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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-02-03 06:18 pm

Potential Titles: Behold/Beheld

Behold a silver planet rise - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"

Behold the pumpkin borne in state - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"

I am Wisdom's mirror! Behold me not! - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Still my spirit's inward sight beholds - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"

Strength to behold Him and not worship - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Behold them clad in Autumn's golden pomp - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Such as creation's dawn beheld - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)

Such as creation's dawn beheld - Byron "To the Ocean"

A grace and a terror to behold - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"

beheld night's speechless carnival - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IV)"

Throne of mists, whose fields no sun behold - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

To behold the resistless day - Amelia Earhart "Courage"

Beheld time in me - Chiyuma Elliott "J-572 *432) I"

To behold Him by no eyes - Zona Gale "Who Is This That Is So Near?"

And beheld the uprising dark weather - Thomas Hardy "The Two Wives"

And laughing eyes beheld the wheat - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Said Hanrahan"

Wakes to behold the void within - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

Behold a chain of wonders rise - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"

Let me behold the summer sky - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

Beheld a phantom on unbalanced wings - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"

Now behold me free - Amy Levy "Medea"

Rise to behold the satyr in their place - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Behold crystals of the sailing sun - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"

Beheld the paradigm of light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 3: The Ray II"

Behold the hidden and the giant fires - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited

Behold the violet past prime - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XII"

Behold only the scarlet haze - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

What Time beheld so fair - George Sterling "Helen Peterson"

Beheld that crimson billow soar - George Sterling "Ocean Sunsets"

Beheld the Past before me - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"

The foe that first beheld thy towers - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Behold the stars at moral wars - "Tom o' Bedlam"

Mine eyes did everywhere behold - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"

When the Bat he beheld in pursuit of the Sparrow - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"

Behold the beauty of fairer skies - Kate Louise Wheeler "Under the Pines"


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