Potential Titles: Waste
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somethingdarkerBetter than the waste of time's devices - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Another of God's secrets wasted on me - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog"
From the waste of dark oblivion - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Who wastes the produce of an hundred fields - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Sable from the wasting flame - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
The long descent of wasted days - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"
Awakes the wasting artfulness of elms - Paul Bernstein "The Withering Elms and I"
And early stars wasting away - Richard Blanco "Papa's Bridge"
To waste the life against a stubborn will - Arna Bontemps "The Day-Breakers"
The wasted alternatives of life are unveiled - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Weary of wasting strife - Teresa Brayton "A Christmas Song"
Feed the moths and wasting dews - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"
A moth fluttering in a waste of eternity - Gerald Bullett "Alone with these my poems..."
Against the coming of the wasteful flood - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Wasted on the unknowable sky - Jennifer Chang "Lost Child"
Wasted blood can never set you free - Ralph Chaplin "The Red Feast"
With his foot on a waste of cities - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
With sharpened pain and wasting sobs - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Have wasted my blood in aimless love - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"
Connoisseurs of the worm's catacomb of waste - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
His burning glance withered by wasting life - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Still waste in helpless flame and barren smoke - William Cory "Asterope"
Through shoelace and nuclear waste - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"
Nightingales wasted their passion on my sleep - William H. Davies "Wasted Hours"
A clock's chime in the long waste of night - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"
The world redeem such waste as this - Geoffrey Dearmer "Resurrection"
O'er the billowy waste of dim oblivion's flood - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
A waste garden, flowering at its will - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
This waste of vain desire - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
In the heart's blind waste - Edward Dowden "Life's Gain"
Fiercely pouring fire on wasted fields - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "I Sit and Sew" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Must not waste her breath to sing - Camille T. Dungy "Ars Poetica: After the Dam"
Making the wild waste blossom - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Paint me a cavernous waste shore - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"
Span the wasted minutes to eternity - Donald Evans "In the Vices"
In wells of wanton waste - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"
Has sown the wastes through countless years - Beulah Field "The Law"
The waste where all life's hopes have perished - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Over moorland waste and crag - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
All that book-learning a waste now - Sarah Getty "Presbyopia"
All the wondrous waste of artifice - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Modern Skeleton"
Waste its sweetness on the desert air - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
We wasted thoughts of love - Ivor Gurney "To an Unknown Lady"
Across the waste of years I see - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]
Searches the solitary wastes of space - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Duality"
Wasting in sparks as it streamed - Thomas Hardy "The Second Night"
Not designed to waste the noon - Thomas Hardy "To a Lady Playing and Singing in the Morning"
To waste the soul on blood-red lips - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XI"
And mocks the waste of years - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
A heart's low moaning over wasted days - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Disappointment"
From desert wastes of greed - Leslie Pinckney Hill "A Far Country"
Hot winds from the waste of despair - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The fury at the wasted years - Laura Jensen "Heavy Snowfall in a Year Gone Past"
That suffered not a moment's waste in sorrow - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Laying waste a field of daisies - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"
As Wind along the Waste - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
One Moment in Annihilation's Waste - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
The wasted fabric of an old delight - C.H.B. Kitchin "Epilogue"
Wasteful action is corruption of the purest talents - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"
And pleads across the waste to thee - Sidney Lanier "Special Pleading" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
Tales of the waste and the wild - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VI: Is It Love? Is It Hate?"
