Potential Titles: Shrink
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somethingdarkerFallen leaves that curled and shrank - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"
Shown the truth I shrank from telling - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
And goblins all to the damp dungeon shrink - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Presses down my shrinking heart - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
That shrink from garish noon - C.S. Calverley "Evening"
That in the act of seizing shrinks - John Clare "What Is Life?"
Why do I shrink to own the bitter truth? - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
For beauty shrinking in these alien days - Nora May French "Ave Atque Vale"
That all tomorrows have no wound in store for shrinking joy - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"
the days shrink and fold away - Didi Jackson "Fall"
Shrinks at the thought of day - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
We shrink eventual to the ultimate bone - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
Shrink away, plane by plane, brick by brick - Robin Coste Lewis "The Ark: Self-Portrait as Aphrodite Using Her Dress for a Sail, ii"
A shrinking dread of an unearthly morrow - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things II: Song" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Shrinking from the spear of light - Thomas MacDonagh "Inscription on a Ruin"
Shrinking back from the walls of the brain - Naomi Shihab Nye "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change"
Coward shrinking from the brave - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"
The shrinking waters of the mortal sea - Marie Ponsot "Imagining Starry"
From which we shrink recoiling - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)
Along the shrinking sands will crawl - Alice Wellington Rollins "Andromeda"
My finite heart shrinks from the infinite - Alan Sullivan "Confession, Creed, and Prayer"
Silence shrinks deeper in - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"
Astonished at their shrunken estate - Max Bodenheim "Baby"
Those with shrunken hearts still trying to love - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
Our vast psychic habitat shrunk - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"
And the sun shrunken yellow in smoke - Robert Frost "The Gum-Gatherer"
Fill full with sap and buds this shrunken life - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
No bitterer than the shrunk grape - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"
The shrunk grape clinging to the wasted stem - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"
Violated tombs of shrunken kings - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Beauty"
Shrunk in the shade of the cypress - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Heliotrope"
Look at Grief unshrinking from her tear-blind eyes - Sara Teasdale "Lessons"
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Shown the truth I shrank from telling - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
And goblins all to the damp dungeon shrink - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Presses down my shrinking heart - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
That shrink from garish noon - C.S. Calverley "Evening"
That in the act of seizing shrinks - John Clare "What Is Life?"
Why do I shrink to own the bitter truth? - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
For beauty shrinking in these alien days - Nora May French "Ave Atque Vale"
That all tomorrows have no wound in store for shrinking joy - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"
the days shrink and fold away - Didi Jackson "Fall"
Shrinks at the thought of day - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
We shrink eventual to the ultimate bone - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
Shrink away, plane by plane, brick by brick - Robin Coste Lewis "The Ark: Self-Portrait as Aphrodite Using Her Dress for a Sail, ii"
A shrinking dread of an unearthly morrow - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things II: Song" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Shrinking from the spear of light - Thomas MacDonagh "Inscription on a Ruin"
Shrinking back from the walls of the brain - Naomi Shihab Nye "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change"
Coward shrinking from the brave - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"
The shrinking waters of the mortal sea - Marie Ponsot "Imagining Starry"
From which we shrink recoiling - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)
Along the shrinking sands will crawl - Alice Wellington Rollins "Andromeda"
My finite heart shrinks from the infinite - Alan Sullivan "Confession, Creed, and Prayer"
Silence shrinks deeper in - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"
Astonished at their shrunken estate - Max Bodenheim "Baby"
Those with shrunken hearts still trying to love - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
Our vast psychic habitat shrunk - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"
And the sun shrunken yellow in smoke - Robert Frost "The Gum-Gatherer"
Fill full with sap and buds this shrunken life - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
No bitterer than the shrunk grape - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"
The shrunk grape clinging to the wasted stem - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"
Violated tombs of shrunken kings - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Beauty"
Shrunk in the shade of the cypress - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Heliotrope"
Look at Grief unshrinking from her tear-blind eyes - Sara Teasdale "Lessons"
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