Potential Titles: Token
Aug. 6th, 2011 09:41 pmBring and betoken toil and grief - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry IX: Curse" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Here is the token of gold that was broken - William Allingham "The Nobleman's Wedding"
Beholds the angry token of thundering Jove - J.S.B. "Marathon" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
token mainly for regret - Elizabeth Bartlett "this much I know about time"
For other token do not seek - Emily Bronte "My Comforter"
No little token of distraction - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
With every mortal token of our trust - Witter Bynner "Surety"
Shared token of our common deep desire - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"
Doleful tokens to his fame combine - "The Christian Hero's Epitaph" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Mix our wishes in a tokening tear - John Clare "To an April Daisy"
The curlews' call gave token - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Waft no token of grace to this sorrowful realm - Mary B. Dodge "Overdue" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
There is no burning token - Max Eastman "A Hymn to God: In Time of Stress"
No token from her latticed house - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Though of tenderness they bring no token - Walter Herries [found in his papers after his death, attribution uncertain] "Good-Night" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Upon my heart lies his first token - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"
Tokens of brass in your hair - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
All hopes that token immortality - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"
Give back to sorrow's touch a token - Morna "Ianthe"
Search in vain for love's lost tokens - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
The token of this faltering breath - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Moving tokens of becoming's task - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Verb"
Token of profoundest favor - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
With cryptic tokens of the slain - E.J. Pratt "In Retreat"
The toy withheld is the token of all who refrain from play - Adrienne Rich "A Ball Is for Throwing"
Squandered the tokens of their fame - Friedrich Schiller "Man's Dignity"
Came with the tokens of wrath - E. Clementine Stedman "A Winter Scene"
A rainbow tapework as a token of goodbye - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Tokens of history long buried - Natasha Trethewey "Elegy for the Native Guards"
Carry the token of the world - Leah Umansky "I Want to be Stark[like]" [Poetry Jan. 2014]
What token of your lone love - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
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Here is the token of gold that was broken - William Allingham "The Nobleman's Wedding"
Beholds the angry token of thundering Jove - J.S.B. "Marathon" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
token mainly for regret - Elizabeth Bartlett "this much I know about time"
For other token do not seek - Emily Bronte "My Comforter"
No little token of distraction - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
With every mortal token of our trust - Witter Bynner "Surety"
Shared token of our common deep desire - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"
Doleful tokens to his fame combine - "The Christian Hero's Epitaph" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Mix our wishes in a tokening tear - John Clare "To an April Daisy"
The curlews' call gave token - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Waft no token of grace to this sorrowful realm - Mary B. Dodge "Overdue" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
There is no burning token - Max Eastman "A Hymn to God: In Time of Stress"
No token from her latticed house - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Though of tenderness they bring no token - Walter Herries [found in his papers after his death, attribution uncertain] "Good-Night" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Upon my heart lies his first token - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"
Tokens of brass in your hair - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
All hopes that token immortality - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"
Give back to sorrow's touch a token - Morna "Ianthe"
Search in vain for love's lost tokens - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
The token of this faltering breath - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Moving tokens of becoming's task - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Verb"
Token of profoundest favor - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
With cryptic tokens of the slain - E.J. Pratt "In Retreat"
The toy withheld is the token of all who refrain from play - Adrienne Rich "A Ball Is for Throwing"
Squandered the tokens of their fame - Friedrich Schiller "Man's Dignity"
Came with the tokens of wrath - E. Clementine Stedman "A Winter Scene"
A rainbow tapework as a token of goodbye - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Tokens of history long buried - Natasha Trethewey "Elegy for the Native Guards"
Carry the token of the world - Leah Umansky "I Want to be Stark[like]" [Poetry Jan. 2014]
What token of your lone love - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
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