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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-08-03 08:59 pm

Potential Titles: Hero/Heroic/Heroism

holographic hagiographies remember our heroes - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"

The ashes of heroes enshrouded in glory - J.O.B. "Greece" [Mirror of Literature issue 385 Aug. 1829]

Heroes born in better days - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Tasting heroically of miracles - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"

Who dares the hero's march - Park Benjamin "Press On"

Awake the Heroic of youth from the Hades of joy - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

Heroes in the realm of ghosts - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Those Who Died for Their Country" transl. by Burton Watson

Who by a life heroic conquers - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"

Like any heroes: forgotten - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"

Out of heroic wanderings - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

Heroes among the dead - "Battle" Ch'u Yuan (translated by Arthur Waley)

Heroes of a tradition always in the future - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

Heroism upon historic sand - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Breathed deep breath in heroes dead - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Soft flowers wreathing a hero's sword - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"

To feel the hero's fire - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Come you home a hero, or come not home at all - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad III: The Recruit"

John Brown was a hero undaunted, true and brave - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Bred Thermopylae its heroes - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Invisible heroes - DH Lawrence "Autumn Sunshine"

Shall go down to future ages as heroes - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Memories of heroes pave the ancient streets - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"

Unwearied heroes toiling on the field - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

Each nymph her hero seconds - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

Heroic lines on virtue's state - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Angry Gallery First-Nighters"

Forgotten heroes of unavailing fight - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of Forgotten Heroes"

When fainting heroes beg for bread - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

And Hannibal still hero of the Alps - Joaquin Miller "As It Is Written"

Find your hero in some man despise - George L. Moore "Keats"

Heroes of an acid-etched dawn - Pablo Neruda "Cristobal Miranda (Shoveler, Tocopilla)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The ancient hero of the minutes - Pablo Neruda "To Don Asterio Alacaron, Clocksmith of Valparaiso" transl. by Alastair Reid

Rose to the realms where heroes dwell - "Resurgamus" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

Unfaltering Heroes of Hell - Lola Ridge "A Toast"

Heroes before each fatal sweep fell thick - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

More seats reserved for heroes - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"

The fret in place of a hero's rage - Bruce Smith "Ferment"

The smoke-drift of puffed-out heroes - Wallace Stevens "The Course of a Particular"

Tomorrow they can be heroes again - Edward van de Vendel "Here's the Idea"

The lost hero's early tomb - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Old heroic souls unblest - Charlotte Wilson "The Heart Knoweth"


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