Potential Titles: Linger

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I linger here still with the rain and my regrets - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"

the lingering discontent of bodies relegated to the shadows - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"

Should a dragon linger at your hummingbird feeder - Devan Barlow "Your Visiting Dragon"

Lingered over old threads of truth - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"

What a weary length of lingering toil - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

The lingering light decays - James Beattie "Retirement"

Lingering by Lethe's tideless void - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

And linger at the gate of Sleep - Laurence Binyon "Psyche"

Lingered in shimmering idleness - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"

And kill the lingering day - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

That linger hidden - Hart Crane "Possessions"

May chance to linger - Mary Mapes Dodge "Be Careful"

Satan too must linger there - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Amid the Roses"

Linger in wide sky spaces - B. Edwards "The Man Who Has Forgotten Time"

Lingers in the heart's secret places - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"

Abyss eyes lingering - Nikita Gill "After the Visit"

Allows not a moment of lingering - "The Graveyard" transl. by Burton Watson

In lingering labyrinths creep - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

One ghostly fragrance lingering - Mercy Harvey "Song"

Through sorrow's lingering year - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

The stormy trials of thy lingering age - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Lingers in the shade of bending willows - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"

Where the lingering larks were lurking - William D. Howells "While She Sang"

West wind slaughters the lingering heat - Huang T'ing-chien "Once More Following the Rhymes of Pin-lao's Poem 'Getting Up After Illness and Strolling in the Eastern Garden'" transl. by Burton Watson

Bench where the last mourner lingers - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"

Something violet and lingering - Mark Irwin "Dear Red"

In one lonely lingering hour - Helene Johnson "A Southern Road"

My hand still lingers on the latch - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"

Last lingering star of hope - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"

To watch the world that lingers behind - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"

Here let us linger indivisible - Claude McKay "Flower of Love"

Lingers in the shell of mimic music - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

The lingering juice of strawberries - Joanne Merriam "Mirror Points"

Which breaks the lingering echo - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"

That soothed the lingering grief of years - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Only phantoms linger - Jack Prelutsky "The Haunted House"

Linger on - John Prine

A stain of day yet lingers - Theodore H. Rand "The Opal Fires Are Gone"

There twilight lingers the longest - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

That dark taste still lingers in the mouth - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Fond idolator at every shrine where beauty lingers - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

The harsh tremor that among them lingers - George Santayana "Premonition"

Linger at the cavern entrance to nothingness - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"

Lingering on the morning wind - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

Flowing down like lingering light - Alexandra Seidel "The Honey Man"

The lyre on which my spirit lingers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

And so we lingered not for dawn - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"

The gray ones that linger at wood's edge - Joyce Sidman "The Gray Ones"

Stars cast lingering spells - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"

Linger in the ruins of the fight - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"

Lingering lipstick on splinters of meaning - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

The lingering itch of whatever - Dorothea Tanning "Lucky"

That glance and sparkle in the hush of the lingering light - "Treasure-Trove" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

Good for viewing the lingering past - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"

Lingers through acts of forgetting - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

One bite of winter lingers - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Wintergreen"

The chaperone lingers at the adder's-tongue - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"

Sweetness lingers on time's yellowed page - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"

And lingering pain of you - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"

'T were all in vain to linger here - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"

Where lingering daylight plays with the skirts of night - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota Sunsets"

Left lingering in Mother's trail - Allan Wolf "Shooting Stars: Perseid Meteor Shower"

With lone and lingering wail - John Wright "The Wrecked Mariner"


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