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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-07-05 02:57 am

Potential Titles: Shock

Amid the shock of rudest storms - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"

Bits of shock and light - Marianne Boruch "There Ought to Be a Law Against Henry"

The shock and the jostle, the mock and the push - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Vagabondia"

Two hosts shocked with dust and din - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"

The shock of fortune's frown - John Clare "Effusion"

And autumn's crowded shocks - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

No tempest gave the shock - W. Cowper "Loss of the Royal George"

Shocked by their own power - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

The heart shocked awake - Cheryl Dumesnil "It's not the Holy Spirit"

In this wild dream-like snare of mortal shocks - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

All the shocks and trials of time - Ivor Gurney "To Certain Comrades"

Through the shock of cold and glare - Marilyn Hacker "Nearly a Valediction"

Battling the waves' recurrent shock - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Hills of Doon"

The shock of Peril's darkest wave - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Learning how to stand a shock - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

Tremble at the heavy thunder-shocks - Richard Hughes "Storm: to the Theme of Polyphemus"

Pointing at this shock of stillness - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

To join in the shock of the coming fray - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

The shore was shocked with jellyfish - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"

From the shocking laughter - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

To brave the ocean's battling shock - Morna "Ianthe"

The running blue shock of her - Hoa Nguyen "We Run on Trash Grass"

Shocking radiance of green - Naomi Shihab Nye "Wales"

Twined up in loose fog, time-shocked - Khadijah Queen "Dementia Is One Way to Say Fatal Brain Failure"

Has known a thousand years of shock - Theodore H. Rand "The Tireless Sea"

Shock of leviathans prone - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

A second shock boiling its stone to your heart - Anne Sexton "All My Pretty Ones"

The hollow reverberating with shock - Joyce Sidman "When Death Comes"

No such shock knit within terror - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

Hurling back the tumult of their shock - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

A thousand shocks of ice - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Shocks of ice and seething horrors - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Cleft in each century's shock - Alfred B. Street "The Devil's Pulpit: Tupper's Lake"

Shocked by Jove's dread thunder - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"

A crumpled shock of joy - Jane Wong "The Waiting"


The policeman's voice an aftershock - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Toy Gun"

His dreams slouched into an aftershock - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"


Shellshocked at needing anyone - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"


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