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Potential Titles: Blast

I blast the mist of worlds and years apart - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

And swell the blast of fame through ev'ry age - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

By the blasting lightning of his eyes - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

That blasts like the breath of fulfilled Desire - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"

Reign of blast and storm - William Cullen Bryant "March"

Birch crisscrossed by laser blasts - Dan Chiasson "Bloom (II)"

How many a bitter blast - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

The blasted trees will not wither - "Cobbe's Prophecies"

Dare not stand in the blast - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"

The world curtained by meteors, volcanoes, or nuclear blast - S. R. Compton "On the K-T Boundary"

Baffled in wind and blast - H.D. "Stars Wheel in Purple"

Wild blasts of tyrannous harmony - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel II. In a Mountain Pass"

Writhing and blasting in the tortured frame - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Schooled by the blasts of centuries - Anthony Euwer "The Juggler"

Felled by my raging blast - George Blackstone Field "The Deserted Coast"

Heaved beneath the bitter blast - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous

Upon the earthquake's blasting rage - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Where the grasses bow down obedient to the blast - Deborah Garrison "Atlantic Wind"

A spell to blast the weed - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

That gibbers and groans in the blast - James Harris Guy "Old Boggy Bottom"

Between blackouts and blasts - Marilyn Hacker "Morning News"

A rocket blasting into the unknowable - Myronn Hardy "To the Linear"

Shall break in the blast of Eternity - F.W. Harvey "The Golden Snake"

Crouch before the wintry blast - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"

That long withstood the blast - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"

Come with a blast of trumpets - Langston Hughes "When Sue Wears Red"

Loud timbales and drums blasting down - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"

The speed with which the bulbs blast - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Waifs in a blasted world - Elinor Jenkins "Artificial Light"

The blur of the blast in granite - Janet Kauffman "The Blur of"

To blow a blast of shattering power - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

Who blew Roland's vain blast - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

On the blast of the mountain, come - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"

Death rides the burning blast - George Martin "The Crisis"

Wild sorrow's suffocating blast - George Martin "Eudora"

Which Time's cold blast had rudely torn - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

The last luckless mollusk adrift in the blast - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

Blasted with ice and fire - E. Nesbit "The Old Dispensation"

A full blast of sunlight - Ron Padgett "A Rowboat of Happiness"

Let our anger be as fire, blasting chains and tyranny - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Smiled at the whirlwind, and defied the blast - Philo "The Tribute"

I will go out in a blast of glory - Jessy Randall "Cassini's Mini-Packets Home"

I cannot stem the blast - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"

Sirens above a blasted blameless graveyard - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"

When he rode to blast with the lightning - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]

From the chilling blast of Misfortune's breath - Mrs. E.C. Stedman "Flight of the Birds" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

A moment in the rude arms of the blast - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

That blasts the roots of trees - Dylan Thomas "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower"

Seasoned with sorrows and blasted hopes - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

Of cynic ice and sudden white blasts - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

Blasts of understanding blown - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

Sheltered Lear on the blasted heath - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: ii) Godzilla in Shakespeare"

Blasted doors to the mind - Jenny Xie "Memory Soldier"


Take possession of such a grief-blasted heart - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"


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