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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-02-08 09:39 pm

Potential Titles: Buy/Bought

Buying the riches of the sea - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXLII: Sea Merchant" transl. by Dr. B. Stevenson Stanoyevich

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"

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!"

No time to buy dreams - Willie Perdomo "Save the Youth"

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"

Bought with a tin-can full of cherries - John Bosworth "A Boy Can Wear a Dress"

Odd condiments bought on impulse - Timothy Donnelly "Habitable Nebula"

Our hearts' blood had bought her - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

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"

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"

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"


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