Potential Titles: Praise
Apr. 9th, 2011 02:34 pmAll who seek the debt of praise - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
What praise can we give with bound hands - Afua Ansong "what we did while waiting for the rain"
Always in praise of the elder tongue - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
For which praise is useless - Jabari Asim "Some Call It God"
accolades glimmer in constellations of praise - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"
Praising them all for honest, quiet work - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
Praised with the lovely softness of fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"
Will hear no praise - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Praise to the obsidian sole - Bryan Byrdlong "Ode to Black Air Forces"
Prepared in all to render them due praise - Edward Carpenter "The Great Peepshow"
Charms many praise beyond all measure - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]
In the passion of his praise - Lucille Clifton "dog's god"
Pleased with the praise of fools - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
This sacrifice of praise - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Thank You Jesus"
Standing in the fields of praise - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
His praise was heat to drink me dry - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Revelation"
The circlet of your praise - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"
Solomons legioned for bewildered praise - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Let each man praise the river - William Hodgson Ellis "Magaguadavic and Digdeguash"
Poets praise that hidden wine - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
Praise god for the art of forgetting - Nava EtShalom "Of Ceos"
With thirst of praise and glory burns - "Flora: a Vision"
Praising the violet and vermilion - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
One white line of praise - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
Take praise in solemn mood - Richard Watson Gilder "Ah, Be Not False"
The last glimmering of your praise - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
Praise made of copper - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"
Kings mourn that promised praise - Horace "The Survival [Ode 22, Bk. V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling
Hollowed out and built of praise - Mark Irwin "Life Is a Red Car"
Who never neglect to offer up praise - "IX: Otro Tlaocolcuica Otomitl | An Otomi Song of Sadness" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
And the sound of perpetual praise - Tanque R. Jones "Metamorphosis"
No praise for the hand that harms me - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""
Praise not the wasp & the paper nest - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""
Took her praise for a wreath of bay - Joyce Kilmer "Alchemy"
Praises this blindfold of world - Christopher Kondrich "Caedmon"
All pause to sing in praise of rain and sky - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
Until then, praise the walls - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
The blundering praise of fame - Henry Lushington "To the Memory of Pietro d'Alessandro"
Praise him from the heights of peace - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
The golden harvest of their praise - George Martin "Eudora"
And praised her tattered bravery - Theodore Maynard "For They Shall Possess the Earth"
My intimate canticles of praise - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"
To praise each beetle's burnished wing - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"
Have passed from praise - Claude McKay "Heritage"
Sniffs the putrid steam of praise - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Clothing yourself in praise - Phillip Metres "My Heart like a Nation"
Like eyes ready to be praised - Phillip Metres "My Heart like a Nation"
The prayers and praise of sycophants - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Praise the purposeful silver needle - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"
Praised for the silence between his notes - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Praise all small forgotten miracles - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Traveling Onion"
the frost they ought to praise - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
May loiter with a word of praise - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
Praise what is left - Linda Pastan "In the Forest"
Illume my darkness and direct my praise - Philo "The Tribute"
Joys for which we utter praise - Alice Wellington Rollins "Among Those Joys for Which We Utter Praise"
that praise what blood buys - C.T. Salazar "River"
Whom the stars praise as they roll - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
But lack tongues to praise - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"
All their praises are but prophecies - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"
With single heart give praises - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Praise the Ocean for teaching me - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"
Praise the heavenly scorch of heat - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"
Let us praise the ghost gardens - Maggie Smith "Perennials"
Instead praise meadow and ruin - Maggie Smith "Perennials"
And makes a constant sacrament of praise - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
Should ache with praise - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"
On to the fields of praise - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Who pay no praise or wages - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"
Recorder of praised defeat - Edwin Torres "Waiting Outside the Cafe"
With empty schemes of praise - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
All praise to your iron style - Emily van Kley "You Aren't Sure & I May Not"
Praise to the king of the wildwood ring - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Shall wear their robes of praise - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
Praise too our sorrows - Richard Wilbur "Psalm"
The praises sold at truth's expense - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Live upon their praises - William Wordsworth "To the Small Celandine"
How deepest wounds are given by praise - Sir N. Wotton "Character of a Happy Life"
And desolation in her praise - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