Wastes of roving darkness - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Lords of the desolate wastes of sadness - D.H. Lawrence "The Wild Common"
To waste grief on ancient tragedies - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"
Nations wasted to ashes - Muna Lee "Vendor of Green Coconuts"
But consider the time irretrievably wasted - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"
With reverie's wasteful pittance - James Russell Lowell "To C. F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe"
Watchers of the civilized wastes - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"
On the hills and wastes of Night - Fiona MacLeod "The Rune of Age"
Eventually all words waste magic - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Across the waste of mortal things - Edwin Markham "The Poets"
Some waste of gold in autumn - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
Clamor warring wastes of flood - Don Marquis "A Nightmare"
Of all my wasted yesterdays - Don Marquis "This Is Another Day"
A gleam of heaven wasted - George Martin "Celestine"
Wastes only idle breath - George Martin "The Lover's Dream"
In wastes that held no rescue for their astronauts - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
In a thousand miles of ugly scrubby waste and desolation - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Have wasted too many clocks - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
The reed of the old moaning waste - George Meredith "A Later Alexandrian"
The roses in a waste of weeds - William Mountain "Dies Irae"
The splendid spoils of wasted years - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
In those weird wastes of Dixie - Effie Lee Newsome "Exodus"
Through the wastes wild and barren - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
Flooding the waste of this dishonored Star - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Like a wish wasted - Carl Phillips "Ghost Choir"
Made solitude appear amid the waste - Philo "The Tribute"
Before the wanderers on the wastes of time - "The Poetical Character" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Of elegant speeches sadly wasted - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Teufel-Haus"
Seconds wasted count as wanting - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"
A haze of waste whose brightness rivals heaven - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
The oil drip of wasted want - heidi andrea restrepo rhodes "Flying down the Five"
As if accounting nature's waste - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Many reasons not to waste a rainy evening - Adrienne Rich "This Evening Let's"
Happy with the waste of the world - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"
The waste light of stars - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
The shrunk grape clinging to the wasted stem - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"
Like a rill of wasted wine - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"
Wider than wasted tyrannies - Raquel Salas Rivera "the independence (of puerto rico)"
With his gold and wasted lands - John Jerome Rooney "The Empire Builder"
Devoutly mended her wasted taper - George Santayana "Cathedrals by the Sea"
The Sun hangs in the black wastes below - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
With blessings scattered with throughout the waste - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Waste not thy lamps - "Sean Dana"
Among the wastes of time must go - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XII"
In the chronicle of wasted time - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"
Wasting to rubble and lime - Gilbert Sheldon "St. Anthony's Township"
A wide and melancholy waste - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Sad dreams of wasted summer days - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"
With all your wasting passions' war - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
Exhibit Power contending still with Waste - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
Fate, that threw its waste of seas between us - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
My cells are exploding into a wasting lament - Sandra Simonds "It's Going to Hurt" [Poetry May 2017]
Wandering along a waste where once a city stood - Richard Henry Stoddard "The End of All" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
Much time is wasted now away - "Stool-Ball"
Whose wasted warmth but nurtures pain - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
Didn't waste a single crumb of joy - Kristen Tracy "Waiting for Crocuses"
Encamped on Night's waste plain - William Watson "Night on Curbar Edge, Derbyshire"
Kept my vigil in the waste till dawn began - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Clothe the waste with dreams of grain - John Greenleaf Whittier "Barclay of Ury"
Chaos mounted on the wasting flame - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers - William Wordsworth "The World Is Too Much With Us"
Walking the toppled waste - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
What spread the waste in circles, hour by hour - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]
Wasteland.
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Another of God's secrets wasted on me - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog"
From the waste of dark oblivion - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Who wastes the produce of an hundred fields - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Sable from the wasting flame - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
The long descent of wasted days - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"
Awakes the wasting artfulness of elms - Paul Bernstein "The Withering Elms and I"
And early stars wasting away - Richard Blanco "Papa's Bridge"
To waste the life against a stubborn will - Arna Bontemps "The Day-Breakers"
The wasted alternatives of life are unveiled - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Weary of wasting strife - Teresa Brayton "A Christmas Song"
Feed the moths and wasting dews - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"
A moth fluttering in a waste of eternity - Gerald Bullett "Alone with these my poems..."
Against the coming of the wasteful flood - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Wasted on the unknowable sky - Jennifer Chang "Lost Child"
Wasted blood can never set you free - Ralph Chaplin "The Red Feast"
With his foot on a waste of cities - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
With sharpened pain and wasting sobs - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Have wasted my blood in aimless love - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"
Connoisseurs of the worm's catacomb of waste - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
His burning glance withered by wasting life - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Still waste in helpless flame and barren smoke - William Cory "Asterope"
Through shoelace and nuclear waste - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"
Nightingales wasted their passion on my sleep - William H. Davies "Wasted Hours"
A clock's chime in the long waste of night - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"
The world redeem such waste as this - Geoffrey Dearmer "Resurrection"
O'er the billowy waste of dim oblivion's flood - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
A waste garden, flowering at its will - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
This waste of vain desire - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
In the heart's blind waste - Edward Dowden "Life's Gain"
Fiercely pouring fire on wasted fields - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "I Sit and Sew" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Must not waste her breath to sing - Camille T. Dungy "Ars Poetica: After the Dam"
Making the wild waste blossom - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Paint me a cavernous waste shore - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"
Span the wasted minutes to eternity - Donald Evans "In the Vices"
In wells of wanton waste - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"
Has sown the wastes through countless years - Beulah Field "The Law"
The waste where all life's hopes have perished - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Over moorland waste and crag - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
All that book-learning a waste now - Sarah Getty "Presbyopia"
All the wondrous waste of artifice - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Modern Skeleton"
Waste its sweetness on the desert air - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
We wasted thoughts of love - Ivor Gurney "To an Unknown Lady"
Across the waste of years I see - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]
Searches the solitary wastes of space - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Duality"
Wasting in sparks as it streamed - Thomas Hardy "The Second Night"
Not designed to waste the noon - Thomas Hardy "To a Lady Playing and Singing in the Morning"
To waste the soul on blood-red lips - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XI"
And mocks the waste of years - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
A heart's low moaning over wasted days - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Disappointment"
From desert wastes of greed - Leslie Pinckney Hill "A Far Country"
Hot winds from the waste of despair - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The fury at the wasted years - Laura Jensen "Heavy Snowfall in a Year Gone Past"
That suffered not a moment's waste in sorrow - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Laying waste a field of daisies - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"
As Wind along the Waste - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
One Moment in Annihilation's Waste - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
The wasted fabric of an old delight - C.H.B. Kitchin "Epilogue"
Wasteful action is corruption of the purest talents - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"
And pleads across the waste to thee - Sidney Lanier "Special Pleading" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
Tales of the waste and the wild - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VI: Is It Love? Is It Hate?"
