Potential Titles: Excess

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Undressed of any excess - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"

Dyes with an Excess of Joy - Aphra Behn "In Imitation of Horace"

Because of past excess - Alba Cid "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or the Sacrifice of the Pfeilstorchen" (translated by Jacob Rogers)

Too deep in joy's excess - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VIII. In July"

Through mere excess of nothingness - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"

Bring excess of myrrh and aloe - Michael Field "Blessed Are the Beggars Matt. v. 3"

Drown our wills in its excess - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"

Would offer you excess - Hailey Leithauser "Scythe"

Arts which taught the soul excess of bliss - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

The guarded heart against excess of rain - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"

Resented the sun's excess - Jamaal May "Per Fumum: Through Smoke"

Deep excess of liquor sweet - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

With utensils bitter to excess - Pablo Neruda "There Is No Oblivion (Sonata)" translated by Donald D. Walsh

How close abundance is to excess - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"

My dominion in want of excess - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"

Fills my veins with rivers of excess - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

Inheritors of this excess - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 146"

One last starry daffodil excess - Tobias Wray "The Last Orgasm"


Becoming excessively noon - Richard Greenfield "Hither Come Hither"


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