Potential Titles: Forsake

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To forsake this absent god tired in the pale grass - William Archila "Childhood"

Forsake philosopher and sage - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

Solemnly and steadily forsaking us - Elizabeth Bishop "The Armadillo"

The plotters of treason their standard forsake - "Blue Jackets, Fall In!" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

The treacherous forsaking of other hearts - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

All the hours forsaken of her face - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"

All the green woods forsaking - P.J. Carroll, C.S.C. "Lady Day in Ireland"

Forsake the sunset for my tower - Willa Cather "Paradox"

Forsake me like a memory lost - John Clare "I Am!"

And think them less forsaken - Adelaide Crapsey "The Mourner"

The sea's forsaken bride - John Davidson "A Cinque Port"

On the ribs of some forsaken coast - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"

As the bee forsakes the lily - Robert Graves "The Dying Knight and the Fauns"

The bloodied, the self-righteous, and the forsaken - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"

Each fair forsaken hall - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Forsake the verdant prison of her lily peers - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Forsaking nearly everything but God and science - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"

My song forsakes me like the birds - Frances Ledwidge "In September"

Over the harvest fields forsaken - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Snowflakes"

The fairy bloom forsakes the peach - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of One-and-Twenty"

Forsaken by great winds - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"

All my stars forsake me - Alice Meynell "Song of Night at Daybreak"

The forsaken outback of the world - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

Forsake me at the lip of the mirror - Sina Queyras "Mummy"

And sometimes speak of Friends forsaken - Mrs. Mary Robinson "The Alien Boy"

Of sleep beyond forsaking - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"

What star of Time forsakes her - George Sterling "Autumn"

Fall to forsaken embers - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

Give us our unrequited, forsaken nights - Charles Wright "Detour"

In no act forsaking one another - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

Have forsaken the splendour of the stars - Francis Brett Young "Envoi"

The cry of the forsaken bones - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


By dark, godforsaken inches - Mary Oliver "Rain, Tree, Thunder and Lightning"

Rain-surcharged and sun-forsaken - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

Vessels, wind-forsaken, on the waveless waters lie - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]


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