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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-08-06 05:50 pm

Potential Titles: Tomb

Entombed with the hourless night - Djuna Barnes "Call of the Night"

Fossil of a seahorse entombed - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"

Entomb blind joy in its spell - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"

The amulets of home entombed for solace - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"


Upon the blue tomb of the air - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"

Honey cakes in tombs wisteria-hung - K.A. Campbell, Jr. "About It and About"

The font, the altar, and the tomb - Benjamin Copeland "The Font, the Altar, and the Tomb"

The tombs time left unlatched - Nathalia Crane "The Dinosaur's Eggs"

Must have the tomb for rest - "The Cross by the Way (Kroaz ann Hent)" (Translation by Tom Taylor)

From the tomb of some enchanted past - Olive Custance "Black Butterflies"

Which lights the weary to the tomb - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

Built a calcite beehive tomb - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"

Perilous tombs of forgotten goddesses - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Hope has found in her heart a tomb - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

From the tomb of withered memories - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

Tombs of rocky teeth and salt waters - Lesley Hart Gunn "The Exorcism of Icarus"

Descend not to the shadowy tomb - Eliza Paul Gurney "Heaven and Earth"

To grace the banquet and the tomb - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Chanter of the lonely tombs - B. Higgins "One Soldier"

Her tomb is yonder cloud - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Wrought within the tombs of Egypt's kings - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Inside the tomb of all my trust - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Built my tomb walls strong enough to keep me safe - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

The ghoul danced a jig in his tomb - Rachel Kolar "Hey, Diddle, Diddle, Black Cat with a Fiddle"

Monomania of some cypresses and tombs - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"

The tombed light in this design for dying - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

Outcasts of forgotten tombs - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"

A living tomb of buried hopes - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Surrealist butterflies incandescent in the tomb - Pablo Neruda "The Celestial Poets [Canto General]" transl. by Martin Espada

Hollow as a new tomb - Pablo Neruda "In Memory of Manuel and Benjamin" transl. by William O'Daly

The diminutive tombs of salt - Pablo Neruda "Seaquake" transl. by Maria Jacketti and Dennis Mahoney

Ancient scars of trench and tomb - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"

Dust around the season's tombs - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"

The tombs of buried hours - Isaac Rosenberg "My Hours"

At the gates of tombs silence is a gift - Carl Sandburg "At the Gates of Tombs"

Tyrants' crests and tombs of brass - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVII"

On the tomb a raven sits - Taras Shevchenko "The Night of Taras" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

O'er ancient tombs keep watch - Taras Shevchenko "To Jacques de Balmont" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

On tombs where Time lay dead - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"

In the tomb of heaven - Wallace Stevens "Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb"

Searching for the tomb of muted Song - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"

Let them rise from the heart's tomb - Lydia L.A. Very "Memory" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The iron tomb dissolve its spell - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

The lost hero's early tomb - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Tombs of silence in an annotated landscape - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 13" transl. by Katherine Silver


Which shouts its tomb-like silence - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"


The fiery tombstone of a cabbage - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"

Tombstone tapestries of digital memories - Sandra J. Lindow "Tombstone Tapestries"

A tombstone in a cemetery of teeth - Jacques J. Rancourt "The Loons Prove that Even Before There Was a Word for Grief It Existed as Song"


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