somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Vow

Exchange avowals and desires - Auguste Angellier "Eyes and Lips" transl. by Henry van Dyke

With untoward avowal break the peace - Carmen Sylva "A Room"

Now disavowed of illusions - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

The time allotted for disavowels - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

After the vows and the happy tears - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

Floor vowing vengeance on Ceiling - Mike Allen "Space War"

Vowed to make the next model indestructible - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"

Bound to each other in earliest vow - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry II: Farewell" transl. by Sir John Bowring

The forfeit of his mutual vow - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"

Exchanging vows and other platitudes - Natalie Clifford Barney "Habit"

Or break the sinful vow - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Words of Rosalind's Scroll"

Still lift my songs and vows - Giosue Carducci "Dante [O Dante, why is it that I adoring]" transl. by Frank Sewall

A rock where Punic faith should bide its vow - Roger Casement "Hamilcar Barca"

Made rare mockery of her broken vow - "Cloud and Sunshine" [The Continental Monthly v.III - June, 1863 - no.VI]

Vowed conclusion of my pilgrimage - Helen Parry Eden "A Prayer for St Innocent's Day"

Forgetting her mauve vows - Donald Evans "Love in Patagonia"

A vow to complete certain tasks - Elisa Gabbert "The Bridge"

All those plighted vows forgot - John Goldie "And Can Thy Bosom?"

Broken vows will vex and grieve - John Goldie "And Can Thy Bosom?"

And breathe its vows again to idols - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Fierce Ambition breathes his burning vow - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

The vow of silence breaks - Marilyn Hacker "Lacoste IV"

A whispered vow beneath the budding elm - Tom Hall "Her Reverie"

Vows that consecrate his sword - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

A manifest of loss & broken vows - Faylita Hicks "Saint She of All the Missing Things"

Old vows are like old flowers - Helene Johnson "Remember Not"

Irony of human vow - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Impression"

Jove laughs at the lover's vow - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "The Sport of a God"

Carving its own vows on each other's skin - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Though too late for antique vows - John Keats "Psyche"

With vows that bound the leaf and stone - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"

Mountain-firm vows go on forever - Lu Yu "[Pink tender hand]" transl. by Burton Watson

Breathing a thousand vows - Charles Mair "The Voice of the Pines"

Washington's elite that vowed to drown them - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

Easy vow of tardy kindness - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Suicide"

Would recant vows made in pain - John Milton "Paradise Lost"

The vows that once were said - Harriet Monroe "Shadows"

Love's golden chain and burning vow - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

True in word and strict in vow - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)

Vanish like a gamester's vow - Francis Neilson "The Void"

And time could dim a vow - Dorothy Parker "The False Friends"

Until the vows were held by heart - Elizabeth Powell "Pledge"

Scattered into flight the Vows of Lent - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

But where leaves the vows of Yesterday - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Ancient lips to silence vowed - Clark Ashton Smith "Twilight on the Snow"

Who vowed to give them good care - Marin Sorescu "Thieves" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

My vow demands my uttermost - "Teach Me, O Trinity" transl. by Eleanor Hull

His royal vows and oaths were all but wind - "The Whore"

New vows from the old - Jenny Xie "Ongoing"

Stargrit. Heartlocked. Vowstrung - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"

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