Potential Titles: Buy/Bought
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somethingdarkerAnd buy Repentance at a curssed [sic] rate - "An Answer to The Pleasures of a Single Life: or, the Comforts of Marriage Confirm'd and Vindicated" [1709]
Buying the riches of the sea - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXLII: Sea Merchant" transl. by Dr. B. Stevenson Stanoyevich
And I buy me everything I want - Mrs. M.F. Butts "A Fair Exchange" [St. Nicholas v.V no.12, Oct. 1878]
That buys pennies from time - Witter Bynner "The New World VIII"
Which buys bold hearts free - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Who buys sorrow cheapest - Charles Cotton "Contentation"
Buy it with blood, and fire, and ruin wide - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
What can you buy for a penny there? - Salomón de la Selva "A Song for Wall Street"
As much credit as lead can buy - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
We're buying the world's sorrow - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"
Which never gold could buy - Eleanor Farjeon "Vagrant Songs III"
Before the daisy and the sorrel buy their brightness back - John Freeman "The Wakers"
Something a queen could not buy - Tom Hall "The Kiss"
That no millionaire can buy - Tom Hall "She Is Mine"
The gem which empires could not buy - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Were sold to buy them bread - Mary Howitt "The Sale of the Pet Lamb"
About buying time & making do - Amorak Huey "We Were All Odysseus in Those Days"
A little gold will buy me - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
What they buy is light rolled in a wave - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Where alien schemers buy a chance of fortune - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]
Buy what you can truly afford - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"
A toll-gate where you buy your way with tears - Joyce Kilmer "Roofs"
Could not buy another half so precious toy - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"
Buy our brimstone by the foot - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
To dreamers like me who will buy - Arthur Macy "The Book Hunter"
Reasons to buy hammers or light bulbs - John McCarthy "The Key"
That dream we buy on credit - Pablo Neruda "Suburbs" transl. by William O'Daly
He promised he'd buy me a fairing - "Oh! Dear!"
Full allowance of success will buy - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Making honest people bankrupt is the way to make them buy - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
No time to buy dreams - Willie Perdomo "Save the Youth"
Who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
You could buy your own name in calligraphy - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
You could buy your own name - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
that praise what blood buys - C.T. Salazar "River"
All the time we buy back - Janice Lobo Sapigao "HomeGoods"
Buy my love a sword of steel - "Shule Aroon" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Buy wooden spoons to stir the spirits - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Not just buying time on credit - A.E. Stallings "Sestina: Like"
A knot that gold and silver can buy - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"
Bought grief's lottery - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Bought even the rain - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Effaced by knowledge so dearly bought - Charles H. Barstow "Sweetbriar Lane" [Chambers Edinburgh Journal series 5, 7:329, 256, 19 April 1890]
Bought with a tin-can full of cherries - John Bosworth "A Boy Can Wear a Dress"
Bought with your blood a thousand years - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"
Return to the peaceful dreaming dearly bought - Wesley Curtwright "The Close of Day" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Odd condiments bought on impulse - Timothy Donnelly "Habitable Nebula"
Who bought and sold their crime - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Our hearts' blood had bought her - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Nor dreamed them dearly bought - Henry B. Hirst "Coriolanus" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
All you bought with that spent year - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"
Who refused to be bought - Denise Levertov "El Salvador: Requiem and Invocation"
Money and all it never bought - Philip Levine "My Fathers, The Baltic"
Bought refinement by the pound - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"
Slumbers never bought with gold - George Lunt "Skating" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.2, Feb. 1841]
Bought two pounds of bloodied kelp - Elis Montgomery "Hex Supply Customer Support Log" [Strange Horizons 25 Aug. 2025]
More glories than he bought at Aberdeen - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Bought whatever had most blooms - Po-Chu-i "Planting Flowers on the Eastern Embankment" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Memories that can't be bought - John Prine "Souvenirs"
How dearly royal confidence is bought - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
And queens have bought with blood and beauty - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"
Enduring streets where dreams were bought and sold - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"
Trembling for a blood-bought crown - Francis Blake Crofton "The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ"
Far-fetched and dear-bought - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"
Not tears by a hard-bought mirth - Faith Baldwin "The Last Demand"
