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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-07-04 09:29 pm

Potential Titles: Sever

By Time's all-severing wave - Emily Bronte "Remembrance"


Which none on the earth can dissever - Robert M. Hart "The Birth of Our Banner" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Dissevered by suns no longer - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"


Nearly severed from his star - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

Until the scissors severed us - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"

By cords he cannot sever - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Sea-Side Walk"

Duty's knot shall soon be sever'd - Walter Richard Cassels "Beatrice di Tenda"

A severed braid burned with sage - Meagan Chandler "Cornhusk Doll with Face"

Of the diameter which severs us - Joel Dias-Porter "Three Wrong Notes"

Stirs and thrills anew the severing deep - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "William Denis Browne"

To seed the severed world of object-things - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Finally severing the root - Laurie Ann Guerrero "Blessing"

A tale of severed ties to break the bleeding heart - Eliza Paul Gurney "Heaven and Earth"

In a season of severing and severances - Marwa Helal "the days is numbered"

Nor think life's brittle thread to sever - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Hope On--Hope Ever" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Each fond endearment to sever - John Imlah "Farewell to Scotland"

Slammed, severed, and swindled - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"

Sword that severs the question from us who breathe - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"

Yon severing tide is not fordless or wide - "My Brother and I" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

Which sever hearts from their hopes - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Sadness"

Severing thus the truth from trope - Coventry Patmore "The Angel in the House: Prologue"

Severed the angriest part of me - Khadijah Queen "Synesthesia"

Through the sky like severing swords - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Rays that leap from severed suns - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Before we severed our own wings - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"

Swift to fasten and swift to sever - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

No chance could sever - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"

By all our severed ties - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"


First and deepest severance - Chen Chen "First Light"

In a season of severing and severances - Marwa Helal "the days is numbered"


Softly-severed tangle - Edward Dowden "To Hester"


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