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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-02-03 06:06 pm

Potential Titles: Beg

Begging for a few more scraps of us - Duane Ackerson "What If"

Begged the universe for you - Atticus "Magic in Words"

Begging in beauty's disguise - Leonard Cohen "A Singer Must Die"

Begging against the grave song - Geffrey Davis "For the Child's Mole"

Like soldiers begging - Cheryl Dumesnil "Colossal Failure of Human Design, We Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Your Death"

I beg for invisible fire - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star"

Never begging at the sky - Katie Ford "[I Failed Him and He Failed Me]"

Who begs such patience - Rae Gouirand "Inheritance"

Begged the year for intimacy - Faylita Hicks "Self-Care"

Beg with words of the unborn - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Devil Comes on Horseback"

Listen to the wind beg - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Surge"

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

My ears begged for camouflage - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"

The begging of so many thirsts - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"

Whatever kite begs the sky - Angel Nafis "TarBaby Fly!"

Making of my mind a begging bowl - Ariana Reines "The Economy"

That same tricky knot begging - Gabrielle Octavia Rucker "I Don't Say Goodbye, I Only Say Ciao"

The belonging they beg for - Philip Schaefer "Gradually Then Suddenly"

Around the world I'll beg my bread - "Shule Aroon" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

My bones begging to stay - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"

To beg the strong winds - Bianca Stone "The Murder"

Begs to be made the moon - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "The Way Back"

All the precious boon I begged - Helen Hay Whitney "Beneath the Moon"



Turn the beggars loose on my vegetables - Julia Alvarez "Ars Politica"

As beggars chained in separate solitudes - Natalie Clifford Barney "Habit"

Feeding the hungry beggar bees - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Bed-Time"

A beggar's scuffed vermilion - Cyrus Cassells "Clarinet"

Beggared herself of morning - Willa Cather "Sonnet [Alas, that June should come when thou didst go]"

And beggared midnight winds - Arthur Colton "Let Me No More a Mendicant"

Haggard beggars of hours that die - George Cronyn "Song in Winter"

As a beggar walks unfriended ways - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

A beggar in the richest dream - Elaine Equi "Rococo"

A beggar Pilate rates thee - Michael Field "Blessed Are the Beggars Matt. v. 3"

A beggar of thy wild condition - Michael Field "Blessed Are the Beggars Matt. v. 3"

A beggar may be liberal of love - "Fine Knacks for Ladies"

And knock to the echoes as beggars for roses - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"

Scatters magnificent alms to the beggar trees - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

For twist of a beggar's tongue - Richard Hughes "Gratitude"

The beggars at the gate - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Beggars and clowns rebel in might - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

That keep vigils on the windows of beggars - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"

His children once beggars rise into guerrillas - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"

Claims but the beggar's part - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"

In beggars as in kings - Anonymous "Natural Comparisons with Perfect Love"

Bark like a beggar's dog - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Seagull" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Alight upon this beggar leaf - Frances S. Osgood "Lines to an Idea that Wouldn't 'Come'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

An expanse of sand that beggars the Sahara - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

In the beggary of their wandering - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Shall beggar the largess of time - Charles G.D. Roberts "On the Road"

A beggar claimed to be playing Nero's fiddle - Charles Simic "Paradise"

Blue and yellow grapes for faery beggars - Iris Tree "[Lolling in snow, like kings in ermine coats]"

Beggar thoughts pass down the lanes - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"

The oak flings largesse to the beggar breeze - William Henry Withrow "October"


The beggar-king, November, frets - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"


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