Earnest welcome, unbought, unfeigned, and true - Effie Afton "Lines to a Friend, on Removing from Her Native Village"
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Buying the riches of the sea - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXLII: Sea Merchant" transl. by Dr. B. Stevenson Stanoyevich
And I buy me everything I want - Mrs. M.F. Butts "A Fair Exchange" [St. Nicholas v.V no.12, Oct. 1878]
That buys pennies from time - Witter Bynner "The New World VIII"
Which buys bold hearts free - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Who buys sorrow cheapest - Charles Cotton "Contentation"
Buy it with blood, and fire, and ruin wide - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
What can you buy for a penny there? - Salomón de la Selva "A Song for Wall Street"
As much credit as lead can buy - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
We're buying the world's sorrow - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"
Which never gold could buy - Eleanor Farjeon "Vagrant Songs III"
Before the daisy and the sorrel buy their brightness back - John Freeman "The Wakers"
Something a queen could not buy - Tom Hall "The Kiss"
That no millionaire can buy - Tom Hall "She Is Mine"
The gem which empires could not buy - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Were sold to buy them bread - Mary Howitt "The Sale of the Pet Lamb"
About buying time & making do - Amorak Huey "We Were All Odysseus in Those Days"
A little gold will buy me - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
What they buy is light rolled in a wave - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Where alien schemers buy a chance of fortune - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]
Buy what you can truly afford - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"
A toll-gate where you buy your way with tears - Joyce Kilmer "Roofs"
Could not buy another half so precious toy - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"
Buy our brimstone by the foot - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
To dreamers like me who will buy - Arthur Macy "The Book Hunter"
Reasons to buy hammers or light bulbs - John McCarthy "The Key"
That dream we buy on credit - Pablo Neruda "Suburbs" transl. by William O'Daly
He promised he'd buy me a fairing - "Oh! Dear!"
Full allowance of success will buy - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Making honest people bankrupt is the way to make them buy - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
No time to buy dreams - Willie Perdomo "Save the Youth"
Who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
You could buy your own name in calligraphy - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
You could buy your own name - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
that praise what blood buys - C.T. Salazar "River"
All the time we buy back - Janice Lobo Sapigao "HomeGoods"
Buy my love a sword of steel - "Shule Aroon" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Buy wooden spoons to stir the spirits - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Not just buying time on credit - A.E. Stallings "Sestina: Like"
A knot that gold and silver can buy - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"
Bought grief's lottery - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Bought even the rain - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Effaced by knowledge so dearly bought - Charles H. Barstow "Sweetbriar Lane" [Chambers Edinburgh Journal series 5, 7:329, 256, 19 April 1890]
Bought with a tin-can full of cherries - John Bosworth "A Boy Can Wear a Dress"
Bought with your blood a thousand years - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"
Return to the peaceful dreaming dearly bought - Wesley Curtwright "The Close of Day" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Odd condiments bought on impulse - Timothy Donnelly "Habitable Nebula"
Who bought and sold their crime - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Our hearts' blood had bought her - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Nor dreamed them dearly bought - Henry B. Hirst "Coriolanus" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
All you bought with that spent year - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"
Who refused to be bought - Denise Levertov "El Salvador: Requiem and Invocation"
Money and all it never bought - Philip Levine "My Fathers, The Baltic"
Bought refinement by the pound - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"
Slumbers never bought with gold - George Lunt "Skating" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.2, Feb. 1841]
Bought two pounds of bloodied kelp - Elis Montgomery "Hex Supply Customer Support Log" [Strange Horizons 25 Aug. 2025]
More glories than he bought at Aberdeen - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Bought whatever had most blooms - Po-Chu-i "Planting Flowers on the Eastern Embankment" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Memories that can't be bought - John Prine "Souvenirs"
How dearly royal confidence is bought - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
And queens have bought with blood and beauty - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"
Enduring streets where dreams were bought and sold - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"
Trembling for a blood-bought crown - Francis Blake Crofton "The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ"
Far-fetched and dear-bought - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"
Not tears by a hard-bought mirth - Faith Baldwin "The Last Demand"
Earnest welcome, unbought, unfeigned, and true - Effie Afton "Lines to a Friend, on Removing from Her Native Village"
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