Potential Titles: Quench

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Quenched beneath the angry sea - Benjamin West Ball "Inscription"

The red shafts quench their rage - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"

And quench the animating fire - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

That rivers cannot quench - Anne Bradstreet "To My Dear and Loving Husband"

To quench the dead - James Brasfield "Late Summer"

Quench the fire upon my hearth of trust - Evelyn Gage Browne "The Open Door"

Quench the thirst of the longing heart - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

Quenched the firefly's glimmering spark - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

habitually quenching itself on my sleep - May Chong "Bunian Laundry"

Whose sweat and salt quenched our roots - May Chong "Kamcia"

I'll quench my thirst with dead water - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Quench with fire the living coal - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets IV"

Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]

To quench my anger's thirst - Tarfia Faizullah "Diary"

Sank quenched and desolate - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: IX. The Newest Believer"

Stars quenched in anger and hate - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

Quench your thirst with stinging brine - Dana Gioia "Seaward"

Quenched in dark clouds of slumber - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

And quench the sting of every fear - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"

Quenching all my faith - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

The haunted silence quenched - H.J. Hope "The Patrol"

The quenching of the fading day - A.E. Housman "To My Dear Friend, M. J. Jackson, A Disparager of This Treatise" (translated by A.M. Juster)

Quenched the fires lit by their breath - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

In our souls the quenchless fire - Edward Smyth Jones "The Sylvan Cabin"

Quenched by the conquering light - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fourth: Rati's Lament" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Quenching the square in vibrant harmony - Amy Lowell "Market Day"

As if the mind were quenchable - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Which once had quenched my bitter thirst - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"

Eternity will quench your thirst - Edgar Lee Masters "Mirage of the Desert"

A star, though quenched - James E. McGirt "Victoria the Queen"

And quench thy salty thirst anew - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Never quenched a living song - Walter S. Percy "The Good Samaritan"

Quenched by simple things - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Summer Thought"

Quenched only if swallowed - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"

And quench her light in the dark stream of death - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Till the new day quenches the lamps - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

the river for me never quenched - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"

Quench ten thousand Stygian thirsts - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Oasis"

Or quench their starry thirst - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"

And not a tear will quench that fire - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"

With torch inverted and quenched - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist


A prey to quenchless flame - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"

A quenchless laughter ringing- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"

Unknowing of the bright and quenchless fire - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

O quenchless, indispensable fire - Walt Whitman "Still Though the One I Sing"


Unquenchable/Unquenched.


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