Potential Titles: Greed

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The sons of greed - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Sucked the air with Ariel's greed - Benjamin West Ball "The Autumnal Ride"

Greed, like a gorged Machiavelli - Maxwell Bodenheim "American Vaudeville Show"

Where greed has housed the helpless - Helen Gray Cone "Soldiers of the Light"

Greedy the poison gold to seize - 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]

A revelatory metaphor for greed - Cheryl Dumesnil "Ode to Pink Floyd"

Avarice at the shrine of greedy Mammon - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

From desert wastes of greed - Leslie Pinckney Hill "A Far Country"

Sun flowers and sumac opening greedily - Helene Johnson "What do I care for morning"

Twin sister to the greedy earth - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"

Engines of forgotten greed - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"

By murder and by greed - Douglas Malloch "The Passenger Pigeons"

Fish-hooks baited to catch greed - John Masefield "Biography"

The season of greedy gods - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"

Doubled over under greed - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

Became greedy in a world of plenty - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"


Those greed-swayed kings of sugar - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"


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