Wastes of roving darkness - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Lords of the desolate wastes of sadness - D.H. Lawrence "The Wild Common"
To waste grief on ancient tragedies - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"
Nations wasted to ashes - Muna Lee "Vendor of Green Coconuts"
But consider the time irretrievably wasted - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"
With reverie's wasteful pittance - James Russell Lowell "To C. F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe"
Watchers of the civilized wastes - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"
On the hills and wastes of Night - Fiona MacLeod "The Rune of Age"
Eventually all words waste magic - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Across the waste of mortal things - Edwin Markham "The Poets"
Some waste of gold in autumn - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
Clamor warring wastes of flood - Don Marquis "A Nightmare"
Of all my wasted yesterdays - Don Marquis "This Is Another Day"
A gleam of heaven wasted - George Martin "Celestine"
Wastes only idle breath - George Martin "The Lover's Dream"
In wastes that held no rescue for their astronauts - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
In a thousand miles of ugly scrubby waste and desolation - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Have wasted too many clocks - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
The reed of the old moaning waste - George Meredith "A Later Alexandrian"
The roses in a waste of weeds - William Mountain "Dies Irae"
The splendid spoils of wasted years - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
In those weird wastes of Dixie - Effie Lee Newsome "Exodus"
Through the wastes wild and barren - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
Flooding the waste of this dishonored Star - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Like a wish wasted - Carl Phillips "Ghost Choir"
Made solitude appear amid the waste - Philo "The Tribute"
Before the wanderers on the wastes of time - "The Poetical Character" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Of elegant speeches sadly wasted - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Teufel-Haus"
Seconds wasted count as wanting - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"
A haze of waste whose brightness rivals heaven - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
The oil drip of wasted want - heidi andrea restrepo rhodes "Flying down the Five"
As if accounting nature's waste - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Many reasons not to waste a rainy evening - Adrienne Rich "This Evening Let's"
Happy with the waste of the world - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"
The waste light of stars - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
The shrunk grape clinging to the wasted stem - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"
Like a rill of wasted wine - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"
Wider than wasted tyrannies - Raquel Salas Rivera "the independence (of puerto rico)"
With his gold and wasted lands - John Jerome Rooney "The Empire Builder"
Devoutly mended her wasted taper - George Santayana "Cathedrals by the Sea"
The Sun hangs in the black wastes below - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
With blessings scattered with throughout the waste - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Waste not thy lamps - "Sean Dana"
Among the wastes of time must go - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XII"
In the chronicle of wasted time - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"
Wasting to rubble and lime - Gilbert Sheldon "St. Anthony's Township"
A wide and melancholy waste - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Sad dreams of wasted summer days - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"
With all your wasting passions' war - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
Exhibit Power contending still with Waste - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
Fate, that threw its waste of seas between us - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
My cells are exploding into a wasting lament - Sandra Simonds "It's Going to Hurt" [Poetry May 2017]
Wandering along a waste where once a city stood - Richard Henry Stoddard "The End of All" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
Much time is wasted now away - "Stool-Ball"
Whose wasted warmth but nurtures pain - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
Didn't waste a single crumb of joy - Kristen Tracy "Waiting for Crocuses"
Encamped on Night's waste plain - William Watson "Night on Curbar Edge, Derbyshire"
Kept my vigil in the waste till dawn began - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Clothe the waste with dreams of grain - John Greenleaf Whittier "Barclay of Ury"
Chaos mounted on the wasting flame - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers - William Wordsworth "The World Is Too Much With Us"
Walking the toppled waste - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
What spread the waste in circles, hour by hour - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]
Wasteland.
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