pastan "The Grandfathers"

Must endure His doom - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Thunderheads like doomed zeppelins - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"

Bear the symbol of his doom - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"

Spins dooms and weirds and meltings - Edgell Rickword "Winter Prophecies"

His exile doom to flee - John Rollin Ridge "The Harp of Broken Strings"

Whom first Cincinnatus did doom - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

If the doom of pitiless destiny - Alice Wellington Rollins "Miracle"

Stung with immortal wrath and doomed to weep - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

The weird weaver of doom - D.L. Sayers "Sympathy"

The doom of worlds in those dark sails - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited

Roll over the city of doom - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"

Even to the edge of doom - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"

Without its portal doomed to roam - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Impended for a breath on wings of doom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Last Night"

Livid as the stealthy hands of doom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Medusa of the Skies"

Hieroglyphics of abhorrent doom - Clark Ashton Smith "Shadow of Nightmare"

Thy doom upon the poisoned wind - George Sterling "The Day of Decision (CE)"

Before his doom-bewildered eyes - George Sterling "Duandon"

To pluck that flower of doom - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"

Wander on the sands of doom - George Sterling "The Muse of the Incommunicable"

Bells that toll of death and doom - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

The spectral march of some approaching Doom - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Light and its beautiful doom - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"

Carry his doom to sleep - Natasha Trethewey "Mythmaker"

The doomed trilobites neglect to make out their wills - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"

The doomed shrub fanned against the rockface - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"

Fen-fire that conducts her to her doom - William Watson "Ireland (December 1, 1890)"

That throws across the pathway of my doom a rose - Edith Wharton "The Last Token. A.D. 107. (She Speaks)"

Reach to the verge of doom - John Hall Wheelock "Legend"

A timeless avatar of never-ending dooms - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Doomsday.

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels - J.C. Squire "Sonnet [There was an Indian]"

From Troy's doom-crimson shore - James Elroy Flecker "The Old Ships"

Beats out the breath from doom-gripped body - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Doomward the broken gamesters' ranks - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of One-and-Twenty"

A thing foredoomed to limits - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

Of thrones foredoomed to fall - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"

The knight foredoomed of grace - Edward Dowden "The Trespasser"

We fools self-doomed to motley - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

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