Potential Titles: False

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The time to question false wisdom - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

False tongues three have whisper'd evil - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry X: Salutation of the Morning Star" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Made up of false promises - Rae Armantrout "Djinn"

Slaves to our own false truths - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

A false wall that holds nothing back - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"

Fireflies mocking the false alchemy of ever and elsewhere - Mary Jo Bang "What Was Seen"

never say the dreams were false - Elizabeth Bartlett "odyssey"

Count patient years in false Earth days - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"

And cheat me with your false delight - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"

False grief in my happy bed - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"

No false image in the sand - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

Stands of trees bearing false oranges - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

As desperate and false as prayer - William Brewer "There Is a Gold Light"

The hum of a false heaven - William Brewer "West Virginia"

The false borders of the universe - Sue Budin "Life on Mars"

Each falser than stars - Jennifer Chang "Sonogram"

Clouds of the false world's raising - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"

With false weapons of Philosophy - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Giving a false alarm in jest - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"

And dream that false is true - Countee Cullen "Wisdom Cometh with the Years"

In a frenzy of false confessions - Krystyna Dąbrowska "Confession" transl. by Karen Kovacik

Its own venom and many false antidotes - Jim Daniels "Boxing Toward the Promised Land"

Which Flora with false smile has clad - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Against incantations of false prophets - "The Deer's Cry" transl. by Kuno Meyer

False flutes sigh before the gates of sleep - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

And candle false hope - Cornelius Eady "Revenge (Running Man)"

The words you link false inference with - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

Wither away beneath the false one's power - Eliza "The Broken Heart" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Frostbitten false fire - Andrew Feld "Best and Only"

leading only to false rooms beyond - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

The falsest of fair tales - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

False flatterer of the prosperous hour - Thomas Gent "The Heliotrope"

False tears that tangle in your lashes - Mona Gould "Rain"

Let not a false fate bind - Grenville Grey "Write Thou Upon Life's Page"

Through a season of false midnights - Joy Harjo "Grace"

A season of false midnights - Joy Harjo "Grace"

False dawn of vision - Robert Hayden "El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz"

Mephisto never yet was caught beneath false colors - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

False the light ambition burns - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Be taken with false baits - Ben Jonson "To Himself"

All those false steps around the fire - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

A white moon opening countless false mouths of laughter - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

Where the false terrain begins - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Panorama"

Caught at false shadows - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes I: The Awaited Leader"

and all my claims of innocence are false - Joseph Lease "Falling"

The false light sterile upon our eyelids - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

Spendthrift Love's false friends - James Russell Lowell "Scherzo"

False phantoms of a fading dream - Francis J. Lys "Life's Voyage"

False gods of gold and steel - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"

False ends as false began - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

To a false sun unfurled - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

Cannot make the false the true - Joaquin Miller "To Oom Paul Kruger"

Dally with false surmise - John Milton "Lycidas"

In the fury of the false night - N. Scott Momaday "Torrent"

A pillow of false proverbs - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

And false the fairest fair may be - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

Should fortune frown and false friends flee - John Napier "Who Knows?"

False existential sorcerers - Pablo Neruda "The Celestial Poets [Canto General]" transl. by Martin Espada

Full false has played - E. Nesbit "La Derniere Robe de Soi"

Labor on a false design - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"

Late night calls and false promises - Stephen Oliver "An Actual Encounter With The Sun On My Balcony At France Street"

A labyrinth of dead ends and false openings - Carl Phillips "Wherefore Less Lonely"

Broken against false knowledge - Ezra Pound "The Rest"

the golden caskets of days coming up false - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"

False and florid and far drawn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"

Tread false ways instead - Alice Wellington Rollins "With a Crystal Lion"

The false deeps of all the soul are sand - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

The false heart's history - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIII"

Never say that I was false - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CIX"

With Art's false borrowed face - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXVII"

Sland'ring creation with a false esteem - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXVII"

Unlearned in the world's false subtleties - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVIII"

With false shades to conceal the emptiness - Edward Shanks "The Return"

Would call him with false names - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

The dread requital of the falsely great - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"

a series of false starts - Donna Spruijt-Metz "Hoof"

In the false engagements of the mind - Wallace Stevens "Esthetique du Mal"

When summer leaves grow false - A.C. Swinburne "John Jones"

With false and feeble pity - Sara Teasdale "The Answer"

Each word of mine to false convert - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: I"

The multiplicity of false geometry - Enrique Villasis "Birds in Flight, 1965"

False the charge and false the mind - Charles William Wallace "False Womankind!"

A false love and a dismantled heart - Helen Hay Whitney "False"

Your false eyes closed forever - Helen Hay Whitney "The Forgiveness"

A false prophet robed in attitude and labels - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"

Those yielding wicks of false metaphors - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Trapped between winds and false bluster - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 5" transl. by Katherine Silver


May well outweigh all false-born things - "Vates" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]


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