Potential Titles: Sick

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Deadly bacteria hides in the sickly yellow - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"

The valleys sick with heat - William Cullen Bryant "Autumn Woods"

A doubt that makes my heart grow sick - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

The golden ladders of tomorrow's sickly sun - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"

Sick of his gaunt quest - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"

Sick with hope deferred - Ivor Gurney "'Hark, Hark, the Lark'"

The sick hart eats a snake - Barten Holyday "Distiches"

A city catatonic in its sickness - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"

When hope grows sick and courage quails - Don Marquis "Dickens"

Grow sick of heaven's height - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"

Sick Philosophy's last leaves - George Meredith "The Spirit of Shakespeare"

Sickened by the carbon fumes - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XVII" transl. by William O'Daly

My own bouts of pan-pipe sickness - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

Too sick in their love to notice - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"

Sick with struggles against fate - Saadi "Guardians" transl. by E.B. Eastwick

Savored every second sickly sweet - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"

Sickness, scorn, and bitterness to taste - Sherard Vines "Permission"

Sick hobbies of when we must - Felicia Zamora "The Exercise of Forgiving"


Some heartsick caustic titan - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Raising Hell"

Clamping down on each homesick wish - Lisa M. Bradley "The Skin Walker's Wife"

Homesick for thy smile - Louise Imogen Guiney "Ode for a Master Mariner Ashore"

Homesick for harpings of eternity - Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C. "The Dead Musicians"

Wronged her in his homesick almanac - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"

Barges spinning on a mud-sick river - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"


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