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What praise can we give with bound hands - Afua Ansong "what we did while waiting for the rain"
Always in praise of the elder tongue - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
For which praise is useless - Jabari Asim "Some Call It God"
accolades glimmer in constellations of praise - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"
Praising them all for honest, quiet work - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
Praised with the lovely softness of fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"
Will hear no praise - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Praise to the obsidian sole - Bryan Byrdlong "Ode to Black Air Forces"
Prepared in all to render them due praise - Edward Carpenter "The Great Peepshow"
Charms many praise beyond all measure - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]
In the passion of his praise - Lucille Clifton "dog's god"
Pleased with the praise of fools - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
This sacrifice of praise - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Thank You Jesus"
Standing in the fields of praise - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
His praise was heat to drink me dry - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Revelation"
The circlet of your praise - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"
Solomons legioned for bewildered praise - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Let each man praise the river - William Hodgson Ellis "Magaguadavic and Digdeguash"
Poets praise that hidden wine - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
Praise god for the art of forgetting - Nava EtShalom "Of Ceos"
With thirst of praise and glory burns - "Flora: a Vision"
Praising the violet and vermilion - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
One white line of praise - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
Take praise in solemn mood - Richard Watson Gilder "Ah, Be Not False"
The last glimmering of your praise - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
Praise made of copper - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"
Kings mourn that promised praise - Horace "The Survival [Ode 22, Bk. V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling
Hollowed out and built of praise - Mark Irwin "Life Is a Red Car"
Who never neglect to offer up praise - "IX: Otro Tlaocolcuica Otomitl | An Otomi Song of Sadness" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
And the sound of perpetual praise - Tanque R. Jones "Metamorphosis"
No praise for the hand that harms me - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""
Praise not the wasp & the paper nest - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""
Took her praise for a wreath of bay - Joyce Kilmer "Alchemy"
Praises this blindfold of world - Christopher Kondrich "Caedmon"
All pause to sing in praise of rain and sky - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
Until then, praise the walls - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
The blundering praise of fame - Henry Lushington "To the Memory of Pietro d'Alessandro"
Praise him from the heights of peace - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
The golden harvest of their praise - George Martin "Eudora"
And praised her tattered bravery - Theodore Maynard "For They Shall Possess the Earth"
My intimate canticles of praise - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"
To praise each beetle's burnished wing - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"
Have passed from praise - Claude McKay "Heritage"
Sniffs the putrid steam of praise - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Clothing yourself in praise - Phillip Metres "My Heart like a Nation"
Like eyes ready to be praised - Phillip Metres "My Heart like a Nation"
The prayers and praise of sycophants - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Praise the purposeful silver needle - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"
Praised for the silence between his notes - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Praise all small forgotten miracles - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Traveling Onion"
the frost they ought to praise - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
May loiter with a word of praise - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
Praise what is left - Linda Pastan "In the Forest"
Illume my darkness and direct my praise - Philo "The Tribute"
Joys for which we utter praise - Alice Wellington Rollins "Among Those Joys for Which We Utter Praise"
that praise what blood buys - C.T. Salazar "River"
Whom the stars praise as they roll - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
But lack tongues to praise - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"
All their praises are but prophecies - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"
With single heart give praises - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Praise the Ocean for teaching me - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"
Praise the heavenly scorch of heat - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"
Let us praise the ghost gardens - Maggie Smith "Perennials"
Instead praise meadow and ruin - Maggie Smith "Perennials"
And makes a constant sacrament of praise - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
Should ache with praise - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"
On to the fields of praise - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Who pay no praise or wages - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"
Recorder of praised defeat - Edwin Torres "Waiting Outside the Cafe"
With empty schemes of praise - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
All praise to your iron style - Emily van Kley "You Aren't Sure & I May Not"
Praise to the king of the wildwood ring - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Shall wear their robes of praise - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
Praise too our sorrows - Richard Wilbur "Psalm"
The praises sold at truth's expense - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Live upon their praises - William Wordsworth "To the Small Celandine"
How deepest wounds are given by praise - Sir N. Wotton "Character of a Happy Life"
And desolation in her praise - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
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